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If you will polish that area to a mirror finish it won't rust very easilly at all and will even look good.

Have you adjusted or replaced the sear spring? That would account for both problems.

Gunsmiths that have been working longer than 5 years or so are terribly slow, the relatively new guys don't have enough work load that they cant get something out quick. If you trust the guy and like his work have patience, if you dont you shouldve took it someplace else to start with.

Not to flame anyone but I'm amazed how many people will attempt trigger work without first educating themselves on at least how the system works. This is one place that experience really counts and most would do well to pay an expert to do it correctly. But there are so many reports of one pound drop in trigger jobs that are perfect on the wide world of disinformation that I guess this will just continue. There are so many issues involved in changing a hammer that just aren't obvious and frankly if you have to come on the web to ask strangers you shouldn't be messing with a trigger system. Not being cruel just the practical truth, everytime you take that gun out in public you put the publics safety at risk. I know, I know, you the individual are much more mechanicaly inclined than the average slob but I'll be just about every pro gunsmith on here will tell you they messed up a bunch of trigger jobs before they learned their system. Most people won't even do a brake job on their car but trigger job? oh yeh.....

I would be cautious in depending on what a laser bore sighter shows. It can be off by quite a bit depending on how well the arbor fits the bore and the adjustable arbors are especially bad. If its an open gun the arbor may not reach into much of the actual barrel. I use one to but I chuck the arbor up in my lathe and zero the run out in it while turning the chuck. With optics you have to allow for the distance the dot is above the bore, that's easy, just put the gun a couple of inches from a piece of paper taped to a wall and mark where the dot is and where the laser dot is, that is the amount up close the gun will shoot low. If you try to zero it at 10 yds or less it will be very high at 25. I'm lucky to have 25yds indoors and have mounted a truck tail light reflector at that distance to make it easy to see the laser. I've found with an open or iron sight gun I can get pretty close using the laser and reflector after taking all the run out of the laser on the lathe but still live fire. Revolvers are a different world entirely.

Have no fear if you live in Texas, cops there can arrest you for being drunk in a bar!! Yes drunk in a bar. Check into the hotel go down to the bar and have a couple, stumble on the loose carpet and a couple of undercover cops will grab you and take you to jail haha. No matter you werent driving or even have a car you're drunk. Drunk driving is bad but the madd bunch has driven this to rediculous heights. No longer is drunk driving based on your driving but on passing a test which may or may not be valid for you and your tolerence and experience. I know cops who wait for anyone leaving a bar and pull them over for some made up reason. They know they will blow over th limit if they've had more than 2 beers. We need to use some reason in this war on alcohol. Flame on....

It's pointless. I don't see it making any difference no matter how badly a match is run or how badly they officiate or grossly deviate from USPSA rules or how much favortism is shown, people will still come back and shoot. Well unless the match is cancelled.

Seems to me those usually interested in combined results are the same people who like to brag that I beat ole so and so with my crappy revolver and he was shooting that new open gun, yuk yuk yuk I'm so good. Yeh but how did you do against YOUR competition?

It would be great to see a pic of the roll pin type.

To offer a different view I've never put an aftec in that worked without modifying it, probably 8 or 10 of them in every caliber. It amazes me that others can drop them in and off they run.

I've had many pistols hard chromed by Metaloy, even when they were in Tulsa!! I truly believe Chris is doing the best hard chroming now being done. Tripp is a good guy too but I have to vote for Metaloy both for quality and service. Metaloy has been around a long time and has supported USPSA\IPSC since it began.

Wow the guy that lapped his rails down to nubs must look like the Hulk. The smooth action on a nice custom 45 is the result of more than just slide fit and is achieved with hard work and oh yeh knowing what your doing. Lapping slides is one of the worst things an amature should do, it often results in taper.

After re-reading the first post I see nothing to indicate he wants one of those fake "bushingcomps". The problem is you say you want to use a EGW melt bushing. This bushing meets the outside dimensions of the slide and would not look good with a bushing style compensator because the comp would have to stick out in front of the barrel bushing instead of being hidden under the relief in the rear of a bushing type compensator. The last question from Scott asks if you have to lighten the slide to use a bushing style compensator, the answer is no you don't at all. Bushing style compensators are popular with steel guns so you tend to see them on lightened slide guns. In fact the bushing style comp needs slide lightening much less than a cone or bull barrel comp.

