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Benny Hill Triangle Shooting Sports is who I would recommend. I sent him my IMM Open that had horrible ejection issues, it came back running like a champ. I had him make and tune a spare extractor, and he was very affordable, had fast turn around, and great customer service. If your going to do it yourself, then a brazos oversized ejector, tune it, trim underneath to allow clearance for the magazine, and an aftec extractor with the typical tuning and fitting. Thats what mine has, and it runs.

IDPA hates the 40.... Thats for sure. Which boggles me because its been one of the most popular law enforcement duty sidearm cartridges in the US for going on 2 decades now.

If your worried about powder spillage, spend the $35 on a bearing kit. Either way a 550 will spin-toss powder just like the 650 will when your cranking rounds. I wouldn't even let that be a factor.

Honestly, out of the box for production division, I think both will run about the same. I don't believe either would give a significant competitive advantage. Its more in the realm of the indian, not the arrow at that point. I think either will get the job done, and they are both great guns. I think it will be a lot cheaper and easier to get a holster, mag pouches, magazines, and aftermarket sights for the Glock. In the long run when it comes time to replace recoils spring or other parts, again the cheaper and easier to find for would be the Glock. Your going to want to do something with the trigger. The Glock 34 trigger can be a lot better just by changing out the striker spring with one of reduced power which is like $6, and a reduced power firing pin safety block spring which is another $3. So basically $9 and the Glock then has a somewhat significantly better trigger than the Walther, where the Walther may have had a slightly better trigger before. I have no idea if aftermarket sights, or trigger components are even available for the Walther. I'm pretty sure for the time being, your going to be stuck playing with it as is straight out of the box. Just my opinion though.

My advice, no questions asked, send the gun to Salient. I have a really nice Zev 24, and used to recommend them a lot. Performance wise, from Zev, you'll get a lightened slide and stippled gun, with an ok trigger, but thats it. And as you see there are a lot of places out there who do that now. They have their own signature cuts in the slide. I have two Salients, a 24 and 17L, the difference is night and day comparing them to Zev, especially in the triggers. Salient by far has the best Glock trigger, and its truly a finished gun. From the truing of frame, and the tighter fit you get, even with the factory barrel they TiN coated I'm getting better accuracy than that of my fitted KKM barrel in my Zev 24. If you notice in the pictures my Zev gun doesn't have the Zev trigger anymore... The one thing I will give Zev, if you want a silica carbide grip job, they do good work. I like Salient's regular stipple better than Zev's, but if you want silica carbide I'd send the frame to Zev. Thats the permanent sandpaper stuff they press into resin on the grip. The gun won't move in your hand no matter how sweaty you get, but boy will it tear your shirt up on your holster side

Graham, what is your powder charge with the 8208?

I was surprised to see the Ruger's Match Champion. I was looking for a S&W 686 SSR on gun broker, when I bumped into it. I had no idea they would jump into the game like that.

I'm still waiting on the release of Quadruple Tap.

I'm just anxious to see what, if any changes occur to SSR as a result of the drop or merge with ESR. Will SSR just full on allow moon clips? Will moon clips only be for a specific caliber and pf to retain a place for the 625? So many questions, any ETA on when they will make their decision?

Well they are factory built guns, made to the tolerances and specifications to do so. My question to you would then be, if you wanted a Glock, why did you buy a bunch of aftermarket lone wolf stuff and slap it together? Why not just buy a Glock? Wouldn't it have been easier? I hate to state the obvious, but most of what you have listed, I wouldn't consider top tier for aftermarket parts selection. All the combination aftermarket stuff could be your root problem? Take notice, Lone Wolf doesn't make whole guns... Just parts and novelty items.. If they don't put their own stuff together and sell it as a whole gun says a lot itself. Start with the recoil spring. If the recoil spring thing doesn't work, the connector has nothing to do with your problem. If your running factory rounds, and short stroking, you opening a whole new can of worms... I'm going to potentially start with a fitting of major parts issue. Follow Tyro's advice, and work on the fit with J-B. It the slide/frame/barrel fit are producing to much friction and are inhibiting movement, it can cause short stroking.

I learned there is only one way to test lube, and thats in the gun... I kept seeing these pseudo experiments on youtube with different lube versus lube, all of which were far from scientific. I like the plate of truth guy, the truth is he doesn't measure the amount of lube he puts in each square. Thats kind of an important metric if your going to do any type of testing. Rather than say I like this or that the best, because there are lots of good oils. I basically avoid Rem Oil, WD-40, and 3 in 1 oil for lubrication... They all suck for various reasons... I DO use EWL 2000, Firepower FP-10, Breakfree CLP, Mobil 1 Synthetic (IS THE BOMB), Lucas oil stabilizer mixed with Mpro-7 lube (because both are great, but not good enough by themselves), pure graphite dry lube (sometimes in magazines, or when is real cold), slide glide (when its nice and warm out), and I did try antisieze compound once for grins, yup it worked but got EVERYWHERE on EVERYTHING... My cat looked like it had glitter in its whiskers for months. I would like to try, but have not been able to is Mobil 1's new 20W-50 V-Twin oil. It supposed to lack zinc oxide and some other things that regular mobil 1 has in it that you aren't supposed to use with a wet clutch on a motorcycle. Not that I've ever once had a single problem with regular 10w 30 synthetic, just thought about trying something new.

I wonder if they will finally allow the Safariland Triple Speed loader pouches to be legal in SSR now without getting bumped to ESR?

I love it when they staple fresh cardboard right on top of the old stuff. Sometimes my boolets get stuck between the two and I can reuse them. I don't use a recoil spring. I just rock my wrist back and forth after each shot to cycle the slide and make it look like the gun recoils On a serious note, I 2nd what Tyro just said. By the way, is my red headed eastern european internet wife still on backorder?

