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On the topic of lights on comp guns. I shoot my edc g17 with my streamlight TLR1HL at my comps because I want to train the most with the gun I intend to defend my life with. It has a light on it and all of my holsters are light bearing so take that for what it is
I used a G19 Roland Special for a while but the caveats were something I didn't like. You have to tune the recoil spring to one particular load. So unless your training ammo consists of 124g +p ammo, you're gonna have to switch the recoil spring when training with range ammo which further changes the recoil impulse of the comped Glock in order to train with the cheaper 115g stuff. If you reload this might be less of a problem. But I also travel often so I'm not always home and I like to know my gun runs with every 9mm ammo out there throughout the nation. You HAVE to clean the comp, and those things build up carbon FAST. What used to be a simple boresnake and drops of oil procedure when cleaning a Glock turns into soaking the comp in some hardcore degreaser before picking at it with brass picks. Holster options from my favorite makers were not available with the comp. The comp can get lose if you don't keep an eye on it, you can use blue loctite but it basically melts once you get a couple of mags through the gun. I found it to be too much trouble for me (if its not for you, great). If you can shoot like a GM you can shoot like a GM even with something like a stock P365.
Would love to know your thoughts on the stealth arms platypus. Almost every chanel on the RU-vid that's tried them have nothing but good to say ,and I love mine. Though I am curious as to what a shooter of your caliber has to say
@@ryanphillips8834 I have one(first gen), it's easily the best quality firearm I own. That said, I'm an average/ entry level shooter, so that's not saying much 😅
At first my dyslexia read "Fleshlights and French People" and I was really confused, but also thought "yea, I guess Ben would talk about that stuff too".
Saw a lot of flashlights on guns at CO NATs. Dominant number of guns were variants of p320’s, Shadow 2’s, Beretta 92X, Glocks, and Tanfoglios. There were several appendix shooters (5) maybe that I saw. RO’D stage 16.
1.6 years ago, I was going to buy an expensive gun. Something proper expensive 2-3k. I talked myself down. What I really wanted was to be a better shooter. So instead I got a PDP pro, put a HA comp on it. Then shot about 6K rounds that year. In total spent less. For a normie I totally made the right decision. Doing drills, learning how to learn, getting the right data, using those rounds in a quality way each range visit.... was well worth it. Your videos have helped a bunch, appreciate it.
He shoots probably 250k rounds a year in focused practices. He's done that for over 30 years. His father was the head coach for the French national ipsc team.
If you wanna try a form of racing that really kind of relates to shooting. Try autocross. It really emphasizes looking ahead and where your eyes go is where your hands go. As far as the flash lights in comp shooting. I use one cause my everyday carry set up that i use for idpa has a flash light and my AIWB holster requires it.
Sailer would have been a lot closer had his optic not failed. Should have got an SRO! My take is his Sig optics are great on open guns but can't take the abuse of a reciprocating slide long term. Either way Grauffel was my bet from the start. Too good not to win without something crazy happening.
Hey Ben, have a question. What gun do you carry when you arent working? I am trying to get this answered by some top shooters. Wanting to know if the upsides of carrying a gun close to what you train and compete with are worth more to most people than comfort and shootability. For example, would you feel at all undergunned with something like a 43x? Is it detrimental to your training when you shoot two vastly different platforms? Are there bad habits to be gained by splitting your training between a tiny framed handgun and a full sized metal framed gun?
It is if you make it an issue. What we do and what works for you is not the same. Take some fighting pistol classes, use different guns and find what works best for YOU.
Don't got to race training. Go to security driving school. Vehicle Dynamics Institute in New Jersey is a good school. They'll teach you how to run into people with your car to get away from carjackers and kidnappers.
Dudes with cheap guns love to be mad at people who like cool guns. It’s no different than Miata owners thinking they’re superior to everyone who can afford more. The Miata will do just as well at your local autocross event, but that doesn’t make wanting something nicer a bad thing.
My shooting has greatly improved by following your channel. Thanks for not selling snake oil, and giving out non fluff, practical and quantifiable information 👍🏽
What is Ben like in person? He seems like a fellow I'd hit it off with but I read something about him being malicious in his relationship with some people in the USPSA.
@@tonka1004hell no. The miata is a cheap car known for handling really well, glock ergos are the worst part of that platform. If anything it's the civic of guns. The miata is probably a walther or something.
Ever used a frame mounted comp like a wasatch arms one? Seems like it might be something good for making the gun front heavy without adding mass to the slide.
You can get basically any reasonably priced gun, a dot, a light, a holster, a few extra mags, and 500-1000 rounds of ammo and still be less than the cheapest staccato. The Staccato is the Rolex of the firearm industry. The only real reason to buy a Staccato is to show others you can afford one. Every other reason given is just cope trying to pretend otherwise and justify spending so much on a handgun. If you like expensive stuff for the sake of expensive stuff and you like others knowing how much money you have fine. Nothing really wrong with that if you're not going into debt to do it. Just don't pretend that's not why you got one. You're not really fooling anyone and just look silly.
the stacatto is the mid level toy in the industry. its no where near a comparison with a rolex. but its always entertaining to watch people complain about people buying themselves nicer things. jealousy never looks good. buy, and use what you like, and let others buy and use what they like. why do people feel so entitled to cry about what others buy?
