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Oddball caliber fan
I passed on the gold barrel for my STI. It's a stealthy all black.
I was in your shoes about eight months ago. Going out and buying a $2000 gun without having significant experience with the sport is the wrong move. You are also trying to do stuff with a 2011 you can't really do.I am looking for advice from the collective wisdom on MDS...
I recently took the JJ Racaza class in Northern VA and decided I want to start shooting USPSA and possibly occasional IDPA matches.
Thank you. Most of its flavor comes from the Dexter themed grip and the Titanium Nitrade coating on the barrel.
eh, don't be a stick in the mud!! 2011's are a ton of fun to shoot and can be used in a lot of games. a 2011 in .40 is perfect for uspsa. and if you reload or buy 40 minor you can use it in 2 & 3 gun, steel challenge, outlaw matches with no recoil disadvantage vs 9mm. and if you get a 2011 in 9mm (9x19) you'll have a scoring disadvantage in uspsa but an excellent gun for everything else. and if you get a bushing barrelled 2011, most are idpa legal but def check (my now-discontinued 9mm Eagle is).
I was in your shoes about eight months ago. Going out and buying a $2000 gun without having significant experience with the sport is the wrong move. You are also trying to do stuff with a 2011 you can't really do.
2011s are USPSA Limited/Open guns. You cannot use them in Production or Carry Optics. Many of them are not IDPA legal, especially the ones you'd want to use in USPSA Open/Limited. I would strongly suggest you don't want to be competing in Open/Limited right away if you are serious about competing (especially since it's not clear whether you want to be shooting .40S&W or 9mm Major).
The X5 you already have is a very respectable choice for Production or Carry Optics (with the right slide/cut). I'd strongly suggest just buying a belt, holster, and some mag pouches, and getting to some matches. If, in a year, you still want to step up your game, I guarantee you will have a much better idea of what you actually need.
Put it this way: I started off shooting Production and IDPA with a G17, moved up to a G34 slide for the longer sight radius, and I still don't see the point in buying a new gun. The problem isn't how I'm running my gun, it's how I'm running me. You will understand that after a few matches, I promise. Buying a new gun would just be me trying to solve my software problems with hardware, and that's not going to work. The kind of things I think about these days are whether I need a drop offset holster so I can shave a tenth off my draw.
Love the look, but they wanted more than Bravos wanted for his tuned STI Edge.
I placed the order today. It turns out that this will be the last Tuned Edge they will be doing. STI discontinued the Edge model.
I will post pics when it arrives.
Thanks everyone for your input.
It may never be used in competition
Now you get to find out what it is like to spend $100 on a magazine.
dawson has 140mm factory sti magazines for $50 each now (still 2x glock mags...), and free freight. you should get one or two of these with the gun but buy more! i live in va (outside leesburg) and happy to help you out in any legal way. if those mags don't work for any reason, or you want to increase capacity (base pads etc) then, yeah, it starts getting expensive.
congrats! dawson supertuned my eagle and it's had maybe a handful of malfs in the handful of years i've had it, almost zero.
oh, and get it hard chromed! unbelievably tough finish.
When in the world did this happen? STI Gen 2 140 mm magazines are $50 everywhere, including on STIs website. I paid $85 each less than 1 year ago.
It looks like that price only applies to 9mm/38 super mags. 40/10 mm are still around $70+