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I'm coming from Seattle. Looks like Saint Louis is the way to go. Any input or advice? Cheap fares available non-stop on Alaska Airlines. Any help greatly appreciated,
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Hey guys, Chris made me some mag pouches that were great. Gonna get some more and remembered seeing he had a website now. But, I can't seem to find it anywhere. Anybody know a link for it?
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So, were the silver Basepads ever available or just red and black from the beginning? I got dumped by your ordering system and when you notified me of the problem, only red and black were available as options. Just wondering, as I'd prefer the silver because they show less wear when repeatedly dropped. Any help or info is greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance and hoping they turn out to be as good as they look.
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If you think you'll ever want a trigger job...you may as well get it done now. It's like buying a new sports car and putting cheap tires on it to see how it'll drive from the factory. Why not go ahead and have it done now? $250 is right in line with most gunsmiths and your won't have to send it back or be without the gun later on, should you decide you want a trigger job. Plus, you'll be garuanteed not to have "maybe i should've gotten the trigger job" rolling around in your head EVERYTIME you pick up the gun.
Buying an Open gun is not the time to save a few bucks...just saying.
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The 1911 was designed around a longer COAL round (.38 Super or .45 depending on who you talk to) and so the length of travel of the slide along with other physical dimensions are "too long" to accommodate shorter rounds. However, many work-arounds have been created to address the issue. One is longer feedlips on the magazine. Another is a spacer at the back of the magazine to position the shorter round closer to the feedramp.
On 1911/Single stack pistols chambered in .40, usually you'll see the factory send the gun with magazines that have the spacer at the back. Assuming the pistol is otherwise setup correctly you should have no problems running ammo that's within factory-spec lengths.
On the 2011/Double stack pistols chambered in .40, it has more to do with the length of the feedlips along with the angle of the feedramp on the barrel. Again, a properly setup gun and magazine should feed even relatively short .40 ammo. All of my 1911/2011 pistols will run any length and bullet shape reliably. However, "should" and "do" are often two separate things with regards to mass produced pistols.
My experience is that STI has made huge improvements in sending their pistols out with properly specced magazines and re-designed feedramps that'll feed most factory-length .40 ammo. I can't speak to the other manufacturers. The main reason most of us load long is for lower pressures achieved in reloaded cases along with a more forgiving operational envelope when running our gear at the ragged edge.
All of the above is to say....blah, blah, blah...that you'll have to try it and see! However, if you do have problems using the shorter ammo you shouldn't have much problem addressing and fixing the issue by adjusting feedlips, feedramp, or using spacers.
Hope that helps!
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Looking forward to seeing its maiden match voyage tonight!
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What pouches are those?After reading many of your posts I decided to add #6 to my belt for no other reason than to have an extra (I had a spare mag pouch already). I generally never use #4, just occasionally... And I have only used #5 once during a long stage when I dropped a mag while bobbling a reload and grabbed another mag off the belt instead of trying to get that full mag off the ground.
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STP what? Oil, ATF, grease? Sounds interesting.I have used FP10 blended with good old STP for years. Stays put. You don't see it being "pumped" out the rear of the frame rails.
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I believe the part that engages the magazine follower is called the "slide stop pawl". In addition to being longer, it's also shaped a bit differently too. I thnk this has to do with the different profile of the smaller rounds.
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Yep, sounds right. I use 11 coils in both 126 and 140. The 11 coil springs in the 126 mags do make em stiff to load. But, they've never gone soft and always run for me.
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I've only seen springs listed by the number of coils. I forget how many coils coincide with tube length but, as I recall, I've used the same coil count for both 126 and 140 mm mag tubes.
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For the 126mm magazines, of which I have 10, the Factory STI followers, Grams, or Dawson all work well. It just depends on if you want the slide to lock back on an empty mag. Assuming you DO want it to lock back, then get the STI followers. However, springs are another matter. You can use the STI springs for a few months, but they eventually go soft so keep an eye on them. I prefer either Grams or ISMI springs. Both have lasted me for years between service cycles and I've never had them fail or get so soft that they don't function.
