Ned Christiansen

In any of the above cases one might chalk it up to manufacturers not doing their homework.

Those dimples are actually less that what is "standard" with an AR15 on unfired, ejected rounds, but-- of course in 9mm we're working with pistol primers which are easier to fire. And I don't at all doubt that some slamfires are caused by firing pin inertia, but for sure some doubles / burst fire is also cause by the bolt not cycling back far enough to hook the hammer on the disconnector.

I've seen several 9mm AR carbines now that do this. The problem is that the 9mm round is so short, and so the stroke needed to pick up the next round is also short, but the bolt movement needed to properly function the FCG is long. If the bolt doesn't get a full-strength impulse moving it back, it goes back far enough to eject and feed but not far enough to get the hammer hooked on the disconnect. The result is burst fire. The ones I've seen doing this were very dirty and dry and the owners said the guns had not done it before. Lube made it go away in these cases but it could just as easily be caused by changing to a milder load or having too much buffer spring in the gun. I have not done a deep study as I don't own an AR in 9mm but I'm a little surprised some company has not addressed this with a different bolt and/or hammer profile. Very likely someone has and I just don't know it.

Thank you!

OK.... that was my first attempt at posting pics on this forum and looks like it flopped...... well, they can be seen elsewhere.

So bowling pins can definitely be, and are, shot with very stock guns. There is a Stock Gun category and this year I believe the only event that can be shot with a pin gun is the Pin Gun main event, same with Space Gun (a pin gun with optics). All other events that call for a major-caliber handgun (not talking USPSA Major) such as Two-Person Team, Three-Person Team, and the daily Shootoffs, need to be done with a stock gun. Some .50GI tools for pin shooting in Pin and Space Gun: [img]https://i.imgur.com/Uim7S65.jpg?1[/img] [img]https://i.imgur.com/lNHueMF.jpg?1[/img] [img]https://i.imgur.com/PUtbWL9.jpg?2[/img]

Everyone in my circle is getting excited about this..... loading ammo, chrono- ing something new or just using old tried and true pin loads. The general consensus is that a 200 PF is the min. so a 200 H&G at 1000 gets it done. Guys often want to use the heavier bullets like 255's and they do work but of course the theory is they don't activate a compensator as well. I've gone as high as the Speer 260 and it takes them off but the problem with the heavy-slow approach is, if you get below 800 the incidence of bounce-backs seems to go up. In my .50 GI I'm using 255 SWC's-- the look just like an H&G68 scaled up to .50 caliber. My load with Bullseye gets them going about 850 in the 5" barrel ("Stock Gun") and in the comped 6", about 900 ("Pin Gun"). I put a Vortex Venom on the Pin Gun and shoot the "Space Gun" event. My .45 load for many years was a 215 Keith style wadcutter at 1020 using Blue Dot-- about a 219 PF. The consensus is that wide-meplat bullets give a little more roome for error side-to-side. Michael Bane's Shooting Gallery was there in 2018 and did an episode on The Pin Shoot. No idea how to access the whole thing but here's a preview clip. https://www.outdoorchannel.com/show/shooting-gallery/videos/1630/331001 Note that at about 5 seconds there is a fly buzzing around the bowling pin and the >WHAM< here comes a .50GI bullet. The pin pivots and actually strikes the fly. I didn't mean to! Unintentional screen shot below, no idea how I did that and can't seem to make it go away.

Registration is open for the 2021 Pin Shoot...... June 14-18, 2021: https://www.pinshoot.com/ Results from 2017, 18, and 19 are there too. Unfortunately, 2020 was a no-go due to Covid.

