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  1. They may be too hard for a striker fired pistol to function reliably. If you have a 1911 with a 17# mainspring they may not function 100% without an extra long firing pin. If you are already loading it hot, be aware that these primers will be even be hotter.
  2. It looks like there is /was a portion of the bushing(on the right in the photo) that was turned down leaving a square corner where the crack initiated. Any part that has a square corner subjected to any stress will be prone to crack at that stress riser. I've got a lot of rounds on mine but I do carry a pre-fit bushing in my bag.........just in case.
  3. I agree. Super glue is the ticket to long life. Cleaners, d-greasers, and oil will deteriorate brightness over time. I will usually change one for that reason long before breaking one.
  4. The first rule of gunsmithing : "Always destroy the cheapest part first." can be applied to many things.
  5. I have a Nordic barrel clamp on by Benelli and I have a scribe mark on the barrel to make sure the clamp is always in the same place. The screws that hold the clamp together have match marks on them so they get torqued down the same as they were before disassembly. With my home made low recoil slugs it will shoot 3" groups at 50 yards. If something changes my point of impact I can be pretty sure it isn't because of my barrel clamp if everything is in place.
  6. I've found a pad to be useful in making my Benelli more comfortable to mount rapidly when shooting 3gun. Mounting the gun rapidly, I would ocassionaly smack my cheek bone. A 1/8" pad fixed that problem without changing my sight picture for slugs. I'm using a Ruger 10/22 rear sight so my head has to be in the same place every time. I shoot it like a rifle with the rear sight up. Missing static targets with a shotgun usually results from the shooter having his head up off the stock. If you can't get your head where it needs to be with a pad installed then make some other modification. You can experiment using an old mouse pad and see what works for you.
  7. I was never able to get my M2 to run 100% with a pistol grit on it. It is close to flawless with the straight stock. The last malfunction I had was when the trigger group pin fell out, followed by the trigger group, in the middle of a 90+ round shotgun stage at the 3man3gun. Still not sure how that happened.
  8. If the 45 extractor does or does not catch and hold a 40 depends a lot on the model of gun you in which you try this.
  9. I've seen 2011s and 1911s with slide to frame fits that were so close you could not feel play vertically or horizontally. Even after thousands of rounds they are still "tight" and as close to 100% reliable as possible for anything mechanical can be, even when dirty. If it rattles like a box of rocks when new, it will beat itself into a larger box of rocks sooner rather than later. Just my $.02.
  10. I hope you don't have any permanent damage from that injury. At a USPSA match a friend and I were downrange pasting targets when he had a piece of bullet jacket come over the berm between us and the next door range and completely penetrate the top of his ear. It was bleeding from both sides. After that I bought a pair of wrap around glasses and I still try not to turn my back when people are shooting steel.
  11. Give up golf. I don't play golf but I know a lot of people that do. My head is not tough enough to have a hobby that I would have to drink to enjoy. "A golf course is a waste of a good rifle range."
  12. Buy a timer to practice with and speed up enough to shoot some 'C's' and 'D's. That way you will know that you are going just a little too fast. As an old GM you should have enough gun handling skills so all you need is some speed. I found that one way to help fix the "screw the lefties" setup is to volunteer to set up a stage. Most of the stages I set up had movement from right to left. If there were barricades that you had to shoot around then you could bet that 'righties' would have an equally hard shot from the left as I would have from the right. The downside is that people bitched about it. The upside is that I got to tell them that the easy way to fix their problem with my stages was to come and set up their own stage. Help is always appreciated and I never was turned down when offering to set up a stage. The setup may not have been to their liking but you can bet that it was equally difficult for everyone.
  13. Cast bullets usually have a raised area on the base due to the sprue was cut so measuring them doesn't tell you anything useful and .004" should not be of concern. I found that even though I could not push bullets back into the case by hand if I loaded them in a mag and cycled them through the gun they would be a few thou shorter. If cycled them through the gun a second time they were shorter by a greater margin. A friend of mine had a problem with random jams that was not fixed for almost a season. The Root Cause: When he would unload after a stage he would put the last chambered bullet back in a mag. Occasionally that bullet would experience enough setback the second time it hit the feedramp that it would remove enough energy from the slide and cause a jam but it did not happen consistently. At a glance a bullets recovered after a jam would not look like it had caused a problem. It appears that when you actually crimp a bullet enough to make the case mouth leave a mark on the bullet then hitting the feed ramp may push the bullet deeper into the case by a few thou but the next time it hits the feed ramp the bullet is more easily pushed back into the case since the case mouth is no longer recessed into that ring where it was initially crimped. The "crimp" on a straight walled semi auto pistol case is not to hold the bullet in the case, friction from the brass riding on the bullet does that. An EGW undersized die fixed his problem much to the relief of his gunsmith who was never able to make the gun jam no matter how much he shot it because he would always run a mag dry and start with a new one. This was happening with jacketed bullets. The feedramp angle on a 2011 is much steeper than that of a Glock so the same bullets were not being driven back into the brass in a Glock. I have tried it both ways.
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