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I took the firing pin out again and removed the spring. Without the pin that holds it the pin will come out way past the face of the bolt so I don't think there is an obstruction there. I put the pin back in but did not put the spring back in. The front of the firing pin gets very close to the face of the bolt. I cleaned the chanel the pin runs in with a pipe cleaner and did not get much out of there. I flipped the spring around and the pin does seem to be coming out a bit farther so I will take it out and try again. I don't think I would try to fix a headspace issue so at this point I guess I have to wait for Tac Sol to call me back to see what they will try and do with this. They must be pretty busy as it seems to take a day or two to get a call back from them. Of course they called after 2 days and I had stepped away from the phone so......... Now I am waiting for another call back.

I just looked and my STI already has the red trigger spring in it. Kind of nice JP color codes them so it's easy to see. After taking the pictures of the firing pin and seeing that it doesn't come out as far as I thought it was, I am starting to wonder if that is the issue. I am pushing the pin from behind till it stops. Is it coming out far enough?

OK so I polished the piece that runs in the charging handle to a brite mirror finish. I made sure there were no rough spots anywhere on the bolt or carrier. I made sure the breech and chamber were perfectly clean. I looked at the hammer and it is flat with no notch. I took the firing pin out again and looked at it and it seems to be OK. It moves in the chanel with no resistance. I did notice that when pushed flush with the back of the bolt, the pit itself doesn't stick out very far. To get the tip even with the edge of the cutout that the shell fits in, the back of the pin needs to be pushed inside the bolt. I would guess this is by design as you would not want the pin to touch the breach face. Anyway, after all that I cleaned and lubed it again and took it out with 75 rounds. The first thing I see walking out to shoot is a ground hog that has been tearing up my barn floor for a while. He is in the field about 150 yards out and 10 or 15 yards from the barn. TMALSS the gun may not run all that well but it shoots very well when it does. 1 shot = 1 dead ground hog. He got about 5 or 10 feet before he fell over dead. Sorry for the distraction but I was getting pretty sick of the holes in the barn floor. So I cleaned up after the ground hog and went and set up some steel to shoot at. The gun is better but I still got 3 FTF out of the 75 rounds I shot. I did get a call back from TacSol today but of course I was in a meeting and could not take it. I left another message. This picture is with the pin pushed in as far as it will go.

Ok I get that now. I will look at it when I get home. Whatever came on the STI is what the lower has. From the description is says "JP Trigger Group". I looked up a picture of a notched hammer and will look at mine when I get home. No, just what came stock on the STI By the way, the STI upper/lower runs 223/5.56 like a champ. Thanks to everyone for taking the time to respond. I will spend some more time on this tonight when I get home.

The firing pin protrudes to the edge of the cutout at the front of the bolt. I am not sure that is far enough but it seems to look OK. As I said, I am not much of a gunsmith so.... I will try and take a picture with it pushed as far forward as possible. The end of the firing pin seems to be intact it has a triangle tip on it with a flat spot that is about 1/3 the width of the end of the pin.

That is very nice to hear. When it runs I like the upper a lot. I took the bolt back out and took a couple of shots of where I see it rubbing. All are around the back of the bolt where the recoil spring is. Just to make sure before I take out the dremel, that is the area you are suggesting that I polish?

I took the firing pin out and made sure it was clean an that there was no obstruction. I cleanded the upper and lower again just to be sure and went out for another try. Out of 50 rounds 3 did not go off. Here is a picture of one of the ones that did not go off. The firing pin is just not hitting it very hard at all. I guess the JP trigger and the Tac Sol just are not going to get along. I put in a call to the Tac Sol tech support line to see if they had any suggestions. Thanks for all the input guys.

Hold on, I don't want to be that "poor unsuspecting person" the Tac Sol gets dumped on. (;0 Well the STI is running a JP trigger, feels like a little more than 3lbs but..... It was never perfect but it was a lot better than it is now so thanks for the suggestion, I will try it. Honest, I don't mind it not being perfect as I get to practice my clearing drills. My Kimber 1911 top end is 95% and it has helped me get very good at clearing malfuntions. If I only shot my Colt I would never get any practice.

So ditch the Tac Sol to some poor unsuspecting person and buy a Nordic is the fix? I guess a low priced lower with a "non match" trigger would be an option. Anybody else have another idea?

I have a Tactical Solutions 22 upper I use for practice. I run it on my STI lower. I have a few thousand pretty much trouble free rounds through it. From the begining it did not like to run the Winchester bulk stuff but it ran the Federal Champion very well. Now I am starting to get a lot (6 or 8 per mag) of rounds that just don't go off. Most of the time I can reload the same cartridge and it goes off. I can run the same batch of ammo through my Kimber 1911 upper it runs pretty close to perfect. Looking at the fired cases it looks like the hit on the edge of the case is pretty lite. I gave the upper and lower a good cleaning and that did not produce any noticable change. What should I be looking for? I am pretty new to working on guns so please don't skip the simple stuff, I probably don't know it.

From the reviews on Cabelas site I got the impression it was a POS.

