This timer has "spy mode" which listens for the RO's timer then picks up your gun shots. It's about a tenth of a second off of the timers official time - but the data harvesting is extremely useful. It also has an app which updates firmware on the timer - it's on revision 11 and it's updated 3 times since I've had it for like a month. Full disclosure - they sent it to me - with their big timer too - I kind of like the little timer better - but - it requires you to use your phone to manipulate settings. It also links up with your smart watch - so you can keep your timer on the back of your belt and not have to touch it for dry fire. If you set up drills within the app (set the par time and the reset time - about 6 seconds seems reasonable for reset time) then set the number of reps - it's like a metronome basically and will keep you focused since the timing is automatic. And it creates a practice log automatically within the app. It's a pretty slick timer - it has WAY too many features - most of which you don't care about - like an AR stage builder and a baby practiscore sort of app where you can create little matches within the app and keep score.
And the timer can register dry fire - it's that sensitive if you REALLY want to know what your draw time is. Plus the changes they're making to the software are good ones - typically. The original button press combo to turn off the timer was like hold the little button for 2 seconds press the big button then release. They updated the power off to just hold the little button.
The downside of the timer's app is that you have to teach your buddies how to use it. This was a 12 stage match - I got 7 useable videos from it. One of them was my fault - the app had crashed and hard reset and the timer was jacked.
The match went pretty well. I had two "dumpster fires" and they weren't that bad honestly - a missed position adding about 2 seconds of raw time, I had one stage plan that was dumb that was dumb where I made the shooting harder than it had to be. A few stage wins so far but there are 4 guys who could potentially beat me who shoot today tomorrow - so I'm rooting for rain - though the forecast keeps improving. I'm sitting #2 in the overall behind Dazhi - about 5.5% down - which is pretty good for me - Dazhi is a beast but so far l am leading Open division.
So there's it happening - it was a good stage up until that point . You can actually see the issue starting as the gun hangs out of batter entering the position which forced me to rack a round out to get it back into battery - which I handled well. This sequence was paper, mini popper, mini popper activator, distant open target, bobber (didn't engage), partial (didn't engage) - so I ate 4 mikes and 2 procedurals right there. And it still was a 3.44 hit factor.
The good news so now the guns working I look forward to two days of mayhem!
Below - you can see a shock buff - it's a washer, basically that threads onto the guide rod. The theory of what a shock buff does is it alleviates some of the impact when the slide opens all the way - they're usually made out of Delrin or rubber or whatever but this one is aluminum and was supposed to be maintenance free. It kind of compresses the spring a bit more since you don't trim the spring so it makes lighter springs work more like a higher poundage ...
I got this pretty epic slow motion in the range of the Deagle going off. that gun is silly fun to shoot. The fireball is massive - I started to chrono the ammo I have for it - it's not as impressive as the fireball would suggest. It's about 1200 FPS with a 300 grain projectile. For comparison - the 6" 10mm with a 180 grain Blazer Brass was doing 180 grains at 1200 FPS.
The 10mm 1911 is pretty tame to shoot - not wildly different form a 45.
I was going to do a video on 10mm ammo and then shoot water jugs and slow motion of them popping - but then the sky opened up on me.
Just wanted to share this with you guys as an option you might not have heard of. Good quality, good execution, good designs. I don't have any sort of business relationship with them nor have interacted with them beyond giving them my credit card information. Pretty legit.
So Sig's new 320 magazine 2011 style pistol is now announced. Full ambi controls - series 80 trigger mechanism that got refined similar to the HD Staccatos. Wild that the announcement is like a week after Staccato rolled out the HD 4.6. MSRP is $2399. Obviously - Sig has a black eye they are wading through and this is a gun folks have been asking about forever. From a positioning perspective- they're in the same neighborhood as the Kimber and Bul Armory guns. For the money - you're at a bare bones Staccato HD P4 doorstep. Based on features - I think it's competitive for the money on paper. They'll probably get loads of dropped gun comments on the video. What I do know about the gun through conversations with a few folks off the record
It's been in engineering for literal years - I first heard about it over 2 years ago that it was coming. When they started the project they wanted a really high mean rounds between stoppages - and that took effort to get at - the claim they say for this one is ...
So sorry for this being posted so last minute - I had this edited like 2-3 weeks ago - conversations were with OAD that it would go live for SHOT - but then they announced it way earlier and I never connected the fact it wasn't attempting to be embargo'd. So I never uploaded it - like an idiot. I finished that drill this morning and never got you guys a preview of it when I DID realize that there wasn't any sort of embargo violation. So yeah. Sorry about that. That all said - I don't know what is about this gun. They - kind of like the Daniel Defense H9 - failed to kind of build on the momentum they started at SHOT 2023 and the conversation seems to have moved past this gun. The early 2311s were not as impressive as this is now - side by side - this is a MUCH better gun than what they were making last year. It's much better fit and the resultant accuracy is improved despite having the ports. My 2311 is production gun - like $600 service pistol accurate - but not 2011 accurate. ...
