barrysuperhawk

I have Vortex SparcAR's on both of my PCC at the moment. I went through half a dozen red dots before I discovered the joy that is: a AAA BATTERY! No more searching for coin cells or discovering that the spare battery that has been in your grip for 2 years is ALSO dead. Plus, it is DURABLE. I havent dropped my gun (frantically looks for some wood to knock on) but I have had other competitors drop/knock their guns onto mine with no damage. That said, I did get one of those green circle dot holosuns for my open shotgun and I am really digging it...

I wish I could take it out of boxes, but the rules seem to be pretty strict on that. Now my biggest problem is figuring out what to do with the 4 extra days I ended up with in Fla....

So, I am making all of the arrangements to fly to Florida, and I started getting ads and pop ups for luggage trackers. I will admit I had never thought about that, but now that I am, it does have a certain appeal. One of my main irrational fears is something going awry with my firearm. Trackimo 3G Travel Tracker Device with Light Detector So, any of you that have flown with firearms, have you ever used any of these, and what do you think about their effectiveness and if the piece of mind (real or imagined) is worth the cost? With regards to performance, does the $200 one really work 5 times better than the $40 variety? I am not afraid of spending $$, but I like to know what I am buying is worth the cost... Feel free to make specific recommendations or suggestions if there is one I should avoid or one you like.

Well, my airline says 11lbs of ammo is the max, which some casual internetting reveals that with 115 9mm that is a bit over 300 rounds. That's just not enough. So, I need to figure out how to get my ammo down there if I fly. The problem is I want to have a backup plan. Right now the best I can come up with is to ship some ammo to myself at the motel, and ship some more to the range. Hopefully that will be sufficient. Maybe if I end up with alot of forced re-shoots (I almost never take a reshoot if I can help it, it never goes well), I can buy or borrow some ammo from local competitors... So, what is the address of the range that I should send ammo to? @sarge LOL try to convince google maps to route you anywhere other than straight through Atlanta.

The flight I can get is not firearms (and ammo) friendly. It is cheap and convenient, but not friendly....

HoRRy SHYTE what a difference a month makes. Ok, so now I am wondering how I am going to manage to drive from Illinois to Florida with enough guns and ammo to take over a small country and NOT become a cautionary tale. My original route took me straight through Atlanta, but that seems a bit unwise at the moment, seeing as how there is only 2 weeks for this crazyness to settle down... So, I am REALLY rethinking my plan to drive there, to the point that I started gaming out alternate routes that avoided Atlanta altogether - and added 400+ miles to each leg... Then I got to looking at flights and I now feel like this might be more possible but I still have the hassle of flying with a firearm, the rule about 11 pounds of ammo that they might or might not strictly enforce - and if they do, no extra shots for me because 11 pounds gives me just about enough to carry the exact round count of the match. Ugh... I might try shipping some to my motel, maybe some to a friend (if I had any down there) or even just plan to buy some down there, because what could possibly go wrong with that plan - and all of this at the beginning of hurricane season, when I haven't shot a single round for over 2 months... This is going to be SUPER.

Ok, that was easy, is there anything that I need to be on the lookout for? Is Springer the only option I should consider?

Hey guys I just ordered one of these Springfield osp's that is going to come with a regular barrel and a threaded barrel. Since I live in Illinois there's no chance that I'm going to ever get a suppressor, so it occurred to me that maybe I could put a comp on it and have kind of a half-assed open gun. Obviously this is not going to be a super high level competition gun, but I was thinking maybe 3-gun matches and possibly steel matches. So specifically what I'm looking for is recommendations for a 9 mm comp that will fit the factory threaded barrel and if I can get it, I'd like one that follows the general slide profile of the 5.25 so I can possibly use the same holster.

Hey guys, I just found a decent memorial day sale deal on a SPRINGFIELD XD-M OSP at a certain retailer from South Carolina, (not sure how close to advertising I should get here in a technical forum) and when it arrives, I am going to want a dot to put on it and a find holster to stick it in. I know the MRD discussion has been done to death in a general sense, but what I am specifically asking is that since the sights that come on this gun are SO Monstrously huge looking in the picture, its really hard for me to judge what sights are going to hit the trifecta of being mountable with the plates that come with the gun, be size-appropriate for this gun, AND durable/reliable enough to survive USPSA CO. By size appropriate, I mean not so small that a significant part of the window is obscured by the sights, but also not feel like a full size eotech on my slide. After I decide what dot, I will then need to see about a holster that fits this combo, since none of the XDm holsters I currently own will accommodate either the front sight or the dot.

And this is why I resurrected this thread, because I totally missed the shifting of days. @Dirty_J I thank you, and I will salute you as I am driving through Atlanta on my way down. I would offer to buy you a beer, but guns and alcohol are bad juju. Thanks. Thankfully, The motel is being very generous and was very happy that I was just moving the date instead of just cancelling...

Well, I am not withdrawing. Even if I have to shoot the match in full MOPP4, I will still show up. In fact I just re-booked my Motel. The good news is that the motel is now charging me 20% less than it was going to had the match gone off on schedule.

