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18 hours ago, zzt said:
What??? The standard thread for 22LR comps is also 1/2x28.
A 5.56 bullet. Not a long rifle.
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Correct. To keep idiots from threading a 22 caliber comp onto a gun with a .355 bullet about to come down the pipe.
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On 2/25/2021 at 6:32 PM, andre3k said:
Where did you purchase your reamer from? I have 3 M&P's that I would like to ream the chambers on.
A guy here on Enos, @1911luvr. He hasn’t had any more of them made in some time - at least as far as I’m aware.Carbide ones are pretty expensive too.
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2 hours ago, Novagunner said:
I wouldn't trust a 3d printed one due to stress. I would want it at least 4-6" tall. I might have to just get someone to weld one up for me.
I can do it if you sincerely need one.
Happen to have my 1050 bolted down in the corner of the workshop so I already have a template.
Just give me an exact desired height in a PM.
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On 2/11/2021 at 6:41 AM, AverageJoeShooting said:
... now im at a standstill because i cant load primers
Seat them manually with a rubber mallet and a brass punch.
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1 hour ago, Shoot_4_fun said:
Thanks Eric. I did not know that. I thought I had read that iron sights allowed one to more quickly have an idea of when the pistol was somewhat on target, so that one could find the dot in the sight.
That all comes down to how much you practice.Competitiors have dozens of hours of dry gunhandling practice for each hour they spend shooting a match, if they’re serious.
Muscle memory is how Open and Carey Optics shooters “find” the dot. They don’t. When they push the gun out, it’s already aligned.
If you’ll put hours in each week practicing draws, irons are only in the way.
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5 hours ago, Kema said:
Problem is that you cannot do 10K review cause compensator os slide will crack
There’s a reason the company changed names and sells guns to a different market now.Even in the USA their reputation is garbage. Unless you’re one of the guys who spent a lot of money on one and refuse to believe that you wasted it.
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You find your OAL by testing dummy rounds to see how long you can load that bullet in each of your firearms before it fails to chamber in one of them. I then shorten it up ten thou and use that as my “default” OAL.
Longer is softer, feeds better, and is generally more accurate. Just gotta make sure it fits.
For a powder charge? If I were loading ammo up for plinking, I’d fill them with a charge right in the middle between minimum and maximum, and call it good.
(Make sure you stay at least a few tenths below the book’s max load.)For competition, I’d do considerably more tuning and testing. The same goes for hot hunting/defense loads.
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@shred nailed it. There is no fixed spec for *exactly* how far away from the chamber you are supposed to put the beginning of the rifling lands. This varies from manufacturer to manufacturer.
American SAAMI spec M&Ps have very short chambers and Smith is a SAAMI member.
3rd & 4th generation Glocks will eat longer ammo than you can possibly stuff in the mags. They’re European and thus per the internet should never have been chambered so long.
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1 hour ago, looking4reloadingdeals said:
I found my S2 chamber to be extremely short as well. For the Blue 147 RN I had to go down to 1.050” oal to get them to plunk. At this length I had failure to feeds 1 in 50 or so.
The Shadow 2 definitely has a super short chamber. I’ve reamed a few dozen of them for guys who can’t find anyone else who can cut a hardened barrel.I cut more CZ S2s/P10s/P09s and 5th Gen Glocks than anything else these days.
SP-01 barrels cut like butter so anyone with a Brownells reamer can lengthen that chamber, and it would have been great if they’d carried that over to the 2nd generation of Shadow. The newer models have super damn hard barrels - only the Glock is harder to machine.
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45 minutes ago, George16 said:
Same here. I got two in there right now. Annoying Mr-know-it-all
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On 1/21/2021 at 7:22 AM, Racinready300ex said:
everyone knew back then that we were all round dum...I mean strategically making up shots as needed on the fly. lol.
You weren’t round dumping.You were ensuring tactical dominance.
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46 minutes ago, Jim Watson said:
But at one time, "round dumping" for the purpose of scheduling a reload was a Procedural Error. Extra shots to assure good hits were OK, but how was the SO to know? Thankfully we got rid of that silliness.
Back when I shot IDPA, this rule was still in place at Arkansas State circa 2011.Every competitor before me put three rounds into the same target half-hidden behind a car at 20yds, then reloaded at slidelock. I wound up changing my plan and putting that shot into a target at 5yds because I broke the first shot early while swinging onto it. It got 2 more A’s punched into it, resulting in three closely spaced holes.
I unloaded with an SO attempting to ding me for dumping... because I didn’t dump the extra round where we’re supposed to. Or something.
The MD overturned it, but that was a noteworthy example of the rule’s absurdity.
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52 minutes ago, Sarge said:
11 SD is fine. 133 PF is perfect don’t want any lower. Check groups for accuracy and call it good
This. The standard deviation is only something to concern yourself with if your rounds display poor accuracy, and even then it’s just one of several common variables. Not even the first one we look at.If it shoots as well or better than you run factory ammo through the same gun? Call it good.
