Run n Gun

Cool! Thanks for all of your hard work... we really appreciate it.

To quote Garfield "I'm not overweight I'm undertall". Of course at this weight, I should be 10’ 7”.

At our club they put down sawdust and here in Oregon it’s been known to rain a little in the wintertime. Three shooting boxes, in a row, running towards the targets. The first, undercover nice and dry and the rest of them out in the soupy, wet sawdust. Okay, it’s the first stage of my very first match. LAMR, shoot the first box and my second step out I go flat on my face! I wipe the slime off of my gun and proceed, only to find I’d dropped my mags! I was new and I’m a big guy so no one laughed… right away. When we went to the next stage one of the guys quietly told me that I didn’t have to SLIDE into home and another thoughtfully mention that this new stage didn’t have a prone section either! Ain’t this sport grand!

Thanks Flexmoney! I just got back from a bowling pin shoot (used my 8 rounders) and the consensus among those shooters, and the advice they offered was the same… we’ll see. I’ve got them loaded up to capacity and it’s two weeks until my next shoot...

I have a problem that I hope some of you more experienced 1911 shooters can help me with. After a 20 year hiatus from shooting handguns I bought a Kimber Gold Match (.45), joined a local club and took up Action Shooting. The consensus at our club is THE mag to have is anything made by Chip McCormick. Several of the guys have bought Mitchell Arms 10rd that are identical in everyway to McCormick except the name. Mine came in the mail Friday night and I loaded each of them with the same 7-8rds, cycled them through the gun… worked perfectly. The next morning, at the match, I loaded them to capacity and went to the first stage. At LAMR when I dropped the slide… jam, second and third mags, same thing. They where kind enough to let me re-shoot with my 8 rounders… McCormicks too. After the match I looked at both the 10s and 8s to see what the difference was. I noticed on the 10s that the feed lips (the straight part, down by where the rim rides) were slightly rough. A few light quick file strokes and they would feed the first (and second) rounds without the nose-diving AS MUCH as before and hitting the frame below the ramp. Seating my 200 gr SMC out to 1.255 OAL helps also but I’m still having the occasional problem. HELP is there anything I can do? I’m the only one at our club that has had any problems with this mag. I’m sure it’s not the gun because it’ll load empty cases just fine. Sorry for the long post, but this is driving me CRAZY.