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Sandormen

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  1. This makes my head hurt... Just getting an idea of putting a 'tree-branch' underneath your gun during competition, makes me think "wtf"? Change Division to Open, and do whatever you want. Why tweak the other categories. It just makes me think 'cheater'. Sorry. can't help it, but that is what flies into my head as soon as i read the first line of the post!
  2. Oooh. Why didn't I see this post before... Been shooting a G34 for a couple of years now. I have changed the springs with Wolff springs, except for the recoil spring. There i have a Sprinco recoil reducer, with what i believe is an ISMI-spring. I have a Ghost Rocket 3.5 connector w/trigger stop-tab, Dremelled to what I believe can be close to perfect. Bought an extended Plasmanitrated IGB-barrel, ported it (since all(?)) Glock comps are butt-ugly... ...it takes on lead like butter (the good way). I've got a Seidler mount w/Aimpoint CompC3 on top, Dawson Precision magwell, with a brass plug to weigh down the grip, and had a friend of mine to lathe out a slide-racker to me. People come up to me and say; "Do you shoot open with a Glock?!?" - I smile and says "yeah!" -It gives me time to go eat a burger, or go to the toilet, while other people have to stand in the safety-area cleaning their mags, or worse! Oh, yeah! It works! -Only hassle I have, is to change griptape every twice or third match!
  3. Oooh, noooes! Somebody should have a spanking for wrong priorities of hobbies? That is what I would define as sacrilige... ...and am not religious! Jeezevs! Beating living, innocent, small, cute, tasty, furry animals with a thin stick is barely worse!
  4. I sure as hell HOPE so...!!! I know there is... ...and we will either be there greeting them, or be releaving the 'RO's', for their moment of a relaxed position! ------ ->Booze, singing and accordions are not invited to heaven! I know where I choose to go When St. Peter hesitate, -I'll say; 'sod this, old geezer, i'll go for a pint!, care to join me?' Then I'll introduce him to my RIP-IPSC friends, and make him realise what he's been missing out on the last two(?) milennias!
  5. I agree with previous poster. -And my Idea is, why not build a set of the old classic western saloon-doors, that swing both ways. That should be equal to both lefties and righties, no?
  6. ...The modified feeling. groawrrrr. I know it.... Being from denmark with those stupid minimum length-rules, I can basically never own a modified gun. On the other hand, I was in France to the European IPSC Chamiponship, 2007. I was able to 'touch' a couple of the new dedicated STI modified guns. Oh, lord. Those were the nastiest sexiest rebel guns I have caressed. They were MADE for the box. sweet harmony, i'd like to spend my money on one of those, but noo. I had to stick wit some shirts, and knives... sheesh.
  7. Jisees fakking kraist. If... ...and I hrm, 'lost' a simple .22 i a taxi... don't ask how, except by PMs... I'd keep the gun close to my body. rules or no rules.... I would not go and paint my baby in those colours... are you all mad, or something?
  8. Am I the one that actually comment the issue about the mount using the different pins, which has to be pushed out every time the gun is cleaned? Hmm? Regardig the weakpoints of a Glock? [Flamesuit still on... Look at second link...]
  9. Leftie here. alternative: judt wrapping tape, or cut it and put it where i need it... ...I put the cheap 3M-tape where i find it neccesary.
  10. When I saw , I became instantly religious.Do I need it? Naaeeh... ...not sure, but I've got plenty of space for it, I really do!!!
  11. Lord o'mighty, it is sweet. I'd like one, too! -To bad getting it to Denmark is jsut a dream, because of all those crazy rules regarding gun parts I can only see one issue, that potentially breaks up the cheering and festivities.... [flamesuit on] To dismantle the gun to clean the barrel, slide and and frame is, that the pins has to be driven out of the frame every time, to do that. Me not like that too much. Afaik, the pinholes are perhaps the weakest part of a Glock. Nice looking work thou'!
  12. Unless your'e considering IPSC Open Division... ...then it can be useful. -and welcome having a great gun, whatever you choose!