Okay so I'm going to resurrect this thread a little bit because it's actually starting to look like we might have a match. Specifically the question I have right this moment is that I am on the ampm Squad so I'm assuming that I will have to be there Thursday the 18th sometime to check in and do any looky-loo that I planned to do, then very early on Friday the 19th to shoot my "AM" stages, and then at some point mid-morning on Saturday to shoot my "PM" stages. This may seem like a no-brainer but I've never actually shot an AM/PM format match as a competitor, I've only are RO'ed them to where I just had a steady stream of Shooters the whole day without really paying attention to anybody's individual schedule

Oh, I see, I misunderstood your question. I don't have an 870 handy to empirically test, but if memory serves, the factory spring *is* heavier than the semi-autos I have tried (Benelli M2, Versamax, and Mossberg 930 SPX/JMpro. Remember the 870 was designed as a field gun, and the lifter's intent was to keep debris out of the action. Now, I am not saying it is thumb-busting, or even terribly difficult to master, but it is a distinct difference between the models. Now, I will also conceded my bias... When I was buying my very first shotgun ever, way back in the day, the shop REALLY wanted to sell me an 870 over the 590. When I was looking at them side by side, it seemed easier to load the Mossberg because of the lifter. I bought a pre-590 590 (factory marked 500, but with all of the factory 590 features) and that was the only shotgun I owned for almost 20 years.

Ok, maybe I wasnt clear, so allow me to elaborate. All of these guns are semi-auto. We are discussing pumps, and the Mossberg, Benelli and Remmington all do it differently. On the Mossberg, with the pump forward and the bolt in battery, the shell lifter slots into the bottom of the bolt, completely out of the way, and it does not drop until you start to rack the pump. On the Benelli PUMP, with the pump forward and the bolt in battery, the shell lifter is down, more or less flush with the bottom of the receiver, but you can push up on it and it latches in the "up" position forming a quite serviceable ramp down to the magazine tube. On the Remmington, it is spring loaded down all the time and only pops up on the forward stroke of the pump. Thus it is possible, on the Remmington, if you fumble a load a bit, and have the lifter spit your shell out back at you.

Well, if it stayed down (up), as a ramp, like on a Benelli, then it would be great, but it is spring loaded, so if you aren't 100% on your technique (and nobody that reads internet forums looking for advice, is) then its a recipe for disaster...

All I have at the moment is the stock bolt, and a JP bolt. I am trying to get my hands on the taccom barrel, and once I have it in hand, then I will work on getting a matching bolt...

I'd really love to but it's just as out of stock as the barrels...

#1 it's never, ever, ever been about need. As far as why I WANT it...i have an unsupported style barrel now, and have broken the front out of several magazines with factory ammo that doesn't have much of a crimp. A supported barrel would seem to alleviate that.

@TRUBL Except that I have a 15" carbon fiber hand guard that probably would not work well with ports starting at about 13 in. If I have to swap handguard too, I am most of the way to a new stripped upper, and down the rabbit hole I go....

Ok, so I am looking for a regular 16" barrel that has the protruding ramp that supports the front of glock mags, and is actually in stock. I found this, but I have never seen it in stock, and as invested as Tim is in the 5.25" rifling concept I suspect that it might not ever be again. https://taccom3g.com/product/extreme-feed-16-9mm-barrel/ Before I whip out the tig welder and start screwing with my existing barrel, do I have any other options? What should I be searching for? Does anyone have a take off the would be willing to sell or even loan me so I can get a pattern? Any suggestions on the type or grade of steel I might choose to build this with?

Now we are cooking with gas, thats exactly the information I was hoping to get, awesome. Thanks!

Yes an actual mill. The good news is that I found another friend with a tig and a mill, we welded up the holes and re tapped them straight. Then, for good measure, we cleaned up the cuts a bit. Its not perfect, but its useable...

Well now that you mention it, I do have a bazooka brothers ar45 that takes 45 ACP grease gun magazines....

I swapped out the stock bolt that came with the gun with a JP 9 mm bolt, I've never heard anybody say anything bad about the JP's so I assume that it is the proper geometry

Okay so I broke my gun again tonight, twice. My gun is an ATI milsport although the only parts that are left from the original gun are the upper and lower receiver and the barrel. Everything else has been changed. The problem I have is this gun absolutely eats triggers I'm averaging less than 500 rounds before I break either a trigger or Hammer pin. I've gone through over a dozen combined, including some of the brand name non rotational varieties. I've actually limped through stages with painters tape on either side of my receiver to hold the broken pins in place so I could finish the match. I've also replaced three Hammer Springs because I keep breaking the feet off of them. I always assumed that it was because the ATI came with a stock mil-spec trigger, and I was replacing the parts that I broke with mil-spec parts . Then I switched to and hiperfire EDT because I picked it up off a price table and after about four hundred rounds tonight it started doubling and tripling. Obviously this is no bueno so I pulled that out and stuck in and Elfman drop in because that's what I happened to have with me at the time. The second stage with the Elfman was ridiculous I was getting failure to fire light strikes about every third or fourth round. At least with the mil-spec crap it was reliable Until It Broke, and no that's not a logical impossibility. When I pulled the hyperfire out I noticed that the engagement surfaces seemed a bit chewed up, but not too terribly bad, just enough that I would have expected about a 10 lb trigger pull. Now I'm pretty sure that the Elfman will work in the standard AR just fine, and actually the hyperfire with just a minimal amount of cleanup and maybe dressing the engagement services will probably also go into a five five six and be just happy. But that leaves me without anything to put into my gun except GI parts. In case anybody is interested ATI is basically a new frontier lower and I am running a JP bolt JP carbine 308 spring and the kynshot hydraulic buffer. Having read through some of the other PCC trigger threads I gather that hyperfire and gissele are fairly popular with CMC coming in a close third. Given how many broken pins I have suffered, I think that a drop in unit might be a better option than a traditional 2 pin setup. Obviously most everyone has a favorite, but I am interested in 2 things. First and foremost I am interested in reliability. It MUST go bang every time. A close second is durability, how many rounds will it survive? A distant third is the actual trigger pull. I have comfortable at 4lbs or so, but I am also used to a FAL trigger, so I am not terribly hung up on pull numbers. I also actively dislike straight and straight ish triggers, a standard curved trigger is better. So, what should I get?