mccannicalbob

I wasn't able to find this info using the search; sorry if it's been covered before. I have a couple of different aftermarket Glock trigger systems, specifically the Glocktriggers.com Challenger and the Vanek GSSF Master trigger. Both are pretty similar, but what separates the Vanek from the Glocktriggers.com is the striker. Whatever Charlie Vanek does to the striker makes a world of difference in the break, both lighter and crisper. I've swapped the Vanek striker with the stock striker in guns with various different triggers, and it always makes a difference. Does anyone know what Vanek does to the stock striker? It's not obvious through casual observation. I asked Charlie if he sells just a "tuned" striker, but he does not. I'm not looking to hurt his business, but I don't want to spend over $200 just to get the striker from the entire trigger kit.

I recently got a 550 after years of reloading on my SDB. In setting it up, I was having a really hard time getting a finished .40s&w round that would fit in my Dillon chamber gauge. I'm using RCBS carbide dies, and only seating with the seating/crimp die. I use a Lee factory crimp die for the crimp. All the rounds would leave the head sticking out of the chamber gauge. I checked the cases after each station and found the problem was coming at the crimping station, not the sizing station. I set up the crimp die per the Lee instructions, then redid it, then set it up per the Dillon instructions, then redid it, all to no avail. I called Dillon, and Gary there told me how a crimp die can be screwed in too far, creating the bulge that the Lee die is supposed to be good for removing. After a bit of toying around, I ended up backing the crimp die out quite a bit and slowly bringing it in, checking the progressively more crimped case after each adjustment. Finally got it nailed down. I just wanted to pass this along to prevent others from having the same problem. I wouldn't have guessed that screwing in the crimp die would create a bulge, but the metal that gets pushed on has to go somewhere...

Thanks for the help. I got back out to the range this morning and did all the things you suggested: the .22, shoot at the berm just watching sight, etc. Then just got to work shooting slowly and accurately at 3 x 5 cards. First at 5, then 7, 10, 12, and 15 yards. Watching the front sight and making sure I use a smooth trigger pull, uninterrupted, made all the difference. One other thing I found was my groups REALLY tightened up when I loosened my strong hand grip, and didn't tighten my support hand grip, i.e., I was shooting with a lighter more relaxed grip. By the end of the session, I was shooting almost as fast as I could reacquire the front sight and keeping all shots on a 3 x 5 card out to 15 yards. One day ago I was missing a 12" circle, today I'm hitting 3 x 5 cards. I just need to keep it that way now.

I shot in a man-on-man steel plate shoot last weekend and did fairly well, until the finals in my class where I was jerking the trigger so bad I only had one plate down before the other guy cleared his. And I had beaten him once already. All my shots were low. Now today, I was out practicing "5 to Glock" for an upcoming GSSF match, and the 20 and 25 yard targets were killing me. Even the 15 was giving me problems. Somewhere in the last few weeks I've developed a tendency to jerk the trigger and all my shots much past 10 yards are going way low left. Sometimes it's the second of two shots at a target that goes low left, sometimes both, and sometimes I don't do it. Times including penalties have increased by about 30%. This is really troubling because I've always been more of a slow but accurate guy, and now all of a sudden I'm a slow but inaccurate guy. I can shoot at one target at a given distance and do all right, but if I have to move from one target to another it all falls apart. I've been doing a lot of dry fire, and I feel like I'm doing a really good job with trigger control and follow through. I'm hoping that someone here can tell me 1) what causes this? and 2) what do I do to fix it? Thanks in advance, Bob

I very much like the Talon grip I put on my G35. Just grippy enough, not so much that it abrades my hands. Fit pretty good, though one of the angles was off a bit so I had to make some compromises when laying it down. Turned out pretty good.