You'd really hate to be the FFL when the ATF stops buy to rip him a new one for those little typos on form 4473.

What ammo are you using? Many low priced loads use steel instead of brass in the head. Steel causes extraction problems in some guns. Even if it looks brass it may be painted steel. Check this.

OMG, I remember when nearly all compensators were threaded on the end of an extended bushing type barrel. This is a non problem

Many times milking is caused by trying to use a grip that your hand structure will not allow resulting in stress and the milk. Make sure your grip is your grip, just because guru A says your thumb should be here and your pinkie here does not mean that is the correct grip for you. Establish a comfortable stable grip that suits you. Make sure you can get that grip from the holster without any extra movement. Then work on feeling the grip is neutral, not everyone benefits from the "squeeze harder with the off hand style" that is so popular. I believe most people are better off with equal grip pressure from both hands. Then it is noticing whether you anticipate the shot and tense up or relaxe after the shot, either is not good and leads to milking and poor shooting. The basics are this, you cannot milk unless you let go of your grip, I repeat you cannot milk unless you let go of your grip. Try it, grip your pistol in one hand nice and tightly and try to milk it without releasing your grip. You cannot do the kind of milking that afflicts so many shooters without releasing the grip first. So there is the answer, never release your grip and you will not milk. A good firm consistant grip is the answer. This is the result of my years of study and instruction to others. USe it it works. All I ask is credit.

A basic problem with USPSA/IPSC has been from the early days the division between the old" blood and guts guys" and the " gamesmen" this is just more of the same. I see young gamesmen, not all of them, grow old and unable to compete turn into "tactical" guys and sometimes the othe way and also even young gamesman after some dissapointments turn into Tactical guys. It's something that has to be settled. In the begining we were supposed to be simulating a gunfight that might happen on the street. Best shooter, tactic and firearm wins period. Well the sport has outgrown that, firearms are much better and easier to shoot and it takes a lot more to offer a decent challenge to todays shooters. We have to decide which it is a sport with pistols or tactical exersizes with scores kept and then just sick with it. We lose far more disgruntled members with the equipment than we draw dedicated members who stick with us. How about keeping the guys already here happy? Is that a foreign idea? The bottom line to me is that keeping score on tactical courses doesn't work and USPSA equipment is not slanted towards tactical. If you don't like various shooting challenges because they are not realistic there are many other avenues. Lets keep USPSA in the fun business, not the trained killer bizz. The only dissent I have is using props that can get you DQ'd or don't really add anything to the course. You should never be DQ'd because of a prop.

I will give you a quote with permission from my master but he requests if repeated he be given credit. All speed comes from accuracy. Ross Carter It takes some thinking but he's right, the burned out ole fart.

In my old age I have decided to use total target focus even with irons and let my body set and excellent LOL trigger control take care of hits on target. Try it you will be surprised. Used the FORCE

My bottle is dirty, what does that mean?

1911's originaly had flat mainspring housing, they changed to arched with the 1911A1. This was to improve the low pointing some soldiers experienced. The mostly shot from the hip unaimed and the arched housing improved this. Since that time you've seen both kinds, I've used both at different times in my carreer, I found my draws are smoother with the flat so i've stuck with it. Nothing wrong with experimenting, i may give the arched another round since holsters are just a tad better than they were in 1982.

Step back from the Glock and everything else will work

Thanks XRE for clarifing what I'm trying to get accross. If the sights were aligned and on target when the slide was just hitting forward some of the spring changing would mean more. I see the slide already forward on most (limited) guns before the muzzle is even close to being level. With the muzzle elevated what is a heavy spring going to cause, a dip down? I dont think so. If you get way out of sync with spring rate you can get into this but I think its a matter of a new rythmn that you may or may think helps. I still say if you have proper technique the muzzle is'nt going down unless you help it. Watch the good guys shoot their muzzles never dip down, it aint cause they have light springs although they may, its technique.

Ditch it and get a Kings, no problems.