SharonAnne9x23

install an original Para P14-45 checkered plastic mainspring housing. If it is reliable put the plastic mag catch back in.

C&S makes TIN pins in regular and oversize.

according to a newspaper report, as of 3/05/2009 richard davis was alive.

I am from the government and I am here to help.

without the USA, IPSC would be a bunch of little countries telling each other how great they are, much like the UN. Yes, a french man has won the last 3 world shoots, but without the USA presence they would have been hollow victories. And the USA does not have as many shooters as the rest of IPSC, we have MORE.

oh I remember long drives to shoot. When I lived in Port Huron MI we would drive about 4 hrs across the state to shoot at Dorr MI and go the other way and shoot at Sharon, Ontario about 45 minutes north of Toronto roughly another 4 hr drive. I was even longer to Bend of the River in the south west of MI. out here we are spoiled. With the number of clubs in the metro Phoenix area you could shoot every weekend day and of course we know of 2 weekday nights. Plus the Scottsdale Gun Club shoots a USPSA match one Wednesday evening a month. If you throw in IDPA and ICORE we are in shooting heaven!

Yes , you can run all of your brass through the Super Swage.

I stand corrected on Jerry and the 45 at the US nationals. Rob was the last to win a world shoot with a 45. Yes, Jerry and Doug did use the 25mm Tasco. Mea Culpa I thought Jerry used a double stack that year. but obviously I could be wrong. What about the Browning P35 Ray Chapman used to win the first World Shoot? I think it is important to have these pistols in a USPSA Museum/HOF We have gone through many changes. Targets, holsters, pistols, steel targets, ballistic pendulum ( I bet most people on here do not know what that is). Stop watches to electronic timers. Who remembers stop plates at the Nationals? A display of pistols, the progression/ single stack .45/ single stack 45 w-comp/single stack 38Super w-comp/ single stack 38Super w-comp and red dot/ double stack 38 super w-comp and red dot/ P9 9x21 w-comp & red dot Some shooters have never known Open class as anything but a modular 38 super with comp and dot sight. We have come a long way baby. Who on here knows what an Item and Option target are? Or a Florida 8? USPSA and IPSC has a long rich history that should be preserved.

wow, you drove from Mesa for a match at Ben Avery when you have Rio Salado just out Usery Pass Road. I am not knocking Ben Avery. Before I was disabled I shot every Thursday night there, every Tuesday night at Rio and pretty much every weekend at Rio. Between the 2 clubs you can shoot matches at least 3 times a week. OUTSTANDING! the shooting opportunities are a large part of why I settled in Phoenix and did not move on with my Travel Nurse career.

it would be good to have THINGS also. One of each target USPSA has used. The first electronic timer. Examples of the changes in holsters in Open division. Ernie Hill leather. Who had a Plaxco steel lined holster? I did. And PISTOLS. I would like to see in this museum- Ross Seifreids Pachmyer .45. The last 'Limited' gun used to win the World Shoot. John Shaws Clark Pin Gun. The first attempt at a 'comp' gun to win the US Nationals. TGO .45 comp gun. The last 45 to win the Nationals. I know Niel had it. I hope Robbies' Mom still does. TGO first .38 Super Comp gun. It started the rush to Supers. Jerry Barnharts STI with the Aimpoint. The first 'red dot' to win the US Nationals Doug Koenigs Aimpoint comp gun used to win the World Shoot. same reason

Robar does hard chrome. Check their web page.

Matt, I did NOT say you hacked the barrels. The use of the "kitchen table" was describing the level 'skill' used on the barrels. The pictures of each barrel with chambered rounds illustrates exactly what I said. The chamber mouth of each barrel has been 'relieved'. Each barrel shows a gap between the brass and the hood. On each side of the case the barrel is not tight against the brass. The 'shoulder' is rounded. It should be sharp. I went back to my Nowlin barrel. It is a 9mm that was short chambered and my smith cut the 9x23 chamber to finished depth. The face of the barrel where it meets the chamber has a sharp shoulder. There is no rounding as seen in your pictures. There is no clearance between the brass and the hood. If as some have suggested that you are running too light a recoil spring, your pistol may be acting more like a blow back pistol rather than a locked breach one. Shay, I am still opposed to 9mmMajor. There are no manufacturers making 9mmMajor ammo. If they could, they would. This tells me that within the parameters of a 9mmLuger it cannot be loaded to Major power within SAAMI spec which is what USPSA claimed it could be done. I will believe it when I see published pressure barrel data. Regarding the fully supported barrel; of course the chamber takes the pressure as it is intended to. The only exposed brass is the thickest and strongest.

I remember Sunday mornings at the restaurant after scuba class, bacon, eggs, homefries and lots of them. Supper was almost always beef, potato and a vegetable but the meat and potato was the staple. And we were all skinny. No more.

why does the term 'weighted grips' always turn up when someone is bashing competition guns? I have NEVER met anyone who put weighted grips on a pistol for practical competition.

