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Beyond it All

Beyond it All (9/11)

  1. Positively see the outcome you desire as you do your walkthrough and prep. Avoid negative sentiment like "I am not going to screw this up" and think more like "Smooth is Fast, and I will execute perfectly". See the positive result.
  2. At a major, I'd clean them every time they hit the ground, if it was dusty/sandy/muddy etc. Not so diligent at club matches. If it looked dirty (or I had a stoppage!) it got cleaned.
  3. Does sound like trigger bounce. Could be sear spring tension, as stated above.... or poor sear/hammer interface (no matter how nice a brand each are, were the fit to each other properly?). Or both. Once you fix those items....... .13 splits is cooking, at match speeds - are you really aiming between shots or just hitting the trigger twice on one sight picture, I assume you are just doing close in hammering? Not saying you have to slow down.... but see what you need to see.
  4. .45 breach face width is to big for .40 barrel to work….. 40 to 9 can be done not 45 to 40. you’ll need a whole top end. Just buy a gun. I bought a Kimber 9mm for this purpose last year and it runs great. It didn’t need a mortgage and a years wait to get it.
  5. Defensive use. If you mean concealable small pistol either Glock 43x, or Sig P365. I do carry my G42 .380 more than anything else as it’s so darn cute. But not a 9mm.
  6. Back in the day we’d review the shot timer for # of shots. If it added up to the right amount…. And if no one noticed someone shooting a target 4 times, or extra shots, it was always benefit of doubt. I think the key part of thread here is “assumed” based on what others had done. If you didn’t see it, don’t call it.
  7. I think anyone mentally and physically unhindered can probably make A with a lot of good training and effort to get consistent. M takes a certain natural level of innate skill, and much work. Maybe even paper GMs to a certain level. But real major match winning GM level performance imho takes more than a bit of natural born coordination, aptitude, and ability, plus lots of hard work and dedication. But hey I could be wrong. I’m sure there are exceptions.
  8. Can this be done under 1 sec? Yep. But with consistent repeatable hits in a match at this distance, from kydex? Yep. A class.... maybe. That's more M/GM imho. But lots of A class shooters are great stand and shoot shooters with fast draws, what's keeping them from GM is movement and transition. As stated above, I'd work on consistent 1.5 or less - repeatable, and then start working down from there......
  9. Just a wild guess (assuming all parts are new) - $800 to $1000?
  10. Why not loctite in some set screws? Or smear black RTV in the holes? No more holes.
  11. Just because one barrel (let’s call it undersize) fits in a different pistol does not mean the other barrel (let’s call it oversize) will back in the first. The one barrel fits two guns because the sizes are cut smaller. Swapped, it may run fine for thousands of rounds. Or it may batter the feet, and stretch/ break a link……… yrmv.
  12. Clay, not sure how the sport is getting cheap…. Everything (not just ammo components) has become more expensive since 1994 (or 2001). Used to be you showed up with single stack Springfield, or Para, or Glock….. this was when it was Open / Limited. Before Production and Single Stack. Everyone did the best they could with what was available, and expensive was getting a gun “tuned” by a top gunsmith, not CNCing a brand new one from scratch. I remember throwing a Colt 10mm slide on a prize table SVI frame as my first 2011, and having Clark’s fit the barrel……. Came out nice but it was a “parts gun”. Or buying a complete new factory STI or even SV for under $1500. In the early 2000’s I remember buying a new Brazos semi- custom or. tuned Dawson for $2kish. Production became a gear war, and now days if you show up with Carry Optics that doesn’t cost $2k plus, you are slumming, or in Limited and Open you “need” a $5k full custom gun to be considered serious. None of that seems cheap. Now, Easy, lazy…. Yeah, that’s me.
  13. Well, for starters 1911 based guns like STI 2011 are not Glocks or Sigs were they fairly Modular. Each 1911 barrel is really fir to slide, frame, and the feet, link, etc have to be in certain tolerances or the impact of running it could tear the gun apart in short order, or lose accuracy at minimum. As Trace says it COULD work…. If you get lucky and everything happens to be in spec. That likelihood is probably increased when talking about modern STI guns as they are mainly machine fit in a production manner. But as say the one barrel fits, but the other won’t when swapped, they are close enough to identically timed a machines. The swapped barrel that fits may run, may not lose accuracy, but likely increased stress on the lugs and link will cause failure at some point. If you don’t shoot much…. might not be an issue. My advice, for cosmetics, would be to have the barrel that’s native to the gun stripped, or coated somehow for desired color - you could ship it to any number of places that do custom finishes and ask for the change. Tin, DLC, hard chrome, (maybe not Cerrakote as that would wear more).
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