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392heminut

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  1. I built a single stack 1911 45 for USPSA back before the 2011 platform was mainstream. That gun feeds anything I run through it. It will even feed empty cases from the magazine!
  2. Or maybe because they actually do have a lifetime warranty? Optics are optics and that is selective reasoning. Who decides what brand is competition grade, and by what criteria? You've been touting your sights here for some time and now try to justify a lesser warranty by excluding another sight in you discussion because you deem it non-competitive?
  3. I prefer the lifetime warranty and the Holosun Limited Lifetime warranty is the least I will go in an optic.
  4. I had the same issue with my Prodigy, started getting light primer strikes when I had never had an issue before using other primers. They all fired with a second strike. I replaced the titanium factory firing pin with a steel one and the issue seems to have gone away.
  5. Yup, I had both inner and outer meniscus torn on my right knee and had surgery to clean them up about a year and a half ago. Dr. said I was already bone on bone in a couple of places but he wanted to hold off as long as possible before doing a joint replacement. I'm moving slower, but I am still out at the range shooting matches and getting it done. I'm not shooting to the level that I'm classified at and probably never will again but I'm just doing it for the fun now, not worried about trying to compete at the level I used to. I get a little sore while shooting but it's not bad and the soreness usually lessens or goes away after I sit down a while.
  6. Same here, I got a great trigger pull at 2.5# just working over the factory parts.
  7. Seems you're the one with an attitude, no one else seems to be badmouthing anyone, just having a discussion. You've definitely convinced me not to shoot at any matches in your area! Not because of any kind of hurt feelings, I'm beyond that sort of thing, life's just to short to put up with some things. I'm done with this conversation! Have a great day!
  8. Very true! Being a department firearms instructor for 14 years and a USPSA shooter for 27 years, it's been my experience that attitudes like this is why we don't have more LEOs involved in this sport!
  9. An old drag racer quote that applies here, "Speed costs money son, how fast do you want to go?"
  10. If you're wanting to be able to switch calibers the Dillon 550C is the one I would recommend. The square Deal is a good press but more work to change calibers. The bigger machines are quite a bit more expensive and at the rate you say you would be reloading not really worth the expense. My best friend has a Dillon 650 and he hates changing calibers on it. He leaves it set up for his 38 Super Comp ammo and bought a 550 for everything else.
  11. Yup! I also use a brass hammer to tap the pin back down, it saves having to use a couple of wrenches to loosen the collet to reset the pin every time. I started doing this when I was getting that damn Norma crap in my 9mm brass.
  12. My wife is an RN and she said you must have gotten some really good care. She said most folks your age that go that far down the pneumonia rabbit hole don't survive it. I'm glad you're home and on the mend!
  13. Being a career street cop, I stuck with Limited for most of my competition shooting, but I shot Open for 2 years several years ago. I built a 38 Super gun with a Scheumann Hybricomp barrel. That thing shot so flat it was amazing, the dot basically just did a kind of figure eight on the target when shooting. I don't remember what powder I was using, but it was loud as hell! After two years I gladly went back to Limited. I'm now shooting Limited Optics and love it!
  14. My wife is a lefty with small hands and started out shooting a Para in Open back in the day. She now shoots a Smith M&P in Carry Optics and prefers the safety release stay on the left side like a 1911. She has always activated it with her trigger finger and doesn't want to change. I have fairly large hands but I still have to break my grip a little on a 1911 or a 2011 to hit the mag release. I have always done that and have never had any interest in using an extended mag release button. I've never felt like I was slow having to break my grip on a reload, and I've had other shooters tell me over the years that I do some of the fastest reloads they have ever seen.
  15. Hmmm, I worked the factory parts and got a good clean 2.5# trigger!
  16. That is fixable and still have normal slide lock on an empty mag. I have trimmed several slide stops in both 1911s and 2011s that were doing this and still had full function. I just recently went from Bear Creek bullets that I had been using for years to a different bullet from Blue Bullets. The Blue Bullets started causing this issue in my ST! Trojan 40 because they had slightly more bulge in the ogive. A few strokes with the file fixed it. I shot the Western States Single Stack Classic last weekend, 400 rnds and no problem with the slide locking when it wasn't supposed to, but it locked back on every empty mag and there were a LOT of empty mags in that match!
  17. I've never seen a crimped 40 case. As a rule, crimping was/is a military cartridge thing.
  18. I could, but that actually changes the spring rate!
  19. Wish I could find a 7# spring to try in my 4.25" Prodigy. The lightest Commander length spring I can find is a 9#.
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