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Title: Shadow 2 with SAO conversion legal for USPSA Limited-10?
Post by: MoRivera on March 15, 2018, 01:26:14 PM
Just to be sure since I'll be shooting myst first scored USPSA match soon......

I converted my Shadow 2 to SAO.  I know that you can run the regular DA/SA as a SAO cocked and locked, but I like the trigger positioning/pull length and reset with an actual SAO trigger installed.  Is the gun still legal for Limited 10 in USPSA, or not so because I modified it that way?  Thanks.
Title: Re: Shadow 2 with SAO conversion legal for USPSA Limited-10?
Post by: mlazarus on March 16, 2018, 08:48:27 PM
It's legal for limited, and limited 10.
Title: Re: Shadow 2 with SAO conversion legal for USPSA Limited-10?
Post by: MoRivera on March 16, 2018, 11:04:15 PM
Thank you.
Title: Re: Shadow 2 with SAO conversion legal for USPSA Limited-10?
Post by: jameslovesjammie on March 17, 2018, 12:14:47 AM
It's legal for limited

And a magazine with 140mm basepads and a spring/follower change will get you 23+1 rounds of 9mm!
Title: Re: Shadow 2 with SAO conversion legal for USPSA Limited-10?
Post by: MoRivera on March 17, 2018, 05:38:14 AM
It's legal for limited

And a magazine with 140mm basepads and a spring/follower change will get you 23+1 rounds of 9mm!
Can't do that in my state, unfortunately.  :-[
Title: Re: Shadow 2 with SAO conversion legal for USPSA Limited-10?
Post by: Mike Russell on March 18, 2018, 05:57:16 PM
Yes, you're legal, you'll just be shooting Minor PF in L/L10 by using a 9mm. You can also install a slide racker and thumbrest/gas pedal on it, if you want to do so.
Title: Re: Shadow 2 with SAO conversion legal for USPSA Limited-10?
Post by: MoRivera on March 19, 2018, 03:50:23 PM
Shot this past Sat. and it went pretty well.  The weight/feel of the S2 definitely helped me on followups.  I did have a few no-shoots and M's, which I know cost me a lot shooting minor.  I might shoot my Tac Sport Blue in a match, but I probably prefer that for steel/static since it's rather big and bulky.
Title: Re: Shadow 2 with SAO conversion legal for USPSA Limited-10?
Post by: sdlrodeo on April 02, 2018, 09:59:50 PM
Yes, you're legal, you'll just be shooting Minor PF in L/L10 by using a 9mm. You can also install a slide racker and thumbrest/gas pedal on it, if you want to do so.

Check out the NitroFin from Shooting Sports Innovations. Thumbrest without drilling/tapping slide.
Title: Re: Shadow 2 with SAO conversion legal for USPSA Limited-10?
Post by: RocketRyan on April 03, 2018, 09:00:44 AM
Mo I would shoot the Tac Sport Blue if you have a holster for it. They are a dream to use in USPSA.

The Nitrofin requires some serious milling/filing. Once it is fitted correctly though it is pretty sweet to use.
Title: Re: Shadow 2 with SAO conversion legal for USPSA Limited-10?
Post by: sdlrodeo on April 03, 2018, 09:39:56 AM
The Nitrofin requires some serious milling/filing. Once it is fitted correctly though it is pretty sweet to use.

Hmm. I thought there was some minor fitting with the nitrofin, didn?t think there was milling involved. Do you have experience with trying one out? I?ve Been debating doing a SAO in one of my SP-01s or an S2 for LTD.

From the shootersconnection.com nitrofin description:

Machined out of one solid piece of 17-4 stainless.  Based on the very popular Nitro Fin for the 2011 guns. ??->In most applications if your pin size matches....all you have to do is slide your old slide stop out, slide this one in, <???and you have a thumbrest on your Limited or Open USPSA gun. This product has been tested in EAA Witness Tanfoglio LIMITED, STOCK I II III and Witness Match firearms.  This product has also been test fitted in CZ SP01 and Tactical Sport frames.  Read below!!!
PLEASE READ: Check your current slide lock for pin size.  Use caution test fitting it before test firing at the range.  The Nitro Fin by design fits close inside the slide lock relief of the frame, some gun smith work may be required.
The Pin size is 0.197
Slide lock does not lock the slide back on last round or manually.

Title: Re: Shadow 2 with SAO conversion legal for USPSA Limited-10?
Post by: RocketRyan on April 03, 2018, 09:52:29 AM
Yes, I have fit one to my Tactical Sport for use in USPSA Limited. Maybe I received a blank but there were no cutouts on the pin for the slide to ride through.
Title: Re: Shadow 2 with SAO conversion legal for USPSA Limited-10?
Post by: sdlrodeo on April 03, 2018, 10:46:42 AM
Yes, I have fit one to my Tactical Sport for use in USPSA Limited. Maybe I received a blank but there were no cutouts on the pin for the slide to ride through.

Gotcha. When I think of milling, I think of milling the slide at the slide release void. But that doesn?t seem to be the case.
Title: Re: Shadow 2 with SAO conversion legal for USPSA Limited-10?
Post by: MoRivera on April 03, 2018, 11:36:12 AM
Mo I would shoot the Tac Sport Blue if you have a holster for it. They are a dream to use in USPSA.

The Nitrofin requires some serious milling/filing. Once it is fitted correctly though it is pretty sweet to use.
I'm thinking about it....it's just that it is a bigger gun and doesn't quite seem as 'wieldy' as the S2.  But I might try it at an Outlaw match with USPSA rules.
Title: Re: Shadow 2 with SAO conversion legal for USPSA Limited-10?
Post by: RocketRyan on April 03, 2018, 12:55:46 PM
Yes, I have fit one to my Tactical Sport for use in USPSA Limited. Maybe I received a blank but there were no cutouts on the pin for the slide to ride through.

Gotcha. When I think of milling, I think of milling the slide at the slide release void. But that doesn?t seem to be the case.

Ahh no, just milling on the nitro fin for the slide to pass through. Looking at the images of the nitrofin on retailers sites it looks like I did in fact receive a blank. Oh well had a match in a couple days rather spend it fitting it properly haha.