caspian guy

Yep the mags would be a solid value indeed at that price. Honestly if I wanted one of those that review wouldn't bother me as all the stuff he described I can fix myself (but that likely wouldn't be the case for most shooters.)

Hmmm I guess so long as you know how to keep your gun running that's all that matters.

If you have seen his 1911 University review of the gun, the failure to feed issues are far from unexpected. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QI__QqBPow8&t=1272s

I just want some of the extended mags to use with my xl

So far as making it soft you are probably right about area of the baffles (look at a rifle comp most of them have their ports or the side) being the important part but if you want flatness probably you want to exhaust the gas up so as to push the muzzle down. Making it softer does help with flatness as the bore axis doesn't run through your hand so there is a moment arm. Just a thought to consider.

2011ish open guns P365xl with Wilson grip holosun 507k x2 (recent upgrade from my longtime s&w 642 with the Crimson Trace laser)

In addition, I always put tape on the area I am cutting and hit it with a water mist sprayer from a squirt bottle as I am cutting to keep the dust down

Welcome to the journey

BTW I think the 2 port CFD is about all you can get at the moment. I haven't see any of the 3 ports avaliable this year

One way to approach this is to get some shim stock of about the right thickness (or sacrifice a feeler gauge from a cheap Harbour Freight set) and make a shim and put it under the sight when you install to tighten up the fit. Then degrease and install it with the sight and some loctite. I'd try this first. I've seen guns where the base of the front sight was drilled and tapped for a small size set screw (id put a dimple in the slide for the set screw if I.went this path. I've also seen people drill a small hole in the sight base and the slide and put in a small roll pin through it (but I'm thinking I'd want to tighten the fit before doing this I think. ) Like someone said above you could try some variety of green loctite. As you have a loose fit I think I'd be looking at something like which mentions being gap filling. https://www.henkel-adhesives.com/pa/en/product/retaining-compounds/loctite_660.html which is intended for a loose fit. But if you want advice on which to use you can always call their help line.

I have a scar on my nose from exactly that (thank God for good shooting glasses.) was ROing a pcc shooter who was shooing at a sharp angle through a port. He drilled the metal frame of the port with a partial hit. That caused the bullet to shed what I suspect was bullet jacket which caught me in the face.

You forgot mud in Tulsa... (did they ever get the drainage fixed there?)

I attended a nationals in like 2007 that was hosted at a lovely range near Missoula MT. But don't know if that range even still exists.

I tried sending them a couple of emails and didn't get a response. Does anyone know him?

Even in 9 I'd start with 1 hole at least.. In 38sc I would have 2 3/16s holes

Yes you are over thinking it. My experience is it makes the gun a little flatter due to being heavier and the character of the recoil feel in my hand is a little less sharp.

I had not but will give that a shot. Thanks.

Does anyone know if these comps are still being made? I've been checking shooters connection as well as the binary engineering website for a while and they seem persistently out of stock. @jid2

Measure the pin. Get a piece of music/spring wire of the right diameter from brownells. Cut it to length plus a bit. Stick it through and peen both ends to hold it in.

My favorite second gen is on the operating table right now needing a cracked slide replaced... I've got another Caspian slide most of the way fitted to it and with some good luck I hope to get another 100kish rounds on it. Its a solid choice for a starter open gun. Assuming you get mags with it (and I wouldnt buy one without them) the biggest problem you'll have is that no one currently makes a mag well for it. As someone above said there's not alot of other 3rd party support but honestly you really don't need it. The mags are a pain... I use the originals (some chromed some that are black colored) and some big sticks that were welded up for me along time ago out of original mags by an old time gunsmith.... I didn't have any success with the early mbx big stick I bought to try but others have had good luck with them. ( I suspect mine just needs a tune to be happy in the gun but since I had working bigsticks I never bothered to tune it. It's in the pile of stuff I'll get to one day.)

Welcome

I know there was a discussion of this before but I can't seem to find it, the above was as close as I could find... /

https://forums.brianenos.com/topic/56781-wilsonnowlin-vs-para-clark-ramp/. Has a discussion of that conversion briefly. It was fairly normal at one point to convert the Nowlin cut in a frame to a clark/para/listener style. Going the other way you'd have to convert the barrel.

Oh I get new gunitis completely

Yep if you aren't badly infected with new gun disease it's a good idea in 2 ways ... 1 Use it as a chance to try things and find out what you like... 2 eventually when/if you decide to get a custom gun built this will give you a good backup.