bountyhunter

Here is the NUMBER ONE RULE of all gunsmithing: 1) If you think two parts are interfering with each other, GRIND ON WHICHEVER PART IS CHEAPER. Do nothing to the frame, the disconnector is very cheap to replace if you mess it up.

Mine came from the factory with an 18# recoil spring.

Zyrtec works for me.

He is amazing.

My guess would be either the barrel is no good (crown?) or the barrel to slide lockup is just not consistent. I have a tool that helps diagnose this. It's a bore laser. I put it in then load a magazine of snap caps and "snap load" the slide to simulate firing then check the bore alignment against the sight picture. On the guns I have that don;t group, I can see the bore alignment "wander" with respect to the sights which is the slide. The #1 degrader of accuracy in a semi auto is how the barrel locks up with respect to the slide. A new bushing might help.

I would take the slide off and do some fitting. Shine a small light up and down the magwell and you should be able to see what's binding. The mag shell should certainly not distort when loaded. EDIT TO ADD: the paranoia over "ten round maximum" has made some mag companies make them so that you have to hammer the tenth round in and it may be that kind of problem.

I would be ungrateful if I didn't say thanks to my Rich Uncle who showered those $270 a month on me way back when I went back to college. The GI Bill..... don't go to school without it. Hope the rest of you guys tapped it too.......

Here in northern kali we just suffered through the LONGEST and HOTTEST summer ever recorded for the state. It started back in May and went all the way through the end of October. Halloween day got up in the 90's and the night was warm enough we sat outside in shirtsleeves. So two days later we were freezing. Last night it was 44 degrees when I went to bed and the overnight low was 39. They are already having freeze warnings in wine country. It's RIDICULOUS. We have the biggest El Nino this year which is a mass of warm water in the Pacific. They have warned everybody about the impending flooding and mudslides that will come from the heavy rains it will cause, but the temps are supposed to be warmer than normal not colder. But just to maximize the misery, the jet stream is dropping everything down from the Gulf of Alaska so the air is freezing us all.

Another aspect: bringing the gun a few inches closer by bending elbows actually reduces the fatigue rate of the shoulder muscles significantly. When I was shooting bullseye with my steel Ruger with 8" barrel and scope (gun weighs a ton) muscle fatigue was an issue and drawing the gun in a shade did help.

I have many stainless guns and the only one that ever showed any sign of galling was a Para (not much). If the gun maker adjusts the formula of the materials that ride against each other, galling can be eliminated.

There is a specific grease called Rig +p for stainless that claims to prevent the galling problem. It is good lube, I have used it. I currently use Slide Glide and FP-10 on my stainless guns and have yet to see any problem.

I agree completely. And some of the liquid oil sellers try to claim their oil leaves some magic microscopic film that protects the metal but I have never bought into it.

Yes, I was there in Berlin for three years back in the 60's. The real Oktoberfest actually started in September.... http://www.oktoberfest.de/en/article/About+the+Oktoberfest/About+the+Oktoberfest/Dates+and+General+FAQs/751/

Slide Glide is best grease. Dilute it with FP-10 if you need lighter viscosity.

Both eyes open?

Most pros seem to like to lock them but they are in much better physical condition than the average person. Here are some facts: 1) If you lock your elbows, it puts all the load on your shoulders. If they can handle it, that may not be a problem. 2) If the elbows are allowed to flex, they act like shock absorbers for recoil. Locked out, your shoulder (rotator cuff) muscles have to handle the load of lifting the gun and stopping recoil lift. If lockout works for you, no problem. Some of us older guys with chronic tendonitis can't do it.

One of the pros here posted the tricks including drilling the trigger to change the pivot point. I did it on mine and it will make it better, but still mushy. One thing is changing the trigger AT ALL runs the risk of light strikes from not fully raising the firing pin blocking safety plunger out of the way. It is raised by the bump on the trigger bar and changing the trigger action changes the release point of the striker so the plunger may not be fully up. Anyway, it's a trigger that's easy to screw up by modification.

+1 Also, Glock has no sear and you have to charge the striker spring as you pull the trigger. It can't work like a 1911. You can get the pull on a Glock lighter but it will still have a mushy take up and ambiguous break point. Drives me nuts.

The Apex hammer is more aggressively "bobbed" has lower mass and allows a much lower DA trigger pull weight. I have not tried it but it has gotten universally good reviews here. https://store.apextactical.com/WebDirect/Products/Category?categoryId=24

I have some very teen vise-grips that I filed the inside of the jaws smooth on. I wrap them with mask tape to keep from marring the mag lips. Use calipers to make sure that when you bend the lips you keep them parallel because they come together easier at the front than at the rear so they can end up uneven.

I've got nothing to get over, it's just sad that the Mets blew four games they should have easily won if they had a relief pitcher who could get a batter out. Would have been nice if they played major league ball instead of whatever it was they were doing. The fourth game ended on a Met's base running error I would have known better than to do 50 years ago when I was in little league ball. I haven't hated the Royals since the 60's, I just think they acted like a collection of two year olds throwing a temper tantrum when "their" team left town... took them a long time to get over it if they ever did. I recall they held the all-star game in KC a couple of years after the move and a number of A's were on the team. Each time they introduced an A's player they had to stop the proceeding for about 5 minutes as the mostly KC crowd held a boo-fest that wouldn't end. Maybe if they could win three in a row like the A's did they would finally be happy. Edit to add: a three peat for KC doesn't look likely, the KC post season history is pretty dismal. At least they have one world series win. They lost to SF last year. http://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/KCR/

As a wise man said: to win a championship, you must have pitching and defense. And the Mets had neither. Every game they lost had the same script: 1) Take lead 2) Blow lead in late innings with lousy pitching and defensive errors. Same story tonight on the death game. maybe next year

I was really rooting for the Mets but they are done, done, done. No way they could ever take four games out of the last five. Pitching and defense win championships and they don't have either going right now. First blunder (game one) is the "inside the park home run" they gave up which is a fly ball that should have been caught. Despite that, the Mets amass a 4-1 lead and can't even hold that. In the ninth their relief pitcher hangs a pitch that gets cranked about 450 feet into the seats and they blow it in extra innings. The second game looked like the Royals were taking batting practice. Too bad. I have not liked the Royals since the 60's when the Athletics moved from Kansas City and the city had a temper tantrum that lasted about 30 years. True story: 1) The Oakland A's back then had a great base stealer named Campy Campaneris. When Oakland played at KC, they hosed the ground next to first base and turned it into a mud hole so Campy could not try to steal bases (seriously). 2) They got in trouble with the league for that. After that, any time campy stole a base, the official scorer for the game automatically gave the catcher a throwing error so Campy would not be credited with a stolen base. The A's back then won three world series in a row which is a feat bordering on superhuman. Kansas City has never gotten over it.

No. Not for some time now.

I know it varies between gun makers.