Bill Schwab

Anxiously awaiting their arrival......

I've tried it freestyle, SHO & WHO. And other's has fired it with the same results (both righties and lefties if that matters). I thought perhaps it was short stroking too, so I tried to watch the slide as I fired it (I know that's tough to do, but I'm desperate) and everything seems fine (menaing it looks like the slide is going all the way rearward). I also thought maybe the recoil spring was stiff causing it to short stroke, but the gun was built in 1983 and I don't think it's ever been taken apart so chances are the spring is weak if anything. Also I tried high velocity ammo just to make sure the ammo had enough energy to fully retract the slide.

I have a friend's Browning Challenger III, serial # 655PX169XX, that is having some issues. Judging from the serial #, this beauty was made in 1983, the first year for the Challenger III's. The gun is in excellent condition, it appears as though it was a safe queen. It has a 5 1/2" barrel. With two different brand of ammo (Federal high velocity hollowpoints and Remington standard velocity) the gun will ignite the first round, eject it and feed the next round into the chamber, however after that the trigger does not reset to allow the hammer to fall on that next round (I'm not sure if the hammer is not being cocked or if the trigger is not resetting). By then pulling the slide back, ejecting the live round and feeding in a new round, a pull of the trigger results in ignition of that round, but then the next round that is fed in will result in the inability to fire it. Bottom line: the gun does not reset the trigger after firing a live round, but it does reset it after manually pulling the slide back. Visibly nothing appears broken or out of whack. I also checked all the screws, they were tight. The slide is not unusually hard to pull back, it's a nice smooth travel with no binding. I have not disassebled the gun yet; first I wanted to know if this is an obvious diagnosable (new word?) failure. Any advice or recommendations would be appreciated.

Amen

I've, purposefully, shot quite a few matches (shooting Open) in the rain. I keep the gun covered until the LAMR command. This makes it such that the rain doesn't pool on the lens. And what I've noticed is that if my focus is "On" then I don't even notice a rain drops on the lens. Of far more importance to me in the rain is making sure my draw isn't botched because of slippage.

Very interesting stuff: http://www.usashooting.com/modules.php?op=...rtid=334&page=1

Interesting observation. And he starts with his feet so close together, makes me wonder if the foot start position was mandatory.

When I was shooting an open gun (5" Supercomp), I noticed absolutely no difference between Dawson's aluminum shokbuffs and traditional polymer ones. I ended up leaving the aluminum one in and shot it for all or most of 2005, had thousands of rounds on that buff with very little wear.

I'm having VERY similar issues with my Super 1050 and spent hours on the phone with Dillon BUT I think I have the problem figured out - my bench isn't sturdy enough where the press is mounted and the cases are vibrating right before entering the shellplate.

I haven't purchased one of these for pistols yet, but I have one for a rifle and it is the BOMB! It's indestructible, makes me feel very comfortable that the hardware is secure Starlight's cases are pretty expensive - the rifle case (with shipping) was a few bucks shy of $200.

Ron: Is that Matt's comp? I'm assuming it's not titanium? What are your thoughts on the comp's effectiveness (sounds like a good comp from what's you've said so far)? I sold my open gun last year after the Nats and want Matt to build me a new one sometime in the future and am leaning towards his comp. My experience with Matt is an echo of the above - he's a great guy, always willing to answer questions, and most importantly he builds the guns exactly how you want them.

Definitely go see George.

I sold the suspect mag on e-bay and haven't had any issues since All my other mags work fine. How did you fix it??? I took it apart last night and checked the chamber, everything looks good. I then placed a bullet on the feed ramp to see if it would catch. It went in everytime which told me somehow it is trying to enter then chamber on a angle and I figured it was a mag problem. Flyin40

I had that issue with one of my Marvel mags. I had a friend try the mag in his Marvel and he had the same issue.

I know this is an extreme example, but FWIW I'll share it anyway: I used to shoot NRA Highpower rifle a lot, and I practiced with a fellow Distinguished High Master. If we swapped each others AR-15 rifles/ammo, at 600 yards we would have to make extreme sight changes to get the gun to hit the center of the target, I'm talking we would be feet off. Both of us were VERY seasoned shooters using carefully prepared custom rifles and handloaded, highly accurate ammo. He was about 20-30 years older than I, so maybe our eyes just saw the sights different.

I'm interested. Shoot me an e-mail with specifics...I've got the last few years of the Front Sight so I can do more than 5 issues if you have more Precision Shooting mags. P.S. I'm in Maryland so shipping shouldn't be too bad.

I was perusing the USPSA Top 20 lists today and noticed Matt McLearn at #6 for open...looks like he shot one classifier in each of three consecutive months and shot 100% on all three After a 6 year break from competitive shooting! AND he finished 4th at the Desert Classic. And he finished 10th at the Steel Challenge. Impressive. He's a super gunsmith too.

That explains why Doug is always near the top of the scoreboard on stages that require weak hand shooting

I'm experimenting with my 1050 toolhead die placement and wonder what others are using that's outside the norm. For instance, right now with 40 cal I'm running a universal decapper in station 1, and resizing in station 2 (with the primer pocket swage stuff removed); I thought this might smooth the press operation a little. I also thought of adding a second bullet seating die (right after the powder dump) that would seat very long as a starter to the final seating die. And I heard of someone moving the powder dump to the third to the last station to eliminate spilled powder (his Super cases were almost full). Any words of wisdom would be greatly appreciated.

Rob Leatham is the only lefty that comes to mind, but he shoots right-handed.

I bought wrist weights awhile ago and tried doing draws and reloads with them. My intent was to increase my draw speed. I found the weights to be detrimental to my practice because they were bulky (therefore in the way) and the positioning of the additional weight hurt my already injured right wrist. What I think works better is a magazine filled with lead; I have one for singlestacks that I love, actually I have two...one filled with lead (make by my cast bullet guy, thanks Rich!) and a second I made by mixing old lead bullets with a caulk like material to approximate the weight of a loaded mag. But ankle weights for jogging, now those I still wanna try

Tripp's 40 cal mags are the best. Don't be lured away by saving a few bucks.

What caliber? How long did it take Matt to do the work?

I saw the dot clearly for every shot. During the walk-through someone asked to see the house with the lights off, and immediately everyone turned the flashlights on, during this time I was playing with my C-More dot brightness to get it set just right, which was about halfway. I was down 3 points in 6.49 sec.

Don't know yet. My mainspring died on the first two stages, so I killed stages 4 & 5, but replaced the spring and went on to do well. I was 16th starting today, but I only had three stages to shoot today (most people shot 4 stages, and some shot 5 today), so I dunno. I shot awesome today so we'll have to wait and see