Where are the Single Stack shooters?

[HICKMAN]

Guess I never really noticed it until I picked up one and started shooting, but how come there seem to be so few shooting in matches?

I first noticed when they were really trying to recruit people at the TN State match just to get ten people, then I noticed today that there were only 13 in the MI Section match.

It's seems we had a huge turn-out with 26 at our section match.

Is SS fairly new to USPSA?

I thought with all the 1911 love across this nation, it'd have a lot of people shooting.

 

[cornfused]

I wish I had the time, skills and money to shoot.

 

[wolfy25]

I think SS is the newest division, but I don't know when it was officially created.

I sold my SS to get a limited gun. Going from production I figured I get a better trigger,but less capacity (usually the minimum per array plus one round for loaded starts). So you get a nice race gun, but you're reloading all the time and 8 round arrays turn stages into "limited vickers". For me moving from production, a better trigger was not worth the downsides.

 

[slow1911s]

SS is the newest USPSA division. It was brought on just before (or right after?) USPSA bought the rights to the Single Stack Classic match (which was created by the 1911 Society).

I haven't been to a IDPA match in some time, but most CDP and a number ESP shooters shoot 1911s.

 

[slow1911s]

YouTube - 2010 Springfield Armory / USPSA Single Stack Nationals

 

[jakemartens]

I have one around here somewhere.....

 

[HICKMAN]

What I guess I meant was, with all the 1911 lovers around, I figured it would be a more popular division.

Then again, with current ammo prices and shortages, I can see why Production is so popular.

 

[sti38super]

Single Stack varies with different clubs. South Central and Silver Creek has a lot of SS shooters.

 

[JDubb]

I would like to do it but need to get the pouches yet and maybe a decent holster, have a leather one now......

 

[slow1911s]

What I guess I meant was, with all the 1911 lovers around, I figured it would be a more popular division.

That should be the way it works. Same with all of the AR buyers after the panic. 3-gun matches and/or training classes should be filled to gills based on sales.

 

[HICKMAN]

I would like to do it but need to get the pouches yet and maybe a decent holster, have a leather one now......

I've got 2 dual mag pouches you could use.

 

[BillD]

Because it's an 8 round gun and the COF's are mostly 8 round arrays.
No make up shots available. Fast swinger? Tough, it get's two unless you want to do a lot of standing reloads.

 

[rvb]

fyi: Angola's annual SS match is this Sunday..... I'll be dusting off the skinny gun...

-rvb

 

[rhino]

When the 1911 Society was new, we used to have a single stack match using their rules immediately following the USPSA match at RileyCC every month. I started shooting USPSA with a Para-Ordnance P14.45 and I didn't own a single stack gun. I borrowed an old Colt from my brother to shoot the 1911 Society matches and that's how I got hooked on single stacks. I started shooting a single stack in USPSA Limited Division (we only had Open and Limited then) with a single stack gun (a Colt 1991A1 Commander) because I liked it better, and I relegated my Para to carry use. When Limited 10 came along, nothing really changed for me because I was already using 10 and 11 round mags in my Commander. When Single Stack Division came along, nothing changed for me again other than I couldn't use extended mags in my .45. That wasn't an issue because I was shooting a 9mm by then anyway.

If you want to shoot with a lot of single stack shooters every time, try IDPA. As Slow1911s mentioned, CDP and ESP divisions are dominated by single stack 1911s. In most club level USPSA matches, Production and Limited divisions seems to get the most participants, but in IDPA you see just as many people in CDP and ESP, especially if you combine the two to compare to the SSP (which is their equivalent of USPSA Production).

 

[TraderJack]

That's mostly all I shoot anymore.
Single Stack and L10.

It's what I carry and what I compete with.
I like being stuck in the past...

 

[HICKMAN]

That's mostly all I shoot anymore.
Single Stack and L10.

It's what I carry and what I compete with.
I like being stuck in the past...

That's how I got started in Production, then I somehow strayed in to other divisions...

 

[dom1104]

I am going to bust out my new single stack tomorrow morning at the IDPA match in Atlanta. I will let you know how many people there are running 1911s.

 

[bwframe]

That's mostly all I shoot anymore.
Single Stack and L10.

It's what I carry and what I compete with.
I like being stuck in the past...

TraderJack, an old SSer and one of the original INGOers. I had you figured for dead.

 

[jakemartens]

TraderJack, an old SSer and one of the original INGOers. I had you figured for dead.

We may have been saying the same thing about you burl, been hiding?
well what gives?
what her name? Is he cute?

 

[downrange72]

We may have been saying the same thing about you burl, been hiding?
well what gives?
what her name? Is he cute?

I believe this was covered in the South Central Thread. Recap...Rhino...Ball Gag

Need I say more?