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My previous Krazy Glue comment was a joke, I hope that was obvious to everyone.

Glock just called and I talked to the gentleman for quite a while. I am getting a new gun shipped to me at $300. Fair enough for me, a good deal. That's half what I paid for the new 34 last year. The Glock person did mention that it is unusual for a 9mm to blow out. The concensus is that my hand loaded ammo had a double powder charge. I will be back on the range happily shooting Winchester white box from Wal Mart through my new Glock in three weeks. Bart

I shoot a lot, and all my guns look like new. I clean them fastidiously after every outing. I have had only one other KaBoom in shooting 100,000 rounds of Dillon 550 made personal ammo. It was in a 1911 Kimber and only the mag and grips were destroyed. I try to keep range brass out of my own brass that has a known history. I only shoot qualiuty FMJ bullets in the 9mm. There could have been an ammo problem with this particular pressure event, or the gun could have fired out of battery. I work with tools and machinery every day and have a knack for proper maintenance and understand a tool or machine is only as good as the proper care it receives. I hope that Glock is reasonable and replaces the frame on a five month old gun. If this happens again after the gun is a year old or more I will just buy a new one and not bother Glock. If Glock does not wish to fix my gun under warranty I will ask them to return my propertry so that I may Krazy Glue it back together and go shooitng.

The most ignored sentence in the IDPA rule book is the one that states it is better to use vision barries to force movement rather than dictate the movement in the course description. I am glad that you had a blast shooting IDPA and it was tactical at the same time. IDPA can be this way with good course design.

The right side of the frame is blown out and very cracked. Half the trigger is gone. I hammered the frame back so the gun would fit in the original box for shipping back to Glock. The extractor is gone, I am glad it is not in my face. The mag flew out and the gun dropped on the ground, I was doing weak hand practice. The spent case is in two halves and the case head is completely blown. The barrel and slide seem fine, but I cannot remove the slide from the frame. I can rack the slide and pull the trigger. My hand hurt for awhile but all the fingers are still there, it's fine. Was it a double charge or did the gun fire before it was in battery?

My signed scoresheets that earned 4-gun EX were shot late one season and early the next, an eight month span.

Forgetting targets? Hell, I forgot to take my mags to the FG Nationals.

Speed, fast is fun! It's just a club match. Mo andrenalin, mo betta.

The STI Edge is also illegal in IDPA for it's full length dust cover. Consider this: someday, when the wife is amendable, buy the STI Eagle. It has a regular barrel and dust cover and it will also fit all your existing 1911 Government model holsters, too! It's really the same gun minus a couple ounces of fat, ugly steel.

Also to make Major, your ammo must be loaded in .357 Magnum headstamped brass, You cannot load to the .357 magnum level in .38 Special brass to make Major.

The old standby "Cup Challenge " by Safariland will work just fine with any barrel length. If going longer than 6", remember to remove the front sight guard or it may knock off the front sight during the draw. Brownells has the cup challenge at a dealer discount, less than a hundred bucks. The Blade Tech is very good, too. About $65.

I think that after one becomes accustomed to revolver shooting, the revolver will be more accurate than an auto loader when firing offhand. This is because durting the entire long double action stroke, the revolver shooter is aiming and refining the aim. Of course, the revolver shooting is a bit slower than semi auto rate of fire.

Another IDPA club in SE Michigan should get a huge turnout. There were 33 people at IDPA practice today in Linden for three hours in a blizzard. If the weather is nice they get 50 to practice year round. Word just has to get around.

Any belt attached carrier is legal in IPSC/USPSA, we are in the IPSC rules forum. For IDPA. most carriers are legal. The Safariland triple pounch of yours and the CD spring clips are illegal. Just about every IDPA legal carrier was reviewed in Tactical Journal a couple years ago. The fastest by far I think is the Ted Blocked wire clip holder. It clips the Speedloader to the belt. Just grab and load, you give up nothing to moon clips when the Blocker holder is used with Comp III or Jet Loader speedloaders. ww.tedblocker.com However, the IDPA legal wire clip speed loader holders are not shown on the website. Call to order, they are cheap.

You can get a large poster diagram of the LDA assembly free from PARA.

The Browning Hi-Power pistol gets it's name from the High-Capacity magazine that it employs. (Certainly not from the 9mm cartridge that it uses). High capacity magazines have been around for a hundred years and have been in common use for 67 years. Originally the pistol's name was High-Power but was shortened later to Hi-Power if I recall correctly. Duane is correct.

Easy, combine L-10 and Production, they are redundant.

Both Livingston clubs are excellent and pleasant to shoot, no complaints from me whatsoever.

Good luck bringing in a stage design and running it unless you agree to drink the Kool-Aid.

I have been to more Michigan IDPA matches than any other soul and the last match here had the worst IDPA stage I have ever seen. The State match last month was a dream to shoot by comparasion. We ran past threat targets in order to get the baby behind a barrel. How tactical is that? Drag your kid around the range in front of the threats? Then we do a tactical reload after firing one shot in order to drag the baby around in front of the threat targets again to get to a wall. Meanwhile the SO is sticking fingers up like a baseball catcher, counting procedurals. The shooters could look at their scoresheet even after the next shooter had been called, thinking that they were looking at their final score. However, it was not final. While the next shooter was waiting the the SO and scorekeeper would confer and add more procedurals. Then the shooter could not ask what the extra procedurals were for without holding up the match. Many shooters gave up asking what the procedurals were for halfway through the match. We all came to shoot with our buddies for fun and tried to make the best of the day. The spirit of the game is to have fun and test shooting skill. The SO is there to assist the shooter through the stage safely and hopefully without procedurals. The deliberate design of a stage as little more than a procedural trap and the use of the SO as little more than a procedural counter out to bust shooters is discouraged in the rule book. These people need to read the ENTIRE rule book, not only the penalty section. Bear in mind that not every stage at this recent match was a procedural trap. Half the six stages were run by mor expirienced SO's who were fair and consistent. The problems arise when the match director lets a person who has only attended few matches become an SO and stage designer all at once and then does not appear to review the designs for clarity.

Just about any magwell will become IDPA legal if you turn on a belt sander and grind off the sides until the box lid closes. I prefer the S&A (although it requires chopping the frame) which takes any and all base pads. The Dawson is good, too, and a drop-in but requires the use of Dawson base pads or filed on facxtory base pads.

In Michigan the attendance at both USPSA and IDPA matches has DOUBLED in the last three years.

I was trying Bill drills with a 627 for the first time last week. Splits were .20 or .21 seconds. Once I had a .19. The best Bill drill time was 2.23 seconds. I would like to shoot a 1.99. The El Prez was slow, shot to shot reloads were 3.0 seconds at the very best. A little booble ran the reload up to 4 seconds or even 5 for a flubbed reload. IDPA Expert, USPSA B class.

6 grains VV N-340, 1.180" OAL. 7 grains VV 3N37, 1.180" OAL.

Why do I shoot IDPA? ... To avoid household chores; laundry, lawn, dishes, groceries, etc. I use the same gun, holster and mag pouch, Para P-16-40 / Ky-Tac / Safariland to shoot both IDPA and IPSC. I just put 10 rounds in the mags for IDPA and fill 'em up all the way for IPSC. I pop the Tungsten guide rod out for IDPA, too. Magwells can fit in the IDPA box, sometimes they have to be ground down a bit. It works fine. The 40 S&W can be downloaded to shoot ESP. This is not necessary, however.