  13. I don't understand why people are so biased towards the looks of a gun. Okay, I too like nice guns, and like to tinker with them ugly onces to make them look nicer. I too, thinks Glocks looks pretty boring on pictures. I too was very biased before I got one. Thinking tupperware, plastic, brick-shaped, cheap and all that. But hey, it works. No matter what gun you buy, there can be issues that has to be adressed, wheter it is the trigger or something else. It is the same with computers, cars and cameras too. I'd like a BMW. The basic ones are so nice to drive, but I wouldn't mind put in a better stereo, some nice spokes etc. etc. I'd like for both sides of pro/con-clocks to disregard the factory PR-gimmick of the wording 'perfect'. In my opinion, my G34 was great, but far from perfect. It is cheap, solid, no issues so far, but improved greatly by improving the trigger to my likings, give it a better magwell, some griptape remove the funky sights with something else that i like, etc. etc. Now? I would like more guns, of course, but I have no real reason to get anything else. Ooohh, the STI is supposed to be so much better... ...well, for the amount you have to pay, it sure should be. By my obervations it isn't. I don't know why, but in matches, I see those, and other guns jam, fail to eject, fail to fire, misfeed and stuff. At least STI (and others) doesn't go all out and call it perfection. If I should buy a new gun today, i'd propably go out and buy another G34, with the same setup I have on my current, for less than half of a STI Grandmaster. -The second reason is of course, I'm not good enough to win anyways, so why should i bother buying über-expensive stuff. I think there is very little respect on either side of those loving and hating Glocks/STI's/others. Why hate the player? Although, I have to say I love to beat (competitionally!) a STI-shooter with my Glock. They kind of silently dissapear in a moody way, away from me afterwards. People that talk bad of any gun has a problem, imho.
  14. Ok. I thought the firingpin-safety would be the third. -Which would make the grip-safety somewhat redundant. I know, there will always be the issue of something weird entering the triggerguard, making the gun change direction of it's accidentally very hard free-fall, enabling 'it' to press the trigger all the way in to make the hammer release, and fire the gun, but... I believe the xx11/CZ/clones don't really need the FPB, if they have the thumb-safety, and/or a lowered/partially engaged hammer My error writing as if all xx11's got FPB, though!
  15. I believe, with some uncertainty, that the grip-safety of the xx11's is actually a 'modern' addon, which is basically redundant, and therefore possible to deactivate by pinning it. (since the xx11's also got the external safety-switch) Basically the modern xx11's got 3 safeties, whereas two are needed to comply to the different rules regarding safety. I don't know though, if it is legal to deactivate the external safety-switch, but not the grip-safety, as it is vice-versa. It is perhaps legal to do it that way too, but I think that would make it impractical in practical shooting. -since the hammer would have to be down during LAMR, and then the shooter would have to cock it when the buzzer goes. (depending on divisions, SAO/DAO and such. It would be very confusing for rulemakers, RO's etc.) Although I cannot recall actually have seen any rules regarding pinning the safety-grip. It had me confused for a while, but it seems to be widely accepted. -And I don't mind, since the grip-safety is not essential for a safe gun. As long as it has a firingpin-block that has to be deactivated before the firingpin is released, and it has an external safety-switch of some kind. Then the gun can fall out of an holster as much as it'd like. Disregarding the fact that a DQ is being scribbled down behind ones back! If anyone could link to a rulebook addon that says specifically that the grip-safety can be pinned, I would appreciate it.
  16. Questions already answered. if you're unsure about anyhing, re-read my previous posts. It might be hard to understand something. I won't hold it against you. Although I disagree to your statement that shooters deactivate 2 safeties in both the xx11 and Glocks. Not many do. New shooters very often ask if they can, out of ignorance or curiosity. And I know as the pendant you are, that you would answer me back 'but they can'... ...Well, yeah, it is physically possible, I'll grant you that. And some do. The same people that do, are taking considerate risks of not only getting DQ's, but endanger fellow shooters (and others) more than neccesary. And of course we don't run around the cof decocking the hammer between each target. When the stage is hot, all precautions has been set, just in case anything should go wrong, as it does from time to time. But you have perhaps read up the rules about LAMR (Load and make ready)? A SA/DA-action gun with hammer is supposed to have safety on when holstered. i.e. the external safety-switch of an xx11, OR THE HAMMER IS DOWN. -The Glock HAVEN'T GOT ONE! -And now you should re-read my previous posts again, to see why I have stated the safety-plunger should stay...
