gregdavidl

Sounds like I need to contact Lone Star Innovations. Thanks. I just need to freshen the trigger so my son can shoot it occasionally.

Can anyone recommend a gunsmith in the Houston, TX area to do a trigger re-fresh in a 1911? This is one of my old single stack competition guns and it will not get shot much in the future. I'd like to find someone who is willing to do some stoning and not try to "sell" me a whole new trigger group. The grip safety has been ground off and de-activated and I don't want them to freak out over that either. And no, if I try to do it I'll probably butcher it and I don't want buy the tools/jigs either.

And does everyone remember how the Man-on-Man shoot off used to be the really exciting part of a big match? The big deal was to get into the top 16 in order to participate. Seems like Jeff Cooper's idea was you shot any match in order to determine if you were good enough to shoot the real match - the Man-on-Man shoot off. Robbie used to just totally dominate this event. The more pressure/attention, the better he did. Except in like '88 or '89 in Barry Illinois on the long range field. He got eliminated and was pissed off, snapped off a shot at the 200 yard (or more) plates, missed on elevation and nailed it on his second shot. .38 Supers were still fairly new, so it may have been '88. Everyone in the crowd was just awestruck. LOL

For me it was always kind of like setting up for a station when shooting skeet. Set up for where you want to break the bird and pivot back to look at the house. Like Jake says, line up on the hardest shot and pivot from there.

or Herradura Ultra Anejo... LOL I have a collection that is probably has 90% Mexican tax stamps. Good tequila is awesome and can be very cheap (at least down there).

Do any of you remember when Miller from Colorado (I don't remember his first name), was shooting 9 major using 160 grn cast bullets? And this was when .38 Super was still relatively new? Ahh the discussion and controversy. And then they banned 9 major and 9x21, 9TSW, etc.all showed up.

You should not fire the gun without a pellet in it. You can damage the piston/seals. Per my manual, cock the barrel like you normally would (and you should not have any spring pressure) and then while FIRMLY holding the barrel, pull the trigger and then you release the spring pressure when you swing the barrel back out. It will snap like hell if you do not have a good grasp of the barrel. Don't ask me how I know this. If your gun is cocked without a pellet in it, why not just load a pellet and shoot it somewhere safe to unload the spring?

A good quality normal extractor will last a long time if fitted and adjusted correctly. They will loose tension over time, but can be re-tensioned occasionally and still be used. I always had my gunsmith fit and provide extra extractors (among other parts) at the time he builds the gun, so I always have a spare to drop in if I had any doubts about the one in the gun. My main gun has 80,000+ rounds through it and it's on it's second extractor. It probably needs to be replaced if I was competing, but I have a new fitted spare for it.

I always felt a little tense and nervous to the point of being a little nauseous at the first stage. BUT, I always realized that this was normal and part of the process and why I shot - to do something that got me excited. I was ALWAYS mentally relaxed, even for my first stage, because I knew that I had prepared for the match and that there was not a shot I could not make. I may not win, but I knew I could make the shots and execute my stage plans.

I started out with both eyes open because no one told me otherwise, but I am very right-eyed dominant (and I shoot right handed) so it was never an issue for me.

I also live in The Woodlands and would be interested in finding a range nearby.

It's been a very long time since I've been in Phoenix, but there are some really good gun shops there. There was one older shop that you could go down into a basement and that seemed to be where the really cool stuff was (he had a lot of Class III). There was a big modern indoor gun range that had a paintball range with large windows so you could watch. It smelled like a gerbil cage, but it was fun to watch (especially when the paint balls would impact right in front of your face on the glass). Hopefully someone from the area will chime in.

The gun will never completely stop moving. However, as you get better you will notice less movement. Plus you will learn what movement is acceptable for a given shot. Jake is correct that as you get better holding the gun, your trigger pull does not have to be perfect. The big trap to avoid is snatching at the trigger to get the shot off as the sight oscillates through the precise aiming point. (I noticed this more while shooting rifles offhand.)

Only 70 donated? LOL I was one of them and I do not even shoot anymore. But I enjoy reading the forum so I donated.

I use the Dillon die. Be sure the de-capping pin is adjusted all the way down. I bottom it out (in a case) and then back off a 1/2 turn or so.

The smoke comes from the lube. Back in the 175 PF days I ran lead bullets in a .38 Super around 182 PF. I did not have problems, but I was using 155 or heavier. There would be some lead build up in the comp, but it would only build up to a certain point and then self-clean. LOL I never got all crazy about having a super clean comp. The gun would get dirty as usual and I just kept adding oil and would clean the gun about every 5,000 rounds if it needed it or not. Jacketed bullets were a little cleaner.

A long time ago when I took a class from Rob Leatham, he had an interesting drill. He would have us aim the gun without our finger in the trigger guard and he would reach in and slap the trigger. It got amazingly good results and was sort of his way of showing that as long as you did not disturb the aim, how you applied the trigger was not all that important. BTW, his 1911 that I got to fondle had about a 1 1/2 to 1 3/4 # trigger. Very light.

Brian's book is somewhat hard to read, but the more I shot the more it made sense. As I started to learn what to "see" and "feel" in order to make the shot, suddenly the book just clicked for me. I was doing Bill Drills at the range one day and it was like I was watching the gun cycle and the brass fly while the subconscious was doing all the work. From that point on it all became easier. I took a long break and came back to the sport, but I was in a different city and did not have good range access to practice. But I was able to re-create the "seeing" and "feeling" during what little practice I was able to do, plus in the matches and it just all came back easily. It was an eye opener to find out that you did not have to pound so many rounds downrange to get where you needed to be.

I've always found that when I set up the press with one round and then get a full shell-plate that the OAL will be slightly long. By experience I know to give a slight extra turn when adjusting the dies with one round (make slightly short) and then check again after getting a full plate started. I think it's just due to tolerance stack in the press and I have never thought it was a big deal. Case lube helps to get better OAL consistency. Once adjusted I don't do a lot of checking after that.

A very long time ago when I lived in Tulsa OK, I was a member of Oil Capital Rod & Gun Club. The pistol ranges we used had a multi layer gravel surface. Big at the bottom, medium and then a pea gravel top layer. It was packed as the layers were added and was a pretty solid surface that drained well. I do not recall having trouble with maintaining my footing. The only negative I could recall was occasionally getting a piece of gravel stuck in a .45 case.

Coming in at 192 at my first ever Nationals in Dallas, TX. Greg A-3530

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I much prefer Mexico to Jamaica, but I'm married to a mexican...

Yes, in 1985 or 1986 i saw a custom built at the Kansas City Indoor match. A 1911 frame was split and fillers put in and it used some magazine from Europe. It was in .38 super. I remember the builder's first name was Otto (Otto Comp Gunsmith) and his last name was something like Mytuskya.

I though 1986 was Dallas, TX