MemphisMechanic

EDIT: Polish the inside and outside of the HANNMER spring. And it's frame hole. And the hammer strut. The Patriot 15.5 is on their website now. Mine shipped this morning. The crucial things to polish for reliability are the hammer and strut, it's hole and the pins that go through them, and the hammer spring and hole. In the slide, polish the firing pin and hole, then the block and it's hole. I don't polish the firing pin return spring. Everything that moves when your sear lets the hammer forward to fire the gun.

I'll let you know how the change affects my trigger pull later this week, hopefully. Patriot stuff usually arrives in 2-3 days.

Your buddy in the video says "your grip didn't break at all." On the other hand my first thought was "he's not gripping the gun with the weak hand." Watch it again. Your gun and strong hand snap back and up in recoil. The weak hand is left behind. Grip the gun as hard as you can with the weak hand and get it up higher. Thumb straight along the frame. This will require you to lift your strong thumb up off the gun, place your weak palm's heel where it is now, then replace the strong thumb on top of it.

In Double-action guns. Specifically. The Tanfo switch was frustrating at first because a trigger under three pounds in a 1911, M&P, or Glock that eats "flush or lower" CCIs all day long is easy to achieve. A double-action gun is an entirely different animal, however. You have to do a lot more work with your trigger finger than you do on any other platform. You have to bring the hammer back a full inch against the hammer spring, and release it. Keep that huge difference in mind when comparing your new gun to the previous ones.

Sounds like approximately one penalty per shot, to me.

That sounds a lot like my gun. I just don't have the ability to truly seat primers to the very bottom of the pocket, but this sounds promising. I'm hoping to remove the heavy stacking in the trigger pull with the EGD Medium spring. But I won't exactly complain if half a pound of trigger pull - or more - disappears.

Okay, good. Giving up only 1 pound with the PD 15.5 makes me think that it might just run like a top with my concrete primers, as opposed to being a full two pounds lighter.

Okay. So the EGD Medium is barely any lighter than the factory spring at all. Intresting.

To allow a second division, you need to be able to go back for "second gun" as a group and shoot all of the stages again. Otherwise as mentioned, changing gear on belt, loading 2 sets of mags, planning 2 walkthroughs with different reload points... That guy is doing basically no helping to the squad and everyone else is doing his share while he swap over from Limited to Open and back, or whatever. It unfair even if you have small enough squads that it isn't a time issue.

I hope you're being sarcastic. I want to know what it rates at!

Sounds like you all really need to get together and stagger your weekends! Having three matches in driving distance each month is great. Unless they're all the same weekend.

I think that's because most guys who have been around the block with Glock and such, then switched to Tanfo have enough experience to know that coated bullets rock and plated ones... don't.

If you're at 99% reliability with the 14... their new 15.5 might just give you a boringly Glock-like gun. It's out now: https://patriotdefense.com/product/tanfoglio-optimized-hammer-spring-15-5lb/

Woot!!! https://patriotdefense.com/product/tanfoglio-optimized-hammer-spring-15-5lb/ I'll be adding this spring and a couple of their lighter ones to this test... when the package arrives!

All the bullets. Through the gun. Buy what brand and weight you like. Tweak your load til your happy with it. They're phenomenally accurate guns, so you're going be happy.

What press are you seating them in? They have to be below flush or they'll cause issues with the lightest weight springs. Honestly, no. I'm running factory striker and a lighter striker spring. But one of the middle weight springs - I think it's a Wolff that's heavier than the APEX kit's spring. But I'm honestly unsure.

Ben's material is great and his four day class was also VERY helpful. That guy above me? Talk to @waktasz, go to a match he's at, and hit him up for advice on getting better. He's fairly good.

You still need a rig though... Then you can get your draws and flat-footed static reloads on point by the time you're match ready

Welfare Open Minor. "WOM" is easy to pronounce.

Welfare Open Minor. "WOM" is easy to pronounce.

Odd post. Can you explain your reasoning on this one a bit more? If you want to shoot USPSA, shoot USPSA. If you don't, shoot some form of Outlaw match and name it as such. So... 100% would be my answer. And yes, that includes rules pertaining to stage design.

It's not cheat PF at your locals if you load to 133+ power factor. Well over 2 standard deviations for my powder of choice. I prefer slightly hotter ammo. It's more consistent, and doesn't slow the gun down at all. Particularly with heavier 147s, it also tends to be more accurate, although you obviously still need to do your load development.

I only sort for majors. Other than that? Fill up the tumbler, then the casefeeder, then load it on up.

Or you're running a BOLO disconnector. They fit a pinch differently, and it's been a problem for a few guys who have done nothing more than polish the internals and paired a lightened plunger spring with a BOLO.

Hammer can fall early in double action. Trigger returns forward less aggressively and it feels mushy when it resets. Most of us run the stock plunger spring nowadays, and spend our time polishing everything it touches or applies pressure to instead.