bountyhunter

I think most of the accuracy is in getting the best ammo...

I read it was a requirement of the contract the design had to meet to be sold into service, I believe it had to have two safeties. IMHO, the grip safety is idiotic. A safety that works until somebody picks up the gun is not a safety, it's a marketing gimmick. The thumb safety is a legitimate safety since it prevents firing if the trigger is accidentally pulled. You will note that Browning's other "masterpiece design" (the HI Power) has no grip safety, so aparrently he was not a big fan of it either. "The military mandated a grip safety and a manual safety.[1] A grip safety, sear disconnect, slide stop, half cock position, and manual safety (located on the left rear of the frame) are on all standard M1911A1s."

The longer firing pin does nothing to increase striking energy. IMHO, it's scam. I took some detailed measurements on my model 66's back when the extended pins first came out, they do not help. They are more prone to breaking. Install a stock strain screw and the Wolff RP ribbed mainspring and it should work fine/

I spent 20 years working at National semiconductor. I always found it funny to listen to the CEO at the communication meetings going on about how we had to target "zero defects" and eliminate all "quality accidents"...... while our product lines were knowingly shipping defective products all the time. When they blew up in the field it was always: "Ooops.... we'll get you replacements as soon as possible." Quality today is just a buzzword at most companies.

I am not sure about crossing dominance. At one point I tried to cross train from my right eye (which is heavily dominant) to the left and it never worked. I don't think it's possible for me to sight with the non dom eye. You would just have to practice it and see if you can make it work.

yep, it's almost like cheating. You see the sight image and the target both at the same time. You don't have to lose either one. When I got my shooting glasses, I take a business card to the optometrist and hold it at arms length to represent the gun's sight distance. The right eye gets corrected to there. The left eye (for target) gets corrected to infinity like normal distance glasses are. So, stare into the distance and the left eye sees target distance and the right eye is focused at front sight distance.

+1 That's what target focus is, also sometimes referred to "indirect sighting". Point and shoot is entirely irrelevant since that is just shooting without aiming the gun, but, like you, I have seen countless posts where P+S is equated with indirect sighting. "How good is the information we are getting? Where is the best feedback going to come from?" Depends. If a person is nearsighted, it's possible to adjust the lense power on the dom (sighting) eye so that with eyes relaxed to full distance, the focal length falls at the point where the sights are. That way with both eyes open (target focused) the sights actually are focused in the dom eye and the target is in focus in the non-dom eye. It's a relatively clear sight image "floating" over a focused target image. You are "looking through" the sights but they will be in focus. Seeing both sights and target in focus is best information I can get.

What kind of brush left the scratches? I personally threw away all the metal brushes years ago.

The no-name 99 cent loaf of bread at Lucky's suddenly spiked to $1.89 for a while..... then a Grocery Outlet store opened a half mile from Lucky's and the cheapo bread was $1.09....... Gouging isn't confined to ammo and guns.

Not unless there's a train heading at you.

It depends how dominant the eye is. I tried to "cross train" to sighting with my left eye by blocking the right but it never worked. It drove me nuts and actually made my left eye twitch. Some people can cross over to the other eye, some not.

If you are nearsighted, you can have glasses made that focus the right eye at front sight distance while the left eye is focused at target. You can use both target focus and sight focus at the same time. You look through the sights with both eyes open and the front sight image is seen as well as the clear target.

If it isn't too much trouble would you, please, reference the study that supports this conclusion. ""... doing inspections of a number of rifle barrels with a very high quality borescope over the past two years has shown that a number of shooters are doing significant damage to their very expensive Stainless Steel barrels..." "illustrate the impact that improper use of some cleaning materials and methods can have on barrel steel. The barrel in the picture had somewhere between 150 and 350 rounds through it when it was retired - it quit shooting well and was very difficult to pass a patch through. Note the gross pitting and cracking evident on the surface of the barrel..." "...to provide some basic information on stainless steel and some of the materials and conditions that adversely affect the corrosion rate of 416SS..." Most of the chemicals Jim Borden listed, many of which are used in commercial barrel cleaning compounds, etched the surface away at rates between 0.020 and 0.050 inches per year. We at Schuemann Barrels regard a barrel to have been substantially worn out when the bore radius is enlarged by 0.0005 inches (a bore diameter increase of 0.001 inch). Therefore, exposure to some of these bore cleaner chemicals for about 4 days would eat away the bore as much as would have resulted from wearing out the bore by firing tens of thousands of rounds through the barrel" Certainly DO NOT ever use a stainless steel brush to clean out a barrel. The stainless bristles are much harder than the steel bore and the result will be to create deep scratches in the bore surface. When we use our IPSC pistols like sub-guns, as we often do, we apparently can raise the bore surface temperature up to the annealing range, based on the color I have seen on some barrel bore surfaces. Therefore, the bore surface of our barrels likely has been preferentially annealed, and could be quite a bit softer than the barrel outer surface would test. Even the brass/bronze brushes, which have bristles which are as hard as mild steel, or the lead removers, which use a hard brass mesh to scape the lead from the bore, may well be able to scratch the bore surface of a stainless steel barrel. http://www.schuemann.com/Portals/0/Documentation/Webfile_Barrel_Cleaning.pdf

