Vlad

It looks like the company providing the virtual domains for both of those hosts is having issues. It is however possible that those addresses work from a different source, because you can configure virtual mail domains to behave differently depending on the source of the message. In either case the error is on their side.

3.2gr of TG with Zero 147 JHP's from my CZ75 made about 132PF.

Told ya so.

When I have similar problems, it is usualy the primer bar wire arm. I found that on my 550B it sometimes walks out a bit, drifting away from the press body, and the angles resulting from that keep it from actuating the bar all the way. My low tech solution was to wrap a twist tie around the press body and the arm, up top near its hole, and problems solved. I even had a twist tie of the appropriate dillon blue

Every power supply I've used would power up fans plugged in to it directly without the MB even being attached. Simply powering on the PS would be enough. Here is a easy thing to try .. Try the PS in your other machine in the troubled one. My guess is that you got a bum new PS. Also, and this is really stupid, did you plug in to a different socket, and or power strip, they can fail too

I picked up a used one for $350 recently. For $450 or so you could find a new 11-87 Sportsman if you shop around.

You mentioned that none of the fans spin .... are all your fans driven from the MB? Are any fans driven straight from the PS? I would plug at least one in the PS directly and see if it spins. That way you actually know that you have a working PS. It is not unheard of to get a busted new part.

I don't disagree at all... But, how practical is it for me to be running around with 6 mag pouches on anyway?? (from the left hip bone to the small of the back) I have two answers to that. First you can try to carry only 4, plus one mag in the gun. I carry six too nowdays, one goes in the gun and that leaves me with 5. The fifth is in a mag pouch with a snap cover and its only there for those rare occasions where I managed to somehow lose all my mags somewhere. However, the second answer is simpler .. gain more weight. That way you have more space on your belt before the mags get behind your back The third answer (yeah I know) is maybe try a beltfed mag holder. All kidding aside, I do get your point. At the very least chairs should be picked considering what safety hazards them may pose. I think most of the time, they end up being whatever chair someone had in their garage and didnt need anymore.

I get the bitching, I have run into those problems myself. But guys .. remember that P in the sport name? Demending custom IPSC race chairs is only a step away from saying lets not have any starting positions other then standing with hands at sides. Well, maybe two steps. And if you think chairs suck, my own friking stage design hurt me last weekend. The start position was laying flat on your back on a "bed". A hard bed. With mag holders under your back. Ugh.

I watched the two episodes too. My biggest complaint as a TV watcher is that the steel targets need to be falling targets to make it interesting from a distance.

I vote that global warming discussions get added to the no-no list. They always decay into unpleasentness.

Most likely it is a Belgian made Bulldog type revolver. They where really popular for a while and they where made in a LOT of different configurations, some documented some not. I'm sure there is a book on them somewhere if you really need to identify the maker and what not from the markings. Here a are a few examples that come close to the one in your picture: Edited to add that the R under the crown seems to be some form of mark common to a lot of belgian guns of the era, as well as being part of many logo's for the various firearms manufacturers. I would guess maybe royal mark, proof mark, or maybe a proof of lincense, something like that. Edited again to add .. Ok so I'm bored. I found the following "Crowned EW is the mark of Emile WARNANT in Liege and registered voter with the proof house of Liège of 1905 to 1934." You can find more info related info at http://www.littlegun.be.

Leatherman Wave and Streamlight Scorpion are with me if I'm out of the house and, like Raz-0, not shooting. I carry a knife and light at work, at weddings, walking the dog, everywhere. Sometimes I carry a second knife, a folder around town, or a fixed blade out in the woods thoughs thats generally in my pack.

Well if one breaks I can say it is a flaw in the casting. Now that you broke two of them, I would wonder if you are operating the press in a way which reduces its lifespan? How hard are you seating your primers or resizing your brass? What dies are you using and are you using case lube on any sort? All that aside, it sucks when gear breaks before a match. So far my 550 has not given me any real trouble, but I also try to stay well ahead of my ammo needs.

By a a few miles! The why's are many, but the short story is that they are relatively light, soft recoil, accurate, little or no muzzle rise, easy to work on, losts of options, the gas system has less mass moving around, the bolt axis of movment is concentric with the barrel, it's cheap (in the great scheme of things), and it shoots cheap ammo. Mini-14 I would guess.

