My fun guns:
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XD-40 Tactical. I bought this my first summer shooting USPSA way back in 2005. No one was making magazine wells or extended magazines for the XD line back then so I designed and CNC machine my own. The Extension took the factor 12rd magazine and make them 16 rd. I shot this gun mostly in Limited-10 but it was also use as my handgun at 2-gun and 3-gun matches where I had to bump up to Limited (no L-10 in 3-gun) even though 16 rds was barely competitive. I don't shoot this much in competition any more but when I retired it, it had nearly 40,000 rds through it.
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In 2007 I fully realized you could shoot revolvers in USPSA and I was hooked when I got to shoot with a revolver shooter on my squad at a match. USPSA big draw to me was reloading on the clock, part of your score, and what better way to do that but with the limited capacity of a revolver. I picked this S&W 610 up late 2007 for a deal. I ran this Bianchi cup holster and moonclips server, North Mountain Moonclip Server. Bought the server from the guy that made them when I meet him while working as staff at the Area 7 match in 2008 (IIRC). It has had several improvement since this early production unit.
I shot the above two guns interchangeable until 2012 when I decided to focus all my efforts on Revolver division. I retired the 610 to become my hunting revolver and bought a 625.
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This is the single most fun revolver (or possible handgun in general) I have ever owned. After years of doing reloading with the 610 with 40S&W, the short fat round nose 45 ACP on moonclip was like someone had a shopvac on the front of the cylinder sucking in the reloads. I can't tell you how much fun I had with that 625, beating the filthy bottom feeders with my noble round gun!
But then rules changed in early 2014 and playing the equipment race I bough a S&W 627.
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But I bought it early when the rule change was just a rumor. So I spent the summer of 2013 shooting my 625 in Revolver division and my 627 in Production. I managed to get a B-classification in Production division with a Revolver which was always amusing. I took the 627 to the Revolver Nationals in 2014. That was my first and only trip to a USPSA national match.
A few years later I wanted to switch back to the Semi-auto. I picked up a deal on an early Remington R1 Limited (some of the parts still say Para Ordinance on them).
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Thankfully Remington did one right thing and fixed the magazines. Because of the long taper Para used on their double stack magazines you could never quiet get the capacity the SV and STI could. The new R1 Limited magazine bodies with a good extension ( Taylor Freelance) would reliable get 19rds in it and that was competitive with most of the other Limited guns. After years of shooting revolvers in competition the learning curve coming back to a high capacity semi-auto was more daunting than I had envisioned. But it was a fun climb, and moonclips still rule!