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"Leading" is a very general statement. What exactly are you seeing in the barrel ahead of the chamber?
What type of cleaning regime does it take to get this leading out? What do you see on the cleaning patches in terms of deposits from the barrel? The answers to these questions will tell if you have problematic leading or not.
Also, where the leading is in the barrel will let you know something about what is occurring. If it is in a very localized part of the barrel just ahead of the chamber, I would guess the bullets are too hard for the pressure profile of W231. If they are undersized you will have lead coming out on the patches in long flaky streaks. If the bullet lube is failing (Generally too hard and waxy) you will have heavier deposits towards the muzzle.
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You could use any of the race gun holsters that hold just the trigger guard . that is how I use mine.
True. I do have a CR speed that I could make a second barrel nipple for.
I kind of want to use it in a traditional kydex holster though.
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I have a Marvel Unit 1 and I need a holster that will fit my LB or my SA with the unit on top.
Anyone have recommendations?
Thanks in advance.
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get the 11 coil grams spring and follower kit, and the dawson pads either the regular or the snl depending on what fits the gauge
Thanks. Will do.
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Hi, all. I am new here. I am going to build a limited gun. I have six STI mags, 18-rounders. I want to turn them into 20-rounders and also rebuild them. I like the Dawson basepads but I don't know whose springs and followers to buy. I do know those bits make a difference but I don't know what the differences are, who makes them or where to get them. Need a basic tutorial on mags. Thanks!
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Received my sight today. Looked it over closely and it looks very nice.
I do not plan on mounting it just yet as I have the state IDPA match this weekend and I do not have time to adjust a new sight before the weekend
and I just don' think it would be smart to change anything major this close to a big match.
I will put it on next week.
One thing I noticed is that the sight does not want to adjust up more than a few clicks. I think it may just
feel like that because it is not mounted to the slide yet but it does seem like it is stuck.
Anyone else experience this feeling before mounting the sight?
When I received mine it was the same way. I believe they ship adjusted almost all the way up. I had to bring mine down quite a bit.
The very early/prototype models came with a note to call Virgil before installation,and the call was for him to tell you to adjust it all the way up. I guess they figured it would be be easier to just adjust them that way from the factory instead of having Virgil take 500 phone calls!
BB
You think?! lol.
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Just wanted to note that I installed the sight on the gun yesterday when I got home from the Golden State Classic. Looks awesome and works perfectly. I have it on a Les Baer PMII. Zeroed perfectly at 20 yards with the sight elevation screwed all the way down.
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Shot a classifier this past weekend just to get a little practice in for state next weekend.
On the first stage, I load and make ready as directed. I am feeling in the zone, ready to rock and roll!
At the buzzer, I bring the gun up and take my first shot. I press the trigger a second time. CLICK.
Tap. Rack. CLICK. Tap. Rack. CLICK. Pull magazine. That is when I notice that the magazine is hanging out of the gun
and had not locked into place. THEN I noticed that I had put a WILSON eight round magazine
into the gun but the magazine had the base pad for an OFFICER'S size frame! DOH.
I sometimes shoot several short 1911s and somehow I let this magazine get into the bag with the
mags set up for the full size guns.
Lesson learned, the hard way.
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Received my sight today. Looked it over closely and it looks very nice.
I do not plan on mounting it just yet as I have the state IDPA match this weekend and I do not have time to adjust a new sight before the weekend
and I just don' think it would be smart to change anything major this close to a big match.
I will put it on next week.
One thing I noticed is that the sight does not want to adjust up more than a few clicks. I think it may just
feel like that because it is not mounted to the slide yet but it does seem like it is stuck.
Anyone else experience this feeling before mounting the sight?
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I have a PM II and I am very partial to it. I use it for IDPA and soon for L-10.
I've had a Wilson barrel and bushing fitted by Bruce Gray.
Added the customary bits and pieces for match shooting -- S&A magwell, 10-8 flat trigger, stainless full length guide rod. The gun is basically flawless in fit and function and accuracy. It also feel awesome in the hand.
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Got mine last week. I had to get a taller front FO sight. It is a very nice addition on my Baer.
I am putting one on my Baer. How was the fit? Did it drop in or did you have to do some fitting?
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Actually, the saying is "The proof of the pudding is in the eating" which makes a lot more sense than "The proof is in the pudding", which sounds messy and makes no sense at all but is shorter and so people repeat it.
Pet peeves? No, not me.
I didn't know Mizzou Bullets made a 250 gr .45 auto. Might be an interesting experiment. I guess I'll grab the tiger by the horns, as they say.
the appropriate grammar is "Pet peeves? No, not I."
haha. Could not resist!
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You all are killing me. I just ordered one for my LB PMII, which I run in CDP.
Should have it installed and dialed in in time for the CA IDPA Championships 5/21-22.
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Medium length curvular.
Videcki and 10-8 flat triggers for me. Love them. Only 1911 I own with a curved is my longslide because daughter likes it the way it is.
Nothing wrong with curved though.
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We just had 125 shooter at our August match at Sacramento, CA. IDPA club.
Of course it was the end of year pizza and prize feed match.
Yup, I was there. Pizza was tasty too!
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I ened up buying a SA 1911,I really liked the way the pistol felt. Shooting IDPA
CDP, the more I have read I'm finding out majority people using 9mm, I really don't want to buy a new gun, and there's not many that shoot the 1911's. I'm starting to reload that would help w/ cost.But if I was to get a 9mm what would be a good one to go with.
Thank
john
If you like the 1911 45, shoot it. Why does it matter what others are shooting?
Glad they figured that one out.
Any way of shooting lead without leading?
in 44/45 Caliber
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A bhn of 18 is more than you need for any W231 load. I shoot a lot of 45acp with bullets I cast myself. I probably cast and shoot 5,000-8,000 annually on a consistent basis. My bullets are bhn 9-10. I use soft alox lube and I have no leading. I cannot tell you the last time I got so much as a speck of lead out of any of my barrels and I sometimes shoot thousands of rounds between brass brushing the barrels. I size to .452 but barrels vary so slug yours. It is hard to use bullets too large but very easy to end up with bullets too small. I shoot Bullseye and WST in my 45acp loads. I would say use a softer bullet -- bhn 10-12 -- and softer lube. You don't have any say in the lube the commercial suppliers use and they universally use hard, waxy lubes so that the lube survives shipping more or less in place on the bullets. Problem is, hard waxy lube is equally universally crap. Someone in the thread recommended tumble lubing the bullets in liquid alox with the hard wax lube in place and I think this is a good idea. An extra, messy step, but it may well be worth the trouble. Good luck!