Saturday, February 24, 2024

Outlaw Steel Action Pistol Match - 02/24/2024

Outlaw Steel Action Pistol match at 41 Lead Farm in Lubbock, TX with the West Texas Practical Shooters club. I was shooting my custom Walther PDP 4.5" again in the Open Division. I am still loving the Walther, but I wasn't really happy with my performance today. Too many make-up shots because I was trying to go to fast on the first three stages. I ended up in 8th place Overall out of 42 total.




Tuesday, February 13, 2024

Custom Walther PDP 4.5" Handgun

Here are more details and photos of the Walther PDP 4.5" full-size handgun that I recently customized for myself at RFV Tactical. I am really fond of my Walther PDP Compact, and I wanted to build a really nice custom full-size version of the gun. I refinished the frame in Tungsten Cerakote and then added my Concealed Carry texture to the grip with matching texture on the index pads on the sides of the frame and on the front of the trigger guard. I trimmed down the magazine release button ledges a little bit, but they are still functional for protecting the button from inadvertent activations. I rounded off the corners of the beavertail to be more comfortable. I extended the smooth magwell border height on the sides of the grip around to the front strap for aesthetic purposes. I chopped the backstrap overhang off and chamfered the magwell opening for smoother/easier reloads. I also shortened the slide stop levers to keep my big gorilla hands from inadvertently activating them while shooing, and then refinished them in Graphite Black Cerakote. I sent the slide and barrel to Impact CNC Machine for barrel porting and a top window cut in the slide. I installed a Trijicon SRO optic, Night Fision back-up iron sights, and a Surefire X300-U weapon light. I also installed a Walther Performance trigger with a Sprinco competition spring kit and a ZR Tactical stainless steel uncaptured guide rod with a 13-pound ISMI recoil spring. I think this gun looks amazing now! It shoots really fast and flat, has been really reliable, and feels really good in the hands. I'll be using this one at my shooting matches for a while in the Open division, as well as carrying it on a daily basis.



Saturday, February 10, 2024

USPSA Action Pistol Match - 02/10/2024

USPSA Action Pistol Match at 41 Lead Farm in Lubbock, TX with the West Texas Practical Shooters club. I was shooting my new custom ported Walther PDP 4.5" in the Open division. The gun ran great, and my performance was decent, however I had a miss, a no-shoot hit, and left one steel popper standing, so definitely had some points in the negative. However, I did have the most A-zone hits of the day. 😁 I ended up in 3rd place in Open and 7th place Overall out of 49 total.




Saturday, January 27, 2024

Outlaw Steel Action Pistol Match - 01/27/2024

Outlaw Steel Action Pistol match at 41 Lead Farm in Lubbock, TX. I was shooting my new custom Walther PDP 4.5" that I customized with texture, frame modifications, and Cerakote at RFVTactical and I also had the slide and barrel ported at Impact CNC Machine, so I was in the Open Division. I also installed the Walther performance trigger in the gun to make an already great trigger even better! I really like the ergonomics of the PDP and now with the barrel ports it is a very fast gun to shoot.  My performance was decent, with only a few make up shots necessary through out the match. I ended up in 6th place Overall out of 43 total.





Saturday, January 13, 2024

USPSA Action Pistol Match - 01/13/2024

USPSA Action Pistol Match at 41 Lead Farm in Lubbock, TX. I was shooting in the Open division with my custom Sig Sauer P320 XFive Legion with a ZevTech Z320 XCompact Octane slide and a Parker Mountain Machine Ultra compensator and barrel. The gun ran great and my performance was pretty good, however I had two misses on a hard-cover target on the 4th stage, so I was 20 points down from where I should've been.  I ended up in 8th place Overall out of 41 total.






Saturday, December 9, 2023

USPSA Action Pistol Match - 12/09/2023

USPSA Action Pistol Match at 41 Lead Farm in Lubbock, TX. I was shooting my custom V8 ported Staccato P 2011 in the Open division again at this match. I felt like my performance was pretty good with only a few hesitations, one or two reloads that didn't go as smoothly as I wanted them to, and several make-up shots on a long distance head shot on the last target of the last stage. I ended up in 8th Overall out of 47 total. I'm really liking the 2011 platform these days, and I really like how solid this custom Staccato P is with the direct mounted Holosun 509T optic.









Sunday, November 19, 2023

Outlaw Steel Action Pistol Match - 11/18/2023

Outlaw Steel Action Pistol match at 41 Lead Farm in Lubbock, TX. While I was planning on using my newly upgraded STI Tac-Lite 4.0 2011 for the next few matches, I was dry-fire and live-fire practicing with my custom V8 ported Staccato P 2011 earlier this week, so I decided to just use it at this match in the Open division. The Tac-Lite 4.0 is actually a flatter shooting gun now with the inline top barrel ports and lighter weight aluminum frame compared to the V8 ports and heavier steel frame of the Stacc P, but they are both very flat shooting guns with very little perceived recoil. I also love how low the Holosun 509T optic sits on the direct milled slide of the Stacc P. I had a few bobbles at this match which hurt my overall score. On the first stage, right out of the holster, I neglected to disengage the thumb safety and then my first shot after that was a miss due to being flustered, so it threw me off for the rest of the stage. I also had several misses on other stages where I had to make up the shots, but after reviewing the video I realized that some of those misses were actually hits and I just did not hear the hit and thought I had missed... wasted time there. I ended up in 7th place Overall out of 35 total.