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Probably already is. You can either mount it as a slave drive in another PC and see if there's anything there or just give up and reinstall everything.

You probably lost either the MBR or the bootloader, assuming you didn't hit the 'Format' button. More likely the bootloader. You might be able to fix that by getting a Windows 98 install CD, then reinstalling the OS on top of the old one without formatting the disk. You'll probably lose some settings, but most of the data should be ok. Another thing to try is mounting the bad disk as drive #2 on a system (you'll need to dink with BIOS settings and jumpers, probably) and get the data files off it that way. I doubt it got converted to NTFS unless you did a whole lot of restoring first.

Or you can slap some Dawson adjustible sights on there and save on all that tedious milling. It's what I've got on mine.

An old-tyme 1911-smith can get on it with big pliers and vices and squeezing and peening tools. That will help.. for a while.

Yeah as admin, I think he can 'tweak' post counts (you'll know when I suddenly only have 47 tomorrow)

JB and oil is how I lapped the slide-to-frame fit on the 1911 I built.. But.. the slide didn't even slide entirely onto the frame when I started the process, so I had some metal to work with. Since JB does remove metal, albeit slowly, it will smoother the rough spots, at the cost of looser fit. Which do you prefer? You also need to be careful that one high-spot doesn't end up lapping the whole rest of the slide or frame.

Yeah, that's what I did. Thanks Dillon.

I would hose mine down occasionally with brake cleaner. Somehow I thought I'd managed to disassemble one too, but can't remember the details now.

The only definate answers I found in my searches are the actual California laws. They are pretty clear that there is a competition exemption for CA "Assault Weapons" (which is broader than you might think), with details of what you can and can't do with them while you're there. They are also pretty clear that there is not a similar exemption for hicap magazines, unless they were owned, by you, in CA, before the ban. In truth I've never been checked, and don't know anybody that has either, but as the nice officer says "ignorance is no excuse" and just because everybody else was speeding doesn't give you a right to as well.

Don't make me post my "I like prize tables" rant again..

We have a guy that happened to (the actual circumstances were different, but two .45 holes in the thigh aren't) A year or two later he came back.. wearing the same pair of shorts with two holes in them. He joked about having a shirt made up with three answers on the back: A1- Thanks, glad to be back A2- OK now A3- For five dollars Moral-- attitude is extremely important. If you did things right (how many of us check the safeties before every match?? I don't), do everything you can to get back in the game.

We had one guy put a shot through the stick on the stage 18 turner and out the front of the target with a big tear (it can be seen briefly on the Squad 30 DVD). The RO said no hit in that case. If they gave other people hits from shots going the other way, there's some serious inconsistency there.

Not Jim, but the Toes/Shoes argument is specious at best: First rule in the book. 1.1.1-- bare feet is unsafe on most ranges, especially if hot brass lands there. Plus 2.1.1-- No unsafe COF requirements. Also under 5.3.1. MD will probably call for shoes staying on, plus paragraph 6 on page 15 of the US rulebook asks competitors to wear appropriate shoes. That should do it. (And I get to cite 1.1.1)

If you go satellite, be prepared for long latencies... as in online games are no-go, as well as anything requiring immediate feedback from a remote site (thankfully web surfing is not one of those). 26,000 miles up and 26,000 miles down (x2) takes a bit of time, even at the speed of light.

Single stack "1911 genre" pistols with a 9 round magazine. Which ones are those? Standard .45 ACP mags are either 7 or 8 rounds. 9mm/38 Supers get 9 or 10, but they're Minor except in Open and unlikely to be popular for that reason. Maybe the huge .40-in-a-single-stack lobby got to the rules committee again.

This is why there was some considerable griping from the 8-shot-fan-club when the rule was changed from 8 to 9 in the latest round of rulebooking.

Maybe, I just don't see how PS solves all our problems (indeed it's got enough problems as-is that nobody around here is in it). If people want to play in it fine, just don't make the vast majority of us that don't care pay for it. If you want more people to play in it, it's gotta be accessible to more people. I have yet to see anything beyond "the $$$ will get more people to matches". I have trouble buying that-- 90% of shooters won't even make their entry fees back, and the reason most people don't shoot more matches isn't the lack of prize $, it's lack of time and all their other commitments. My point about the SC was there's a single match with a payout higher than most of proposed PS, with a more media-friendly format that still gets little respect, so why should we assume PS will?

Hm.. if $ brought attention, the Steel Challenge would be on network TV. $300,000 pot, simple scoring, spectator friendly (except the targets don't fall) and PC targets. They're working on it (right MBane?), but it's slow going. Here's another thought for the PS-- has anybody considered counting match points instead of %? That way you don't need a multiplier-- the bigger the match, the more points are available.

I'm not sure that's the entire reason for it in an IPSC stage. I rather think that it comes from paying attention to only what's important. Here's my favorite example: Jump in a car and immediately punch it up to 100mph (or whatever your local maximum limit is). Everything looks like it's flying by and all sorts of stuff is happening and you're barely in control. But instead if you gradually speed up over time, you focus in on only what's important and it becomes much more manageable. With experience, getting into the second mode becomes quicker and easier.

Did you get a cool scar?

I went 1-for-1 on.. well.. one of those 3 stages. Got to hassle (in a friendly way) Don Bednorz about it.. The 3rd stage was the hardest since it was all US poppers, from kneeling.

Maybe there's a market for a pro-sumer grade 1911 barrel fixture that you could slap your barrel into, attach strain gauges (or 50-yard test-targets) and fire away.

You guys are all about trying to be competitive. I did this as a back-to-fun shooting break. It's amazing what you see when you really don't care about outcomes.. Maybe.. .38 bullets can't count for Major in L-10 though.

Nicaragua was like that-- terrible reputation, but mostly very nice. Certainly no more dangerous than say, Detroit. Fair number of Europeans wandering about, but very few Americanos.

Mmmmm.... Ham and Cheese Donut.. mmmm