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    Problem with sun screen yellowing TechWear shirt

    in Gear & Accessories

    Posted

    I have a couple of TechWear shirts (and a few white cotton shirts) that may be ruined from my sun screen. It yellows the fabric, and I can't wash it out. Has anyone tried color-safe bleach on a TechWear shirt (I'll call them later when they open and ask as well)? Does anyone have a recommendation for sun block that won't stain the shirt? I'm using Coppertone Sport, by the way, in the blue bottle.

    Thanks

    Pre travel / reset reduction legal for production?

    in USPSA/IPSC Rules

    Posted · Edited by RAZZ

    I'm looking around in the rules, and I had a question I was hoping someone could help me with. I understand that internal modifications are allowed, including an internall overtravel stop, but wouldn't that change the appearance of the handgun when in battery? The trigger is in a different place, and therefore does not look like a factory gun. I'm still going through pages of search results, and may find the answer I'm looking for. If I do, I'll come back and have this locked.

    Thanks

    650 and Tula primer issue

    in Dillon Precision Reloading Equipment

    Posted · Edited by RAZZ

    Hello. I'm having a problem I'm hoping you all might help me with. I have been loading on my 650 for years, and am pretty familiar with it, and have not had any problems. I recently picked up some Tula primers and loaded about 1,000 rounds with no issues. Then, out of the blue, I started getting a strange problem. When cycling the press, a primer (usualy the one just coming out of the magazine) will get 'cocked' ever so slightly in the hole of the round disk that moves the primers around in a circle. It binds the disk, and won't allow it to move, which subsequently doesn't allow the press to move to the full up or down position. At that point, I'm forced to remove the shell plate and primer assembly, and push out the cocked, offending primer. I can re-assemble it, and within 5 more rounds, it will do it again. This happened about 8 or 9 times in a row. I got pretty frustrated and switched back to some Winchester primers, and it SEEMS as though the problem went away, but I don't feel like I loaded enough to be positive. So it would appear that the Tula primers are to blame, but why? And why was I able to loak a K with no issues?

    Any help would be great. Thanks.

    ETA...Doin it with Winchester primers too.

    Update:

    So I figured out my problem. I took the priming system apart to clean and inspect it a little better. Turns out there was a small bur on one of the holes in the primer disc. It was catching / pinching / pushing / cocking the primer kinda sideways in the disc, which was causing the binding. I hit it with a small, fine round file, and the problem went away. Loaded close to a thousand this morning with no issues.

    2011 USPSA Area 6 Handgun Championship

    in Match Announcements - Pistol Only - USPSA, IPSC & Misc.

    Posted

    One of us needs to win the lottery, and build a Holiday Inn and an Outback in Frostproof proper...That would make the range much more attractive :)

    You can get a better steak in Frostproof now than you will find at Outback.

    You just gonna throw that out there, or are you gonna share?

    I'd love to eat in Frostproof, but I have tried all the places I could find and didn't end up with a very good meal.

    Coach: Sorry your Outback sucks. Ours is great in Tallahassee. I have had a number of pretty expensive steaks (and was always disappointed), and for the money, Outback can't be beat (in my opinion). It may not be the best quality steak, but for 13 bucks, the OB Special is a darn good meal.

    2011 USPSA Area 6 Handgun Championship

    in Match Announcements - Pistol Only - USPSA, IPSC & Misc.

    Posted

    One of us needs to win the lottery, and build a Holiday Inn and an Outback in Frostproof proper...That would make the range much more attractive :)

    I would hate to see urban decay visit Frostproof and adversely affect the Frostproof Diner and Seven Gables Motel....

    LOL...

    Everyone hates urban decay until they want a sausage egg mcmuffin at 0630 Sunday morning before they shoot the match, only to find out the McDonalds in Frostproof doesn't open 'till 7.

    Front Block

    in USPSA/IPSC Rules

    Posted

    Are you sure it's legal as a 6"? Seems like that would pretty much be a 6" sight tracker, which is illegal. The pics on the cominolli website really look like a 5" to me, but I could be wrong.

    Un-effing believable... That whole no external modifications or features such as weights or devices to control or reduce recoil may as well be erased. The allowing the sighttrackers and trusights in limited was a travesty and this just adds to it. I can't wait till Amidon decides that it's okay to machine "lightening holes" into the tops of all of these. :rolleyes:

    Are they really that much of an advantage? Seems like everybody is going out of their way to make their guns really light in the nose to me. I've never shot a sighttracker, I can imagine the sight must appear to move a little less, but it's vertical movement must be the same, and it doesn't seem like top guys use them...Maybe just that a 6" is more of an advantage than a sighttracker?

    I think whether they are an advantage or not is kind of personal. I tried a sight tracker, and din't see any advantage. I tried a 6" and shot it worse. But others swear by the technology. That being said, when was the Limited Nationals won by something other than a fairly commonly-configured 5" 2011 (or a GLOCK)?

    1911 Feed Ramp Angle

    in 1911-style Pistols

    Posted

    I am not a gunsmith, and this is just information I am repeating from one that I talked to...When I had a single stack built a couple of years ago, I had him use a barrel I won at a match--a Schueman ramped .45. Very nice barrel, but he told me that due to the intregal ramp, the barrel / ramp was longer than a non-ramped, and the resulting angle would be a little steeper than a non-ramped .45 barrel. Maybe its true, maybe he wanted an out just in case it didn't work, I don't know.

    hammer back while holstered at make ready

    in USPSA/IPSC Rules

    Posted · Edited by RAZZ

    At the 2010 FL State match, the staff went so far as to write it into each stage description that thumbing the hammer back in the holster at the MR command would result in a DQ. It was the first time most of us ever heard of such a thing, and I'm sure some guys who frequently do it had to be on their toes.

    I shot that match and I never heard that said.

    I heard it at each walk through (that I remember--its possible that it wasn't every RO, but when I was paying attention, I heard it), and a friend of mine that ROd the match told me about it the day before the match, as the ROs were briefed before hand. He was surprised and caught off guard, as he does / did the hammer back in the holster thing at MR.

    Have not heard it at a match since.

    1911 9mm

    in 1911-style Pistols

    Posted

    I bought a Trojan 9mm for my wife last year for single stack division, and for the money, I think its hard to beat. Very accurate, has been absolutely reliable, and great build-quality. And a full sized, steel frame 9mm 1911 is stupid fun to shoot.

    I wouldn't steer you away from a Kimber, but the few that I have owned or been issued have not instilled me with too much confidence. But that's a very small sample size.

    POI change with new load?

    in 9mm/38 Caliber

    Posted · Edited by RAZZ

    Tried it through 3 guns. My two G34s, both with probably 5K through them, and my STI Trojan. It seemed to print fine with the Trojan, i.e. where it did with any other ammo--it was just with the G43s that I had an issue with. One was clean, the other dirty. And re-measuring, the distance is more like 4.5 to 5 inches--guess I was using 'guy measuring.'

    I'll try chasing the reloading idea around a bit, starting with the FCD.

    Thanks.

    POI change with new load?

    in 9mm/38 Caliber

    Posted · Edited by RAZZ

    So I went to the range this afternoon with a new practice load for my G34: 124 MG CMJ, 4.0 of Titegroup, Winchester primers, 1.135 OAL with a Lee FCD in the last station. It functions fine, and feels great, but at 25 yards, it prints consistently about 6" to the left of numerous different factory ammo. I ran about 200 rounds of it, as well as about 100 rounds of factory, and it was consistent and repeatable. The loaded ammo is pretty accurate and consistent, but does not shoot POA at all. What could cause this?

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