barrysuperhawk

Winchester white box 230 ball, usually around 185pf out of my 1911, slightly more out of the rifle. I have not had good luck with reloads on PCC's. I did try the setup out of the 9 mm....and then I tried the spring and buffer individually with the existing other piece. Then I tried the flat wire spring that's supposably slightly less than 308 spring. I even tried a stock 9mm heavy buffer with a standard spring. Nothing works reliably except the standard light carbine buffer and a standard carbine spring.

Well, the short answer is that anything heavier than a standard carbine spring and buffer causes malfunctions.

Now that I have my 9mm PCC up and running like a sewing machine with the JP .308 spring and Blitzkreig buffer, I am looking at my .45 ACP. It has always had a standard 5.56 carbine buffer and spring because that was all that was available when it was made. Now I have more choices. Since the recoil impulse on a .45 is different than a 9mm, is that a consideration on springs and buffers? By comparison my .45 always shot softer than the 9mm until I swapped out the contents of the buffer tube on the 9mm, so I am wondering if the same parts I put in the 9mm are going to work or if something else is better.

I use a Safariland holster Paddle, a molle-lok fork and plate, and a HDA ( Holster Drop Adapter) bolted to a Blade-Tech double mag pouch for 9mm. For the .45 I use a Safariland Triple pouch on another Molle-lok fork which gets me bullets out instead of bullets front, which seems faster with the longer mags... Both of those options mean I am not reaching up to my armpit for a mag , but the mags are vertical-ish so they aren't catching on everything. The paddle seems more solid and stable than the stiffest belt I own, and the Molle adapter plate kit gives me a bit of a spacer while remaining within the rules (yes, I have been measured, and passed...)

It's never the competitive guys, they are just the ones that DEMO the mags for the rest of us. I attended a match in the Chicago area last year (travelling) and I was very surprised to see one of my fellow competitors had 25-30 Factory 33 round glock mags in his bag, and EVERY one of them had TTI on them. My bag had 1 ETS 33 with a TF, and 5 more ETS 33 with no pad. His bag was FULL of mags, and he was not a top competitor, in fact, he said he had been shooting ~6 months, and had bought all of those mags "Because Hitlery was going to ban them." I think that those of us that compete try to have just enough reliable mags and maybe a couple of spares, but mr average joe may buy ALOT more, just to have them. Remember, it is Never EVER about "need"...

The vortex venom is certainly low, and that seems to be the hot ticket.

Uh, yeah, I kinda do, at least for long guns For slide ride on Pistols, you don't really have a choice but to go ity bitty.

I am running a Vortex SPARC AR on both of my AR pattern PCCs. Since I needed a riser anyway one with a built in riser seemed like a good fit and the ability to use common AAA batteries is better than sliced bread IMHO. The ability to pull a battery out of your muffs to be able to finish a match if needed cannot be over stated. I have played drugstore bingo with coin cell batteries enough that I started buying batteries in bulk, only to have a percentage of them go (or arrive) bad in the packaging. The only thing I wish was different is that I also have a Vortex Spitfire AR and the reticle on it is etched, so even with no battery it is useable. All of that said, if I was putting a dot on a gun like the ruger that didn't need a riser, I think I would be looking really hard at the reflex sights, but I would probably end up with another tube type dot. One of the considerations for me is perceived durability. I have accidentally broken so many scopes and dots over the years, it's not even funny. I broke the only reflex sight I ever put on a long gun by having it tip out of a cleaning rest and fall onto the bench directly on my little C-more STS. I have had similar mishaps with the Sparc-AR's and didn't even scuff them (rubber cover FTW). I know that is anecdotal at best, but for me a long gun needs a tube style, reflexes are for pistols...

Hey, I had pcc s before they were cool... In fact, having suffered through no less than 3 ruger pistol caliber abominations, I built my own, too...

THIS!!!! and the PPCC(tm) division can have this minor only scoring, and RPCC (tm) (Real PCC) can go major/minor... Seriously, almost everyone that shoots PCC in my neck of the woods is still slavering to get one, but the only place that is getting them in stock is Scheels, and they keep getting the Commiefornia models with no threads and 10 round mags. I know of 4 people now that are on the threaded waiting list...

I bought the usa mags during the AWB when real glock mags were $100 each for police trade ins. I never had the heart to try to sell them after... As far as the Plethora of OTHER non-OEM Glock mags, my glock mag 9mm PCC came with ETS magazines, so technically they ARE OEM mags, and I have never had any trouble with any of them. I like ETS as a company, and I feel they market a superior product, as does Magpul, which is the other aftermarket mag producer that I rely heavily upon. That seems to be changing the wear item in the interaction from the cheap part (the mag) to the expensive part (the receiver), kind of like putting the hardest ceramic brake pads that you can find on your car only to have to start replacing rotors instead... I guess that might make sense on something like a STI race gun where the grip modules are cheap and the mags are ridiculous, but I am not sure that makes sense here...

I bolted a bladetech to a Safariland long drop holster adapter so the basepad of the 30's sits about where 17's in a standard pouch would sit. The TF pads are still up in the armpit, but so far I have only started with it in the gun, not as a reload...