Well if my trigonometry is not failing me, one side of the breach would be 0.01 inches away from the 90 degree line. I've used a bit of rough numbers to come up with that so it might be .009 or .012 but 0.01 is nice simple. The rim of the .45acp is nominaly .049, so about 5 times larger. I'm no expert, but I've seen .45 cases with a lot more rim that that, and some shot so many times to be worn out to the point that the head stamp is no longer readable. Further, leaving aside that the fact that there must be some brand to brand variation in case length as well, almost no one trims their pistol brass when reloading, and .45 cases last until you lose them, so there must be some case lengthening going on. The .45 ACP still headspaces on the case mouth last I checked, and given the variations in brass size, rim size, etc, I just don't see how the .01 difference on the breach face can be called critical. Would it help if it was there? I'm conviced it would make feeding smoother. But so does cleaning my gun. My Springfield Milspec gets cleaned about every 1000 rounds, or when I can't stand the sight of it anymore. I get enough powder residue buildup on the feed ramp to make .01 inches uninteresting when it comes to feeding geometry. I don't doubt that the angle we are taking about would make feeding feel a touch smoother, or make the gun more forgiving of other faults, but absent other faults, I'm not convinced that those 52" can be called critical. Nice, usefull, craftsmanship, I'll give you all of those. But then again, I'm not a gunsmith. I just try to wear the things out.

Now that we have three different threads on this issue for some reason, I'll ask my question again. Hopefully I'll get an answer: IIf the breach face is at 90, all other things being equal, will the firearm function? Will any parts wear out sooner, and will that wear create a problem for the gun before other parts fail of natural wear?

I have a question ... If the breach face is at 90, all other things being equal, will the firearm function? Will any parts wear out sooner, and will that wear create a problem for the gun before other parts fail of natural wear?

That really sucks. On the other hand .. you have taste in guns.

Seriously .. What is the angle supposed to be? Is 89'8" correct? I'm only asking because I'm trying to figure out how much of gap from the vertical that creates. Using 89'8", and quickly measuring the height of the breach face on my Springfield to be about 21mm, a get a difference from top to bottom of 0.3mm. That is on the small side of the medium sand, aproaching fine sand. So please someone tell me what the angle is supposed to be because if it really is 89'8", I have to ask .. Has anyone of you ever fire a round that you picked up from the ground? A round that might have had some sand on it? I sure have. Have you noticed any differnce? I haven't. Again, I'm not debating what perfection is here. It may very well be that perfection in a 1911 requires a specific angle. I'm just trying to figure out if it makes a practical difference.

I'm a fan of the 1911 but I think that if that breachface angle is that crucial to the firearm, then we all need to switch to glocks. What is the angle supposed to be again? And does anyone really think that the who knows how many Kimbers and Springfields out there actually meet that angle? Yet a lot of them seem to work quite well. I think any firearm with the following that the 1911 has is going to attract its own cult and some issues will start to pass from practical to religious. I'm not arguing if there is supposed to be an angle, or how much of one, or what it does. I'm just curious to know if anyone outside custom shops actually bothers to measure that angle on production line guns, and does it actually make a sufficiently large difference for anyone to care this much? At the end it is all about the shooting, and trigger puller doesn't do his or her job, the best hand crafted pistol in the world will not hit its target, it will jam, and it might even explode if the nut behind the bolt doesn't load his ammo right. I have a handgun or two which rattle if I shake them, where I'm willing to bet that the breach face angle is meaningless give the rest of the slop in the gun, and they work every time, for some definition of "every time" only meaningfull to competition shooters. One of them is even a 1911. As competition shooters know damn well, ALL guns fail sooner or later. Sometimes we know why, and sometimes we clear jams so fast that at the end of the run, we don't even remember what the jam looked like, never mind what its cause was. Practical shooters are some of the very few who actually wear out guns, and we are not taking about cheap guns either. A limited gun costs more then most custom 1911's and a full race open gun would cost more then any 1911 out there, unless they start making them out of stupid expensive materials or people start charging premiums based on name alone. These guns get shot until the frames crack, rails wear out, multiple barrels are worn away, locking lugs crack, slide stops break in half, and who knows what else goes wrong. Maybe there is a perfect angle for a breach face. Do practical shooters really care?

Yeah .. your gun is too clean. If it looked like it should, you wouldn't see those dents. All kidding aside, I wouldn't sweat it, it is proabably just parts breaking in. Keep an eye one it to see if it gets worse, though.

Nice job, if I were you I would add a Hardcore extractor. The Springfield extractors have a limited life in my experience, so you might just well spend the $30 now, and not be befuddled as various problems start happening as the factory extractor loses tention.

Actually .. this brings up an interesting issue .. Flex quoted 8.7.4 and it says Does that mean that I can use a mag as a sighting aid while I'm seating in my folding chair airgunning the stage from behind the line while someone else is shooting?

Well they COULD. They could also eat a candy bar and use that as a sighting aid. They could carry a bottle of water so they don't pass out, they could maybe carry a roll of tape, and they COULD aim with those too. However the rule books says nothing about COULD, but unless they are sighting whatever is in their hands can not be considered a sighting aid. Heck I could use a piece of brass, so is brassing now against the rules? I am an RO, though a fresh one, and I'd say objects become sighting aids only when you are actually using them as sighting aids, otherwise no one is going to ever tape or brass.