UW Mitch
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You guys are so freaking lucky to have actual reloading rooms. I've got a reloading locker with barely enough space to stand.
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Rene from Speed Shooters International in CA just shipped the last little bits of parts to finish out the gun! Parts will be here tomorrow if UPS comes through for me
I can hardly contain myself!!!~Mitch
edit update - 6-June 2008
Had oral surgery this morning, when I came home UPS had left a note for me to check my Apt. managers office
The last of the parts are HERE! -
That's pretty kick ass that you got back up and running so quick! Good luck at Nationals!
~Mitch
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My last one was 7
Couple years ago it was 46
So what did you change between when you found out it was 46 and now that it's a 7?
~Mitch
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Well it's down a little, but not much - down to 16. Took a Heavy Metal Cleanse and quit my job at the range. Wonder if there's contamination from somewhere else that's slowing the drop down?
~Mitch
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Having a nice watch, and having friends who collect them I don't know how to respond, although I really want to. If someone is getting a really expensive watch to impress OTHER PEOPLE they're setting themselves up for disappointment. This kind of stuff you gotta just own and wear with pride. It's like if you told someone you spend $4k on that racegun, and they're like "but I got this $500 glock that shoots good too". If that kind of comment would bother you, then you bought whatever expensive thing you bought for the wrong reason. Sucks the guy got jacked.
~Mitch
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Thakns for sharing. The composition of the photos is great. Looks like a real fun open gun!
~Mitch
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It's kind of stupid the way federal educational grants and loan go. When I was a sophomore I had a bunch of loans then I got a scholarship that was to the tune of $1500 per quarter for three quarters. When they disbursed the scholarship money to my account I got less than $1000. WTF? It's a scholarship! They told me because I had federal loans, they couldn't give me the full amount of the scholarship (money donated by the Gates Foundation, not federal grant money). So I had to tell them to get rid of my loans, then they gave me the scholarship money!
I hope your daughter is getting lots of grant money for school. It sucks that someone can't just step back and say "someone on educational money is trying to better themselves and contribute to society, we should do all we can to help them out". Damn beauracrats!
~Mitch
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wants to keep phone use to a minimum.
You mean he doesn't like paying a $1/minute just to chat
~Mitch
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What the actual size of that thing? Looks HUGE!
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I must be living on the edge with just two double pouches. Keep one with 11 rounds to load at the start and another in a pocket "just in case". Guess I could add a third double pouch and not talk around with two in pockets.
~Mitch
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Larry Davidson is the man! I've got 'em on all my 1911s except one, that I've got Rob Simonich gunner grips that I got direct from Rob at a knife show. www.davidsonknives.com - shoot him an email, he'll get you set up!
~Mitch
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I look forward to seeing it Mitch. Hopefully this will get you to quit switching divisions for awhile!
mattk
No it just means that I'll be able to switch between ALL 5 divisions on any given weekend! Honestly, on that subject, I know I could become a better shooter by sticking to one division, but some mornings I wake up and say "I wanna shoot the revolver today"
~Mitch
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9mm Major
"Long and Heavy"
STI Frame and slide - raw parts no cuts no prefitting
5" KKM Bull barrelBarrel
Bedell Comp
Dawson Ice Heavy Magwell
C-more Serendipity
For now I'm going with no lightening cuts as the guns I tried that I liked most tended to be the heavier ones. And being a C shooter, that little extra swing weight probably won't matter, but the battering I'll take might. I can always go and have JPL put some holes and slots in it later
~Mitch
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Not sure if this is the right place to post, but I'm just so damn excited. I've known John for a couple years, and collecting custom knives, I knew a long time ago I wanted him to build me a custom gun. It's not just that his guns look nice or run great, but it's about the friendship we've established, and the care and expertise he puts into a ground up build.
That being said, I ordered an open gun a few months ago. About a week and a half ago, he had the parts fit up. The slide to frame fit felt like it was riding on greased glass, with no wobble. The barrel and comp fit up great with it all coaxial with the firing pin (he's got a little mandrel to stick down the barrel and comp with a little pin on the end that goes through the breechface - if it's not all perfectly on center, the pin don't clear through the firing pin hole).
