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I have the Henning fiber with the LPA rear on my match. Like you said its a little high, so I thought about looking into putting the taller Bomar style sight on it (which is what my Limited has). Henning has the sight if you want it:
http://www.henningshootsguns.com/shop/sights.html
I would think you just need to find one with the correct size of dovetail to fit the LPA notch.
I talked to Henning about that sight, and he says it will not fit the Match pistols that come with the LPA rear.
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I plan on replacing mine with the EAA standard combat sight. I've found it to be the best sight for the Witness pistols. No adjustment screws to mess with or lose. It's the standard sight on the Steel model. I've also looked at the jpoint, which I think would be a neat replacement.
bluestringer
Do you have a front fiber sight? It is taller than the stock front.
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I really want to replace the cheesy LPA adjustable rear sight on my Witness match. After putting Henning's front fiber sight on, the stock LPA needed to be adjusted almost to the top of its travel and looked precariously balanced. Yesterday I noticed that the elevation screw had gone wherever it is that vanished gun hardware goes (is it with all the missing left socks?). So I had to find the right size metric screw, cut it down, and Loctite the c*** out of it for a match today. Pray for me.
Has anyone had any luck modifying a high-profile sight intended for some other gun, like say a 1911, to fit the dovetail of a Match and work well with a Henning fiber front?
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As a side note, I was approximately 20 feet from the chronograph when testing......if that matters that much.
That seems awfully low. I am loading 124g TMJ Montana Golds over 4.1g of Titegroup, Magtech SP Magnum primers, mixed brass, and getting 1040-1060 f.p.s. through my CZs. No clue why yours would be so low....
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I have a CZ-85 Combat that I like to shoot in production. My only problem with it is that I would like it much better if the mag release button were on the right side of the frame instead of the left, and it is not reversible like it is on some of the newer CZs. My mag changes are just way smoother with the button there (plus it gets my finger away from the trigger!) Cz Custom would be able to modify the gun for a reversible mag release by cutting out a small semicircle from the frame on the left side and putting in a reversible release. I cannot definitely tell from the rule book whether this would be a prohibited modification for production (I already know it takes the gun out of SSP in IDPA).
Anybody got an opinion, or better yet, a definitive answer?
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I tried to go to ghostholster.com and was redirected to a site with adult content. What is the deal?
Did you try czcustom.com?
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The Patriot Defensive Pistol Association is again hosting the West Texas IDPA Regional in Lubbock, Texas.The 2010 match will be held at Patriot Indoor Family Shooting center in Lubbock, Texas on Saturday, February 20th.This is the 8th annual sanctioned West Texas IDPA Regional to be held in Lubbock. We hope to see you all here on the 20th of February.
Further information will be posted at www.patriotfirearms.com.
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Everybody seems to love their CZ SP-01s, but another CZ that is great for Production is the CZ-85 Combat. It comes stock without a firing pin safety. Add a hard sear and competition hammer, switch to a 15# hammer spring, and a little polishing and you are good to go with a really sweet trigger and short reset. It is also lighter than the SP-01, so there are no problems with the IDPA SSP weight limit.
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bfwally, what powder are you using and how much?
Thanks.
It is 4.5 g of Titegroup under a Rainier 200 g plated bullet. It chronos at ~ 700 fps. The standard deviation is significant ( ~+/- 15 fps) but I have not noticed any accuracy problem.
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Thanks Wally...problem is it doesn't break that section down in detail. When I stated I took it apart...well I took it completely apart (as things fell from the sear group when I turned it upside down) DOAH!
\At least there were no springs launched into space!?
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If you like the longer sight radius of the XD45 Tactical then you are going to have to get a SS non-captured guide rod and play with 1911 recoil springs. Safety consideration, with an empty gun held vertical the recoil spring MUST hold the gun in battery when the striker fires.
Wolff has reduced power recoil springs for the XD-45 Tactical. I run reliably at 140 pf (200 g bullets at 700 fps) with the lightest weight spring they offer (14 lbs ifn I remember correctly). Very soft shooting....
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Long story kept short.
I tore my XD-9 down to parade rest. Now I have no clue how to reassemble the sear, ejector, safety area. Anyone know of a good tutorial or schematic? (I do not have an owners manual)
I hope this helps
http://www.xd-hs2000.com/disassembly/disassembly.html
Detailed directions with photos. Go in reverse order to reassemble....
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My XD 45 will not feed truncated cone rounds unless they are loaded long, basically as long as possible while still chambering, minus about 0.010". And sometimes even then it nosedives on one or so out of 100. I use round nose bullets for matches, but those are hard to find for .40, right?
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I can say a couple things about Friday...
1) The shooting was fun
2) the mud was horrendous, and I think I came close to falling either splayed forward or flat on my back 4 or 5 times
3) I won't be coming in anywhere near the top of my class. Probably dead last. That's what slogging though sucky mud at 1/4 speed and having 3 FTEs will do to you..