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Stick it in a vest or pant pocket, or tuck it into your waistband. Those are the sum total of the competitive options available.
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Once you have a gun milled you’ll never go back. The optic sits so wonderfully low that all of your muscle memory with irons really helps you find the dot in funky situations. And the switch back to irons for carry is so much easier. It’s also more reliable; optic mounting is much more secure when it’s press-fit into a notch in the slide with half as many fasteners.
You can sell a milled gun set up for competition here on Enos quite easily.
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Are you guys aware the restrictions against frequent changing of the rules were subtly and delibrately removed, permitting the BOD and president to change and update things constantly? Check an old printed rulebook against the current one. Those sections are gone.
That rules instability thing we complain about is a ‘feature’ implemented by the current administration.
They went paperless specifically to allow continuous modification & improvement. On purpose. And most of us didn’t even notice.
There’s no point in printing the rulebook when it’ll be obsolete before your next major match.
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On 1/4/2021 at 10:46 AM, waktasz said:
Why would allowing more guns and more modifications in Production have limited participation?
Opening up the division to 59oz custom shop DA/SA raceguns which 80% of the divison shoots REALLY chased off the 5% of the field who want the division to require a bone stock G34 with plastic sights.80% vs 5%. The math checks out.
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On 7/2/2020 at 1:26 PM, rider82 said:
I had the same issue, that taper in the hollow is very abrupt. I had to load at 1.1 to get them to chamber in an apex barrel.
I had to ream my Apex barrel as well.I’ve also done quite a few factory 2.0 barrels for guys - they’re hardened steel and your average reamer will get destroyed because it’s softer than the barrel.
5th gen glocks, Shadow 2s, and M&Ps all have short chambers incredibly hard barrels which require a tungsten carbide reamer. So did half of my Walther PPQ & PPSs, for that matter: I don’t like loading to different lengths for different guns. That’s why I have a tungsten reamer now.
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On 12/26/2020 at 10:51 AM, SGT_Schultz said:
I'm still waiting for one or both of my two Trijicons to break: an RMR with close to 11,000 rounds and an SRO that just went over 4K.
I have two original DPPs with 5,000 and 8,000 rounds on them respectively, but I don’t consider them a reliable optic just because I happen to be an outlier. Nor should you, with your SRO - particularly because most of the competition dots tend to break between 5k and 15k.The RMR is amazingly phenomenal and will likely never fail unless the batteries die. No one disputes that.
There have just been large numbers of SROs going down, right about the same rate as a Sig or 5th gen CMore RTS2 optic. If you watch your friends have failures, they simply aren’t gifted with Trijicon’s combat grade reliability like their rifle optics and the RMR. People only hope/expect them to be better because they have TRIJICON written on the side.
I’m not smack talking them. I’d put an SRO on a carry optics gun if I built it tomorrow, but not because I expected it to run forever.
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On 12/26/2020 at 12:11 PM, SteelCityShooter said:
I guess you've never shot Steel Challenge with a rimfire rifle.
No USPSA shooter cares about rimfire steel challenge unless they’re pro shooters, or 70+ year old men.Just kidding!
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5 hours ago, Farmer said:
There’s email? I don’t see pm’s unless they pop up when I open BE. Also mine just stays signed in. IOS.
They’re talking about the message from Brianenos.com that shows up in your account when someone sends you a PM.This requires you to have that notification turned on in your settings here in the forum, obviously.
To view your waiting messages on a mobile device, you have to either click the link in that email, or go directly to the /messenger URL posted above.
Just like you can only see your pending notifications by going to forum.brianenos.com/notifications
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@j1b the majority of shooters are in your camp, in my opinion. Especally production shooters like myself, I’ve noticed. We tend to absolutely care about our placement at local matches relative to our buddy in CO or Limited who has a comparable skill level.
It comes down to your nature; if you’re a higjly competitive person you’re going to find places to exercise that, and yardsticks to measure yourself against.
Overall finish matters at my locals when I’m chatting with my buddies about it afterward.
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On 12/30/2020 at 10:30 AM, waktasz said:
I like a 10 in my Stock 2 but currently using an 11 in my Stock Master. I don't like the 8 or 9 that some people suggest.
I found myself in the same camp. I liked my Stock 3 best with a 10 pound spring.I also found that the gun had extraction issues (empty case didn’t clear port) until I fixed them with Wolff’s billion-pound extractor spring.
Tanfoglio stock 2 R5 interruptor from patriot defense ...
in Tanfoglio (EAA / IFG)
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For hours. Until everything I highlighted in the videos as a polishing spot looks like wet chrome.
Most of us actually do 2 or 3 rounds of polishing before we’re really happy: each time you tear it down and look for spots where metal is rubbing metal that can be cleaned up.