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Indeed I shall wait. At the very least handling the PM9 will be nice and I can easily part with it.
Already have a nice Dillon setup and reload til the cows come home. If I do sell one I'm thinking the $$$ will go toward some coaching.
Okay, back to shooting the snot out of the Spartan for now! Thanks all.
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For pure IDPA use I am really enjoying my STI Spartan. The mags run perfectly, it's inexpensive and ugly enough that I couldn't care less about cosmetics/scratches from holster or sliding it across stage props. The little 9mm is very accurate for all IDPA distances. Granted I have no idea if it will hold up for hundreds of thousands of rounds like some nicer 1911 are built for but at $625 I'm okay if it dies at "only" 50,000; STI's customer service would probably take are of it.
My point and reason for rambling. I have a new Dan Wesson PM9 coming in. About $1400. Lots of features that make 1911 fans go crazy. Many rave reviews. Not really a collector's item (debatable?) and not really high-end; I purchased it way back for a IDPA ESP game gun, but now that the Spartan is pretty much a perfect 9mm option I am thinking if the PM9 should be kept or sold. Pretty low inventory and all are spoken for so I'm sure a sale could happen quickly.
For those who own a nicer game gun and a budget version what are your thoughts on the two which are not really close in the price spectrum. For pure gaming I doubt my skills will notice the difference, and I'm not one to have two ESP guns. Do you keep both or sell the considerably more expensive one to fund your gaming habit?
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I went 2" larger than waist size. Perfect!
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Thanks to all for the real-world input as it applies to starting the 40 setup. I've gone back and forth with the "oooh, I will get a new gun and it will be a 40 and I will..." but I believe sticking with the 9 and 45 is my best bet.
Shoot safe.
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Up til now I've reloaded 9mm and 45acp, and gamed with both, and I enjoy owning the 9 and 45 singlestack 5" 1911.
Yet I read a lot about the benefits of owning a 40 for idpa and uspsa use. I'm all about getting the most out of a buck and a gun.
Hesitations going to 40 are silly. My first pistol was a flippy Glock 23 and I don't have the $100 in 40 reloading stuff. No biggie.
Read a recent thread and someone replied with links to a handful of other threads.
I'm not a national competitor. Do it mainly because I like 1911 and have fun putting holes in cardboard a few times each month.
What is a mainstream reliable 40 with undercut trigger guard, frontstrap checkering, f/o front and adjustable rear backed by good customer service? I guess I'd be looking for an equivalent of a Trophy Match or Trojan if that makes sense. Kind of middle ground but proven. I have some super duper expensive guns but for a gamer one of my favorite is a $625 STI Spartan: accurate, reliable, good customer service and I couldn't care less if scratched or holstered all day long. Don't want to pay for cosmetics and I'd rather not have to send it out to make it reliable.
Or has anyone been a 9 and/or 45 1911 shooter and thought it'd be nice to go 40 only to regret it?
Thanks in advance.
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Jackpot! Thanks for the link to Dawson.
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Think I just answered my own thread. This pic has a rear sight that is adjustable and would fit my slide. What is this sight called?
http://www.gundealeronline.com/PhotoGallery.asp?ProductCode=STITROJANSS
What type of rear sight cut do you have? Can you post a photo?
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I just took delivery of a 1911 which has been in the making for about 14 months. Yep. Fourteen. At the time of ordering I wasn't into IDPA or USPSA so this 1911 has a rear sight which is not adjustable. Never the less, I reload and like having an adjustable rear sight but I presume if a shooter became familiar with a load and how a 1911 shoots it then it's all relative, right?
In the meantime I ordered a different SSTK and CDP 45 with adjustable rear sight so now I'm "stuck" with this much-awaited 1911 which all of a sudden I have no real use for since my gaming mentality thinks I just haaaave to have certain sights.
Anyone have success accuracy wise with reloads and a fixed rear sight?
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Thanks for taking the time to educate me! The Bear Creek moly do not like to be over 1.124 in this particular 1911. If I make damn sure they are under 1.124 there are no issues. It's when I get a .124 or .125 that things like this happen sometimes.
I will err on the cautious side and make sure it's 1.120 at the 4.5gr WST.
I need to go read the Precious FAQ, thanks!
If you are using the Lee FCD this could be part of the problem. The Lee FCD die undersizes the bullet, see the Precision FAQ page. The 4.5 gr of WST looks about right for 130pf, I use 4.7 with a Jackted 125. The OGive on the Precison bullets requires that they be a little shorter than Jacketed bullets in most guns, a little trial fitting will find the right length. I'll have to agree you pulled the bullet out of the case since there is powder everywhere. Been there and done that more than once.