If you're looking for 140mm magazines, of which I've got 20-25, either Dawson or Grams. My new preference for maximum capacity is Grams and I grind off the slide stop lip of the followers to keep the slide from locking back on an empty mag. If you're going to use Grams followers, you need to use Grams springs. If you're going to use Dawson followers, use ISMI springs. It has to do with how each follower attaches to the spring. This assumes that you're using the mags for maximum capacity and in competition. If you wanted to use the 140mm mags for HD or training classes, I'd use the STI factory follower and ISMI springs. They'll lock the slide back, run reliably, but lose maybe 1-2 rounds of capacity over the Grams or Dawson followers.
Taran Tactical makes good stuff too, but it's more focused on the competition aspect. It's great stuff but a little higher maintenance and requires more attention.
Hope that helps,
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The first limited gun I bought 10 years ago was a Tactical .40 tuned by Dave Dawson. It served well for years pulling double duty as my competition/night stand gun. Extremely reliable for 10s of 1000s of rounds. It's now a dedicated home defense/self defense pistol and I feel 100% confident in its track record. At the time I bought it, I asked Dave the same thing because I prefer the recoil impulse of .45. He told me that the weak link in the hi-cap .45 design is the magazine and drag created by the double-column .45 bullet stack on the sides of the mag tube. It made sense and I never questioned it.
Well, fast forward to this year. I've purchased a number of hi-cap .45 pistols based on the 1911/2011 design. Dave's wisdom and observations have proven to be spot-on. While I've had success in getting some of these guns to work reliably, the real weak link and trouble spot I've encountered is the magazines. You have to chose followers, springs, tune mag lips, etc very diligently to get them up and 100%. If I were to do it over, I'd only ever get hi-cap 1911/2011 pistols in .40 or 9mm. They are just so much more forgiving than the .45 in the same platform. I'm not saying its not possible, just that my experience mirrors Dave Dawson's, who's worked on more guns than probably anyone in the country.
If .45 is your cartridge of choice, get a single-stack and enjoy. I've had fantastic reliability from mine and numerous instructors and armorers agree that the .45 is best served in that platform.
My .02$ for what it's worth. Hope it helps,
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I hope I can shed a little light on this. STI will make any gun they offer, in any configuration you want, with any options you want....you just have to buy a batch of them. I forget the number but it's something like 20 or so. I would bet that Chuck at S.C. asked them to make a special edition run of them, knowing that they'd be able to sell them. I know this because I collect STI Tactical .40 pistols that STI made for some Special Forces Trials a while back. I like that model but wished it had Bomar rear sights. Turns out that STI made a batch of them for testing by the US armed forces with the Bomar rear sights. When I begged the reps at STI to make this option available they said no...unless I wanted to buy a batch. Then, you can have anything you want.
Hope this clears it up,
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Just another vote for 12 pound-ish spring...
I've used both Wolf 12 and 13 pound springs as well as th ISMI 12.5 pound spring. Everyone has their personal favorite, but after 500-1000 rounds they both feel about the same to me. I've since settled on ISMI 12.5 just for the sake of simplicity in all of my .40 and .45 pistols that run 170-175 power factor ammo. Wolf springs work just as well, plus they give you a new firing pin spring. You'll be fine either way. Maybe buy an 11 pound and 14 pound as well so that you can try them and realize why the vast majority of shooters end up with something in the vicinity of 12 pounds...
Hope that helps,
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Hey guys, I've been using Wolf for a long time for outdoor stuff/ 3-gun and not had problems. However, my local range has banned any steel-cased ammo. I'm looking to buy bulk in 1000 round cases. I've narrowed it down to American Eagle/Federal XM193 knock-offs, the Armscor 55gr 1000 round cases, or Wolf Gold 55gr stuff. Any preferences with regard to accuracy and consistency? I'll be using it in both 1/7 and 1/9 twist barrels. Also, where's yur preferred source?
I'll eventually reload it but right now, I'm swamped just reloading for 9, 40, and 45.
Thanks in advance
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Awesome piece of maintenance gear! Thanks for the headsup! Will the upper receiver block hold an AR receiver secure enough to remove and install barrels, free-float tubes, etc with just the pins? Or should I still be using a clamping style vice block for that?