I still have several of the USA brand Glock 9mm magazines and they SUCK for PCC. I have 4 of the "standard capacity" mags, only 2 of which will actually hold 17, the other two won't take round #17. Worse, all but one are slightly oversized and wont even go into my ATI carbine. They do accept Glock springs and followers, but are abysmal at LRHO in pistols. They also don't accept any basepads known to man. The 30 rounders are even worse. They are also slightly oversized and neither one of the two I have will even go into my ATI carbine either. They fit OK in my SUB2000, but they wouldn't feed worth a darn. My plan when I wear out the mag catch notch on a magazine is to try to rebuild it with JB weld or maybe try to epoxy a bit of metal in place of the buggered plastic. Maybe we can convince a magazine manufacturer to incorporate a bit of metal in the top edge of the mag catch kind of like Lancer does on their feed lips?

Actually you bring up the only problem that I've ever really had with ETS magazines, because they are clear you can see all the carbon and junk build up on that by the first inch of the inside

Lol, I have been trying for 2 years to get grease gun mag pouches for pcc... Hell, it was easier to get FN5.7 pouches... Mostly what I am complaining about is every time I mention "I have this one off project" the eyes glaze over and interest wanes... even thoughI totally understand why, and for the most part agree...

I 100% agree with everything you say Beef. Actually, what I am wanting are technically mag pouches, not actual gun holsters, but that does not invalidate any of your points. I have also offered to either let the maker use my existing mag or to make a wooden mockup... The items I'm needing mag pouches for are a grease gun magazine and a SRM 1216 magazine.

Disclaimer this entire post was typed with the aid of Google Voice while driving down the road any errors problems missed punctuation misspelled words Etc are entirely the fault of the corporate giant Google and not me. Seems like everybody has a home-based business making custom Kydex holsters, LOL, what a joke. Not intending to call anybody out but it seems that most of these people seem like they want to be blade-tech or Safariland and only make the same 10 model of holsters over and over again. I suppose I can't blame them but it would seem like if you were going to portray yourself as a true custom shop then maybe, I don't know, you might want to consider actually doing something custom? Now I'm admit that my request is kind of weird in fact I've had two requests one that I've had for several years that I never have found anybody willing to make and one that I recently decided that I needed that I've asked several of these so-called custom Kydex makers to help me out only to be told oh no I can't possibly work on that. Now I can hear the replies already but all ready but Barry it's so easy you can do it yourself you don't need to have somebody else make it you can make it your own self. I agree all of that is true however I don't really want to invest the time effort and skill required to do this, I'd rather support a small business somewhere, somebody that has already put the effort into learning how to make neat holsters that hold together and look halfway decent. This far all of my attempts have come out looking plain and rather crappy and I'm about 50-50 on actual functionality. It's not difficult but then it's not easy either. The only thing I can think of is that both of my projects are pretty close to guaranteed to be one off because I own weird s*** that very few other people have this any effort put into my project is going to be for my project and doesn't translate into 7000 holsters sold as if I was asking them to make a Glock 17 holster or a Sig 320 LOL. I guess that's enough of a rant for today

This. My gun actually came with an ETS magazine as the factory magazine so I bought a bunch more of them and the only problem that I've ever had with any of them has been when I've been messing around with extensions and different Springs.

Now that I have been shooting this combo for a couple of months, and have gotten used to the ridiculously heavy JP 308 carbine spring, I can report that either it now takes less effort than it did to lock open, or I have gotten used to it. Since it has been cold/yuck out, all of my testing has been at an indoor match, under time. I did try a couple hundred rounds of Federal AE 124 (AE9AP) that, for what it was, did seem to shoot marginally softer than the WWB 115, but not soft enough to justify the price difference.

It's pretty funny that I actually had to go back to videos of myself to see how I do it... I ended up noticing that I have more than one technique, that seems to vary based on what is in front of me or if I am moving I suppose it would be appropriate to differentiate between stages that REQUIRE weak hand shooting and stages where it is merely encouraged by stage design. I make this distinction because if weak side is not required, I am about 50/50 between transitioning to weak shoulder but retaining strong hand firing grip and weak hand on the tube and bending so the gun is horizontal (think table start). . If I am moving and/or don't have anything in front of me, I use the "Neth" technique, with the exception that I don't subscribe to the Costa method of stretching my arms out as far as possible on the forearm, so I am as likely to leave my strong hand on the magwell or at least choked up closer. And then we have the barricade with a box that is crowded with a pistol, and worse with a PCC. For that, I seem to do about the same thing, but I go muzzle down, move the stock past my chin, then switch hands and bring it back up.

If it ain't raining, you ain't training...

Uhm, compress it? I suppose you could mic the wire and multiply by coils but that seems like math....lol

If you are shooting Major, shoot the "plate" in the center until the ones on the edges fall off... (not really)

I have had the hf heat gun for several years. There's not really anything on it to go wrong and it gets hot enough to melt the Kydex so it's good enough for me. As far as worrying about the warranty if it works the first time it'll work forever, LOL

Funny thing my local Club just instituted a rule that PCC can only be muzzle up, cannot be muzzle down so apparently I need to redo my range cart, which obviously has very little to do with this particular question.