MemphisMechanic

Next time, have a buddy film you, just like that. Then try to catch an A/M/GM in the same division running through it, and compare the videos. It shows how the little things add up quickly. A bit quicker in transitions, more agressive exits, faster on the reload...

Why is that?

Now that is freaking sexy.

Told ya! Glad it helped.

It’s simple. But that doesn’t make it easy. Much like golf: just take these clubs and knock the ball into that hole over there.

@PokerNGuns... No point in milling more deeply: I’m pretty much flush with the head of the elevation adjustment screw now - you’re pretty much looking across the head of it. It’d be a few days before I took another photo, and I’m not sure how much more you’d see. Put a gun underneath that first photo, and that’s exactly what you look at when shooting. I took the image arms-length from the back of the slide then cropped in to enlarge it. It’s exactly “to scale.”

Rob Leatham: “I find the middle of the target, I shoot it twice, then I get to the next one as quickly as possible”

@je85 go find a grade-8 washer and it probably won’t dimple anymore.

The problem with steel is that it’s all a big giant A-zone in your mind. You’d never accept a sight picture up in the corner of a paper target - that costs points. You need to shoot the center of a paper target, so you aim for the middle of this bigger object. And guess what? Your small misses still hit the target in the C zone. ... see where I’m going with this? See a front sight in clear focus for each shot, and don’t accept a sight picture that doesn’t have white steel all the way around the front post inside the notch. Shoot the middle of every target. It makes a huge difference.

@ChuckS it’s right there in the image: 1.172” inches, and mils.

I’ve never seen a Tanfo small frame gun. I ASSUMED since they started as CZ copies and the gun took CZ mags... that the frame would be CZ sized. If not, awesome. Great news!

Winchester are definitely much softer. Not just a little bit. A 650 will easily keep Wins below flush, whereas many of your CCIs will end up barely down flush, which isn’t good enough for a hammer fired gun in DA. People don’t think about the harder cup making it more of a challenge for your press to seat them - hard primers aren’t just a factor when being hit by a hammer with a lightweight spring underneath it.

That makes a Dillon 650 suck slightly less at feeding a Tanfoglio. The optimum solution is a 1050 or a different brand of press that features adjustable and relaible primer depth adjustment. Shim the ram on a 650 and it’ll drive winchester primers deep enough you can run a 13lb hammer spring in a properly setup gun all day long... yet even with the ram shimmed, a 650 is never going to get CCI’s below flush with consistency.

@BrknCylncr a reliable single action trigger that crushes hard primers is easy to achieve. Just look at every Open gun being fed magnum or rifle primers, which is most of them. The trick is to make that happen in double action with a trigger under six pounds. This is where things get tricky (I left my Tanfo at a butter smooth 6.25lbs and it ate any Fed/Win/S&B primer you fed it that was loaded flush... or CCI Magnums if they got fully seated.)

Small frame? Eww. I hate the way CZs feel. I bought a Tanfo instead of a Shadow because of precisely that. I know a lot of you feel differently, but that’s a bad move to some of us.

@sundevil827 I did taper the top & bottom of all 4 corners of my followers inward slightly, when I first put them together. Just a quick blip with the dremel. So that they’ll make the transition from tube to mag extension smoothly. I guess it worked, if mine have always been flawless and yours haven’t.

He meant sprinco. By the way.

They go click, instead of bang. The pursuit of a 5-5.5lb DA pull weight requires a light enough hammer spring that you have to feed them very fully bottomed-out primers. The same is true of any DA hammer-fired gun with a light DA pull: Tanfo, CZ, or wheelgun. There is .005” to .009” of space behind the primer when you have it seated flush with the case. A striker gun or one with a full-power hammer spring simply has enough power to set it off in such a condition, so those of us who are used to such guns have mistakenly come to believe that a flush primer is a sign of quality ammunition.

It’s a new shop. @PatriotDefense covered that not too long ago.

For 18 days, then you’ll buy something else. For what I believe is literally the 12th time.

That’s much like saying “well, it’s still simpler than building a neuclear reactor in your house whilst blindfolded.”

That’s my guess. The Q5 is a pretty sexy gun for plastic (obviously I think so) and that’s where all the contingency money is at. Rough estimate says Hwansik took home a bit over $10k from Walther in 2017. What they pay per finish is public, and his match results even moreso.

That’s pretty much a direct quote from Ben over on Doodieproject all of a few days ago. I played with Ben’s gun. Pretty minimal mods, like 6.5 and 2.5 on the pull weights. Factoryish travel lengths. Some springs, grips, and a ton of rounds through them. Same with Sevignys 34 back in the day. Bone stock gritty trigger, and he won Production in that GA State match by like 18% back in 2011-12 or so over all the Vanek Grandmaster guys.

Bring a can of white paint and use a while circular target, and you’ll love it.

I think it’s ergonomically superior to any gun I’ve yet shot the snot out of in Production. That group consists of G34, M&P 9L, and Tanfoglio Stock 3. More accurate than the M&P or Glock too. You’ll shoot the same score with any of them though. The gun is such a small factor in your scores - once you get enough practice with it - rhat it doesnt matter.