bountyhunter

Sounds like MIM has another UN satisfied customer...... can't imagine why that piece would break.

Was that to punish it for being naughty?

Had the same thing a while back. You can get a big HD pretty cheap (under a $100) and nearly all computers have the slot wired up inside for a second drive. Took me five minutes to install. Back up the main drive onto the second drive for all importamt stuff. You can also get external drives that plug in the SCSI port and you don't need to open the computer to use. I think I got a 300MB on sale for about $60 at FRY's.

I still can't figure out wht people get bent out of shape when two girls kiss. If they were having a knife fight and killing each other, I suppose that would be better because it wouldn't violate any social taboos. Reminds me of a very old story about a cowboy who went to a psychiatrist. He said to the doctor. "Doc, I think I'm sick. I have fallen in love with my horse." The doctor said: "Is it a male or female horse?" Cowboy explodes in fury: "IT'S FEMALE! ARE YOU CALLIN' ME A QUEER?"

50-50 mix of vinegar and hydrogen peroxide is the only thing on earth that takes lead out of comps. It softens the lead up so you can scrape it out.

jay Leno said the complaint about the girls kissing came from a woman who was there with her son. The woman complained because she was offended, and the son complained because he couldn't see them very well from his seat....

Speaking of cops: we had a sheriff's deputy plow into a group of bike riders out her a short while back after he feel asleep at the wheel ON DUTY driving in the santa Cruz mountauins.... no publicized results of blood alcohol level. But, it turns out, he had a previous DUI bargained down to a misdemeanor so he could be an LE officer. http://www.cyclingnews.com/news.php?id=fea...fornia_deaths08 http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?...0/MNKSVGTJ1.DTL

I have to admit, the things I consider to be unforgivable sins are driving drunk or molesting a kid.... and coincidentally, when they are caught, both start whining about how they are "sick" and "just need help". Alcoholism may be a disease, but driving drunk isn't a disease. I wish they would give them stiffer sentences.

I think we have to comfort them at the end, especially if they do sense something is coming. It is the worst thing we have to go through, but I know I wouldn't have been able to live with myself if I wasn't holding my dogs when they had to die.

A cynical man might think "PC" stands for "pretty crappy".....

Bullseye. That's the point of a good (stock) 1911 extractor... key word GOOD extractor made out of good steel. Fit it, tune it, forget it for about 15000 rounds.I'm sure AFTEC is good, but if it ain't broke, don't fix it. I don't think the 1911 extractor needs to be redesigned just because some gun makers put junk extractors in their guns and don't tension them.

If there is a "write in" ballot on the survey, tell them the new gun I would like them to make is a gun that shows up with a proper barrel-cylinder gap, cylinder carry up, decent trigger and barrel alignment.

45 and 40 use one kind of extractor, 9mm and .38 super use a different extractor. Wilson bulletproof extractors are good, but the others listed in the thread are probably as good. The fitting is what you need to get right, and it will need to be tensioned again after initial run in.

They can really bounce back. I bet he'll be racing around in no time.

The LDA trigger mechanism has no inherent safety specifically aimed at stopping OB fires. I never fired live ammo that way, but I did a pen launch with the slide held slightly back.

And the really bad ones you guys won't buy will get sent to california because the bozos here will buy anything that goes bang.

You know... as funny as that is, I was actually thinking you should never send it back to SW because they will replace the springs to increase the pull weight.

Somewhere Teddy J just woke up with a hangover and stumbled out to ask:"Now where did I leave that gun...... I know I was doing a trigger job yesterday..."

SWEET. That's a very nice trigger, you lucky dog.

Except back when they first marketed these, C+S said or implied that the "longer" pins would "restore the full strike power" or some similar claim. I remember that vivdly because that is the one and ONLY reason I bought them for my guns. And, after some extensive testing using reduced power mainsprings and the stock hammer, I found out they do EXACTLY NOTHING to increases striking energy over the stock FP. The C+S pin does extend slightly farther forward when you dry fire, but in live fire the primer stops the forward travel so it is the same as stock. No improvement that I could measure at all.

Actually, the issue is with the gun. The trigger can be pulled and the striker will fall with the pistol out of battery - no ammo. So, that in itself is an issue with the pistol. That's true, but to be fair: a lot of guns will. My Para ORD LDA 1640 certainly will.In the case of the Glock, the striker releasing and coming forward does not necessarily mean it will fire: The Glock does have a "safety" of sorts to try to prevent OB firing (the firing pin safety). The bump on the trigger bar raises the FP safety plunger so it can fire. If the slide shifts relative to the peak of that bump, it reduces the amount it raises it... and if the slide is far enough OB, it won't fire. Of course, that's a pretty crude safety (and may still fire a little bit OB) but that's what was put in the design to prevent OB firing. In some cases of Glock trigger jobs designed for a "short pull", the striker releases with the trigger farther forward and the gun will devlop light strike misfires from the striker dinging the edge of the FP safety plunger from this effect.

Of course, it starts to get tough to fix when the center-pin hole in the frame gets worn into sort of an egg shape. You can generally tighten everything else back up, but that problem requires the installation of a special bushing (which I'm told the factory no longer will do), or a welding and redrilling job. Come on now, you knew I wasn't talking about the factory when I said: Just kidding..... you're right, if the frame is hosed that makes it a lot tougher.

Hope she gets well soon. If it's any consolation, our little dog had a terrible bout with an immune system disorder that put her in the hospital three times and had her so close to death she stopped eating and gave up... but, they pulled her through and now (five years later) she flies through the house like a cruise missile. Hope your Tigger does too.

The cylinder may be not locking up tight or it may be locking slightly out of line due to wear at the hand and frame window. That does affect accuracy and it can be fixed by a smith who knows what he's doing.

See if it has a variable rate recoil spring. The aftermarket "recoil reducer" assemblies with two spring rates are notorious for this. I chucked the one for my G35 after I noticed it did not return solidly to battery because the lighter spring hasn't got much push there.