4) I shot all stages, didn't DQ. I got plenty of warnings, but that is just good ROing. The temptation to leave after lunch and go get drunk was strong, but I didn't think I could get my car out of where I parked it in the slide lot.
5) A Nissan Maxima can be parked in a mud pond AND driven back out. It's all in momentum management.
I don't know if I could do this whole thing again, though.
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Friday's weather looks worse every time I look... Good thing that they don't really have any idea.....
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FWIW, the current 10-day forecast on weather.com is quite a bit more optimistic.
Curtis
I am shooting on Friday, so I hope that is some accurate weather forecasting there. There is a world of difference between being damp and 75 degrees and being damp and 53 degrees.
At least sleet looks unlikely!!!!
Now weather.com says 69 high, 53 low, with "few" showers for Friday. I can deal with that after the last Double Tap.
Of course by Thursday the forecast will be entirely different
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FWIW, the current 10-day forecast on weather.com is quite a bit more optimistic.
Curtis
I am shooting on Friday, so I hope that is some accurate weather forecasting there. There is a world of difference between being damp and 75 degrees and being damp and 53 degrees.
At least sleet looks unlikely!!!!
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No powder puffs but 169pf with 200gr and 4.7gr of WST with Precision Moly coated so it will take +.2 with the Rainer.
It is good to have a load that makes major too, I will try that. No indications of high pressure with that load?
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A friend of mine has an 85 Combat. I hate that dorky ambidextrous slide stop, and wish it had the SP-01 thumb safety lever, but other than that it's pretty sweet.
Question: does the SP-01 come with an ambi thumb safety as standard? Second: if not, is there at least an option for an ambi SP-01 pattern ambi?
I have a 85 Combat that has been worked over with Angus' fire control parts and it has a wonderful DA and SA trigger. You are right about the safety lever, though, it sucks and needs something more like the CZ75SA or SP-01 has. Other than that I would claim it is the perfect DA/SA 9mm....
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50 for IDPA. 52 for USPSA. It is useful to start old, it gives you many excuses (explanations?) for bad performances....
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I have a bunch of ammo I reloaded a little on the light side.
It makes my grip critical. I was curious about the effects of a stiffer grip on accuracy?
It is a plus changing my grip to get the light loads to function, or a negitive?
Russ
I would tend to say that if I had to be careful about my grip to get the gun to cycle, I would use those rounds for practice and bump the powder charge up some for match ammo.
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Hello all, new guy here. I just purchased a used Witness Match in 9mm. It's at the gun shop until my 7 day waiting priod is over (Maryland resident, unfortunately). I'm trying to figure out if I have an Elite Match.
I bought the gun from an online auction site. It was listed there as a Witness Elite Match. When I went to my local gun shop today to see it, I don't see the word 'Elite' anywhere. The bar code tag said Witness Match. Can you folks tell by my serial number when this gun was produced and if it is inded an Elite? The serial number is like EA451**.
I noticed that the SKU number is 600660 which seems to match the model number on EAA's website for an Elite. I'm feeling fairly confidant that this is an Elite but would like confirmation since I was supposed to be buying an Elite. I'm assuming that the Elite is slightly better than the non-Elite Match models.
Thanks for any help you guys can give me.
I am 99% sure that if it is a Match, it is part of the Elite series. Now you can go to Henning's site and start buying hundreds of dollars of fire control parts, sights, and magazines. I am envious, I had a lot of fun tricking mine out to a 2# sweet trigger....
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Oh yes,it will work very well for you at Minor.I don't have my data in front of me right now,but I was having real good luck with it under 200 LSWCs for a 625 revo.I use like 4-4.5grs IIRC.IMO,its cleaner and cooler burning than Titegroup.I believe there are quite a few Bullseye shooters that use it too.-Mike
I have made up some test rounds ranging between 3.9 and 4.5g, so I guess I will be in the ballpark. Boy, it is fluffy, low density stuff compared to WW231 or TG! I can't try them out yet since our local indoor range had a fire........
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I have been loading 200g Rainier or Berry's bullets using Titegroup to a power factor of 140-145 for IDPA ESP and USPSA Production with good success. Well, now that the Area 4 is coming up I can't find Titegroup anywhere, and the only fast burning powder I could find locally was WST. Anybody have any experience with loading powderpuff .45 with this powder? Is it any cleaner than TG at these low power factors?
Question: High cap CZ75 mags for .40
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I have been poking around, and I don't think I have a final answer for this question:
What is the maximum number of rounds I can get in a CZ75 magazine for .40 S&W, using whatever extensions, aftermarket springs, and extended baseplates etc. I really love my CZ75 SA in 9, and would get another in .40 if I though it could be competitive in limited major. I suspect that it won't be a good answer.