Loves2Shoot

Apex Tactical

There is no way I would ever punch primers again, period.

What source does that come from? ROFL, that is too funny. Honestly, all that I have been able to deduce is that it has to do with surface area and feel. With a gunsmith trigger, you can make a trigger any length you want and any shape, so reach is a non issue. On a flat trigger, less of your finger is touching the trigger which may add sensitivity and make it easier to feel the trigger, the downside is that you can't always tell be feel where your finger is on the trigger (not that matters much with light triggers) but you can get too low and drag the bottom of the trigger guard. With the curved trigger, more of your finger is contacting the trigger, so you are less sensitive to the pressure being placed on the trigger. For those that have light triggers and poor trigger sensitivity this can cause problems (ie. AD's.) With a curved trigger, you can tell your finger placement easily by feel. With the Enos trigger, you get a happy medium, more feel and enough curve to keep your finger off the guard and have consistent finger placement. Being able to prep the trigger on the draw without breaking the shot is the only way I know to test trigger sensitivity, so as long as I can feel the trigger enough to prep it and not break the shot until I want it go is all that really matters as far as trigger weight and my own skill.

When posting these types of questions, it is MUCH more helpful to tell your velocity instead of powder charge. If people don't know your power factor, it is much harder to give you good advise. I prefer the 320 to the 340 personally. That being said some people will prefer a push to a snap so "soft" is subjective to your size and structure also. A 17 MS and 12-14 lb RS work pretty well for most major 40 loads.

Those are not slide lightening and if you talked to IDPA, have always been legal since the are common cuts that you can get on factory guns. It was a clarification for those who argued that taking ANY metal off a slide was "slide lightening."

Make your own hole...

I just hope they stand and bang, but I think we'll see if Carwin is good off his back. I want to see the Leban fight. He was a prick in TUF, but lately he has been fun to watch.

Cheap and poor quality IMO.

On mine, you need to adjust the plastic guide just right and it runs smoothly. Too tight, they get jammed and flip if it is too large a gap. Good luck!

We coat R&R's shotguns, and I have had had the chance to have a few of them. His current version, described by Chuck, is simply sweet to shoot and handles very well. There is a big difference from doing add ons and have a fully built S12 from someone who knows how to build one. From the numer of S12's we coat, I would venture to say that R&R hit a home run with his S12's.

A chamber reamer.

I would load all the small primer rounds on the 1050 and use the 650 for large pistol large rifle rounds. Switching calibers is simple on the 1050 and if you don't have to change primer size, it is fast.

Strange stuff happens. I saw that in a .300 whisper barrel that a friend of mine who is a Class III manufacturer had a customer send in because he couldn't hit the paper during sight in. Cutting a cross section of the barrel revealed 6 bullets lined up starting about 2" from the end of the barrel. Apparently his sub sonic loads were too sub sonic

I was of course referring to factory ammo that will make the power factor the gun was designed for. Lots custom ammo folks out there will make ammo to run open guns.

Maybe, send me the ammo to see if it is acceptable If it won't run factory ammo, send it back until it does as you never know when you might need to run factory lead.

If you are gonna make that shot, you need to make the shot I would have thought Kelly's smiley face would have taught you that I just wish you guys actually got to do more shooting and more a more extensive practice time.

That sounds like a whine. Agreed, and I'll post the reply as soon as I can speak with him. That Steve thinks it necessary to insult my wife, friends, and fellow shooting enthusiasts just is sad. The rulebook seems to cover everything in this thread though. IDPA Rulebook page 12 (course of fire): CoF 5. Avoid designing courses of fire that will substantially disadvantage senior and mobility-challenged shooters. page 41: NOTE: HQ urges course designers to draft scenario courses that do not require tac-loads or reloads with retention to be performed “on the clock”. page 59: If your course of fire sounds great when you design it at home, try it on the range to make sure that it is simple and easy to administer.Complexity is bad in any course or stage of fire. When you try a stage of fire or match event on your shooting friends and they screw it up, that is a real clue that the average shooter that shows up to your monthly match is going to be in trouble. Jmorris, There are a lot of good skills to have that are not part of the IDPA game. I can have a loaded magazine when I go to buy ammo and have plenty of magazines to keep loaded while I load more as they are cheap and plentiful.

Yep, both are about as practical in my world, as I know how to keep my magazines loaded. You also know how to keep your chamber loaded. Do you complain about empty gun starts? No, because it is common to store loaded magazines in one location and the pistol in another. I'm not complaining but pointing out things that I consider quite obvious because the OP asked for opinions that he might have over looked. Having given his report, it is obvious that he did find the things I pointed prior to the match. We regularly have junior shooters who do not load their magazines. I don't think my wife has ever loaded a magazine, but she knows what to do with a loaded magazines. There are shooters with disabilities who need assistance loading their magazines, and many more who use loading tools to load their magazines. I think there are many chiming in on this thread who don't really care to look at how something might affect others who would choose to participate in IDPA. I'll call Robert Tuesday to see if I'm missing something, but their rulebook seems pretty clear since they go as far to say that folks who stray too far from their book suggestions SHOULD NOT be allowed to design stages for IDPA. I'll shoot any safe stage put in front of me. I do have some experience with stages and do have an idea about how overlooking something that seems simple can really affect the overall match.

Yep, both are about as practical in my world, as I know how to keep my magazines loaded. Just for kicks, it is about a second per round is what it took to load up my XDm mags, so I don't get why the 20 seconds spent loading my mags on the clock with 20 rounds would add to my match experience. If I'm putting on a match, I would want to keep the stages within the requirements of the sport people who come are expecting to shoot. Personally, I am not a big fan of one stage being all the time and the rest really short to make up for it. A balanced match that measures a wide variety of skills with a balanced score weight is much more fun and equitable. I'll shoot whatever is given to me, as once I'm there, that is what my job is once the match starts. If someone ask if I think it is a good idea, I'll give my input, but that is where it ends for me.

Dotting the i was quick thinking

FWIW, all 8 of my factory mags run perfectly with full mags and factory ammo.

Mine only chokes with HP's, and is a great IDPA gun.

That is what I used to use, this stuff makes the corn last longer too. Actually, it might just be that it cleans so much quicker the brass is just in the corn a lot less.

PS, I ran out of my regular polishing compound and I had some Turtle Wax Premium Rubbing compound laying around this stuff and it does the best job of any compound I've used to date. It is very quick.

Yes.