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  1. shred

    Ear muffs

    SNR or NRR? I believe it's difficult to measure the NRR of electric muffs in the 'on' mode, but some post them for with the electronics off. They tend to be lower than passive models just because the electronics and batteries take up space that would otherwise be used for sound-blocking material.
  2. shred

    My First...

    Btw, It's a hybrid, therefore bull-barrel. We know it's a hybrid since it made a lot of noise.
  3. Points are far more important than time for lower-level shooters, even though there are also huge time gains to be had. Take a look at your stage hit factors sometime at a match. That's your personal points-per-second score. Make it into a fraction by putting a 1 over it and that's how much time each point is "worth". If each point is worth 1/2 or 1/4 second, that means that each D-hit costs you one to two seconds each.
  4. shred

    My First...

    As a first-hand witness, she shoots good.
  5. I would claim that if the stage is as-drawn, anybody that didn't draw yellow had an advantage since it was visible and shootable sooner than the others.
  6. I bell at the powder-drop stage. The funnel has a straight bevel on it, as opposed to the two-step funnel on the 650/550 design (and thus is not caliber-specific) Stage 2 I have set to not do much of anything at the moment, but there is the opportunity to expand the case there while de-crimping. That led to loose bullet tension for me.
  7. Eject (& shellplate index) is on the upstroke, but otherwise that's right.
  8. If you go with the angled-into-the-plate design (the "anti-Flex"), you may be able to simplify construction by dispensing with the front posts entirely and just using the top edge of the angle as the front stop.
  9. Schuemann likes the Lissner ramp, which is a modified Clark/Para cut. I think unless you make barrels, there's no noticeable difference. The feeding part looks the same on both.
  10. Probably not. If they're lead, no. If they're too long, no. (You can tell if they're too long if they don't have a big hollowpoint or flat point up front)
  11. Yeah, pretty much anywhere in TX we can hook you up with a Glock. Just say where.
  12. Even the bullets alone (he did say bullets) probably aren't right. The diameter may be OK, but if they're lead bullets like most 500 S&W bullets I've seen are, they'll gum up the gas system on the DE and cause you all sorts of headaches. If you don't know anybody with a 500 S&W, can you use any fishing sinkers?
  13. Think I should have fill-flashed them? I just re-read some of this and your "take lots of shots" advice is spot-on. I feel like I'm doing well to get 1 or 2 good shots per roll of film when I'm underwater.
  14. In what? A Desert Eagle isn't going to do well with 7625. Most of the loads I've seen use slow pistol powders like H110. CCI magnum large pistol primers.
  15. Hornady. The HAP bullets are excellent and more or less identical to the XTP. Bulk orders are reasonably priced and drop-ship free.
  16. That shot was taken with an underwater camera (Sea&Sea MMIIex) as we were going on a night dive (sunset dives are great because big changes are going on underwater as the day-fish shift switches to the night-fish shift). Like most underwater cameras, it's manual. As in manual focus, manual exposure, manual aperture, but with priority modes and a light meter. I don't remember the details, but I probably set it to the smallest F-stop I could and still have a reasonable shutter speed, and cranked the focus to infinity.
  17. I'm still thinking about it, but not seriously at this point. Hopefully I'll get a real shop soon that I can put a compressor into and all this will be moot. I'm also not yet convinced that it's a good idea to store a tank full of 3000 psi air in close proximity to my firearms and powder stash.
  18. I must be wired wrong.. I loved geometry proofs and computer programming. And I'm strongly left handed and left eyed. But I have a pretty slow RT, so maybe my brain is flipped over or something
  19. Just don't try and catch that Glock when you drop it. There was a sad story on here a few years ago about a guy that did that. Given the geometry of the 1911, it seems very unlikely that you could drop one on the hammer-- the typical big beavertail grip safety will block almost any attempt to smack a cocked hammer in an undesirable direction. Ah, now I get it. This is for the maroons that carry their 1911's around with the hammer down on a loaded chamber. Drop that on the hammer and you might be poorly off without a FP safety. Good thing we never do that in IPSC.
  20. Airlines love big trophies. It speeds your way through customs, immigration and all the rest. I'm thinking about bringing one with me all the time when I travel. It's even better if the guy behind you has a smaller trophy
  21. I always used to wonder exactly how much hazard this constituted? After all, the muzzle is pointed straight down, isn't it? There might be some flying concrete, but my previous experience with shooting a concrete floor point-blank (my AD story) is not much comes back at the shooter. I guess the other thing this prevents is if the pistol is dropped directly on the hammer such that it breaks the sear, somehow misses the half-cock notch (dunno how) and thus hits the firing pin. That wouldn't be good.
  22. The "trigger group" difference is only those three parts. Pull them out, throw them away and you have a Series 70 trigger system, as safe as it's been for 80+ years (ideally you'd fill the holes / spaces in, but that's not required for functioning)
  23. The Lyman Pistol and Revolver book has some Super loads with 147 and 158gr cast bullets, but I'd go hit Jeff Maass site first. http://home.columbus.rr.com/jmaass/
  24. Think of a 'Series 80 firing-pin safety' as something like the Glock safety plunger. It's similar in that pulling the trigger lifts a lever that pushes a plunger up and thus unblocks the firing pin. This is a retrofit to the 1911 design made by Colt sometime in the liability-crazed 1980's. Most everybody else makes do with the grip safety, thumb safety and inertial firing pin. Most of the 1911 manufacturers (besides Colt and maybe Para) don't have this 'feature'. Kimber has something different that is driven by movement of the grip safety as I understand it. Even better, here's a picture http://www.nomeking.com/s80.htm. The lower three red bits are the Series 80 parts. Non series-80 1911's don't have those parts or spaces for them to fit into. You can see why all that extra mechanical flip-flapping is frowned upon by trigger afficionados
  25. I clean 'em rarely just to remove some of the graphite from the plastic that makes it hard to see how much powder is left. A dishwashing mop is great for that.
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