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Guys, I think that viewing this issue as point shooting vs aimed shooting is the heart of the problem. What I would advocate is to view this as a threefold problem: point shooting - watching the sights - aiming. There are distances where a solid shooter can get away with just firing the gun to where it naturally points and still get his hits. But conversely at these distances my sights are going to be there too. In other words: You draw and without any aiming, 2 things happen: 1) The gun points at the target and 2) the sights point at the target. Now if my sights are already pointing at the target, what is the point in not looking at them? Visually verifying AND correcting the sightpicture does cost time. But only visually verifying where the sights are does not, IMHO. At the distances where one can reasonably expect to get away with not watching the sights, correcting them is hardly ever necessary. Some may ask, why bother to look at the sights, if you do not take the time to aim (i.e. correcting the imperfect sightpicture)? I'd argue that there is a good reason to observe the sights: If something in the process of naturally pointing the gun at the target goes wrong, e.g. triggercontrol, a bad grip or what not, I may still miss that target, but I KNOW I missed it, and therefore, I can immediately fire a make up shot should that be necessary or I can transition to the next target without hesitation, if it is not. Knowing where your hits are going to be does two things for overall performance: 1) It saves you valuable points and 2) it reduces the overall time, because hesitation costs time. If all is going well, both methods will have equal results (in terms of speed and accuracy), but if somethung goes south, and over the course of a match it will sooner or later, since we are all humans, having a good idea of where your sights were, is going to save the day. Therefore I cannot think of a good reason for point shooting. Obviously, as the distance to the targets increases, you will start to really aim the gun, which means you will start correcting the sightpicture until adequate for the given distance. For the reasons given above, I think, that using the old point shooting vs aiming dichotomy is rather misleading.

Dear shooters, I'd like to thank all those who made this match possible, espacially all shooters, our range master, who was unflappable as ever, all ROs, who made the match flow, our stats director, who provided us with results as early as possible, all helping hands and our organisation team. Thank you all.

Dear shooters! Only 3 days until the registration closes! Registration for the FSV 1864 Trophy in Amstetten closes on saturday 31st of march 2012 at 12:00 p.m. (CET). There are still slots available. Online registration, stage descriptions and further information can be found at http://www.fsv1864amstetten.at/registration/ This year we did our best to design high quality as well as fun stages. (What we came up with can be previewed in the matchdescription on the registration homepage. See you at the range and DVC Dietmar

Hello everybody! Only 10 days to go until the registration closes! There are still 36 slots available. See you at the range, Dietmar

Hello everybody! For all those wheelgunners out there: We already have 10 competitors registered for revolver division, all of which are known to be reliable to show up at the match. Therefore it is very, very likely that we will be able to recognize Revolver Division. Everybody who wishes to compete for a president's medal in RD is heartily invited to our match! More than two thirds of the places are already taken, but there are still slots available for every date. Best wishes Dietmar

Dear shooters, The registration for our match will commence tomorrow, march 1st at 0:00 hours (CET). We are looking forward to seeing you at our match.

UPDATE: We are proud to report that we have received official sanctioning.

The team of the FSV 1864 Amstetten invites you to our 2nd FSV 1864 Trophy 12 stages - 200 rounds Recognized Divisions: Open, Standard, Production, Revolver, Classic Match Information: 21. - 22. April 2012, Shooting commences at 8:30 or 13:30, depending on the squad; Shooters are required to be on the range 30 min before their first stage commences shooting Registrierung: 1. - 31. March 2012 via our online registration system: http://www.fsv1864amstetten.at/registration/ Registration fee: 50 € /68 USD Payment of registration fee: Only via bank transfer within 10 days of registration Kontakt: fsv1864_level3@yahoo.com (Dietmar Rauscher/Hermann Kirchweger) We are looking forward to your participation!

Which is what I just did. And considering the quality, I'd do it again without second thought! As a matter of fact, Les Baer is the only manufacturer I have come across that ships first rate guns to Europe. (With lots of other manufacturers it seems, as if they just sent every gun that doesn't pass quality control to Europe. - Just put an ocean between yourself and your disgruntled customers. - Les doesn't do that, in my experience. Or maybe he is just so much better at building guns, but that's hard to believe.) Anyway, for the money I believe it is hard to beat a Baer.

Thanks a lot! Much obliged.

Which Front sight cut is on a Les Baer (Concept v)? (I want to exchange the sight for a Dawson FO) Any help would Be really appreciated! Thanks!

I'd personally disassemble the frame from the grip and look whether it's binding up on the one or the other. Then go from there.

I'm not so sure that's really a pattern as much as poor QC or an inexact process. I built a spring tester and checked new ISMI and Wolf springs and found that almost none of them were what they were rated, and both had springs both heavier and lighter than rated. That was when I decided to switch to Sprinco springs (not the recoil reducer) which seem to have a much higher level of QC done to them. R, G-Man Bart, That is very probably true. My sample was certainly not big enough to draw any definite conclusions. What I stated was just the pattern I observed with my limited batch.

I guess it has to do with the ISMI poundage. In my experience ISMI springs with the same nominal poundage tend to be a tad lighter than Wolf springs with the same nominal poundage. (Had a 12.5 lbs recoil spring from ISMI that was lighter than a 12 lbs from Wolf.) Anyway, I run my 40 with a 15 lbs Wolf mainspring and had 1 light strike in about 10000 rounds. It very probably was due to a high primer, but I switched to the Mclearn firing pin, just to have some extra leeway. Since then no light primer strikes at all. Primers I use are CCI, so you should be on the safe side with Federal primers. (Trigger components I run are cylinder and slide sear and disconnector and a Doug Koenig hammer, in case it makes any difference.)

Not being an expert, I'd like to throw some thoughts in. If the gun went back because of push feeding, there has been, in all probability, a timing issue, that caused the push-feed. Couldn't that timing issue be the cause of the barrel cracking? If one gun develops 2 big-time problems, in such a short time, I'd assume them to be related...