The 2018 match is over.... and a great time it was. For those of you who have only heard about it, always wanted to attend but never did, 2019 is your chance. Dates are not yet up. The restart has not been without a few hitches but I think that is to be expected. Attendance has been last year ~125, this year ~ 145, and that needs to grow. The shoot staff are committed to bringing The Pin Shoot back to its former glory, to this end there is a lot of brainstorming going on. In its heyday there were upward of 500 competitors but-- not the first year, nor the second, nor the third. I think there is a momentum going now, plus, Michael Bane and crew were there filming the daylights out of it and it's my understanding there will be a full episode about The Pin Shoot on The Outdoor Channel in February.That will surely generate some interest. I had the usual great time and so did everyone in my bunch..... it's been great reconnecting with shooters from 20-plus years ago and meeting some new blood too. There were a few who were not yet in kindergarten when the last Second Chance took place, that came up and shot very well. It's been interesting last year and this year, how many guys said something like, "I heard it was on, and had to really dig to find the old pin gun which I have not shot since 1998. I grabbed this ammo, I THINK it's my old pin load, guess we'll see what happens...". And the ones I tracked shot very well! "Perishable skill".....? Sometimes it doesn't seem like it!

Can't seem to find a link anywhere to the results..... but congrats Duc on a job well done.

I was shooting a match in Venezuela in 2006, using a Browning High Power.... I had a stripe of black duct tape in the web of my shooting hand as the gun is a biter. One guy kinda eyeballed it suspiciously and questioned me as to the legality of having that thing on my hand, thinking I intended it as some kind of visual registry aid. Told him it was to keep from bleeding on the gun and that I was using the sights for registry....

There is a S&W M&P-15 Tactical on the prize table........ Saturday and Sunday, July 12-13 08, Battle Creek, MI.

The rules do address cover and staying behind it is enforced in my experience but maybe at that particular match it wasn't....

Here's a glance at the prize table: Two sets of Crimson Trace grips Sabre M5 upper (16” Mid-Length 1:9 Twist, Chrome Lined) Magazines: AirTronic and Cammenga 500 rounds of .223 Black Hills A certificate or two from VZ Grips $300 certificate from Ion Bond (tungsten DLC) 10 AR mags from Fusil Some Strike Tactical single point slings Raven Concelament Systems Kydex rig for a SW M&P .45 Ken from Global Military Gunsmithing has committed to $200 worth of shop services. Tony A. has committed to a steel rifle target package. Blue Force Gear is sending a package of slings worth at least $100. Viking Tactics sent 8 slings and 3 light mounts. CrossTac is in for armoror's blocks and other stuff. Stag sent a folding chair that says "Stag Arms". ADM is sending a couple mounts Schupbacks is donating $100.00 in gift certificates. M-Pro 7 is sent 3 cleaning kits. Dillon sent an ammo bag. Eagle Industries sent a drag bag with a list price of $287. Denny from SWAT is donating a one year subscription to the mag. Lancer is sending 20 mags. Tactical Solutions is donating a full rig setup, as well as a battle belt and a couple of knives and a back pack or 2. And 5 mags. Frank from S.R.T. has offered 4 hours of training. The winner of this prize may bring up to 5 friends. You can find out more about Frank's training programs here. Member Cody Stahl donated a Camelback and a CRKT knife. Larue Tactical informs me they're donating $909 worth of stuff. A Fenix light distributor from Oklahoma called today and said they're sending at least $250 worth of lights.

http://www.actshooters.com/ Folks, take a look at attending this match. I like to liken ACTS matches to " a Pat Rogers class with prizes at the end". In fact many if not most ACTS shooters regularly attend clases with trainers of note from around the country. ACTS began here in Michigan and already has a club in Arizona that has become ACTS sanctioned with others taking a look. The Third Annual Combat Rifle Championship is near Battle Creek MI, July 12 and 13. Steak dinner the 12th, and the rpize table is shaping up really well.... a case of Balck Hills ammo, a Sabre Defense AR15 top end, lots of magazines, Crimson Trace grips, and much more. I am going to write up the event for SWAT Magazine this time. Check the website for some Youtube footage from past matches. Very exciting stuff! Ned

Check out 4TC1s, this pistol has W-DLC (TungstenDLC) over Metaloy: http://www.brianenos.com/forums/index.php?...mp;#entry640211

....and what about the smoke.....? Will it just hang there forever? Since there's no atmosphere to make the muzzle blast stop, does that just keep going too? If there's a solar wind from the left do I aim right?

So, Brasileiro, the .380 is with a locked breech? If they were available here I'd have to have one, great for "medium bore" events at bowloing pin matches!

