{"id":333,"date":"2014-05-01T14:27:16","date_gmt":"2014-05-01T18:27:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/taylorfreelance.com\/blog\/?p=333"},"modified":"2014-05-01T14:30:19","modified_gmt":"2014-05-01T18:30:19","slug":"tf-supporting-jj-racazas-world-shoot-effort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taylorfreelance.com\/blog\/?p=333","title":{"rendered":"TF Supporting JJ Racaza&#8217;s World Shoot Effort"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/taylorfreelance.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Caracal-first-draft-view-2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-335 alignright lazyload\" alt=\"Caracal first draft view 2\" data-src=\"http:\/\/taylorfreelance.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Caracal-first-draft-view-2-300x225.jpg\" width=\"180\" height=\"135\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taylorfreelance.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Caracal-first-draft-view-2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.taylorfreelance.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Caracal-first-draft-view-2-660x495.jpg 660w, https:\/\/www.taylorfreelance.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Caracal-first-draft-view-2.jpg 1024w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 180px) 100vw, 180px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 180px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 180\/135;\" \/><\/a>The World Shoot happens this year (the &#8220;Olympics&#8221; of Practical Shooting), and we&#8217;re doing our part to support the American squad. We&#8217;re a small firm, but when U.S. Production Team member JJ Racaza told us about changes he&#8217;d like on the basepads for his Caracal 9mm &#8212; we promised to help.<\/p>\n<p>JJ showed us how the Caracal&#8217;s basepad is steeply angled, and somewhat slippery. If you aren&#8217;t holding on tight, the mag can slip out of your hand when it hits the pistol during a speed reload.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve made a Caracal basepad similar to our Drop-Away basepad for the Glock &#8212; wedge-shaped to eliminate the angle, solid aluminum to add weight, and textured so it doesn&#8217;t slip.<\/p>\n<p>At one ounce total, the &#8220;JJ&#8221; \u00a0is legal for all the major games. They&#8217;re getting ceramacoated now, and will be available shortly.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">The first half-dozen (colored &#8220;Caracal orange&#8221; for the World Shoot) go to JJ the minute they arrive. He&#8217;s got his hands full training to beat the amazing Eric Grauffel (of France), and we wish him the best. &#8212; GO TEAM USA!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The World Shoot happens this year (the &#8220;Olympics&#8221; of Practical Shooting), and we&#8217;re doing our part to support the American squad. We&#8217;re a small firm, but when U.S. Production Team member JJ Racaza told us about changes he&#8217;d like on the basepads for his Caracal 9mm &#8212; we promised to help. JJ showed us how\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.taylorfreelance.com\/blog\/?p=333\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taylorfreelance.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taylorfreelance.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taylorfreelance.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taylorfreelance.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taylorfreelance.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=333"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.taylorfreelance.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":338,"href":"https:\/\/www.taylorfreelance.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333\/revisions\/338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taylorfreelance.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taylorfreelance.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taylorfreelance.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}