Mark100nl

The surfaces most in need of touching up are all very flat blued, so I guess I'll be okay Birchwood Casey it is!

I was wondering how to best touch up scratches and blemishes on blued guns. There's severall products available with very different results, color mostly. I'm looking for a flat black touch up. Any idea's? Thanks!

Sorry for the late reply, not receiving emails on replies anymore apparently.. @Frank: First match already under the belt (1 day after I picked the gun up!) and she performed perfectly Shooting the qualifier in Leiderdorp on august 28th, maybe I'll see you there. @Tommy: Yep, came from Jürgen. Total delivery time from order date until arrival at Jürgen's was 16 months..

Update: finally got all the issues with my STI resolved. Here's how : Flawless performance since day 1.

Wow, he's still got 95 in backorder? Business is good! That you will I'm shooting Dongen on June 4th and Hoorn on July 9th

And there we go! Mail from the distributor just in, with a picture Now for the paperwork (Europe..) and I'll be picking her up at Jürgen's very soon! Pic: http://members.home.nl/mwille/Wille.JPG

Not really, it's a blued long dustcover Sighttracker with the steel signature grip, AET barrel and xclerator serrations. No special additions.

That's a generous wife you got there! She doesn't happen to have a single sister mh?

There's a mention on the SV site that they cannot respond to questions about delivery times, which I can understand. I'll send you a PM in a minute

Jürgen Flass in Germany. Great guy and I know he can't do anything about the delivery times, that's why I thought I'd check here how they are averaging out at the moment.

And if so, how long did it take to get there? Reason for me asking is that I have been waiting for almost 15 months for my sight tracker now. Just wondering if the general turnaround time on orders has increased..

Will do. I might even have the one mag that was still giving me trouble exchanged for a new one, under warranty. Tested for the extractor hangup as you mentioned, and when feeding really slowly the extractor still "grips" the round so I guess we're good as far as that goes. And don't worry, I respect the 4 rules religiously! I made a set of dummy rounds (spent case & primer, no powder) especially for testing things like this, I never keep live ammo anywhere near the weapon if not at the range. We'll see how the gun keeps performing over the next few weeks. If I'm happy with it after another 2000 rounds or so I'll consider taking it to a match. Thanks for the help everybody!

I'm not entirely shure I know what you mean by that (round is not sliding up under the extractor).. :$ The factory extractor did get replaced by one from Caspian during my second visit to the smith. Here's two closeup views, maybe you will be able to see what you suspect: http://members.home.nl/mwille/sti4.jpg and one with a round on the extractor: http://members.home.nl/mwille/sti5.jpg The recoilspring has been replaced by a heavier one (9 lbs was all they had, all the other don't fit over the recoilmaster) and things are looking up. 250 rounds on friday night and the problem only occurred a few times with only one mag. So where not entirely there yet but almost

You might be on to something, it looks like at least one of the mags has that area way tighter then the others: http://members.home.nl/mwille/sti3.jpg

Yep, giving the slide a good ol bump chambers the round.