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A really nice thing about fiber optic front sights is that it's easy to experiment with them. You may be falling into the trap that many shooters do of shooting the fiber optic like a red dot sight. In other words, when you see the fiber optic on target, you pull the trigger while ignoring its relationship to the rear sight. I found that I was doing this quite a bit...especially on steel. You can simply pull the fiber optic out and replace it with a black broom bristle to make your front sight black. Then, see how your hits are. I've done this and my hits improve dramatically. I figure that I always have the option of going back to a colored rod at some point but my guns have all been blacked out for now.
What got me thinking about all of this was a statement made by Travis Tomasie once, about how fiber optic front sights are "training wheels" for new shooters. They simply help new shooters find their front sight faster. However, you still need to be aware of the rear sights as well. Many top shooters use the fiber optic front to great effect, but that's because they still have the visual patience to line up the top of the front and rear sights. Either way, you can experiment and see what effect it has. I call my shots MUCH BETTER with black sights. Your experience may be different.
By the way...every signature model "Travis Tomasie" gun I've seen for sale has a fiber front sight as standard equipment...again, options are nice. Heck, screwing around with this type of stuff is half the fun of shooting! Hope that helps some,
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Where can you find more info, buy, etc?
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Thank you sir.You might want to read up a little on AR comps before you buy...>>>#1 http://www.multigunmedia.com/pk-compensation.pdf
Ahhh, as alway Mr Kelley you again have shed more light on the discussion... I really love your write ups!
Man, I'd forgotten about those 2 articles. Great stuff!
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Another vote for Bacon Grease
Not sure why this hasn't caught on more. Non-toxic, biodegradable, what's not to like? The only pain in the a** is the whole "clean the gun, coat with bacon grease, shoot until it reaches operating temperature, wipe down with tongue, re-apply" thing...
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Well, I'm a nobody and have used both a CR Speed and Bladetech and ended up staying with the Bladetech because I could "go after" the gun more aggressively. I've never felt like I was at a disadvantage on my draws. I've done years of dry-fire and live-fire practice on the timer and at best, when things were perfect, I might shave off a tenth of a second using a "race holster". However, when things were less than perfect....like most of the time in a match, having the simplicity of an open top, traditional holster just allowed me to focus on what really matters...the shooting.
Having said all that, blah blah blah, go check out videos of Taran Butler and Nils Jonasson. Watch Taran's draw from a Bladtech DOH and Nils' draw from a standard Bladetech without the DOH attachment...doesn't seem to hurt them any. And, unlike me, they're good...
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For a Moly coated Bear creek, 200gr I use 4.2gr of Ramshot Comp seated to 1.185" in my 3 5" Edge type guns. For plated I use 200gr Xtreme RNFP and 4.4gr of Ramshot Comp seated to 1.185". Both average 172PF in all of the guns. These loads feel so much softer than my old 180gr recipes.
Hope that helps,
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What kind of barrel do you have in them?
In two of my guns (stock STI Tacticals) I have the factory stainless barrels that they put in their "Edge" type pistols. In my JPL Custom gun I have a KKM barrel. Of the 3, the KKM is the slowest by 20-30 fps average but slightly more accurate. Hope that helps.
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For a Moly coated Bear creek, 200gr I use 4.2gr of Ramshot Comp seated to 1.185" in my 3 5" Edge type guns. For plated I use 200gr Xtreme RNFP and 4.4gr of Ramshot Comp seated to 1.185". Both average 172PF in all of the guns. These loads feel so much softer than my old 180gr recipes.
Hope that helps,
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Where to find Beveled Bomar replacement rear sight blade?
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Both Kensight and Champion offer Bomar-Style sights with the 45 degree beveled "ears" on the rear blade. You'll have to do some searching but they should be direct replacements...meaning of course that you'll need to do some fitting with stones or files like most 1911 sights. I'd start looking at Brownells and also do a google search of the company's websites. Also, Wilson Combat offers a removable/interchangeable rear sight blade option on their Bomar-style sight and options include a beveled blade. They're more expensive than others but can save you money long-term by letting you try different rear blades, notch widths, etc without having to replace the whole rear sight assembly.
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