I use bags filled with pelletized plastic instead of sand. They are nearly as good as sand, tons lighter (sorry), and dry faster if they get wet. Get this stuff at an injection molding plant, prob'ly find some in their dumpster if they won't just give you a few scoops out the back door. The stuff made from ground-up scrap parts is best 'cause it's sharper and more stable. Ask for some "regrind".

I say clean your barrel even if it's clean already. It's good karma. This will sound crude as hell to some but it works and there are no ill effects after years of it. My chamber cleaning is done with a fired steel case that has the mouth notched up with a file to make it look like a hole saw, and the case head has a slot sawed into it. First I brush the chamber out with the Wilson chamber brush and them I drop this case in and turn it with a screw driver. Pretty much nothing else, no brush, will get the crud out of the step in the chamber upon which the case headspaces. Before anyone panics about wearing stuff out, nope. I'm anal about cleaning, I do it a lot, I do it when it's not necessary. there is no prob. Of course, I'm not driving it with an electric drill and pushing real hard either. For the bore, especially with lead but also with jacket fouling, I use a bore brush wrapped with strips of copper pan scrubber. Again, I've found nothing that works better-- it takes out all the crap in a hurry.

Me too, really, and not so I can tear it down. Like I say, I don't have any doubts about the quality of it-- and a 1911 of quality is always welcome in my world!

Duane, if you telling it like it is offends me I don't deserve to be here! You're absolutely right of course, which in a way is the point I'm making. Other than styling, as in the rail, the SIG-ish slide cut, and rollmarking, this 1911 just doesn't seem like a truly SIG product. Now I realize that our cars are made the same way-- I mean, GM et al are nothing more than assembly plants, they manufacture very few of the components. They buy it all on the outside, put it together, stick a GM badge on it, and there's your GM product. The dif is that, while some of those components are off-the-shelf items, the vast majority of them are off custom tooling made just for GM, like molds for the interior, dies for the body..... nobody else could go to a GM supplier and buy fenders and doors, seats and chassis, for say a Pontiac Bonneville, and start producing and selling them as something else. It's true that the investment would be a biggie, and a perfectly good reason not to start producing 1911's. But, while I have plenty o' respect for SIG and their products, and am not disputing the quality of the components they've chosen nor their ability to put them together right, I still see it as a little cheezy to call it a SIG. Talk about them seranading for a military contract-- I don't profess to know the inner workings of military acquisitions but I'll bet that ain't gonna happen; if it did it would be in the hundreds and not thousands if they were lucky and therefore not worth it except in terms of bragging rights. And it would have to be without the firing pin safety I would guess-- which, I have not read yet exactly what style it is? I'm curious because all three systems on the market now have been problematic to varying degrees. I have not yet seen a S&W 1911 or Kimber Series II that was set up to be misfire-proof. Hope nobody thinks I'm SIG bashing! But what FPS system does it use?

They make 'em all over. I didn't mean something necessarily made in Belgium or Morgan, but something made in a plant where their guns are made. Last I knew they were part of GIAT and as such something of a sister division with Winchester? Or is that like really old info? I'd like to modify my "very disappointed" comment to just "disappointed". It is a neat-looking gun.

The SIG-ish cut on the slide is very cool, and definitely gives it a SIG identity. However...... I've very disappointed. If what I read is true and it's put up from Caspian frame and slide and standard aftermarket parts, it's not a SIG. Same with the new Unertl-- and this is no slam on Caspian or the makers of the components-- but dang, if they're going to make a 1911, let it be something besides parts that anybody can get outta Brownells. That they put it together well is not in question, hopefully, but then the only dif between the SIG, the Unertl, and the gun by your pal who puts together a decent 1911 is the engraving on the outside. If I were to buy a SIG 1911 I'd want to know it was made from SIG parts in a SIG factory, otherwise the draw for me would not be there. Yes, I know there's a lot of this going around in the industry-- everybody uses some of everybody else's parts. I would not expect them to completely re-invent the wheel I guess (although I would hope for it), but there's just too much me-too-ism in the last couple years. Am I way out of line here? Know who really ought to making a 1911? How about..... Browning? A 1911 actually made by Browning in a Browning (or subsidiary, OK) factory with Browning tooling with Browning on the side..... yeah, that'd get my interest.

Good gorilla, good gorilla. Thanks!