  17. what about the drop safety? it has internal safeties. I think i'll drop the thread here. I thought I had managed to make it pretty clear why both the drop-safety, the one on the trigger, and safety plunger are relevant to each other. I'll try one last time... ...if the safety plunger is missing, it is just about irrelevant to have the drop-safety. If the striker should be released, it will release a deadly blob of lead in whatever direction the muzzle is pointing. If the plunger is missing, it is not necessary for the drop-safety to be pressed. The function of the drop-safety is to make sure the trigger w/bar doesn't move backwards, That doesn't mean it is impossible for the triggerbar/sear to be pushed downwards by inertia inside the slide, while the drop-safety is still activated. -Resulting in a forwardthrusting motion of the several pounds strong spring, slamming the metallic point of the striker into, and ignite a primer, that will ignite some gunpowder, that under pressure will push out a projectile that can, if you're lucky 'only' maim one person for life. Now, if the plunger is actually in the gun, and the said possible inertia had by the hand of God or something miraculously (obviously, it has to be a miracle since this seems to be so hard to understand) released the striker on a loaded gun, without touching the trigger, disabling the dropsafety. -The ingenious craftwork of the humans would have fooled both God and Death, since the striker would ram into the safetyplunger and never reach the primer. Yes, the Glock has internal safeties. Compare it with a car. It has safetybelts and airbags, but what good is that if You choose to disconnect the brakes? I hope I have managed to clearify aspects around the safety of a Glock pistol.
  18. That is my theory too. I find 13lbs somewhat iffy. I have heard weaker ones down to 14 acceptable, but it can be that the 13 one is just too little. I have a 13 laying around in a box, but i have never really tested it, it just doesn't go to well with my gun. When I first assembled it, it actually jammed in the slide, and tried to drive itself through the fronthole where the recoil-rod goes. Not a big success. So I ripped it back out. I also wanted something that drives the slide faster, and figured out that the 13 wouldn't hold up for me. I can't really see anything else wrong with OP's setup. Again, i don't know if it solves anyhting, but trying the original one shouldn't hurt. If it works... buy a second original one and cut off a couple of coils instead. What I have in my G34 these days, is a Sprinco Recoil Reducer with an ISMI spring. Costs seriously compared to the gun and its parts themselves, but it works for me.
  19. Aluminum grips, I don't know how much lighter they are than the rubber ones, but I believe they are lighter, yes. And adding griptape onto them, they stick nicely to your hand. Better than the rubber imho.
  20. Oh, no! That is bad behavioral training for an eight year old! He will continue to get DQ's! He knows now what to expect next! -And he won't get those really those nasty 180's, but 'accidently' trip, and kind of carefully, or as it says in the rules, 'firmly' put the gun on the ground!
  21. Never talked about 1911/2011's and their disabled grip-safeties, but since asking... ...No, I don't compare Glocks to xx11's at all. There is a wide difference between their design and the Glock. I haven't protested a firingpin-safety/grip-safety-less xx11, neither will I do so. Neither will I protest a CZ-x5/clone, that is based on the principal of having a firingpin-spring INFRONT of the firingpin, and hammer that can be put down, either with the stupid unneccesary decocker-lever, or manually by the God-given thumb. Those guns also have, in case you absolutely need to have a cocked & chambered gun, a external safety-switch. The Glock don't. As someone disputed in an earlier post, that replacing could be interpreted as 'replacing with nothing'. I don't know if that was said with tongue-in-cheek, but I don't remember as of my writing, that I saw a smiley attatched, so I don't think it was said so... ...My anwer is No, no, no, no. 'Removing' does not equal 'Replacing'. That would also mean, by a weapon inspection, You WOULD be deemed having a unsafe weapon, hence breaking the 5.1.6 'Firearms must be serviceavle and safe'. On a good day, with a good inspector, he/she would let You off, if you say "Oops, i forgot to put it in after cleaning the gun at the hotel", and he/she would let you put the plunger back into the gun, and let you continue with your match. HOWEVER, if you were to be taken aside during a match for a random inspection... The result could really fast turn out with red cheeks, leaving before the match with one, potentially two DQ's in the bag. The reasaon? Because the safety-plunger in a Glock CAN'T FALL OUT (read: disassemble itself by breaking, but vaporizing itself by a natural phenomena, also called miracle by some. -Then you'd be allowed to repair the gun, before continuing the