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Is it reload ammo? I/ve seen thousands of reload 9mm that would jam feed because the taper wasn't in spec.
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Price is $265/case which is $13.25/box.
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Been many times I was on the floor combing the shag carpet with a flashlight.
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Check the firing pin safety plunger. Does it slide smoothly over the bump on the trigger bar?
"When it fails I can move it forward with my hand but I have to hit it pretty hard."
Is the barrel/slide fit OK?
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That's basically the same thing I said, never meant to say I had perfect focus on anything. Same as a red dot sight, look through the sight at the target. Been doing since I was a kid.
Using a red dot is also what made me start "looking through" the iron sights with eye muscle focus on target. But since I am nearighted, I can use a lense that puts the sights in clear visual focus while the eye is focused )at distance) so I can see a clear sight image OR a clear target depending on which eye my brain pays attention to.
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The trick is to use your dominant eye to look through the sights and the other eye looks at the target, just like with a red dot sight.
That would be a pretty neat trick.
However, humans do not have the ability to use each eye independently of each other. Neither do we have the ability (pretty sure no ones ever done it) to focus each eye independently of each other. So, using "an eye to look through the sights and the other eye looks at the target" is a bit misleading. I feel like folks are going to be on the range giving themselves headaches trying to accomplish this.
Been doing it for about 25 years. It's called indirect sighting. The eyes do not have to have visual focus on the sights to "look through" them with attention focus on the sights. They may appear slightly fuzzy, but you certainly can see them, align them, and be aware of them while "mechanical focus" of the eyes is on the target. It sounds more complicated than it is, I started doing it and found it wasy but then I was unaware how difficult it was supposed to be to do it.
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It's only going to be 120 today.
Dr says it's too hot for me to go in the desert long enough to shoot the Steel Challenge Match.
It's actually more trouble for my caregiver then me but I think I'll give her a rest for the day. When it gets down to around 110 I'll go back out and shoot the matches.
My dad grew up in Phoenix. I grew up in Sacramento. At least when it gets up to 110 there, people complain about the heat.
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bounty, the gas propels the bullet forward and propels the case back against the breech face equally. The propellant force of the gas continues even after the bullet leaves the muzzle (for a while). If it did not, a compensator would have no effect on the velocity of the slide, nor any on the strength of the recoil spring needed. That effect is measurable.
Michael Plaxco covers compensators in his book Shooting From Within (been many years since I read it). The recoil offset effect of a compensator is due to the fact that the forward moving gas expands in the comp chamber and slams into the front face providing a forward directed force opposite to the recoil force. He did an experiment where he gradually opened up the hole at the front of the compensator where the round goes through and the effect of the comp went away as the hole size increased since the gas was no longer as constricted to hit the wall face. My point was that the force of the gas alone is miniscule unless it is constricted in some way. When it is trapped behind a projectile and forcing it forward, you certainly get an effect. But when the bullet leaves the barrel (as when the comp's front hole is too big) the effect is drastically reduced because all you have is gas and that gas is no longer restricted by the presence of the bullet blocking the exit forward. That is why semi autos have to have some kind of BFA (blank firing adapter) installed to generate enough recoil to cycle the slide with blank ammo.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blank-firing_adaptor
Recoil operated firearmsSince blank cartridges generate very little recoil, far less than that produced by a live round, the recoil operation mechanism is not suitable for use with blanks. BFAs used with recoil operated firearms typically replace the locked breech of a recoil operated firearm with a simple blowback system using a restricted barrel, similar to a gas operated BFA. Short recoil operated pistols, the most common type used for self-defense and by police, are typically converted with a simple barrel replacement; the replacement barrel will lack the locking lugs to lock the slide to the frame, and will be built with an adjustable restrictor to control the chamber pressure.
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A large part of the recoil is actually the jet of gasses exiting the front of the barrel. Without them, action of the slide would be anemic.
But if you fire blanks, the recoil is anemic. In fact, semi autos which are firing blanks can only operate (cycle the action) if some kind of gas restrictor is placed in the barrel to give push back. On the old .50 cal maching guns on TV, you could see the restrictors on the end of the barrel. It had a hole in it about 0.1" diameter.
I think most of the recoil action applied to the slide (breech face) is push back result from equal/opposite forces as mass of bullet is launched. Don't think the gas alone does much, the gas behind the bullet does propel it.