I have 2 Dillons, an RL1050 in 9x23 and a SDB in .45acp. Sadly I had to sell the RL1050 in .38Spl. $$ problems. I have successfully use the Red and Orange brands of presses. I also had a disaster with the top of the line Red press. Penile enlargement is of no interest to me. Not on ME anyway

The Hornady Lock N Load AP is a direct comparison to the Dillon 650. They are each 5 station auto indexing presses. Each has an optional casefeeder. While the suggested retail for the LNL with case feeder is much higher than a 650 w/feeder, the 'street' price of the LNL w/feeder is substantially lower. If you pick the right bullet. like the .45acp, your cost would come to under $100 for the LNL. Can't beat that.

unless there is a quantum leap in technology to reduce cost I do not see caseless ammo making much of a dent in practical shooting. You cannot reload caseless. No case.

look at the Hodgden web page for 231 reloading data. They have Hodgden, Winchester and IMR listings.

As I read and looked at the pictures I became quite alarmed. Those barrels are a mess. Look at the bottom left picture on post #40. There is a huge gap between the case and the hood. I cannot get the finger nail of my pinky between the hood and case of my 9x23 . On post #52 you can see further butchery of the barrels. The top left barrel you can see that the face of the barrel chamber has been pushed forward, on an angle. Look where the chamber face meets the hood. This is barrel #071079. The bottom right barrel, #090102 shows the same 'modification'. You can also see the difference between the two barrel hoods. My Nowlin 9x23 barrel has 0.030" between the bevel of the extractor groove and the chamber face. The pictured barrels have much more clearance. If as the OP has stated, the bulged brass fits in the chamber then there must be a donut shaped gouge in the chamber. Otherwise the brass could not have bulged as it did and fit in the chamber. Go back to post #40 and look at the bottom left picture. You an see some primer flow around the firing pin dent. Also look at the feed ramp. It looks like some bullets are making double strikes while feeding. The brass really looks like the gun fired out of battery. With the other 'modifications' that are evident from the pictures, I would not be surprised to find some home 'trigger tuning'. I do believe, based on the pictures the OP has posted, that what we have is a severe case of kitchen table hack job. Regarding 9mm Luger major I do believe USPSA erred in removing the ban. I checked every ammunition web page I could find and NONE made major (165pf). Even CorBon did not make it. Where are the manufacturers USPSA found that make 9mm Luger major power ammunition? Don't point at Atlanta Arms and Ammo. They label theirs as .355 Super, NOT 9mm Luger. I would like to see some of the so called '9mm Luger major power factor' ammunition pressure tested in a certified pressure barrel. I doubt that any could make major within the SAAMI pressure standards. After all, that was why USPSA removed the 9mm Luger/major ban; they asserted that there were readily available sources of 9mm Luger ammunition that make major power factor within SAAMI standards. Where are they?

ciscoip is in error. Para still sells frame kits. Check the Para USA web page. With the right scope mount, the Para dust cover is not a factor. There will not be 40 rd Open mags. Fill a magazine without the spring. You get about 33rds and are level with the bottom of a 170mm magazine. Revolution in Open division is over. Evolution will continue. We have reached the point of diminishing returns.

That 'original' extractor has had a hack job done to it. Not only is the notch WAY wide, the sides are not parallel. The front edge of the notch appears to be curved also. It has been butchered by someone who thought they knew how to adjust an extractor. That person is WRONG.

I have had a Lee Pro 1000 pop a primer but only one, though on more than one occasion. I have not had any go on my RL1050. I use only Winchester primers.

back in the late 80s and early 90s I was my clubs LE liason. I would go out and shoot with the LEOs once in a while. One time the largest PD was doing evaluations buy setting up a field course consisting of pepperpoppers and bowling pins. A Sgt I knew invited me to shoot. I did not have my gear so he loaned his duty rig to me. I had him review the pistol with me because I had never shot a Beretta 92. After a couple of minutes to go over the controls and a few dry fires I loaded up. On the start signal I took off. At one point I shot dry and stepped out of the doorway to reload, then stepped back in to engage targets. The Sgt told me I was the ONLY one to take cover while reloading. My time was 5th fastest and less than 4 seconds from the fastest. My time was just over one minute IIRC. When I asked if I could get my 1911 and do it again I was told 'up yours'. Little did I know that one of those big cops in the blue jump suit was the Chief. I was and am a middle C class in open.

The 'weapons race' pretty much stopped about 20 years ago. We went through a rush of evolution from the single stack, iron sight 7 shot mag .45s, the 8 shots, comps, comped 38 supers, wide body 38 super and then the red dot wide body 38 super. I watched friends spend over $20,000 keeping up with the changes. Now it has stabilized. The 'Open' pistol fits a pattern; the 'Limited' pistol fits a different pattern and the single stack 45 has returned in the 'Single Stack' division. The remaining orphans are the single stack, comped 38 Supers. I think the major changes have plateaued. We will see minor refinements but I think we are done with with the rush from dinosaurs to primates. Now we will see the fine tuning of the ultimate shooting platform, the shooter. Physical fitness, flexibility, visual and perceptual acuity will be the areas of future shooting refinement.

+1 on the tampon. Also do not overlook sanitary napkins as sterile absorbent dressings.