MemphisMechanic

Exactly. I run plated or JHP through my PCC.

Blue bullets will eventually led up your comp if you run one. If you don’t mind getting out the dremel to grind the cement-like layer out of it, they’re a good price.

Stuff a mag full of dummy rounds and insert it. The upward pressure on the slide helps somewhat. But. All striker fired pistols do this. The mechanism is a tug of war between the recoil spring and the striker’s cocked spring. Roughly 17lbs forward and six pounds rearward, before we swap to aftermarket springs. When the shot is fired, the striker is released and all rearward pull vanishes, along with the striker hitting the breechface and tapping the slide forward. Things shift. It’s fine.

If it’s a fun gun, sure. If this is a grizzly-stopper, and he wants to carry it with the safety off while out in the woods? Factory parts to keep that massively-oversprung reliability, IMO.

I break the “never put an empty mag on your belt” rule all the time. My procedure to avoid messing up is that my starting mag only goes into the pocket which it lives in after **every single mag** comes off the belt, gets filled or checked, then replaced. Only then do I slip a mag into the pocket I need to use to start a stage. However you do it, have a process to ensure you always arrive at make ready with the belt fully stocked.

Just because you’ve seen it go the same way 109 times does not mean you know how thread #110 will turn out...

I only use it when someone hurts my feelings.

And the Walther slide stop is much larger and easier to thumb than any Glock, even their extended ones.

When Obama got elected and everyone “knew” total gun bans were coming, reliable inventory of primers and powder didnt return for 1.5-2 years. 2020 was a massive record year for buying their first gun or two, which led directly to ammo shortages. This leads to tons of people getting into reloading in hopes of dodging the shortages and the high prices. Toss in the typical pre-election desires to stock up “just in case” and you have a recipe for another longterm shortage.

You’re debating with a veteran GM who has won several major matches, and who spends some time squadded with these guys chasing on their heels in Limited. Kindly share your own qualifications which back up your opposing viewpoint, because Charlie is talking sense.

Shooting that light of a load with a buffer that heavy, no wonder you have a sluggish cycling action. Pull the weight from the bolt and see if you shoot it better. It’ll surely be more... snappy.

Install new springs in your mags. Preferably some extra-power ones. As soon as they wear a little, the rounds can bounce downward into the mag slightly before the slide begins to strip a round. (But this happens only when a mag is slammed in hard.) If youe gun will autoforward and fail to strip a round or if it jams? Immediately change your mag springs before proceeding to diagnose other issues. Most of us are far too lax in replacing them in a timely fashion anyway.

Open the topic...? I don’t know. Honestly I don’t use that feature. My Enos bookmark is set to take me to the newest hottest posts thingy that appears when you click the icon in the upper right, and I usually review what’s listed in there, then move on with my day.

Implying, therefore, that internal safeties can? Have you had your gun function tested by those DNROI-trained staff dudes at a major match? I understand how you arrived at your interpretation of things, but in this case clearly USPSA goes with “ALL safeties must work. Not just externals.” In the case of this gun yes he’s legal. The gun (serialized frame) did not come with a FPB.

@mattx if you’re the RO and you notice it in time? It has happend a few times where I was actually able to focus on the target in time to observe where the new holes got punched. Breaking the rule down? This is a common sense one: If you can accurately determine the score the shooter earned with certainty, you score it as shot. It doesn’t matter how that comes to pass: different sized holes, you remember where the previous hits were, or you saw the current shooter’s hits arrive. If you have even a bit of doubt, you do the fair and decent thing, and order a reshoot. However. We are on the interent. Common sense will always be split into 100 nonsensical hairs here. “Well, they used the word ‘as’ in the thirteenth paragraph so I believe that means...”

@mrd this does indeed seem strange. CZ shooters are delighted with the similarly-balanced Shadow 2, and many would be delighted to add the Tanfo’s bull barrel. Tanfo guys on the other hand are pickier about balance. I agree than an IFG limited pro or a Stock 2 would make more sense than lightening this one.

Grip it all you want. Just don’t rip it. Even a little bit.

You only have 6,000 rounds through them? Definitey shoot more, and type less. Most of the guys around here soured on STI because they won’t hold up longterm. Your guns are barely broken in. 5,000 rounds is just a few months of ownership for someone shooting competitively and practicing hard: 20-50k per year is not uncommon. That is why STI fled this market, and began selling as Staccato to people who shoot less.

The only use he mentioned was hunting. Second scentence. A situation where you don’t want an over-the-ear muff, given the stock you’ll need to cheekweld against. You’re not wrong about ROing Open guys, where doubling up on hearing protection is vital... but I’m pretty sure nobody’s throwing dozens of popple-holed spaceblaster shots at a deer. If they are, I want video. ”Today on Shooting USA? Christian Sailer goes hunting with Team Infinity Outfitters!”

What? Seriously? You put a finicky gun in the drawer... so that you could switch to something even worse? STI/Staccato as an upgrade from anything? Sigh.

@Stafford search for ‘Travis Tomasie Shot Calling’ on youtube. The demonstrated process is the same with a dot, it’s just even easier to see than with his irons in the video.

The seear isn’t moving sufficently to clear the half-cock notch on the hammer as it swing past. Start with the easiest thing to check: Remove the overtravel setscrew from your trigger and tell us if it changed anything.

If you’re calling your shots based off where the dot or front sight lifts into recoil from, you should never be surprised by the locations of the holes in the targets. If you aren’t doing that, and you attempt to go fast? The final scentence in your post is what happens, and you didn’t know it was occuring.

Plan for roughly a year as the shortest likely answer. It was longer when Obama entered office and everyone lost their minds. We went 2-3 years without ever seeing 22LR ammo on the shelves in a store, too. Even when supply returns, many of you who are freshly learning this lesson will stock up on a 2-3 year supply, extending how long it takes for inventory to return to normal by several months. I have somewhere over 30k in my safe... because I learned during the previous shortage. I’d consider myself “out of primers” when I hit 25-30,000 and reorder like normal. Sadly, you now know why.

The #1 real-life useful thing I learned from my years working up to A in production was to shoot everything inside of 10-15 yards or so with a target focus through the sights. Optics are slower to acquire than a dot - up close one can use irons to land hits with everything misaligned well beyond the dot’s presence in the window. Irons are also always faster inside of about 7 yards, in my opinion. Irons work in the rain, when covered in blood, and most shooters have had an optic fail if they’ve been running CO regularly and shoot a high volume of rounds. Dots are fun for games - I love CO and have had two slides milled for optics. Irons are better for a handgun you’d take into a war, if you’ve put the work in.