The failure to feed, you did not describe but more than likley it is a failure to go into battery, if that is the case you just need to shorten it up a bit and you might just be in business. Did you drop check the rounds in a SAMMI Gauge? One way to be sure about your loads is to deprime and size the cases then drop check them both before and after loading, when you do this you avoid any jams due to buldge cases and in the process you find out where the problem occurred before or after loading.
I test mag feeding with dummy rounds as well when setting up a new load OAL. I do this both fast and slow, one the slow I put my feelers on and feel for resistance and watch for how smooth it is. But it soudls like you could be within .010 of being on with the oal when its close it don't take much. Have you measured a group of bullets or ones that failed to feed to see if you OAL is consistent?
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Now that might be!!!! I had a few too long OAL and ejected forcefully which....good post by you! I bet that's what happened and the bullet stayed in and the powder went all over.
Learn something new everyday. Thank you.
Are you sure you had a squib or did you load to long and pull the bullet from the case leaving a bullet in the barrel. I would think you would notice a squib.
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At the range with reloads of 4.5 grains WST beneath a 125 moly round nose. Dillon 550b. The fourth die is a Lee crimper which is basically on auto pilot all these years.
Then my 9mm fails to feed. Again. And again over and over. Thought it was a mag issue but all 4 mags doing it? Maybe the new pistol is broken. Head home to test out dummy rounds in 4 mags with no change.
Strip firearm. May as well clean while I decide what to tell firearm mfg. Wait, what is that?? There is a 125 grain moly round nose stuck about where the grooves start. Unbelievable! Now I realize why there was powder all over.
Wonder why a squib occurred after so many rounds had been successful put on paper.
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Oak Hill replied to a previous post about a Spartan 9mm issue I thought was going on (but I had a squib and blamed it on the mags or gun itself).
Which leads me to a new thread. While playing with oal and bullet type I would once in a great while get a round that would not allow the slide to go into battery. Eject. Continue. This round was part of a full 9-round MecGar mag and could happen if it was the first, middle or last round. No rhyme or reason.
Then I'd take that ejected live round and stick it back in. Just that one in a nine round mag. It would now go into battery and fire.
Is this where I consider opening up the feed lip??
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Addendum: Turns out I had a squib!!! Didn't know it and fought and fought the mags.
But one good thing came of this: I'll now read about extractor tension and opening up the feed lips, and learn something new. Thanks!
Which leads me to a whole new thread....
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Original post was 4 mec-gar mags which stopped feeding any round all of a sudden. I thought it was the Spartan since the mags fed perfectly for days on end. Then it just stopped. Then.....read two posts below.
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During break-in of a new 1911 yesterday the slide failed to go into battery a few times due to minimal lube/going dry. That got me thinking: do you lube up the 1911 during match play, or is your SSTK or CDP well worn in by the time you take it to games that it'll make it through 150-ish rounds no problem.
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On average about $350.
How much did you guys pay for yours? May be interested
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Tested a few mags worth of 147 Bear Creek moly atop 3.6 WST/1.125oal, and their 125 along with their 135 atop WST.
Shot timer shows I'm fastest with the 125rn and my accuracy was the best at speed.
Didn't change my 10# recoil spring.
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Quick check: have Jessup on mine. I see you went all fancy and put non-black grip screws. Hex even!
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I just went all ugly with my STI and put skate tape on both faux wood grip panels. Feels great in hand. And I have at least another 2 years worth of grip tape left from the $5 sheet.
A small screwdriver poked through the tape easily and my screws went in no problem. Ugly but effective.
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Thanks for the tips!
Almost made me wonder if I should slap on cheapy faux wood (like the stock STI Spartan grips) and cover with deck tape.
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Oh now that is good. By chance did this prof have a scandalous affair with an underclassman while wearing a velvet robe and ascot?
My favorite english professor would never tell us how long our papers or essays needed to be. He'd say "a good paper is like a lady's skirt - long enough to cover the subject, but short enough to be interesting."
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As stated, pull the barrel out and plunk a dummy round in to see if it "fits." I recently had issues when going from BBI to Bear Creek. I wrongly presumed a round nose is a round nose, and that my BBI 1.150 would fit any 9mm. Uh, wrong.
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For the previous umpteenth months the slide would chamber a round when the mag was inserted forcefully. And on this day it bit me.
As for the 6 rounds max that is what the stage called for. No more, no less. I had 6 to start and then moronically ejected 1 by racking slide after my much needed first of six rounds went thataway.
FCS causing whizzing sound and rubbing
in 1911-style Pistols
Posted · Edited by kreativecid
Always had naked slide/no FCS game guns. First time practicing dry firing and drills with the belt, holster and 1911. Using a Spartan with the wide FCS in a Uncle Mike's cheapy belt holster. There is a gigantic whizzzzing sound from the FCS rubbing the inside/left of the holster. Little bits of plastic embedded in the FCS.
Is this common?
Is it the holster design?
Or my draw technique.