MemphisMechanic

You mean America’s hat. You have to respect their independence. They’re not a state.

(I can say with total honesty that I once had a girlfriend complain that she didn’t want to visit Europe after I expressed interest in visiting Vancouver. We are no longer together, and sadly this story isn’t fictional.)

This is an American website. I know a few who might well consider Canada to be part of Europe - whether due to political pigheadedness, or geographical ignorance. So that fits.

The shorter the stroke, the flatter the gun shoots. It will hit your shoulder harder, but the dot won’t move as much. It’s rare to find a really well setup PCC where the gun can be locked back. Most of them are destroked too much for the bolt to come back far enough.

Have you checked to see if the magazine gets caught when you push the mag release in lightly versus really, really hard? A friend could bind his CZ mag in the gun by mashing the button and staying on it, like you would in a match. Drive the button in deep enough and it would go in deeply enough to pinch against the magazine from the thumb side of the gun, after releasing the mag from the notch on the far side.. Calmly giving it a tap to eject the mag didn’t cause this in practice or at the workbench. You had to do high-pressure fullspeed reloads. A 1/32” worth of grinding removed with a dremel cured it forever.

Click the big bold word CLASSIFIED and post directly in there, instead of clicking a subforum: https://forums.brianenos.com/forum/21-classifieds/

It sounds like you have a model with the rounded trigger guard which works more like the orginal CZ-75 design than the newer square-triggerguard competition frame models that most of the guys in here shoot. (Stock 2s and such.) Do it have a single-sided safety or ambidextrous safeties on both sides of the frame?

Bend your current wire. That’s what I did, and it worked 100% for thousands of rounds until I upgraded to a 1050.

Well, now I know the press I bought used is an “older” 1050. I tore it down and cleaned it and did exactly what you suggested in order to replace the worn rubber. Approximately how long ago did the switch to a brass roller occur? I’ve considered looking into rebuilding/overhauling the priming system even though it runs flawlessly due to the unknown mileage. This is probably an upgrade I should consider.

The location of that brass strongly indicates you need to tune extraction / ejection. I’m not a 2011 guy, but I do know that a well tuned one should come out the side a LOT more than your nearly-12-o-clock jam’s location.

I’m going to bag on your setup just a bit, and point out that my carry optics gun (obviously setup without a comp) has less muzzle flip than this thing. I’ve never seen an open gun so... non-flat. ...Well. Except for other polymer open guns. Why do you have the gun tucked so far back toward your face with so much bend in the elbows? I’ve never seen someone shoot like that.

If you get randomly selected for extra screening and they rub the little patch on it that tests for explosives... ...see where I’m going with this?

@Pickin you are shooting 3-gun, correct? If you shoot USPSA it’s worth selling for a CK or similar 2011 just to upgrade to .40 and shoot Major. @WFargo Two inches at 25 is pretty much everyone’s benchmark in this sport. It’s not just you.

Whatever gear you impulse-buy in your first year... likely won’t be around a few years later. Whatever you buy before your very first match will definitely be wrong, unless you have a seasoned veteran giving advice. Bring three or four mags for your 9mm, fill them up, and shoot limited minor for a few matches. Talk to guys who shoot other divisions. They’ll let you give their guns a test drive. Shoot a lot of different competitor’s gear, and a years worth of matches. Then you’ll know what you want.

The manual states what length they used to load it. It does not say that you have to use *that* same length. Just know that if you load shorter you will increase the pressure, and if you’re not certain? Back down to minimum from wherever you were. Common sense and a combination of experience or caution will get you the rest of the way.

He last visited the website in October of 2017. Don’t hold your breath.

How far does your bolt have to move to the rear before the hammer cocks? Hammer height / bolt height vary with various 9mm parts manufacturers and trigger makers. If the bolt doesn’t cock the hammer in the first inch or so of it’s travel you may run into resetting issues: a friend has a similar issue when his build didn’t reset the trigger until nearly at the rear. There wasn’t enough time for the disconnector to consistently catch the hammer. Sometimes, it would fail to reset.

This. Unfortunately the case.

The floating pin allows exactly what @haiedras said - the part dictates the reset without hours of meticulous fitting, and is a desireable feature. Running a tight-fitting pin is actually a downgrade.

I always saw the most appeal in beating the shiny-expensive-toy guys with a $500 POS. Admittedly, I skipped the step about putting in the practice to break into M class, so I am hardly leading by example here. But I really enjoy watching guys like Vogel stomp the Akai/Atlas division, or seeing Nils clean up in Carry Optics with a $400 Canik. Perhaps that’s why I lean the way that I do.

I think he meant himself, oh oversensitive one.

Go shoot it. If the gun groups well with your ammo, stop worrying about it right there. The biggest way to cut your OAL variations by 75% is to sort by headstamp, which is the one thing onlt old retired folks care enough to do. Chrono good? Shoot tight groups? Keep on loading just the way it is.

Carve your backstrap with a dremel until it is paper thin. Carve a reciprocal groove in the frame if possible to enlarge the cavity in the backstrap. Pack it with tungsten weights and epoxy, mount the backstrap on the gun, and let it cure. Epoxy & silicon carbide grit over the whole grip and you’ll never be able to tell. My PPQ has roughly 6 ounces in the backstrap. It helps that Tunsten is 1.74 times denser than lead.

@Stafford good move. I see so many guys who have been around for 8 years and are still casual C-class guys. But they’ve put $6,000 into a Limited gun with 6-12 tuned mags and a full belt rig. (Or they buy a new gun and gear twice per season.) They could be having 100% of the fun they’re having now with a Glock 17 in Limited Minor. Realizing that on the front end is a well-examined decision.

What happens when you overtorque mounting screws? Expensive things. Clean them spotless with solvent, loctite them, and torque them right. He torqued the adapter plate down with a hex key, bolts failed. Blammo.