MemphisMechanic

My comp port basically is a popple hole. A small upward port where you still have not lost gas to anything else. But if were further back I believe it would work more. That said, cutting my barrel down to 14” (my comp is 2.1” so barrel is shorter than 14.5) meant that any popple holes would be pretty much underneath my support hand. Had to abandon the experiment and focus on flattening out the comp.

@Absocold this should help:

I shoot a Q5. Have shot a Canik twice; it feels similar yet totally foreign - just like picking up a VP9 or other gun veeeeeery similar in size and ergos. Gips are definitely different. Let me see...

The gun often is available without a right side safety. Since looks seem to be important, that looks more factory than your factoryish plans.

@ak_tech same here. 25 yd with plated 124 everglades: Initially my gun got 2,000 rounds of coated. Until I cleaned the comp for the first time. Which required a grinding bit in a dremel. Never doing that again. Had to chisel and then grind all of this out of the comp’s ports. It’s not an “oh, just hit it with a wire brush” kind of cleaning. It’s like chipping epoxy off the steel.

I agree there: night matches in indoor shoot houses are highly instructional. One of the big things I learned is the value of bouncing the beam off the floor to diffuse it and flood the room with light. This was a blind stage, unknown target locations mixed with noshoots. Shining the light on one target makes it bright enough you kinda tunnel vision in.

It is legal. Read the rules that went into effect when the division left provisional status, and was made permanent. (Happened at the same time aftermarket safeties, hammers, and things like APEX flat triggers were OK’d in Production.) There is also no weight stipulation beyond the 45oz max. SSI sells a grip module for the X5 that is packed full of tungsten, which I heard at least one high-level SIG shooter is using.

Good choice. You’ll only get happier the more matches you shoot.

@paul49 Are you advocating not running a light on the gun just because you might encounter a reflective surface?

If it helps, my experience with FP 125gr BBI vs round nose 124 gr (plated and coated) absolutely backs that up. It’s easier to set the bulletfeeder up for 100% operation with round noses. That said, I think it’d also be easier with a 125TC like mine, which I did get it flawless by the 3rd loading session, than with a 147fp. The 125 is a much pointier bullet, and that’s what makes it easy to dial in the MBFs flipper mechanism.

Do that. When guys talk about improved feeling it’s just that. Sensation. The sights aren’t magically tracking better, and you’re not missing out on a bump to ____ class just because you aren’t using the powder of the week.

Have it blasted and NP3’d. It’ll only run ya like $450. If you shoot Tanfos you’re obviously made of money... or you’d be running a G35.

To be honest, since Xtreme is reorganizing / bankrupt and I know friends who had bad luck with them... ... I'd recommend the Everglades plated 124s I have been running in my PCC. Plating is thick - nearly as thick as a jacket and much moreso than anything except for the Berry's thick plated bullets. I am happy with what I saw with my 500rd sample pack, and plan to buy more of them.

@jaep1911 it’s getting cerakoted stainless. Don’t worry, that’s in the cards. I’m going to remove the trigger and the shield from the DPP and refinish them to match the slide so the whole gun has a silver/black combination look going on. It’ll look really sharp. As far as recoil / handling? To be continued. I was using hot ammo with the factory recoil spring. I’ll let you know when I have the proper spring and a well tuned 132ish PF load worked out. Along with some range time to adapt to the gun’s new timing.

It’s Ben Stoeger’s advice. I am not taking credit. It seemed backwards when I first heard it, but I gave it a try. Trust me, it works much much better. His phrasing was “reloads take care of themselves.”

Definitely. Absolutely no comparison between this and my Q5 with the dot much higher. 300 rounds downrange tonight and no cracks in the slide. Much easier to find the dot on presentation, but still plenty of dryfire is needed to make it halfway as fast as irons.

Fresh from my mailbox...

CMMG Guard ?

Well so much for that theory. Thanks for the info! Ironically enough I just finished reaming damn near every gun I own to feed a fat coated round-nosed 135gr to 1.160” including two Walthers and my PCC. Obviously, I got a new custom *carbide* reamer that fits polygonal rifling... and life is now good. Hardened barrels or not, I got them all to play nice with longer ammo.

I will try to remember to share a photo of how I bent mine. I tried to restore the wire to being square to the shellplate where the finished case hits it.

A big one. Holosun’s are tanks. Clear, batteries last forever, and they hold zero. There’s a reson people are starting to make Open gun mounts for the 510C so they don’t have to run an RTS2 and wait for it to fail.

@FWSixgunner you will not regret anything about the 650... except for not buying one sooner.

I ran my Q5 / DPP for two matches in CO. I’ll never again consider a gun like the CORE/MOS/Q5 series: to switch fluidly between iron sighted guns (man these ads are annoying) and ones with dots? The dot NEEDS to be milled down into the slide as deeply as you can get it. Mark mills the slide so that your optic is an interference fit; really takes the stress off the screws. You cannot get as low or as tight with work on a Q5 as you could if you started with a 4” or 5” PPQ M2, so that’s the route I took. Yes. Via some other means. Already running a stainless steel guide rod, and I’m considering filling the backstrap with around 4oz of tungsten. Carry Optics doesn’t have a weight restriction beyond the 45oz maximum. You can add all the weight to a PPQ that you want. (I hear Max Michel is running SSI’s grip module for the X5 that puts it at 40ish ounces due to a large tungsten weight in the backstrap.) I’m not going to mess with it overly much. Tinkering with the gun for weeks won’t help me nearly as much as sending 2,500 rounds downrange. But I will probably do something quick and simple while doing a silicon carbide grit job on the grip.

@RangerTrace pretty sizeable. Mine’s on the picatinny base for a PCC that adds 3/4” of height or so, but it’s still the largest option for a dot on an Open gun even with that removed. The window should be down lower than the slideride’s once you remove it’s picatinny base. The body isn’t that thick. The window size is probably almost as large as the entire RTS2, including the body, so field of view would be fantastic. Mine is 4 months old including a fair bit of dryfire on the original battery, and I know two other guys who are well over a year on the original battery. It has aimpoint-like battery life. Mine stays on all day at the range.

Yeah; thank God. Otherwise there’s no chance that it wouldn’t crack.