Rainy range day with a Shadow 2
Posted Jul 5, 2017, 4:17 PM UTC
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So potentially stupid question: for USPSA/idpa do you have to start with the hammer down? If so, I take it you lower the hammer on a live round since this doesn't have a decocker? Or do you start cocked and locked?
It's a sweet gun but I'm still salty at CZ for not making their shit ambi (excepting the P10c) and discontinuing the 85.
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In USPSA Production and IDPA SSP you have to start hammer down, so people lower the hammer. USPSA Limited and IDPA ESP allow cocked and locked starts.
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Follow up question then: Why put on a safety rather than a decocker? It seems silly that a gun designed for USPSA has no way to safely drop the hammer beyond pulling the trigger with a live round in the chamber.
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My 2 cents is that because, as a comp gun, the safety version has marginally better results for tuning the trigger group than the decocker versions. And when it comes to competition, you take every little bit you can take and the sacrifice is that you have to manually decock.
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No hammer block makes a noticeable difference in trigger pull.
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^ This. Also, since isn't a carry gun, you're dropping the hammer in a completely safe direction anyway, so it's not really a security risk.
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I can't answer that one definitively. Might be people at high levels think the decocker degrades the feel of the trigger pull. Might be people want a gun that won't force them to use double action if they pop over to limited minor for a match.
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Jealous. Got to try this thing 2 months ago.
Still impressed with how well it shoots.
Thanks for sharing!
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Just got one of these last week to update my USPSA production rig from the Walther PPQ I've been shooting since it was first released in the US.
Still working on that DA pull from a draw to a plate rack, but the SA pull and fiber front make quick work of a set. Also a Ben Stoeger BOSS holster is a great companion for this beautiful pistol.
Some of my comp friends have advised a lower weight recoil spring for better sight picture acquisition with hammering, but so far the stock spring is doing well. Just need to run through this 3k 115 gr in the next couple months to switch over to 124/125 and see what's what then. I took it out once last week for a set of 20 rounds to workup a load for this current spring, and shot 400 of it this week in the rain.
If you shoot a lot, tennis powder or progrip is the stuff to have.
Also, yeah, $1200 on a pistol.
And a tip for all you wanting to be better with a pistol: Buy a captain of crush grip trainer and use that shit all day everyday and work up the weight you can do.
That seems like a pretty good price considering that it's basically out of the box competitive.
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I've been using them on and off for years and I totally agree. If you train too much your muscles will develop faster than your tendons, often causing something very similar to tennis elbow. Definitely structure workouts and do no more than 2 per week. I've overdone it twice before and paid the price with elbow pain and needing to quit training to let myself recover, overall hurting my progression.
What weight recoil spring do they come with from the factory? I went from the stock 18lb or 20lb factory spring in my SP01 to a 14lb from a standard CZ75 and it's a bit less sproing-y as it cycles back and forth.