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Chillywig

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  1. Did you use your CC to purchase? My dad had a similar problem ordering from a manufacture of a big bore semi auto pistol chambered in 475WM. They gave him the run around for close to a year and he finally called AMEX and they took care of him and refunded his money.
  2. I have 2 XLs in 6moa, both bought off this forum, one was supposedly new never fired and the other used very little. Seems buttons have been causing problems for others and I was told since these sights have motac and good battery life just don't press the buttons and let them turn themselves off. Well one doesn't seem to be turning off. Every time I looked at it in safe it was on. I thought maybe opening my safe made enough vibration where it turned on. Well its been sitting in various places today and every time I've looked at it its on. Looking at the warranty statement in the manual these dots are covered without registration to whomever owns it for five years from the date of manufacture. I am thinking about after this weekends match sending the one not MOTAC-ing in for repair. For those of you that have been sending them in what are they doing? Repairing, replacing boards or just reissuing new sights? I assume both my dots are somewhere under two years old since they were built. Should I just use the buttons normally and if they wear out so be it and hope it happens in the next three years? I like these XL dots but once again feel like I am doing the beta testing for sig...
  3. Tonight was the last steel match of the season and battery was still going strong. If I remember I'll post again next year. But sounds like I had a couple bad batteries in a row vs something wrong with the good old RTS2
  4. I broke one on a M&P 9 years ago. Same thing. Bunch of dry fire then went to range for live fire. Pointed the gun at target and click, racked round click, racked round click. I bet I went through the whole mag before I believed it. Getting a striker back then from smith was difficult to say the least. They said they don't break, unless you have a modded trigger like an apex, which I did, and dry fired, which I did.
  5. Shot steel last night 8-22 and the dot was just as bright as expected...
  6. I just did an extensive dry fire session where I dropped the striker on an empty chamber to get a time to first shot on commander timer. Any one experience part breakages by excessive dry fire on a Q5SF?
  7. I read somewhere where higher pf ammo would do this too. I picked up a Q5sf here and first time I shot it I had this problem exactly as you described. I was using hotter 147gr ammo that was approaching 140pf. I switched to my ammo to 128ish pf and have never had this happen again. I was already using the sprinco recoil rod with uncut white spring. Gun goes into battery whimpy if you ride the slide forward but has never failed to chamber when shooting. I tested some 115pf 147s for revo in steel matched and the Q5 runs these fine even with totally stuffed mags and a round barnied in the chamber
  8. I just stumbled across this topic and spent the past hour reading about your journey. Very interesting and I feel like I learnt a few things. You didn't talk me into a G26, but I am going to do some dry fire and reflect... Good luck and keep the updates rolling in...
  9. Tonight was steel challenge and I shot the 617. I mentioned my emptying the cylinder dilemma and another shooter told me he had seen a gentlemen using binocular shoulder straps. When it was his turn to shoot he'd clip small box onto the bino straps and empty the cylinder into that box. When done shooting he'd unclip the dump box. I like the thought of having a bag full DS-10-SPEED loaders too. Doing that would do away with the loading block. Do they ever have sales when it would be a good time to buy several?
  10. I got my 617 used off this forum. Previous owner had a trigger job done on it. Not sure exactly what was done but still has the factory hammer. Pull is 7.5 lbs and it sets off ammos I've tried. Two things I don't like about shooting 617 in steel matches - of course no 22 revo divisions. And reloading and storing the empties and live rounds. I have speed beez loading block but don't have a good system to dump the cylinder of empties and live rounds. I used a empty 22 bulk box to clear the cylinder then go back after and separate the empties from the live rounds. Anyone have a good reloading the cylinder setup between strings?
  11. With a nice heavy open gun once load and springs are tuned the dot won't move off target as gun cycles and you can bang bang as fast as you can and the shots will be very close on target. But I think if you play with CO load weight springs etc you can get very close to having the gun return to zero and get the same result on target. To get optimal results from either set up takes tinkering
  12. After the ice broke you needed to throw in a Doug Marcaida it will keeeelllll
  13. I looked on JP and SC website. Both say: Complete JP-5™ carbines are available for preorder now with deliveries estimated to begin by the end of 2021 Surprised no one thought it would be a good idea to update this...
  14. My clutch was too tight. Jamming the plate stopped the motor from spinning. I loosened the clutch and squeaking is the same. I did not use the wedge. Watching the DAA vid it says I don't need it as this is an older case feeder with hi lo switch. Although I have considered putting it in. Sometimes the plate double feeds or kicks 2 pieces of brass from same drop hole.
  15. The squeak is a bit louder than brass rolling around and much more noticeable when the feeder is empty and plate is turning continuously Attach0_20220505_104942.mp4
  16. DAA plate is working correctly but squeaks as it rotates. I think the plate is touching somewhere inside the dillon feeder bowl. But not sure where. I have it running with no cases in it hoping to find good witness marks. Anyone else experience this?
  17. I think I saw this at least 6 times today. Habits are hard to break
  18. So how fast can a good coater turn around a pile of guns? One gun every two weeks? This is dumb
  19. I'd like to see a pic from the top. Can't tell what's going on with the barrel, island slide, popples but looks interesting. And please dear lord sweet baby Jesus no more open g-Lock pics
  20. It turned itself off last night so it isn't just staying on. I'll keep an eye on it and see how long this battery lasts. New energizer installed 4-3-22
  21. I think I have 4 or 5 RTS2s. They are all either V3 or V4s. They are supposed to go to sleep after being on for so many hours. The V5s are motion activated. On the other sights I don't think I have ever found one just dead when I go to turn it on. Usually I think it does not seem quite bright enough and swap out the battery or put it on a volt meter to confirm its running low. I will turn this one on tonight and confirm it turns itself off. But I usually check and double check everything; unloaded, no mag and optic off before putting guns away in the safe
  22. For the speed loaders do you have multi DS10s? Or are the holders on the belt a loading block and you use one DS10? Either way it is neat. I have not seen that type of rimfire holder or block. You should post pics of it all loaded up however you use it
  23. I have a RTS2 mounted on a ruger mark 4 set up for steel challenge. I got it out in October 2021 to do some accuracy comparisons and the battery was dead. It had been a while since I shot it and did not think anything of it and put a new energizer in there. I have not touched the gun till this week when steel challenge started back up and the battery was dead again. So ya its been sitting for 6 months untouched and kilt another battery. It is a 10moa V4 - anything I should be checking other than looking for other than another dead battery?
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