Jim Watson

Sorry, I have not seen the defect in person and don't know just how the trigger might be misfit. But if it is grazing the half cock on the way down, it will eventually chip out the hammer or the sear.

If all you did was change the trigger and the half cock quit working, you did something wrong.

"Working up a load." Accuracy is hard to evaluate. Unless you are an excellent shot or have a Ransom rest, the spread from fair to good to great is hard to detect. Velocity is impossible to gauge without a chronograph. Either you have enough power to cycle the action or you don't. I went for years like that. If my reloads fed, fired, and functioned; and grouped as well as factory ammo, I was happy. I have a chronograph for power factor now. I mostly use the CE and occasionally get out the CED with its greater bells and whistles. A Labradar would be nice, but I am no longer chronographing every week or two to justify it. The club had a Ransom Rest for a while. It was interesting but we no longer have it and the loads that proved most accurate then cannot be made up now because the bullet vendors are gone.

I leave a CFC die in my 9mm press. I have hardly ever seen it to burnish the case over the bullet, even a coke bottle 147, the contact is near the head where the taper and radius of the Dillon die don't touch. I only use a CFC die for light jacketed or plated .45s. It will go bumpity bump over the bands of a cast bullet. We shall see if it is necessary for 200 gr Xtremes.

Early days of The Masters at Brock's Gap, Hoover, Ala. (sorry, it was IDPA, but the concept applies) every stage had a hard fast way and an easy slow way. A few were even "gameable" so you could show you were smarter than the designer. I am one of the old, fat, slow category and I am not climbing any walls or crawling through any tunnels. If you surprise me with that ninja stuff, I will 10.2.10 it and probably not come back.

My FLG prefers Kart, next nearest shop uses KKM. But my most accurate .45 has a Wilson barrel.

I shot some Gallant 147s in autos and they did fine. I have gone back to plated 9mm for better feeding in my finicky Colt. Gallant makes a 200 gr RN .45 that is a great thing to have if you are tired of trying to get SWCs feeding in multiple guns.

How about the primer feed? Getting the primer feed adjusted on that machine when new was a challenge. I don't think I want to go through that on a regular schedule.

I splurged on a S1050 when I was shooting mostly .45 ACP. Well, time marches on and I am now shooting more 9mm, loaded on a 550. I figure I have three options: Keep on as before, I do have the time to load my needs on the 550. Flip calibers and set up the 1050 for 9mm and use the 550 for my lower volume of .45s. Buy a dedicated 1050 for 9mm. Hey, a fourth possibility, shoot more .45s.

Interesting. Half your changes were directed at diluting "Production."

The usual gripe about a Browning is that it is hard to reload. Why it should be hard and all the other two-into-one magazine guns are easy to reload, I don't know, especially as well beveled as yours is. Go for it.

No. Power Factor is a momentum value, just not in scientific or engineering units, and recoil is a momentum balance. Mass X Velocity.

The catalog dimensions are 8.9" long, 6.1" tall. The Box measures: 8.75" x 6” x 1 5/8”.

Well, we could look at the rules. 8.2.1.2 SSP Permitted Modifications (Inclusive list): C. Magazine releases, slide stops, safety levers, de-cocking levers, hammers, and triggers, that are stock on one SSP legal firearm may be used on another SSP legal firearm from the same manufacturer provided they are drop in replacements. Parts in this list must come factory installed on standard production firearms. Special parts that are available installed only from a factory custom shop are not eligible in SSP. So a GGI trigger (2) is not allowable in SSP. Bruce says: "Our triggers are externally comparable in appearance to the factory part" so you could probably get away with it, but it is not legit. D. Recoil spring guide rods and dual spring recoil systems made of material that is no heavier than stainless steel. 8.2.1.3 SSP Excluded Modifications (Non-Inclusive list): E. Slide inserts to accommodate a different recoil assembly design. Looks like you are OK on the guide rod (1), nothing in the catalog about inserts or changes to use it. Holster (3) ought to work if you can comfortably wear it at 3:00 such that the pistol's trigger is behind the side centerline of your torso. You are allowed two reload magazines on the belt (4), to be worn "behind the hipbone". You can have a mag pouch for a magazine to load the gun with to start but it has to be empty at the start.

I think the lawyers will take care of the multiplicity of Divisions for you.

Right, there is a rush to novelty, which often turns out to not yield good shooting.

"World" I can see where a PE can be preferable to some of the contortions required to shoot through holes, but if there is a position that takes more than 20 seconds so you are better off with a FTDR, that is a bad stage. There was a prone stage there last year that was a real struggle, too. The CoF writer obviously has a hangup.

Yup. Many moons ago, I campaigned a plain vanilla CZ75 in SSP and manual decocking really "triggered" some SOs. Mine has the old long spur hammer which is easy to lower. I guess the USPSA ROs see so many in Production these days that they are used to it.

My MBX 141.25 9mm are fine with one little oddity. Every once in a while after shooting from them I will find a cartridge UNDER the follower. But then the STI Gen 1s that came with the second hand Eagle are fine, too. Maybe the previous owner "tuned" them.

IDPA's requirements for "permanently disabled" shooters are absurd. USPSA's "penalty in lieu of performance" is the way to go. But how can you not be able to shoot prone? I can fall down and shoot, and have done so instead of kneeling on sore knees. It's just getting up that is the problem; which may not be on the clock anyhow.

You mean the PCC is not just the Easy Button on pistol targets like it usually is?

I don't have a sponsor for USPSA and I don't pay for logo wear to advertise somebody's product. If you see me with a billboard shirt or cap you may be sure it was free. I like Duluth Trading Longtail shirts, the extra 3" helps keep them tucked in under a gunbelt.

Depends on how wide a net you want to cast. In the broadest sense, almost all of them. The most common locking system is the tilting barrel first produced in quantity as the 1911. Current production finds only the Beretta (Walther) locking block, a few rotating barrel pistols and a very few gas piston guns unrelated to the Colt/Browning design. Do you require the barrel be tilted by a link, not a cam? That pares the list way down to Tokarev, Star, and Wilson mutants that I can think of offhand. Must you have a straight line trigger like Tokarev, Wilson, Radom, or a couple of Smiths?

I'm with Jack. Which is about what you are getting now. Does the gun have an optical sight? 9mm Major is allowed in Open only.

I don't recall ever seeing a S&W revolver with roll pinned sight. Plenty of solid pins out there, some of them polished over so smooth it is hard to tell they are there. A DX sight can be identified by the hole in the front of the ramp.