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  2. Any new insurers out there? We were just quoted $750/year for basic insurance. -Michael Boyd
  3. I use powdered weight lifter chalk that you can buy at any "Big-X" sporting good store. Besides the base chalk, it has aluminum chlorihydrate (sp?), an antiperspirent (sp? again). It's cheap and a containor will last years. It won't gum up checkering like some of the tacky stuff does.
  4. Blade-tech is the gold standard for most IDPA and USPSA production like uses. Check Ebay, I've found them there often for a fraction of the new price.
  5. Freakin' brilliant! I think this is product best purchased new and never explained to the uninitiated.
  6. thanks. I'll give it a try
  7. You had it right the first time. It's the mags sticking in a clean gun
  8. I have an XD-9 (not the XDm). I have several 10 round mags and a few full caps. 5 out six of the 10 rounders stick in the gun. I' ve done the old rubber mallet trick and some will fall free for a while, but then stick again after a few loadings. I don't leave them loaded and they seem like very sturdy built mags. The gun is about 5 years old, but has been shot very little. Any ideas or long term fixes? I'd like to get some decent serrvice out of the mags I have. Thanks -mb
  9. Shok buffs can help keep a standard dust-cover gun (SA, Colt, Kimber etc) from getting cracks around where the recoil spring guide rests. Back in the 80's and 90's, it was very common for guns to crack there with the heavy roundage we poured to them (I cracked at least three frames and one more than once). One of the things the S_I guns beefed up was the dust cover (for easier scope mounting and frame durability). In an S_I gun I would not worry about a shok buff. I've never had reliability issues with a shok buff and usually run the .90-.125" sizes. For a while, you could get .200" and even then I didn't have issues. There was a short period when it was "cool" to run a stack of buffs so that the gun cycled shorter and theoretically faster. That didn't last long. I still run buffs in my 1911's for long range sessions, but take them out for carry and matches.
  10. Thanks for the update. Man, things get past you if you take some time off. I wish both Todd and Travis well.
  11. Chuck Norris sleeps with a pillow under his gun...
  12. I apologize if this has been covered, but I just saw that Todd is no longer with Para. What an end of an era. Todd is a quality guy and I wish him well. Travis Tomasie is now the Para guy. Also a great guy. Travis always liked metal guns so it seems like a good fit. I always liked my Paras over my S_I guns. Just felt more traditional. BTW: Did Dave Sevigny land a new gun sponsor? Any other big name switches? I haven't been to big matches in a while so it's easy to lose track -mb
  13. Chuck, Where in Oregon can I find AP? Thanks Michael Boyd
  14. Thanks for the feedback. I certainly remember guns becoming outdated while they were still being "born" at the gunsmith shop (that's why so many of us started working on our own guns). I started competing seriously in UPSA around 1986 and I haven't locked in a certain "year for gear" at all. My thought would be single stack, open and "stock" classes using rule criteria from around 1985. As far as just using new single stack stuff, most would be perfectly applicable. I think we have some great single stack matches out there already. I think dusting off the old stuff for those of us who have it would be a blast. I'm also very interested in how scores would match up. keep the ideas coming. -mb
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