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Kyle Norris

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  1. Started with a tungesten in my guns. Have since switched to a steel guide rod to get some weight out of the gun (STI edge w some slide lightening), and haven't looked back.
  2. BJ and I were inspecting magazines today. On the hit list of my 40 mags are.... 1. A broken front weld on an STI tube is defintely #1 with a bullet. 2. Dawson basepad that appears to be bent. 3. Two tubes that are too narrow about 2/3s of the way down, restricting capacity Funny thing is all these mags ran 100% for the last 8 months. Previously, I have broken two Grams Pads for STI, two Grams pads for Para and an Arredondo pad for Para (which come to think of it I still need to send back to Ralph so he can see why it broke). So here's the question, what other stuff is out there I can try? SV tubes are apperently impossible to get, so it looks like Grams will be getting the two out of spec tubes. Anyone know of basepads that don't bend or break? Any way to keep welds from breaking? Can anyone give me ANY tips to keep from breaking magazine parts?
  3. Just a thought also, do you have any weight in your mags when dry firing? Can make a huge difference in how the mags balance, leading to an unfamilar feel on match day. And the unfamiliarity can lead to your practiced technique breaking down.
  4. Ok, the night before I was supposed to shoot my first club match of the year using my Springfield singlestack the hammer hooks decided to go in the dumper and shear off. I had already had a Para go down by breaking a link earlier that week. So painted into a small box, I decided to shoot Open borrowing my brother's gun. Suprise, suprise, in the first match I ever shot with the foo foo gun I managed a fourth (admitidly a small field) and came with in sight of beating the young lion himself, BJ. Haven't shot a Limited gun that well in a long time, and this was with approximately 1hr of dry fire and no live fire practice. It feels pretty dang good.
  5. As a I love the way a Para shoots (steel frame) but hate the maintnace intensive POS gun that it is I will attempt to speak to this. As mentioned earlier, my first "real" Limited gun was a P-16. This gun could shoot . I can still take it and lay in 1-2" groups at 25 yds off hand, with a stock barrel, bushing and extremely sloppy slide to frame fit. The gun recoils (for me) repeatably, softly, transitions well, settles quickly when coming into a box, ect. That said.... This thing broke more parts than I could stand. In fact, on pulling the gun out and playing with it last week, I broke the SECOND link in about 4-5k rounds. I was planning on shooting this gun in a match two days later (the next night the hammer hooks sheared off my single stack while dryfiring....bad week). I went through two extractors, God knows how many mag springs, different basepads, a factory thumbsafety, a slide stop, not to mention it loved to chew my shock buffs apart in about 500 rounds. All this happened in about 12k rounds. I was tweaking something (usually magazines, I couldn't keep the stock Para or STI for Para running no matter how much TLC I lavished on them) every week to get the gun to hopefully run for a 100 round local match. I finally said enough and bought an STI, which I promptly figured out I don't like nearly as much. If someone made a half decent Caspian 40 mag I can't tell you how tempted I'd be to put a Limited gun on that. Now, however, in cohorts with gmshtr (thanks Phil) my Edge is headed to Keal Manufacturing for some major surgery. Will give a full report as soon as it gets back.
  6. My sob story is I had a link break at a local match, instantly converting my Para to a single shot. Not fun in 40 degree raining weather. Hand stripped a 30 round stage, cutting myself on the BoMar in the process. Curriously however, I'm the only person I've ever seen who's had that problem. Not a common one, but a potentially match ending if you don't have a spare.
  7. And this one time.....
  8. *Voice of many dollars worth of experince speaking* DO NOT buy a gun because that's what everyone else on the range is shooting. Because it may not be what works for you. No matter what the "cool" factor is, many times basic is the way to go. My story, much like you I bought a single stack Springfield 45 to start. Shot exactly one match with it before putting it away to shoot a Para 40. Shot the Para alot, the Para broke alot (not a horrible thing, I managed to learn most of what I know about keeping a gun running from that P16). About the time I got the Para working properly, decided I just "had" to have a long dust cover STI. BIG mistake for me. No matter what I do, I can't get this gun to balance properly for me . So, I got stuck with a gun I'm not happy with because I didn't shoot enough to learn what I liked. Currently considering major surgery on the STI and/or a new Brazos Limited gun with a short dust cover (plus at this time, I'm shooting the single stack I started with, go figure). The moral is, shoot as many different guns as you can. Most shooters are going to be cool with you running 15 or 20 rounds through their gun if you explain you want to learn what you need in a gun. Shoot light guns, heavy guns, short guns, long guns, pretty guns, ugly guns, anything you can get your hands on. Ask someone that you shoot with on a regular basis if you can borrow their gun for a match. My brother just got done specing a 4k dollar open blaster. He didn't drop that kind of money without shooting ALOT of differnet guns. Figure a Limited gun is going to run anywhere from 2-3 thousand bucks, make sure you know what to buy the first time. Then, as Eric mentioned below, don't screw around with a half assed builder, get it from someone you know will get it right the first time. Just my amateur opinion, but that would be my road to Limited gun happiness.
  9. Real fears, getting seriously burned, seen it, not pretty at all. Completely irrational, off the wall fears. Any kind of snake, venomous or non venoumous, doesn't matter. I HATE the things with a severe passion. Will not get with in 20 feet, hell, 20 miles of one if I have the choice. I mean come on, even the Bible says there evil. What more do you need?
  10. To chime in on the themal/IR debate... I have used thermal imaging cameras (TICs). They are EXTREMELY cool, and allow firefighters to size-up a fire or other incident without immediately putting themselves in danger. However, what you looking at with a TIC is more of a difference in heat levels than heat it's self. For instance, I could easily see a fire through a wall with a TIC as it is much hotter than the surrounding area. In the same vein, I could easily see body in a mass of fire, as it is much COLDER than the surrounding area. Three things however, easily defeat a TICs abbilities. Reflective surfaces are one. A TIC can not see through glass verry well at all, or any kind of polished stainless steel. You end up looking at yourself. Good insulation (concrete block, ect.) will do it is as well. The final one, and probably most pertinent to this disscussion is similar tempatures. You will not be able to make out a 96 dgree human in a 90 degree (or for that matter 70 degree) ambient envrionment. There is not enough of a tempature difference to make it show up very well. So seeing a sniper through a block wall with no other heat sources would be very unlikely.
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  12. The guns come out of the safe for a match, they are all checked before they ever leave my hand to reach for the next one.
  13. Arson is definitely an extremely personal hate for me, 'nough said about that. Tyro, Sorry for your loss.
  14. I hate that whiny kids use college as an excuse to do all sorts of stupid, moronic hurtful things to themselves, leaving others to scrape them off the bathroom floor, roadway, etc.
  15. Another vote for Rescomp products.
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