I guess I am just lucky with my M1 that I bought used. I only have a little over 1k rounds so far. I did clean it once at 1k but I don't think it needed it I just felt bad about not doing it. Not once single hitch, bump, etc. I guess I should sell it before it starts failing all the time.

Thanks for the reply. I have only shot local matches but I never noticed the 26" M1 getting in the way. I did not know the barrels would swap. I just got off the phone with Benny, his suggestion was to cut it to 24" so about 1/2" of the extension tube sticks out past the barrel. I guess that is so it hits on the tube instead of the end of the barrel? I am now just like a kid at Christmas. This 3gun bug that I caught is starting to get into my wallet more and more.

OK so the impulse just got more expensive. I am having the gun shpped directly to Benny and having him turn it into a work of art that goes bang. I guess my 26" M1 will be up for sale in about a month.

Last night I was just about to go to bed and popped up gunbroker only to see a new in the box M2 Field 28" for < $900 with less than 15 minutes to go. TMALSS I ended up getting it for $906. Impulse buying gets me in trouble. I already have a 26" M1 that I have only extended the tube and put a Crums lifter on and I love it. I have not found the 26" to be too long but I wonder about the 28". I guess $906 and the cost of getting the barrel cut and tapped puts it pretty close to a new 24". I wonder if the lifters the same on the M1's and M2's?

Remember this is a $300 scope, not a $1500 one. Yes, it is not perfect, yes it could be better, but for an entry level 3gun guy like me I can have one on my STI and one on my TacSol 22 upper for practice for $600+- I may at some point get to be a good enough shooter to need a $1500 - $2000 scope but not yet. We were shooting 8" plates at 300 yards in a match this weekend and I hit them just as fast as the guy that ran before me with the $2000 scope, on the $350 mount on the $2500 AR. Oh yea, I was shooting plane old 55g Federal bulk ammo, he was shooting match grade stuff. I can get a lot more bang for my buck with practice than equipment. Once my game gets up to the level to need that type of equipment I will buy it. For now I just don't know any better and don't want to. Well not wanting to is not exactly true. His setup looked a lot better than mine for sure.

One more to take a look at is the STI. I bought one a few months ago and it has exceded my expectations. STI is another company that supports the shooting sports in a big way.

The first shot at it was in the dirt so I probably yanked on the trigger as I was trying to go too fast. The second miss was just as bad as I had started to the last 3 and had to come back. That time I overran the target and was high and right. Then I got a site picture, shot, followed through, and hit it on the third try. Would have saved about 2 seconds if I did that in the first place.

So there is a Shotgun, Pistol, stage with 7 large hanging steel targets at about 15 yards. Large is 12" to 20", so close to huge. The stage was to shoot those with 1 gun, then 9 small 4" to 6" steels with either gun, then the large ones with the gun you did not use the first time. So I am watching and a guy goes through the back steel's with his shotgun, switches to the pistol and hits the 9 small with 1 miss then procedes to miss the big steel 6 or 7 times with the pistol. I ask the guy next to me "how do you miss that big of a target when you can hit the small ones so well?" I get up there, the guy I asked the question of is the RO and I procede to run the stage and miss the middle big steel twice with my pistol. Does anyone have an idea of the question he asked me after the stage? The answer is "I was trying to go way too fast on the big steel" So as punisment for being such a Dumb A$$ here is the of me missing an easy target twice!

I probably spend 30% of my practice time on that drill. It helps a lot. I always have to end on shooting some regular 2 rounds on a target stuff so I don't go shooting the targets at a match with one shot.

I have a slight astigmatism in my right, dominate eye and the correction on that eye is higher than on the left. As I got older this made getting the sites in focus pretty hard, one eye open, or both eyes open. I had a lot of trouble calling my shots as the sights were a blurry mess. I had a pair of shooting specific glasses made by taking the gun to the eye doctor and setting the focal length to the front sight. She also played with the amount of correction so I could wear the glasses while walking around with pretty sharp vision. It's amazing the difference this made especially in low light. I can align the sights quite a bit quicker now and follow up shots are faster.

Mine fits in the USPSA box just fine with the S&A mag well. I did the trigger on it and it runs like a champ. That is until last monday night when the slide stop broke during a stage. No big deal in this match as it is informal and they just let me fix it and shoot again.

I am a bit long on the OAL at 1.16 but 4.0g of TG makes 132pf+- with a 124g Frontier CMJ. The load shoots very well and the recoil is very easy to control. I got my MG 124g CMJ's and will load some of them this week.

I loaded up a couple hundred 124g RN @ 4.0 TG 1.16 OAL. I am going to shoot them in the AM if the rain stops. From my test batch they did shoot pretty good groups. I just did not have enough to get a good sample.

I hear you now and believe now. Technique is big, if not, the biggest part for sure. I am working on my technique as hard as I can. I can get back on target quicker and see my 2nd shot faster with less input from the gun. My .22 splits on my second shot are about 40% better than the .45 splits at the same target so gun input has something to do with it. As my technique gets better I hope to bring that difference down but I don't think it will ever be the same. I am going to try the idea of making my grip stronger to see what that does.