Vlad

Also see manual, page 16 http://www.smith-wesson.com/wcsstore/SmWesson2/upload/other/M&P_Pistol_Manual_10-01-14.pdf

Smack the mag in and it will happen all the time. Its a feature not a bug.

They work, they just probably won't make the most accurate ammo, although that depends on your level of OCD as well.

I can tell you that the club I run gets 2-3 slots every year based on submitted activity fees. Our section takes the slots allocated to it and splits them to the clubs based on activity. Each club can do what they want to do with them, most of us ask if anyone wants them and then we use the "how much are you helping" metric if we have more people who want to go then we have slots. If we have slots left over, we return them to the section coordinator who can then assign them to other clubs that may have more people who want to go, or the section coordinator has a wait list. If you shot at my club I'd say helping out would be your quickest and most direct way to a slot. Design stages, help build them, etc.

it was all nooks for me. Usually I would have fiddled with it to see what the issue was, but I did the simpler "Ook, Vlad hit with hammer" equivalent until I got it to work as I was bone tiered by that point and not really caring. If I see it again I'll poke it with a fine filler gauge to see if I can see what it is doing.

Worked mostly ok for me. There seemed to be quite a bit of a delay/issue seeing the other devices, but I'm not sure I can easily describe the issue. It took a couple of network reset/reconnects before the master device could find/refresh the list of other devices. Part of it seemed to be the device ID's getting confused in the sense that the master had mismatches between the name of the other devices and their ID.

My point is that it may be more complicated then that formula accounts for. You seem angry about something but I'm not sure what, so I'll try again. I think the TYPE of powder you use makes a difference. Subjectively we all "know" that faster burning powders are "softer". Of course, this comes into the qualitative not quantitative aspects of recoil. Personally I think that this a much more complex problem then we give it credit for. For example, think of all the work a comp does, more obviously so in a rifle. All that work is done with waste gases, mostly after the gases stopped acting on the bullet and the bullet has stopped acting on the gun. If those gases can have all that effect on the gun when directed in one direction, think of all the effect they have as part of the total felt recoil when they are acting as a rocket engine, adding to the total recoil instead of subtracting. What I'm curious to see if anyone has tried is building a rig that test the powders component of recoil, in the absence of a bullet. It is harder then it sounds because shooting blanks does not build up the same pressure in expending space as the barrel does while the bullet moves forward to say nothing of incomplete burns and what not. To my mind ALL the recoil in a gun caused by the powder acting on a piston, because all the energy in the system comes from the burning of the powder.

Ok, so here is what I'm saying, that average and guessing on powder/gas velocity seem odd to me. They are going to vary wildly from powder to powder, and how much gas each powder generates. Then you have comps, and barrel lengths and all the other stuff. That high gas volume powder is going to eject a lot more gas and create more recoil in a simple barrel but all that gas would make a comp work a lot better if it existed. A small gas volume fast powder might have a lot less gas shooting out the muzzle. That page also writes "It seems reasonable to me the propellant's velocity will be related to the bullet's" but I'm not sure that makes sense, I think it depends on barrel volume and load pressures.

I'm really curious what formulas you are using and if they account for the "rocket effect"

That's what makes sense to me, but remember this is "sum of all forces" kinda thing, not necessarily how it feels to you.

It is quite simple really. The more powder you are burning the more recoil. There is a qualitative aspect of how you perceive it, but in raw numbers if you burn more powder there is more energy in the system and that energy has to go somewhere. Also keep in mind that there are at least 2 major components to recoil, the first being the bullet pushing back against the gun as it moves down the barrel, and the second being the rocket engine that is the barrel as it shoots out excess gas after the bullet left. More powder means more of the second.

As far as I'm concerned as soon as the start your draw the safety can come off. It may be dumb to do it when you are sweeping your feet, but how in the name of bacon am I suppose to call that evenly as an RO? Single sides safeties would be a bitch to call, no? If can't enforce that equally it is dumb t even try.

I know. So far I've seen exactly ONE in the wilds of NJ ranges. It was a CORE. I'm not saying there is anything wrong with a division, I'm just not seeing a market. Then again, we still have revolver division.

I read that as a vote to keep production simple, together with the other votes. Look at the statement regarding production being beginner friendly. Of course a different division doesn't impinge on an existing one, but think of it this way, how man guns are made from the factory to take optics? I can think of like 3, I'm not sure that is a big enough production pool to justify a division.

The shifting and staying shifted issue is that your retaining screws are not tight enough. Mine does that if I don't tighten the dickens out of the 3 retaining screws, add more elbow grease and the handguard returns to normal.

I'm another person who has loaded tens of thousands of rounds on a 550, rifle and pistol, and never had a squib or double charge in the 10 years I've had it. Anyone who has 1% rate of squibs needs to not load ammo, and they need to just buy it, it will be cheaper for them when you count in how many guns they've must have blown up.

Thanx. There is a lot of derp in there as far as I'm concerned, the insurance issue might kill USPSA as we know it today.

It used to exist. A few years back Wolf was selling one of their steel cased type loadings with 62gr copper jacketed bullets. It even shot pretty good, but then they went to steel jackets for that weight just like the 55gr.

Have the minutes been published soemwhere?

Yep the MGM ones are mostly broken. You can shoot the center of the star and knock over half the plates. You can shoot the arms and knock over the plates. As much as I like our other MGM steel, the GT one is the right answer. Price is not going to be cheap though. I think they are like $650 or so.

I've used EVERY type of small primer in pistol loads, I've used small rifle, small magnum pistol, small rifle magnums, they've all worked, and I've never had any leak. Maybe I've been lucky.

I can tell you that the Spikes barrel nut wrench is excellent, if pricey. I wouldn't worry about finding a combination wrench, just buy the best one of each.

Primary Arms T1/H1 clone. It uses the T1 mounts, works well, pretty tough.

Which is why I wonder if that receiver was heat treaded correctly. It seems odd.

?????? huh To my mind if the receiver got damaged with 50lb of force I would suspect there is something wrong with it, assuming the gunsmith didn't do anything crazy.