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i gotta ask, cause' this has bothered me for some time..... i reference to not changing sights on rifles. pretty much as i see it, if you wanna run in the rifle thing, you gotta have some type of @1-4 power variable scope. there are lots out there, so i won't name names. i've been using an ak, which has a great scope mounting rail on the reciever, that accepts any number of russian(eastern) sight devices at just the throw of a lever. i can't see the difference i me switching between a scope and red dot between stages, and a guy with a variable power scope just dialing it up for the long shots. it's resulting in the same thing, him being able to see the 200yd.+ targets when he needs to(that i can't with my old, color blind eyes), and still having the no magnification, close, fast sight picture. since Mr. Pinto is the rule call cheese, what's the official position(no aussie jokes please!).........
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it's a caspian slide/frame. the problem is that the caspian slide has these little raised pads at the top of the recoil face, and when the slide comes back to contact the guide rod head, the rod wants to torque a bit, and without a buff to accept that movement, the rod breaks. i kinda figured this, and then when i called EGW, that george smith guy told me the same thing. guess it's not uncommon with caspian stuff. probably the 6" slide helped on the leverage too, so...... they wouldn't replace it though.."we send directions out with it to always use a buff, blah, blah...." gonna try it with a steel one, see if there's that much of a difference.
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Kobra's are the shizzit!!! haven't really seen a dot sight that beat it. they used to be $135 at your door, though. i guess american capitalism really works!!!!
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it was an EGW rod. never had to loctite it, cause' it always stayed tight. just ordered a steel one from brownell's, but i gotta call EGW and see if they'll warantee it??? saw that Bob Londrigan guy at the Fla Open, and the first thing he said about my gun was to get rid of the tungsten rod. maybe he knows something.......
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built a 6" caspian .45 in the fall for L-10. the thing has run perfect from the get-go, got over 5K rounds thru it, so it's all broke in. have run it with CP buffs always, but was at a match the other nite, and i checked the buff and it was kinda beat. not wanting the gun to jam in the run, i took the buff out. at the end of the run, the RO says, "something just fell off gun!". the tungsten rod broke right at the threads. the rod head was kinda peened(i've been using a pretty light spring), but i wouldn't think that 40 rounds would break the rod. all i can think of is that the kinda raised pads on the recoil face of the slide tried to torque the rod enough to make the thing crack, and when i use a buff, it evens out the recoil impact, so the guide head doesn't torque/twist as much. any gurus out there got any solutions???
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see if you can find somebody with one of those laser bore-sight gizmos. i know a guy with one that kinda looks like an ink pen, aligns in the muzzle, and shoots a red dot. works real nice, easy to see if your sights are lined correctly, might even tell you something about how you shoot.......... sure told me! easy to see where the sights are lined, though. then get out the file......
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get the kuhnhausen manuals, and some mics, and check the slide out for specs, or have somebody do it for you. i got one of those slides from CDNN awhile back, and it was a POS, probably a factory second, locking lugs rounded off real bad. they replaced it, and the new one was excellent. and it replaced a auto-ordnance slide that i cracked, and it runs like a scalded dog.......... i heard from some other forum that some of those colt competition slides weren't always good, you just gotta spec' em' out to make sure.
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yeah, baby......SS-L8 rules!!!
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Lawyer Joke
in Humor
what's the difference between a lawyer and a catfish? one's a cold blooded, garbage eating bottom feeder...........and the other one's a fish!!! (lawyers always love this one!)
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the essence of shooting is the learning how, the proper preparation for the expected ideal. for the best, it will never end..........
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i read alot of the gun "boards"(i know, i gotta get more of a life....). it does seem that anyone who speaks any type of anti-republican or bush rhetoric is shouted down in quite loud tones. and these are from the voices who are very sincere about the freedom(right) to keep and bear arms. orwellian ideas kinda, "some ideas are more equal than others....."
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if you got a single stage press, there's a rcbs die/swager gizmo that's alot cheaper...., works great...
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i've read(never seen it) that loading down too much causes some kinda secondary combustion and freaky pressures.........