match). If a Glock has been tinkered with in this way, You could very well be facing a 10.6.1 or/and a 10.5.11.2, holstering a weapon without it safety applied- Or more blatantly: Without installed safety! Back to the differences in the design between the xx11 and Glock, if You haven't experienced both guns designs. If you hit the backside of any gun (except Glock and some early models of 1911, by obvious reasons), on a lowered hammer, the firingpin won't have the inertia to compress its firingpin-spring (unless the spring is either worn out, or cut-off) hard enough to simultanously protrude its crack AND ignite the primer. What happens in the firingpin-channel, is that the firingpin in a xx11/cz xx, TS, etc./clones is actually loosing speed all the way to impact of the primer, whereas the design of the Glock actually the opposite happens. In the Glock the strikerspring is positioned behind the striker (more than less), giving the spring the opposite effect, when the spring is charged, there is nothing to break the striker's speed but mere friction from the plastic liners in the striker-channel. So IF a Glock would drop, IF the Glock's sear-part of the triggerbar is overpolished/worn down, IF it was loaded, IF the safety plunger had been removed, Yeah, It might actually lead to a very disastrous AD. I wouldn't care less about protesting due to cheating, but about safety. Not neccesarily my own, but the others, including his and the spectators. If that is being emotionally biased, then F*** me, why not. Edited a stupid grammar, there are more, but not critical
  22. Glockstan, Could your problems be that the recoil-spring is too weak? Try it with the original one. Me finks the issue could be that the timing between the slide and reset/pulling the trigger for next shot could be off. -That the slide hasn't gone into battery fast enough for the next shot to be made. Not in battery -> weak strike on primer.
  23. No. The original striker-spring would be more reliable with a lighter striker, since the stronger spring would push the striker faster, hence increasing the mass it moves (increased inertia). The pro with a reducer power striker-spring is to make a lighter trigger-pull. The downside, it can't give the same power to whatever it will move. The lighter striker with the 'lighter' spring, would actually reduce the power of the striker even more. Of course, this is an area, where hand-loaders love to test out fly-fart-ammo. If downloading the ammo (instead of tempting the faith of overloading), they have a very good opportunity to go with the light striker, light springs, and a lighter recoil-spring. Basically making an anti- +P+ -gun. All in the purpose of speed and lesser recoil. If going with +P+ -ammo, none of these things should be tried, except for STRONGER recoil-spring and the normal, perhaps stronger striker-spring. -To not mess up the timing between the recoil, pushing back the slide, having the gun feeding and ejecting properly, and resetting of the trigger/striker properly.
  24. Emotional bias. A person will be usually inclined to believe something that has a positive emotional effect, that gives a pleasant feeling, even if there is evidence to the contrary, to be reluctant to accept hard facts that are unpleasant and gives mental suffering. Those factors can be either individual and self-centered, or linked to interpersonal relationship or to group influence. The effects of emotional biases. Its effects can be similar to those of a cognitive bias, it can even be considered as a subcategory of such biases. The specificity is that the cause lies in one's desires or fears, which divert the attention of the person, more than in one's reasoning. Neuroscience experiments have shown how emotions and cognition, which are present in different areas of the human brain, interfere between each other in the decision making process, resulting often on a primacy of emotions over reasoning . (Wikipedia). I'd say: It's the rules. Until the rules has been changed. Follow them. No personal bias involved here. Removing the Safety Plunger would violate rule# 5.1.6 leading to rule# 10.5.11.2 (DQ by Unsafe Gun Handling) and/or rule# 10.6.1 (DQ by Unsportsmanlike Conduct). (USPSA & IPSC rulebook). I tested my Glock today. I exchanged the connector with a decently worn out one, took out the plunger, and reassembled the gun. I poked the connector and sear with a pin (didn't want to whack the slide with a hammer). The *click*-sound and the protruding striker made me convinced, that a gun accidently falling out of the speedholster at a match with several fellow shooters and spectators, onto tarmac, concrete, stone, whatever, needs the safetyplunger. Open match-gun or not. Sorry. I don't buy that you shoot so much better without the plunger. If that is the issue, buy a reduced power plunger-spring from wolff, or something. Btw, Jobob. Nice results!! edit: sorry, i wrote that I took out the connector, I meant the triggerbar!
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