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North Tennessee Practical Shooters will host a USPSA match at Strategic Edge Gun Range in Chapel Hill, TN next Saturday 7/15/17. Stages and link to registration on PractiScore here: https://www.facebook.com/ntpsclub

After a brief hiatus, the North Tennessee Practical Shooters are happy to announce that we will be hosting USPSA matches on the 3rd Saturday of each month, starting 11/21, at Strategic Edge range in Chapel Hill, TN. Strategic Edge is a private club, but membership is not required to shoot these matches. Huge help to all those who helped make this happen. More details here: Strategic Edge NTPS Facebook

I did it for less reciprocating mass and a non-reciprocating front sight without the extremely heavy front end of a sight tracker, with the added bonus of it being an interesting design challenge. The slide on mine is 4.5 inches long so fairly light. The front sight holder is aluminum, and the entire barrel assembly (barrel, come comp adapter, front fight block, and front sight) weighs what the bull barrel weighed before we started. It is much less nose-heavy than a 6-inch sight tracker. I have since added an SV steel grip, so it is quite heavy, but it balances great and is very flat. I like it a lot and I would do very little different.

I have been running this setup for almost 2 years. Works great. http://www.brianenos.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=6195&p=2092211

It's a 10-pound recoil spring with an aluminum shock buff and I think it's a 17-pound mainspring. Runs great and very flat. If you're using jacketed bullets you'll need to up the powder charge. I need another 0.5 grains to match the power factor using Montana Gold bullets in my 5-inch 1911.

I load 165gr Black Bullets to 1.185-1.19. 5.2gr of N320 makes 168-170 PF in my 6-inch limited gun and my 5-inch single stack gun.

I use a comp-tac made for an edge for my racemaster SS gun. Works perfectly.

I run a 6-inch barrel with a 4.5 in slide. Maybe not exactly what you're thinking about, but this runs great. Post 780. http://www.brianenos.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=6195&page=32

Mine is also roughly 38oz with the tungsten GR installed. The custom barrel lockup length is a great idea - that did not even occur to me when I was playing around with this design. Definitely try 165's. That's all I shoot, and they feel much better than 180's (same powder, same OAL, same PF).

There is more than 1 way to skin this cat.. http://www.brianenos.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=6195&page=32#entry2092211

This is a 6-in barrel on a 4.5-in slide. http://www.brianenos.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=6195&page=32#entry2092211 The barrel is a 6-inch bull barrel turned down and threaded to accommodate an egw cone comp adapter and a chunk of aluminum to hold the front sight. Runs great.

Tim Calhoun did exactly that for me on the limited gun in post 780. Ended up with a 6-inch barrel with a 4.5 inch slide. A bit more extreme that the OP suggests, but the concept works great. This uses a standard 5-inch guide rod and plug. http://www.brianenos.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=6195&page=32

Yes - "Rangemaster." Sorry for the confusion. We cut the dust cover back to SS legal length but the frame started life looking like the above.

It started out as a Racemaster frame, so no, not a weld job. The trigger guard started out square before the double undercut. I helped design the gun, but TIm Calhoun built it. http://www.calhouncustomfirearms.com/ Check him out. He builds some awesome 1911's and 2011's.

Those are not Perman grips. I made the grip panels myself, shaped from 1/4 inch basswood with a handplane, then wrapped in skateboard tape. $5 in materials and a little patience and I love the result. The shape is very similar to my limited guns, and it is very light. And yes, the square trigger guard is a huge improvement, in my opinion.