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i know i'm really drifting now, but..........if you watch cycling, they don't stop, they just stand on the pedals and take a quick whizz........ you just don't wanna be behind the whizzer! to address the fact that the adkins thing is for "fat" people, that's really not correct, IMO. our bodies all work on the same principles, it's just some have let the gizmo get outa whack! obviously, a pro-cyclist, tri-athlete, marathoner, most pro atheletes(except baseball players, they're puds....) have very finely tuned metabolisms. but do you think they just woke up one morning and decided to go run the boston marathon? you gotta work on the thing, just like that race-gun that's persnickitty....... move the unit, eat good, and things change.... JUST DO IT
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been watching this thread for awhile, interesting......... tremendous synergy in the diet thing lately. not a good thing to live on twinkies and snickers bars, have to eat a good balanced diet, but that ain't it alone! you gotta move the unit!!!! i like road bikes, great way to burn calories, great for metabolism. lance is the toughest @%&$# on the planet, check it out! ask adkins(well, i guess not now) to check out the diet of a pro cyclist in the european peloton, see what he thinks. if they listened to him, they'd be in the hospital in a week! i guess it's just a human trait to want to control things, figuring if i structure my diet in a certain way, it'll be all good. heck, i read it in a book, sounds good, so......i know a few horror stories........
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i found some stick on reading glass' things at walgreens. figure out what reading glass power gets the front sight in focus, then put one over your dominant eye. gives you a poor man's mono-vision(one eye for distance, one for close up). give it a try, you might like it. or have a pair of shooting glasses made that bring @ 2' to 6' in focus good. the doctor would know how to do it, they just get nervous when you bring the gun in and start dry-firing........
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man, i gotta get another job, more $$$$. i wanna go shoot in canberra..........
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not to belabor this point, but........ hurt my knee bad last summer at kyle lamb's 3-gun match. was finally able to start riding again about nov.(been road bikin' alot longer than shootin'), just trying to do the rehab thing. hell, ridin' slow on the pinellas trail(florida boys might know it), i don't need no stinkin' helmet! stopped for water, stood on the pedals a bit(all my knee could do), and the right pedal spindle broke. how often does that happen? went down about 5mph, clonked my head pretty good. that weekend at the pistol match, couldn't really add the scores too good. was duller than usual for a couple of weeks. scared the shit out of me........ imagine at 60mph....... it don't take much, and saying you know when to excercise caution(which is what i was doing) is bull#$%@. all the safety stuff that gets drilled into us with gun-handling seems to fall on deaf ears. i press checked it awhile ago, don't need to do it this time........ ask the guys about a month ago at the gunsite incident..... this might be a little verbose, but you only got one head, and droolin' all the time is kinda messy......
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know a guy that just got killed in a skiing accident in chile. wonder what was going thru his head at that last moment........
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you ever hit your head hard, or got concussed from not wearing a helmet?
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as for likening revolver to bicycle racing, there is little doubt that Lance is the toughest dude(was going to use another adjective!) on the planet......... he'd beat schumaker(sp?) with 1 leg....... 1/2 a leg......
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been playing around w/ loads for my .45. after reading the benos book, was concerned that i didn't see muzzle flash. was using 230gr. LRN's and 3.9 clays. tried 185gr. LSWC's and 5.95 of HP-38, saw alotta flash. moral of the story: slower powders, you see more flash.........
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any vendors that sell powder readin' this thread? i need an 8lb. jug of 4895 or 4064, maybe we can be mutually beneficial........
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i love sayin' this.........."It ain't the arrow, it's the Indian you gotta worry about!"
Swapping Parts during a Match
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more like "cool John Coltrane" dude....maybe Getz......... Grover started "lite jazz", i'm into "dark jazz".....anyway..... i know the point about switching gear, just seems pretty dorky showin' up w/ the JP setup with multiple sights on the gun, especially when some guns are designed to switch sights easily(cheaply!). you from OZ or Hong Kong? used to go to hong kong a bunch when i was in the U.S. "Canoe Club" back in the day. never got to OZ, really wanted to. got "ruddy bleedin' pissed" with a few ozzies, though.........