If he is not already on the glucosamine/chondroitin supplements, I highly recommend them. They work wonders for hip arthritis.

Our little Italian greyhound got really sick and could not get up. Turned out she has an auto immune disorder that attacked her body and her joints. She gets prednisone and she is fine now. Hope your dog's problem is as easily treatable.

I have used about five different "dual spring" captive recoil assemblies in various autos: Beretta 92, Browning HP, SIG 226, Glock 35, Springfield XD. 1) The main advantage I see is they absolutely stop the slide from hitting the frame, ie no frame battering can occur. 2) Second advantage is the recoil spring is a captive assembly so I don't have to fight the spring in and out. 3) Reduce felt recoil? I did not feel it, but some people swear they do. There is a scientific reason why they MIGHT..... although total recoil energy is constant, the way it's applied is not. An auto shows two recoil impulses on firing (bigger one at ignition, smaller one when slide hits frame). The moving slide assembly spreads the recoil impulse out over time, lowering it's peak value. Using the softer first spring means the slide moves at a lower level of recoil, so the first impulse peak is lower. One downside: on striker fired guns like a Glock, DON'T USE A LIGHTER RECOIL SPRING. The recoil spring keeps the slide in battery and the softer spring allowed my slide to move a tiny bit as I pulled the trigger. I could see the barrel starting to drop out of battery as the striker went off..... so not using it.

You "cut the life" of a pistol barrel every time you send a copper, or brass, jacketed bullet through it, at 900+ feet per second. I wonder how many passes, with a nylon brush and solvent, it would take to equal the wear of just one pass of a jacketed bullet? Nylon brushes probably no worries, but most people are using metal bristles and the barrel "experts" I have read do say most bore wear is from cleaning, not shooting.

Not your imagination. On my 686, first few hit maybe an inch high at 25 yards due to slower muzzle velocity of clean barrel.

middle finger. I have COC and have used it both hands. my strong hand is fine. I dont have jump out of socket issue. just joint pain. I dont think I have arthritis (I'm 30).I first started having arthritis in my early 20's. It's a myth that only old people get it. It hits whatever joint is getting stressed.

That's as high as they can jump from the ground...... they will chomp a tastier part if they get the chance.

I just went through another ordeal with USPS where they were unable to deliver a package I ordered..... after hounding them for about a week and being told all of the following (false) stories: 1) It was sent to the wrong station, we never saw it. 2) The sender must have put on the wrong address. 3) The tracking shows it was delivered so you must already have it. The mail guy walks up and hands me the package and explains how it was UNDELIVERABLE because the bar code on the end had been torn up so badly it would not scan.......not mentioning it was they who mutilated the package in the first place. However, I pointed out that my full name and complete address was on the package in plain view. Why could they not read the address and deliver it? He just kept saying how it was undeliverable because it would not scan. That's your USPS folks.....

No, I also use the polymer. I believe the polys would do a much better job of cushioning than aluminum, but aluminum would last longer.

I took formal logic in college and we were always looking for published documents replete with non sequiturs to use for class work and tests. This thing is a gold mine. I would ask one question: if it is true that increased gun control leads to reduced gun violence, then why is it that cities and states with the strictest gun control have such high gun crime rates? Goebbels would be proud. A user's guide to preparation of effective propoganda that leap frogs the facts and lands on the BS.

Electrical engineers in california have a sort of "Bar Exam" that is a ten hour test given in a single day by the state. It is two parts five hours each. The first part is a long series of multiple choice problems. In the second part, you pick from among many subject areas and do the problem blocks. My panic was that I finished first among about 200 people in the school auditorium where it was given. I became certain I had misunderstood the instructions and not done enough questions....... But I had done it right and I passed. It was just really unnerving to be the first guy to finish about three hours before the "end" time.

In the US, gas was allocated based on whether a station was a "company" station or an independent. Big Oil took advantage of that situation to drive the majority of the independents out of business so they could hold the line on price hikes without worry about competition.