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I may have to do that. Thank you for the input, that makes a bit more sense to me. I only tested out to 15 yds at the range today, but I had good groups focusing on target.
First time I tried it my 15 yard groups got smaller too. At 25 yards, not much difference.
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I am sorry if this has been addressed before, I didn't see anything on a search.
I am working on shooting with both eyes open in dry fire. As a preface, I have very good vision in both eyes. Most of what I have read advocates focusing on the front sight like you do with one eye. I can acquire a sight picture doing this but it seems to make transitions much slower since it has the effect of making the target appear as if I am crossing my eyes. On the other hand, if i focus on target (at least I think thats what I'm doing) I can acquire a sight picture as quickly as with one eye. My front sight doesn't look blurry when I do this and I can easily shut out the second set of sights.
Is this a viable way to shoot with both eyes open?
I have done it for about 25 years. Some people can see this way, looking "through" the sights to the target, some people can't. It's called "indirect sighting" and it has it's uses. You don't focus on the front sight.
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I'm planning on having my carpets cleaned. If you were going to have a carpet cleaner in your house, would you let someone, you have never met and will never see again, in your home in the room with your safe?
NO NO NO NO NO
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Aren't the frames are different in the 8 shooters? I believe the barrel mounts a bit higher in the frame. This would change the cylinder spacing and allow for slightly thicker walls between the chambers.
I forget where I read this, I've not measured to confirm.
That's what One of the factory SW guys told me when I called and asked him. The center of the charge holes for the 8-shot cylinder would not line up with the FP hole in the breech face.
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It's a bad fit on the barrel. They should definitely fix it.
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I have always used them in my Trojans (9mm and .40). Don't know why they would be unusually hard on buffs unless it's hot loads.
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Sweet, unfortunately I don't live in a free state so I can't order any.
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8.2.2.2.11 Aftermarket triggers and trigger work that result in the trigger being forward or rearward
from the stock trigger position.
8.2.2.2.12 Externally visible trigger over travel stops.
I recall the Springer overtravel adjust is internal. I think it's a pad on the trigger bar you file to adjust. I don't think there any changes that are externally visible. The trigger position did not move on mine.
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I've got 34 clocked so far.. I saw a TV show where they interviewed the lady who was "Tenielle" of Captain and teneille from the 70's..... she married the guy back then. She wrote a new book telling how cold and unromantic he was and how bad her marriage was and how she had to divorce him. The guy asked her how long they were married?
39 years
Took her 39 years to notice I guess.... or maybe she didn't realize what a bum he was until she wrote the book.
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Hard chrome is very tough and doesn't look so bad if it gets dinged.
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No matter what I do , I cannot kick the smoking habit and quite frankly it's pissing me off . I have tried several times over the past 3 or 4 years and can never seem to make it past 6 months . You would think in theory that working out , racing , shooting etc would take your mind off of it but it doesn't . I'm tired of spending money on the damn things yet at the time can't help myself to spark one up the first chance I get . GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR
I said it before: my brother has worked in drug rehab for 30 years and heroin addicts all say the same thing.... nicotine is harder to kick than any other drug.
I hope you make it. Cigarettes caused the cancer that killed my dad, I wish everybody could kick them but it is hard to do.
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I liked on the "Blacklist" when Reddingtone was talking to a killer and said:
"You know a wise man can learn more from a fool's question than a fool can learn from the wise man's answer."
"Is that Nietche?"
"No, Bruce Lee."
That used to be such a good show until the lead actor got pregnant and they had to come up with a ridiculous story line to cover it up..... yeah, he tried to kill me and I tortured him for three months but now I am going to marry him (again).
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I used the Wilson glue on pads because they are cheap, work well and easy to attach. You just use a little urethane glue.
http://shopwilsoncombat.com/Base-Pad-Standard-360-Glue-On-Black-Package-of-3/productinfo/5/
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The XD mags are tapered at the top enough that amagwell isn't really needed... I would think the trigger job would give more bang for the buck but I don't know what they charge. When I set up my XD, I bought the Springer sear and trigger bar and did my own trigger. Turned out pretty well.
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Classic case on People's Court where some guy called a repairman to fix his furnace in a blizzard then wouldn't pay later because he thought the guy "overcharged"......
Could not have gotten better news.
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Tell her congrats for me. I know what a tough battle that is.