Last night I got to fire the first shots through it. There was a little hiccup, but when we put a slightly heavier spring it, it just ran. My ammo needs a little more crimp, but it still fed.
No pics yet, I'll save that until the guns all done. But I can't say how excited I am to have John building me something, and to see that project finally coming to fruition. I know the gun will run, so the only issue will be if the shooter will be able to reach its potential!
~Mitch
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An alternative solution if you can't get it running by the time he gets back from Europe is to send your parts to Henning and pay him to tune it all up. He's got the experience to get them running just right. If the mag he built works in your gun, then I'm positive he could take your parts and tune them up to run like all of his other built/tuned mags.
~Mitch
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Not sure about Titegroup, but I'm using 4.0gr WST for 230 grain Rainiers and 4.8gr WST for 200 gr Rainiers.
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Just one quick clarification - are they nose diving when you hand feed them out of the mag or when you're shooting the gun? Because mine nose dive when I'm hand feeding them out of the mag for the first few rounds of a mag loaded to 20, and sometimes when I chamber the first round I have to give a little wiggle, but they run in the gun when I pull the trigger.
~Mitch
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Mitch, you're a lefty too?!? Very cool to have another Lefty in the Tanfo crowd! Nice blaster.
Couple weeks ago I was shooting in a lefty squad - I think it was 50% or more left handed shooters!
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Wanted to give an update:
I've finally worked out all my gear and did an entire USPSA match trouble free. I guess coming from shooting 1911s or XDs, running a Limited gun is like running a tuner car - you gotta make sure everything is right for it to run right, but when it's running right is gonna be awesome! It's nice to have something that looks nice, points nice, swings nice, shoots nice.
Tips that may be obvious to the veteran shooters, but were new to me:
-If a mag falls on the ground, disassemble it and clean it
-Wipe the rounds with a silicone rag
-Get the right crimp on your load
-Get the right OAL
-Undersize the brass (Lee/EGW U-die)
-These tighter guns have a break in period
My recipe (please test your own, this is what works for me, I'm not responsible if you blow up your gun!)
40 S&W
1.17" - 1.180" COL
180 gr MG JHP
4.8gr Titegroup
Fed Small Magnum Primer
Brass is U-died and FCD'ed with 1/2 turn of crimp
When I tested this load a few months ago it was right around 172pf (using a CED chrono). This weekend, same ammo out of the same batch, it chrono'ed at 180pf (Oehler chrono at a local match). Plenty of room to step down probably to 4.6gr Titegroup, but I'll just stick with what's running, since Area 1 is in a month.
~Mitch
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Mine is pretty high right now but I am working to bring it down.
How do you bring your lead levels down?
I successfully have lowered my lead levels from 35 in January to 23 in April by taking two regimens of THIS along with wearing a respirator when shooting indoors, wearing gloves when reloading, and taking 500mg OF Vitamin "C" two times a day with calcium supplements for good measure.
My Doc said whatever I was doing to keep it up.
Mine was 20 earlier this year. I've taken two regimens of a different brand of Heavy Metal Cleanse (I think it was from Enzymatic) as well as following the above recommendations. I need to get tested again in a week and half.
~Mitch
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Sorry to revive a dead thread, but I just saw it and recently read of a related KaBoom! here: http://thehighroad.org/showthread.php?t=355722
Guy was loading Red Dot to 40 data in 10mm, and it doesn't sound like a double. There may be some other explanation, but I wouldn't do it.
Thanks for that link! Last year I was lucky enough to score a sweet S&W 610 off the USPSA Classifieds, and I've been shooting light 40S&W and regular 10mm in it! Gives me lots of choices, if I get low on small primers I can load some 10mm
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Keep up the hard work! If you start lifting, you'll build muscle mass and that will increase your caloric burn.
~Mitch
I can hardly contain myself!!!
Mag Well reccomendations on a G19
in Glock
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Honestly, I'd spend the money on ammo to practice shooting, and just practice your dryfire/static reloads at home. A magwell will give you a bigger target to hit, but practice without a magwell will just flat make you better at reloading.
~Mitch