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Yes when the bear grabs you azz he can use it to roast you to medium rare before he dines on your carcass. Slugs and a nearby tree for Bears.

Have Metalife hard chrome the frame. Yes they hard chrome aluminum.

5.2 of 231 115 gr bullet.

If you are limiting yourself to one shotgun make it an auto, like Mark I like an ou for some events but the flurry were the targets are coming straight at you would be tough on it especially 2 man team.

Also you would have to change the ejector or have the slide milled for a Commander style ejector.

I gave up on Brileys a few years ago when I got a couple that the bore was not running true with the outside, one was a 38 super and it was so bad it was obvious from 5 ft away. Not long ago I fixed a problem gun that had not ran for 3 years of trying with various smiths. It was a 45 ss with the big comp and briley bushing. It was never dependable since it had been built. After going thru the usual stuff with no luck I remembered why I quit Brileys and sure enough at the chamber end the barrel was offset .010 to the left. I can't imagine how they can produce a barrel that the bore doesn't run with the outside but they do and if you get one and don't realize it your in for some weird hard to figure out problems. They do shoot good if you get a good one. I am not a fan of the shperical bushing even though I used them quite a bit in the past, reason is when they are fitted up good and tight they require lots of lube and kept clean, let it get dry and you will have problems. If you are ok with .002-.004 clearance between bushing and barrel it's not a problem but you will lose a lot of accuracy. It's had to beat a Nowlin barrel if you're building a 9 or 38s accuracy gun and I would go with a EGW angle bored bushing fit tight.

There is one event in the sportsmans challenge that all the targets come right at you without a break, it's incredible fun. I have to use an auto to keep up it would just be too hard on the ou.

RCBS grandmaster, won't drop shot or powder without a shell on station, same warranty as Dillon but built from the ground up as a shotgun loader. Mec second choice they look cheap made but aren't.

Zero your gun for the hardest shots you will have to make. That is not usually the 3 yd head shot thru the port!!! Reminds me of an Area match I was shooting when my dot went TU on me and I borrowed a friends gun for the next stage. He failed to tell me he had sighted the Cmore railway on top of a weigand frame mount for the 3 yd head shots with no shoots under on the stage. This stage started out with PPs at 25 and 35, after several shots thankfully staying within the berm but very high I figured it out and aimed under the popper and finally took them down and got to move down to those real hard 3yd head shots. Between his built in flinch, super high mounted dot, and 3 yd zero I think it was shooting 2 ft high at 35!! Always bring a back up gun and have it in your bag with you on stage!! The other point is the longer range you set your gun up for the more accurate your zero is. You can't completely depend on charts because they are assuming a perfect zero. So zero at close range if you just have to but check it at longer distances because it could easily look fine but shoot 2 or 3 inches off windage wise at the longer distance when you NEED to be right on. But I'm forgetting that USPSA is a 15 yd max game now.

EGW makes a std type recoil spring plug that allows the use of 5 inch springs or you can just put 2 standard type ones end to end if you want to. Don't need or want a reverse plug with a bushing gun.

When you shoot thru a stage and are unaware of any inner or outer voices but after the unload and make safe you know every shot, move, and load you will have met a goal.

Remembering when the modular frame first came out we all thought the factory mag opening was so huge you couldn't possibly miss a reload!! And it was compared to the biggest single stack mag well of the time. I don't want to feel the mag well on a modular frame gun either but I guess it depends on hand size and what you like.

Dry fire is one of the answers but not the entire solution. Also set up a target at 25 yds and shoot from the best sandbag or rest you can come up with. You want to have no gun movement, hold with the same grip you shoot offhand with. Focus hard on the front site, concentrate on feeling everything in the trigger and try to shoot to the guns potential. In other words shoot groups as good as the gun is capable of, don't be satisfied with anything less. You may be surprised to find that you can pull off a pretty good flinch even on the rest. You will develop trigger control and front sight focus eventually if you keep this up. Only then do some offhand group shooting, same goal shooting to the guns potential. Baby step into some draw and fire still shooting for groups. Once you can stand there and shoot groups your flinch will be gone. If you fall back into it go back to the group shooting. Unfortunately USPSA shooting has evolved into a game that allows you to get away with many sins, not making judgment just the way I see it. It's possible now to bypass some of the basics and end up with a pretty good finish at most events based on movement and hosing. Every great shooter I know can stand there at 25 yds and shoot a great group for you on demand. That is the goal. To get back to the main question, except for brand new shooters, flinches if not caused by lack of hearing protection or some physical injury, are caused by visual problems like lack of focus. Hope Brian reads this and chimes in.

