calvary45

I bought on of those self-cleaning guns, LOL. I might do a complete teardown once a year other than that a simple wipedown and lube does it for me.

I ordered some billy bullets on monday evening, they were delivered this mourning. 3 days is pretty friggin awesome in my book.

Nice drill ben, I'm going to give this a shot or two.

I think of classifiers as more of fundamentals than qualifiers, and before you be great at running and gunning you have to have solid fundamentals. I have recently backtracked to practicing low round count high intensity practice on my fundamentals. How many GM do you know that can run and gun and not have solid fundamentals(classifiers).

Formula one (open) or rally car racing with a pistol.

I have a tuarus SS that i did the same with by the time i was done i had a new 1.5Lb trigger with egw sear,koenig hammer,sv short flat trigger,clark custom 4 prong sear spring, egw disconnector, ed brown ambi safety,tripp research k-1 rear sight,brazos microdot front sight,TGO techwell & grips,ed brown oversize mag release,trigger gaurd undercut, and i still have a piece of crap tuarus 1911 that shoots pretty good. If i had to do it over again i sell the taurus and start with a sti trojon and been better off. If you decide to keep it just put a dawson sight set on it,decent trigger and grips and shoot the crap out of it.

I bought a pair of fatgripz about a year ago and love them for dumbells and pullups, also +1 Mechanistic on kettlebells for workouts. I also have a pair of CoC grippers.

I load 180gr mg for major and when i need minor i can just change to a 155 cmj mg to make a nice minor load, makes everything simple and oh yeah make sure you know which batch is major or minor. I am now switching over to bayou bullets and will be doing the same thing but i going to try the 200gr for major and the 140 gr for minor and see how that works out. The only thing i will do differently to the gun is change to a 9Lb recoil spring for minor and recheck the zero.

SETPS is having a match this weekend in beaumont, Its on the texas site the raymond posted.

I really hate doing any kind of range maintenance in Louisiana in the summer, I just might have to start doing it in the middle of the night but then again its still humid as hell here 24/7

Nice!! I got one recently that i keep in my wallet the says "Leadership is an action not a position". I thought it was very fitting since i am active duty army and that should be a basic issue item.

I run trip 8rd mags and have never had a mag related issue, they are also easy to seat on a closed slide with 8rd. If i remember right trip has a spring upgrade kit for the 8rd mags to get 9rds also.

Think about your grip as each hand gripping the gun independently, take either hand away the gun should still be on target with no inward pressure.

My suggestion would be with no doubt to use clays, I dont have my load data handy right now but i think i was at 4.2gr to make major(dont quote me on that though). Beside i thought the only powder you could use in .45 was clays No but seriously

I have all those stages on my thumb drive, I got them from the old stage exchange site before it went dormant. I used to shoot at ARPC and will make a phone call to see if they are the same. Give me a little bit and i will upload them or email them to you whichever on i can figure out how to do

I like the part about "innate talent" lately more i have been reading the book overachievement and he says the same thing about gifted people. Thanks fot the post

Did you try a different tube and/or another SNL basepad on that tube, i Know dawsons run high on the tube but like kalaur said it should't even be close to the frame much less the magwell. If that doesn't work contact dawson.

I shot FO front sights for a while, even with the brazos micro .40 FO is still caught myself using the dot as a sight with no clearly defined top and edges. I would catch myself sometimes just seeing green then pulling the trigger not really getting a crisp front sight, I went to a .90 black serrated dawson front sight. My accuracy went up and i found out that it doesn't take any longer to acquire my sight picture with a very crisp front sight, also seemed like i can call my shots more accurately.

Overachievement by John Elliot and entreleadership by Dave Ramsey

Not sure if its a series 80 or 70 but you can remove all the series 80 parts and put a shim in where the firing pin block activator was, it is still single stack legal. Brownells carries the shim for $5.00, remove the slide and on the frame just to the right of the hammer see if there is a pin/lever that comes up when the trigger is pulled and or look under the slide at at the right rear for a firing pin stop. Kinda vague but hope this helps

Nice, I've seen way too much of that $#!*

Im a lefty and i personally think that the 1911 is more lefty friendly than righty. As for slide stop my trigger finger rest there naturally during reloading and the push from inserting the mag automatically forces my finger to release the slide stop. Mag catch is in the perfect spot too, I use my middle finger to activate mag catch without having to shift my grip around to do so. Ejection port no big deal unless your thumbs are pointing straight up.

Update: I took off the timing belt and realigned the crank and cam, todaa it runs, no blown head gasket and 160+ psi on each cylinder. On top of that he didn't bother to tell me that he left his compressing tester adapter in cylinder #3 i screwed up a spark plug but i got it out. Either this mechanic didn't know what he was doing or he was trying to take me for my money, either way in the morning im going to have a little chat with him :angry2:

Well i towed the car back home last night, so this mourning i got a chance to check it out for myself. Looks like the mechanic(or parts changer) lined up the camshaft sprocket with the wrong mark. I will see if thats all it was when i get it back together tonight, although i know its a non-interference engine i hope nothing else got messed up in the process.

That was the first thing i checked, no water in oil and no oil in antifreeze or oil smell from radiator.