caspian guy

A simple way to test this: On a warm sunny day take 30 rounds of your match ammo and do the following. Take 10 rounds and put them in a zip lock bag (seal it well don't want no wet ammo) and stick them in a cooler with ice. Leave 10 rounds in your shooting bag in the shade. Take the remaining 10 rounds and sit them on a dark colored towel and put the in the sun till they are warm/hot to the touch. After your ammo has gotten down/up to temp ( I usually give it an hour). Shoot them across your chrono and note what happens to the average, low and high velocity. Shoot them as quickly as possible after removing them from their representative conditions. If you really cared to make this scientific you would need to measure the actual temp of the ammo prior to shooting it (maybe sick a termometer in an empty case that are under the test conditions).probably want a few other data points as well.

If 100 yards is the max you are dealing with a red dot scope of some kind with a good quality dot that holds zero would be my choice hands down. (I have had pretty good luck with 1st gen bushnel holo sights from ebay). Inside of 300 yards the weaver works just fine. I used a weaver when I started shooting tac-optics and still have it (though I use a meopta kdot on my primary...). The weaver sits on a rifle I use as a loaner and I have never had a bit of trouble out of it.

Welcome to the BE forums, one of the most pleasant and helpful online shooting communities anywhere. I think the entire USPSA population of the state of GA must belong to this forum so I imagine they'll be by shortly to say hello

Yep.. It's usually in your C-More somewhere... If you wave it around a bit it will usually come back... Unless the lens falls out (as happened to one of the guys I know at a major match).

It is possible to use a carbine buffer in a rifle stock (rifle length tube). BUT, to do this you need to fabricate a spacer to go in the back of the rifle tube to take up the difference in length between the carbine tube and the rifle length tube. This will stop the carrier from going too far into the tube and damaging the gas key or the lower. I think MSTN will sell you one. I turned one out of a block of nylon. If you want a lighter buffer though, probably better to mess with the weights in the buffer. (a search will find links to replacing those weights in the buffer with other material, etc

So john... Can he get enough reloaded so that you can shoot the state match

That's a good point patrick. My thinking had been that the barrel nut, though a bit heavy, being closer to the axis of rotation wouldn't matter as much as the tube which extends farther out. I think I still have an unused clark tube and and an un-used vtac. I'll try to weigh them and see what the diff is.

Are you refurring to the LDA single stack gun? You wouldn't have that trouble with a hi cap gun. I did try one I thought man this is a very light DAO gun . Nope referring to the double stack guns... There are 2 of the pre-external extractor 9mm lda's sitting in the safe now... One a limited model. And the other a base model with upgraded sights and a slicked up trigger.

The LDA can work ok for production. It is very flat and soft and has a familiar feel for the 1911 crowd. There are things that can be done to the lda trigger to make it better (I handled one that TJ did for a friend of mine and it was quite good) that mostly consist of polishing and reducing spring weights... I just never got used to the length of the trigger pull and at the time no beveling of the mag well was allowed which made the reloads a bit clunky for me (since para left them quite square on bottom). In addition at the time the we tried it the mag capacity ban was in place so getting enough normal mags to shoot was a challenge. While you could get 10 round mags I never liked the design of them and found the baseplate design for the 10 rounders to be fragile. This should not be a problem now. I still have my doubts about the long term durability of the fire control mechanism (it looks kinda fragile to me but don't have any breakage to point to as evidence). On the other hand I think that TJ did win the nationals with one at least once?

I know of a couple of guys that run them and seem like them a lot. A search should find a couple of threads. mhearn or charles bond could probably help if you have specific questions.

As far as the clark goes you can drill the tube and the barrel nut. However there isn't reall enough meat to tap the barrel nut. Our work around was to use high temp epoxy to glue tnuts to the barrel nut. Then you can do as was suggested and screw the tube to the nut. If jp would sell the vtac barrel nut seprately I would probably use that and source a carbon tube to fit it.

If you are talking about catching your thumb between the end of the shell lifter and the receiver...I just cut the shell lifter back far enough that it doesn't catch my thumb.when I load.

I know some folks have trouble with them but I have used one (011 then 012) for my caspians without issue for years. Where a lot of folks seem to get into trouble with them is failue to have them adjusted correctly (usually the nose piece) or failure to push the gun in all the way or failure to have enough tension. Having said that, if I hadn't started with one, not sure its what I'd pick now. (Like Bart I got an 013 off a prize table not that wild about the location of the lock...)

Will this work on a class 3 lower?

At the time that was built sa slides were a fairly popular choice. So that's not that unusual. I have one about that vintage that has been updated several times. Just keeps going and going.

For a double stack 1911 a caspian works well for small hands. A cz75 with thin grips also works pretty well. Also the m&p with the correct backstrap is a good option.

A good little bistro with reasonable prices: La Bonne Soupe (48 w 55th street). A favorite of my aunt an uncle (long time NewYorkers). I wouldn't walk there from the empire state building for lunch, but not more than a quick subway ride (say 10 to 12 min).

Try http://www.pistoldynamics.com/Revo-Comp-09.html

On the trigger for the caspian... Egw used to make an extended trigger (I think they called it a E trigger?) Don't know if they still do. As far as the 170mm mag Jim Anglin will build/tune you a nice one.

Mark, I believe SJC markets a 28 round big stick.

Same problem from my Blackberry.

Does it still group ok? Does it still make the velocity you need... If so leave it alone till it doesn't...

Also if you have a shock buff in, remove it.

Ok so I am assuming that you are interested in a comp for 3 gun use? You didn't say which division, so I'll assume tactical. In no particular order I like the titan sjc, the rolling thunder, and the surefire. Any of those would serve you well. The gogun comp looks interesting and I am looking forward to trying one. However I don't think it is allowed in tac (uspsa anyway) in its current form due to its size. (I believe that I saw in a thread somewhere that robert said that they were going to address that problem in the future though...)