I’m sure you say the same about driving your dodge neon. No one that owns a staccato exclusively uses staccato. Comparing it to Rolex makes no sense, that’s jewelry and serves no function except telling time. The price of a Rolex is what it is because like diamonds, the source holds product to raise the value. My sub was $4700 in 2012, it will sell for twice that used due to market demand. I can and do the same thing with my striker guns that I can with my staccato(except ridiculous distance). I can’t afford to live in paradise valley, so I don’t. If I could afford to, I would.
I use to race competitively in autocross and started getting into the competitive shooting a few years ago. Autocross in particular, is more comparable to competitive shooting (as oppose to track driving). For one, Autocross doesn’t have a fix course (track). So each event has a new course where drivers get 4 to 6 runs to put down their fastest time. In USPSA this would be equivalent to stages, however shooters get one attempt at each stage. Vision, the ability to process things at speed and self-diagnose are very critical to both sports.
I run a 1968 Jaguar xke hardtop with a 383 Chevy turbocharged and a 2 speed power glide at the autocross and hill climbs. Look up scavo racing enterprises if you want to see some vids of it
Great staccato coverage and takeaways. It'd be interesting to see if the community reacts the same way if you got a Knights, LMT, or even a Geisselee/DD AR15 and subjected it to the same treatment.
A am advanced & sport driving instructor. Asked You allready what You like more, Mach1 or Mx-5. I am going to visit US at september, for ORD-2024. Maybe You would like to meet on some racetrack and range, and we can share experience and talk about driving vs shooting (competitive). Thank You for awsome content !!!
What specifically is the different mentality that differentiates the top European shooters from American shooters? is it really just the constant grind of consistent difficulty and demand for consistency or is it more than that?
I think it's the fact we look at USPSA/IPSC purely from a sporting perspective. I think Americans tend to try to mix the tactical and sport aspects of it (which is a good thing in it's own right) but for us it's always just a sport/game due to our laws. I've noticed MANY USPSA competitors are LEOs or guys interested in self defense, and they try to learn from USPSA to bring back to their personal needs. Which is great, I'm sure it will only help them. But since a lot of the stuff they want to retain doesn't work in competition they always have a little bit of an aversion to completely and utterly abandoning the tactical aspect of shooting and just being an obnoxious gamer trying to min/max every little piece of gear and training towards sporting only purposes like we do. It also helps that shooting isn't as big here with the general population, that sounds counter productive but it means that people who want to own firearms generally are pushed into sporting clubs by the government in order to own a gun. In the USA anyone can walk into a gun store after watching a Navy seal movie and go shoot in the desert or a shooting range and stuff their gun in their waistband (which we're jealous of) but that's as far as most Americans go regarding gun ownership. Look at the most popular American gun channels. It's all ex-navy seals who can't shoot well shilling tactical products. In Europe the few gun people at the sporting club are competitors, so what little network exists in Europe for shooting tends to be competition oriented and almost every shooter gets into competition shooting. While in the USA the average gun owner doesn't even know what USPSA is. I guess this can change depending on the European nation in question. But this has been my observation.
He recently dropped a video where in he definitively and repeatedly gives a full endorsement of Glocks as the perfect handgun. Not only for competition but also self defense, open carry, concealed carry, civil unrest, looking cool, and occupying France. Except for the last one you probably only need a 26. At least that’s how I interpreted the video.
It depends. If you can afford to shoot 500 rounds a day every day, then you obviously don't need to dry fire as much. But if 500 rounds is your weekly or monthly ammo budget, then you need to dry fire a lot more.
@@HWG-wm8ld He's a guy on TFB who refused to name Ben when talking about his drop tests of the Staccatos. It was really weird. The video was from 2 days ago on ClassicFirearms titled "The Most Overrated Guns", it was towards the end when James said his most overrated were 2011s, and hence talking about Ben's drop test. Not sure why James was such a child about the issue, as if Ben is Voldemort and he's in Harry Potter or something weird like that.
Maybe some restrictions on cross-channel promotion on his end. You know, like the logos on Macbooks are often blurred out or have a sticker on them when on a TV show, because there isn't a marketing contract between the show producers and Apple?
Who the hell is voldermart? I need to watch more RU-vid. Figured out the james guy, gun geek that is now a celebrity on RU-vid. The equivalent of the Kardashians, idiots will follow.
I will say in reference to the flashlights, I personally compete with a flashlight on my gun because the gun I compete with is just a long slide version of my EDC. Since my EDC has a SureFire X300U on it then so does my competition firearm.
@@HWG-wm8ld Don't like the way the full size Glock hump prints. And the X300 makes the AIWB holster feel like a 2x4 that kinda digs into my leg on the side of the light. Also adds 4oz of weight which makes the G34 feel even more swishy when moving about. So I switched to carrying a G19 without a light for AIWB with a Phlstr pro holster and I kid you not I forget I'm even carrying the G19 for the most part. So light and compact I forget it's even there. I wonder how a P365 would fair AIWB.
@@HWG-wm8ld Even though I still train with my EDC occasionally I prefer to be able to abuse just a handful of guns for competition not to mention I have silicon carbide on my competition pistols and it is nearly unbearable to carry AIWB with that texture rubbing against you all day.
Hi. I would really like to hear from your opinion and experience which of these two pistols will have less problems in the long run, Beretta 92FS or CZ-75 SP01 Shadow?
