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.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2M1smVg_mpA

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.

https://youtu.be/gnzwYhiTf6g

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.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhl0Fhm6gPs

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.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zv63XaXJrQ

Outlaw Steel Action Pistol Match - 11/18/2023

Outlaw Steel Action Pistol match at 41 Lead Farm in Lubbock, TX. I was planning on using my newly upgraded STI Tac-Lite 4.0 2011 for the next few matches, but 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.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbR33efycl8

USPSA Action Pistol Match - 11/11/2023

USPSA Action Pistol Match at 41 Lead Farm in Lubbock, TX. I was using my recently upgraded STI Tac-Lite 4.0 2011 in the Open division. Unfortunately my camera wasn't working during the classifier stage so I was only able to record four of the five stages.  This upgraded gun runs really fast for me due to it's lighter weight and ported barrel. I didn't have any issues with the gun, but I had a miss on one stage and a "no-shoot" hit on another stage, so my final results for the day suffered a bit. I ended up in 8th place Overall out of 39 total. I plan to carry and compete with the Tac-Lite for several more matches as I feel like it is a really capable gun, and it is very fun and easy to shoot fast!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWBo2g3Zg48

Upgrades for the STI Tac-Lite 4.0 2011 Handgun

I upgraded my older STI Tac-Lite 4.0 with some barrel porting done by Impact CNC Machine and installed my favorite optic, the Holosun 509T. I purchased the mounting plate for the 509T from Dynamic Weapons Solutions over a year ago. The mounting plate is supposed to fit onto a 1911 slide that has already been milled for the Trijicon RMR 1911 mounting plate. It took 3 months to get the plate, and I was so frustrated with how long it took that I just stored it away and forgot about it. Fast forward to almost a year later, and I decided that I would install it when the slide and barrel came back from Impact Machine. Unfortunately, it did not fit the slide... at all... so I had to custom fit it to my slide and then refinish it in Graphite Black Cerakote. Dawson Precision recently came out with a 4.15" version of their tool-less guide rod for the new Staccato P Heritage, so I installed one of those with a lighter recoil spring since the barrel is now ported. This gun shoots SUPER flat now, and the lighter weight of the aluminum frame makes transitions from target to target very quick. For me, it is the perfect carry gun... until I buy another new gun... or modify another existing gun. 😎

Update 2024

I am now doing step cut grip chops on 2011-style grip modules at RFV Tactical, so I chopped the original full-size grip that came with the gun, which eliminates the magwell, but is much easier to conceal and looks a lot better than the old VIP grip without a magwell.