Braxton1

You'll often find "Prize Certificates" posted in the Classifieds here. Most are "Gimme 75 bucks for this $200 certificate" type deals. Great product, by the way. Brian Conley is very easy to deal with and supports our sport wholeheartedly.

I am a little shocked that 132 PF loads don't run in a 34 Gen5. Mine runs everything down to 110 PF 100 grain Steel Challenge loads, all while using the 1-3, 1-3-0, or 1-3-1 iterations of the Recoil Spring Assembly. My USPSA load is just a touch stronger than the OP's (4.1 N320 behind a 124 Xtreme Flatpoint). I wonder if the 46 oz. Shadow 2 provides a little more resistance to the recoil impulse than the 27 ounce Glock. If this isn't made up for somehow (strong grip and stance), I could see issues coming up.

Just to clarify: "Drops the Firing Pin Safety" means that it is falling out? Is the Extractor installed properly and working? The Extractor is what holds the FPS in the slide, so there almost HAS TO BE an issue with that. If it seems to be, I'd be contacting the Technical Service guys at the factory. The number is (770) 432-1202.

Before "damning" the barrels, ammo, or anything else mechanical, I would have a couple of other people shoot the guns. Another thing that I'd try is different ammo. I've seen some ammo that simply won't group at all, especially reloads.

The story: It’s 1989. The original Tim Burton “Batman” movie with Michael Keaton in the title role had just been released. Chris Edwards was acting as the RangeMaster for the USPSA National Championship in Barry, Illinois. On Day 1 of the match, he wore a Batman logo t-shirt and was riding around on a three-wheeler doing his thing. His radio callsign (which normally would have been “RangeMaster”) was changed to “Batman”. People started getting in on the action, buying him various Batman paraphernalia throughout the week. He got a logo’ed license plate for the three-wheeler on Day 2. On Day 3, a cape was provided. Eventually, by the end of the week, he had the mask with bat ears, cape, and all black attire. He really didn’t have the body shape to pull it off, but perhaps that made it even funnier, seeing this large guy zooming around the range on a 3-wheeler, cape flowing gracefully in the wind. The Request: Does anybody have pictures of this? Chris is getting ready to retire and I'd love to have a pic of this in his video collage. Please send to braxton1 at aol dot com. Thanks!

If the frame is completely stripped out for a major cleaning, I use Dawn, hot water, and a toothbrush. Routine, once-a-month type cleaning: Toothbrush, WD-40, and blow out with air to get rid of the WD.

As long as the abutments fore and aft are close to the sight (practically touching), that'll make up for the lack of posts, but posts are the preferred way for me also.

The older I get, the less I like "track meets", but there HAS TO BE some physicality in a Practical Shooting match. You generally can tell the vintage of the MD and Stage Designers by how much. Until two years ago, we had a match in the Atlanta area that we jokingly called "The Geezer Match". A big Field Course would have 28 rounds and maybe 15 yards of movement, start-to-finish. There'd be a couple of Medium Courses, plus two Speed Shoot/Standards type Classifiers. Shoot at 0900, eating at the Barbecued Pork restaurant at 1230. It was a nice break from other matches, being exhausted at the end and dealing with the afternoon heat.

The trigger shoe itself controls the vertical movement in the front of the trigger, just like on JMB's original 1911. There's really no need for tabs. At least that is true for 1911s, STI , and SV triggers. I would think that this would be preferable, as the surface bearing against the frame would have a greater area rather than being isolated to a thin piece of metal. I wonder if these new triggers are designed to be "sloppy" (pardon that term) in the shoe fit and the actual "fit point" is those front pads....

I think what people are chasing is a trigger without a "connector contact wall". The GPT and the Timney both pretty much eliminate that. To me, if you completely eliminate the wall, you have a trigger that feels very "SIG 320-ish". The biggest advantage (to me) of the GPT and the Timney is that you can run a relatively heavy Firing Pin Spring and still have a nice trigger. With conventional Glock triggers, you are finishing the last half of the cocking stroke with your trigger press. To take a lot of the pull weight out of it, you have to reduce the FPS weight. The aforementioned triggers hold the Firing Pin at full-cock, so you're only releasing a sear with your trigger movement.

My G-35 load is 4.7 N320 under a 180 Precision Delta, loaded to 1.125, BUT that is USPSA Major Power factor, running about 940 fps. For IDPA, you don't need NEARLY that much for SSP or ESP Division. I don't think I'd try 310 in a 40, except for light bullet powder puff loads. It's a spooky-fast powder. Vihta Vourhi actually wants us to use slower powders like N340, N350, or 3N37 in just about all of their load data.

Perhaps, being an old Open shooter, you're not exercising "visual patience" at a rate needed for the non-compensated gun. Your Open gun undoubtedly tracked differently than this one. Your brain is screaming "COME ON NOW!!", wanting the dot to be back where it was, but physics precludes that. An additional thought: 147s at a low Power Factor are very "lopey", IMHO. The gun feels like it takes forever to cycle to me. I run 124s at about a 132 PF. They are snappier, but I don't feel like I am waiting on the gun as much. With folks that I have coached, I have found the same to be true in former Open shooters and with younger shooters who grew up playing video games. They both have very fast eye speeds...which also explains the popularity of CO & LO with the young people.

99.9% of those were made to fit 1911 and 2011 pattern guns. They could also fit some of the square trigger guard CZ's. A smaller number were made to fit Glocks. Those are the only two fitments that I am aware of. The 1911/2011 one had a thin piece of plastic on the bottom of the locking insert that was removable. The holster fit a 1911, Para, Caspian (and others with thin steel trigger guards) with that piece in-place. Remove it and it'd fit the thick trigger guards of the STI/SV plastic grips.

Given the frequency of this complaint, I would start to think that the issue is the coated bullet interacting with polygonal rifling. You rarely hear complaints from folks who are using conventionally-rifled barrels with this ammo. I saw where the OP was going to get a different barrel. I wonder if he did and how that affected the results, but he hasn't visited the Forums since 2020...

I will second on the "at least a 650, preferably a 1050" camp. You can add the bulletfeeder to either press and really crank out some rounds quickly. As far as instructional materials, the "Competition Reloading" video, starring our own host Brian Enos, is great, but also very basic. It's available via Amazon. YouTube is your friend also, with channels like "UltimateReloader", et. al.