Its almost worth the money just to see how far you could take it

Breaks down to efficiency of movement, or sacrificing time because something might work better for you. I use a strong hand release, because unless the slide automatically goes home when you bump the fresh magazine into the well, your thumb is already in place, and the closest thing to get to it. Your weak hand can already be moving back to the grip while your strong hand thumb actuates the release. The amount of distance for your thumb from the magazine release to the slide lock lever is less than for your hand to move from the bottom of the magazine well to the release or over the top of the slide. The only reason I could see using the other options is if a person either doesn't have the hand strength or finger dexterity to do so. As far as the "tactical" guru's who argue that a shooter should go hand over slide, its been outdated since the 90's, along with the weaver stance... Turns out, if your to the point where you loose motor function in your hands that you cannot operate a slide lock lever, you also can't use the magazine release or pull the trigger... So the argument went out the window.

I think the addition of the optic/laser division has been a long time coming, and will probably bring more new shooters. It always sucks loosing a division, but if there aren't people participating then why keep it. If we loose a few shooters while the rest change divisions, but gain thousands because of the change, I see that as a good thing. Another strategy would be to change ESR to make it more appealing. There are a whole mess of 7 and 8 shot revolvers out there with no place to play in IDPA. ESR would have been a great home for them, like a decade ago when they came out.

I usually run mine thru the dishwasher... Use the pots and pans mode.

For precision rifles... After a range session, if I actually put some rounds down range, I'll run wet patch hope's #9 down the bore. I let it sit about five or ten minutes, come back and run a couple dry patches and I'm done. Its not hard on anything, cleans out the powder fowling and carbon, leaves that shiny copper showing in the grooves, and won't let your barrel rust. When your groups start opening like your barrel is worn out, J&B bore compound with kroil on a cotton pellet just like the video on brownells shows to use it, then your done for another several hundred rounds. Funny thing is, it always take a few shots before the groups shrink back up after I stripped the copper from the bore. Maybe has something to do with copper fowling. I'd rather wear a barrel out shooting it than cleaning it...

Comparing the 6.5grendel to the 308win is like apples to oranges. Apples to apples would be comparing the 6.5grendel to the .223rem, 300blackout, 6.8spc and other cartridges that you could find on the same AR platform. For the 308win, its the .260rem and 6.5creedmore. I think its kinda wierd no one has compared the 6mm realm. I think one person mentioned the 6mm creedmore (not the 6.5). Berger 105gr BTHP's in 6mm have a .547 G1 BC... Run the ballistics on that coming out of a 243rem at 3000fps, its pretty darn impressive.

LSnC, just a quick question, but why are you shooting 178's if your only going out to 600 yards? Kinda seems a little overkill, and waste of money. You talking 12 minutes or so of drop at 500 yards from a 100 yard zero. I'd be willing to bet you could push a 110 V-Max at 3100 to 3200 out of that 20" gasser... That would put it at 10 minutes at 500 and 14 at 600 on a 100 yard zero. Thats pretty flat... I'd recommend looking into the 110gr VMax or a 125gr SMK. That and you'll probably save some money per shot too... I'm going to site you to JP rifles load document. Serious take a couple minutes and just scroll down to the load data part. http://www.jprifles.com/document_pdfs/JP%20Loading%20Document_600.pdf Oh, I'm running 41.8gr IMR 4064 thru my 20" at just over 2500 for 175's. The same load in my 26" bolt gun pushes over 2600...

Well the old snipershide forums that was a staple for information for long range precision shooters gone. You get redirected to Scout.com, which is where ALMOST everything got moved. Looks like they are working out the bugs, and its getting better daily. I think they could have made the transition a lot smoother, as a lot of people lost their usernames, and everyone kinda lost their built reputation behind their old names. Will this be a new start, or will it be the death of snipershide? Time will tell. The biggest resource to the old snipershide wasn't the website itself but the shooters. My question is if they don't carry over to the new site, where are they going now?

I have a three bedroom house, one room I sleep, one has my reloading bench and gun safe, and the other I told my wife she could use for whatever she wanted. After she found a place to put all the other gun stuff I put in it...

Before snipershide forum sold out to scout, a couple days ago, some of the guys were getting together on a group deal with a particular company to have a bunch of 260 remington rifles reamed to a .260 Ackley Improved. Man, I'm gonna miss that site I remember when the 6.5-284 ruled the roost, and the 6.5x47 lapua. Then it was the 260 remington. That was like everyone's go to 6.5mm gun. And now its the 6.5creedmore. But if you already have a 260 remington, why not AI it... Back to the original topic. I saw something on youtube a couple of palma shooters talking about Brian Litz and berger bullets. My understanding is that some of the the 308 shooters are going away from the 155gr Palma's to the Berger 215gr... It didn't sound right to me, so I started looking at load data and ran across this: http://www.longrangehunting.com/forums/f19/215gr-berger-hybrid-308win-104197/ With 49.0gr of RL-17 behind it loaded at 3.10" OAL, you can push that 215gr bullet with a .696bc at 4500ft altitude at 2600fps. It stays supersonic to 1700 yards.... A .308win... 1700 yards... thats pretty insane. You can't do that with a 6.5....

That only makes sense if the shooters don't practice. In uspsa most shooters practice, so while dq's do sometimes occur for reloads while moving towards the weak side, they are still pretty rare. +1 to motosapiens. If you get DQ'd, then you get DQ'd. You take responsibility, correct your behavior, and come back smarter. One should be able to practice muzzle control, thats part of the game, no matter which way your moving when you reload. Its not a safety issue, as must as moving and shooting isn't a safety issue. Even in the real world, one must practice muzzle control....

Thanks for the write up, great read.