Quality chokes, with the threads cut correctly should not change poi. Problem is even in factory choke jobs concentricity is not guaranteed, what wouldn't be noticeable with shot will show up with a slug. But at extended ranges it is also possible even with a good choke job because the tighter chokes just might give more velocity. MY theory. I know tighter chokes recoil more with any loads.

I don't disagree that shotgun ranges seem to have lax safety rules, and in some cases they do. BUT>>Totally different sports and totally different risks. WE run around with 1lb triggers and 30 rounds in our guns with the safety off!!!! How do you think that sounds to a shotgun shooter who you think is unsafe because he swings his broke down ou around and you get swept? Or like many USPSA shooters have done, go off on a trap shooter because he rests the muzzle of his open ou on his toe? You don't go to a go kart track and expect Formula One Safety Precautions do you? Now if your really want the sh^&t scared out of you go to a cowboy shoot and have the guys across the table reloading their revolvers!!!

A small difference in the profile of the bullet nose can make a big difference in feeding. It changes the spot on the feed ramp the bullet first contacts. You adjust for it by changing the oal, I've ran into it from lot to lot of the same brand and weight bullets and if you change brand be sure and check it out. Fat ended bullets need shorter oals. Also the 40 has an aggresive rim cut which can stack up and grab on each other as they feed up, also related to oal. Lastly did you do anything to change the slide travel? Even changing recoil springs can cause the slide to short stroke causing the problem you are having. Lastly get your sh&^t together before traveling to a match. LOL

bullets with big flats on the front, (meplats) need to be loaded shorter than round nose to feed well.

I would've voted bushing too and will add to get a plug that will allow you to use standard 5 inch recoil springs, will save you lots of headaches later trying to come up with longslide springs.

A predictable snooze until the predictable gunfight at the end and it was just ok. Cars is a much better movie.

The best cup of coffe I've had lately was............at Krispy Kreme..lol not kidding. maybe it was the fresh off the line hot donut.

Chip shot a single stack 38 super at the 1983 Nationals. The South Arficans probably had comps first and deff had the longest comps first.

I'll pick option 5 GONE , just shoot the dang things and be happy with your combined results.

Two old margarine lids work for me, one regular size and one large. Dump the primers onto the regular one and get the primers that are right side up, put the large lid over it and flop it over then get the rest of the primers. Cheap and effective no batteries needed!!!

You can adapt single stack grips onto the Ruger 22/45 which works nicely for most people. If not just bondo it up and make it feel like you want. The ruger will be wicked dependable. The buckmark is a little more finicky, if you get a good one they work, I've went thru about 8 of them, they have some inherent problems. Old original high standards are a good choice too but factory mags are the only thing worth using and they are hard to come by, run from the texas hs's. I agree with Dougc about conversion units, they are not nearly as reliable as a dedicated 22 auto and you will spend more money on a quality unit.

You're doing a great job Michael, why'd you wait so long? LOL just kidding I know how hard you've been working and you deserve much more recogonition than you get for what you have done for the shooting family. I remember so many years ago when the choice was the new "combat" shooting and PPC. The combat guys said we shoot real guns with real recoil in realistic senarios. those PPC guys shoot big ole heavy guns that dont kick you couldnt carry them on the street and draw them out of a slab of plastic you cant even call a holster. LOL how much things have changed or have they? I think USPSA has been avoiding the question far too long, are we going to continue to pretend to be a martial are or just admit we have morphed into something else? All the bad compromises that have been made trying to be both have not helped at all. Time to recogonize whats what.