malagamarksman

Well.............not small minded at all. You are correct. The ribs on the Mec-Gar are swaged in DEEPER not longer. So the ribs are the answer. Thank you. I couldn't see for looking !

100% agree there. As a good comparison fire 50 rounds through your compensated barrel then swap it over for the original barrel..............big difference. They are not as efficient as .38 Super major or 9mm Major nonetheless they DO work well.

I used to live in Kalifornication...so yes I do... back to your regularly scheduled cool program about .45 open ss... Cool pics and info... I have a friend living here who is from Houston. TEXAS, yes a gun owners paradise. I would move there if I could, the Gulf coast. But U.S Immigration wouldn't make me very welcome !

"I bought it cheap about three years ago because I thought it was cool." It IS cool...............there's something about two tone 1911's, I just love them. It looks like a Clark pin gun comp as a I remember them.

I have a Mec-gar P14 .45acp mag. The Dawson base pad fits perfectly with no modification. It also seats perfectly with the Dawson magwell. But I get one round less than the standard mags and I can't see why ?

I have a CMORE STS on one of my Open Glock 17's. Shooting Major 9 ammo it has never lost it's zero. I have used it on a rearsight dovetail mount directly on the slide and a frame mount. No zeroing problems whatsoever.

Not with the weight of that steel up front.

It IS easier to make major calibre velocity with the longer gun. I have two G17's one has a 5 1/2 inch barrel and a steel compensator. The other has a 7 1/2 inch barrel with five ports at the end. The longer gun gives at LEAST 100 feet per second more than the other using the same ammo over the same chrono same day. I can even load down with less powder for the 7 1/2 inch tube and STILL get major calibre velocity. Less powder equals less pressure, that certainly doesn't do the gun any harm. [attachment=52015:7.5

That barrel and guide rod look sort of AIRSOFT ish ? The mount is for an airsoft thats for sure. NcStar red red dots are only good for nothing more than a .22 rimfire. No frontsight but a huge bulky adjustable rear sight...........useless. Plus you would have to remove the mount to get the slide off. That 1911 esque thingy, take it off and sling it. The magwell needs putting on straight.

cpa5oh "The reason I don't shoot open at all is the buy in cost...I like Glocks alot, and would be perfectly happy with one...but not if I knew my times were slower than they could otherwise be. I'd love to have a 9mm open gun that could shoot minor or major... " Both of my open Glocks do that, no problem.

Well I dont seem to have any trouble beating shooters with STI / SVI and SPS nearly every time out !..................Anybody else ? The better question is, could you beat your own score if you were shooting an Open STI instead of an Open Glock? I have tried a friends open SPS and I have an open Norinco Para Clone. No I cannot seem to do any better with the 1911 style trigger. As someone has already said when that beep goes off I don't really notice the difference.

Well I dont seem to have any trouble beating shooters with STI / SVI and SPS nearly every time out !..................Anybody else ?

Yes it's big one isn't it? Gives great figures over the chrono too. The barrel and mount are from IGB in Austria. The slide racker is from SPS in Spain. I just cut it down to fit the Glock dovetail.

One of mine. 7.5 inch ported barrel. Major calibre sir ??......................... No Problemo ! Better quality photo than the previous post.

VERY NICE !! What is the magazine capacity on the SVI ?

indeed! that's one thing i love about the the 230 grain bullets in the 45. a freight train is still a freight train even if it's moving slow. LMAO.......ha ha. It's funny because it's so true !

i certainly agree with that. the 45 ACP has much more recoil in general than the medium bores, probably simply because of that 230 grain slug. and if you compare the numbers at that link between the 38 Super (which was not loaded to Major, by they way) and the 45 ACP, the compensated 45 still had waaaaay more recoil than the compensated 38 Super. again, i think that 230 grain bullet makes a big difference. so, while a compensator works like a compensator even on the 45, it does not tame it to the recoil levels you get with the compensated smaller bore calibers. Absolutely........... Only last week I tried two different loads. 230 LRN with 5.2 grains of a Spanish powder called Optima A. The other load was a 200 grain RNFMJ with 6.5 grains of Vectan BA9. The 200 grain load had SERIOUSLY less recoil and much faster to shoot. When you start comparing the recoil of .45 acp to 9mm and .38 Super with 115 grain bullets the higher recoil stands to reason because the bullets at 230 grains are TWICE the weight. But .45acp knocks spots off the .38's and 9mms on those steel poppers. With the .45 acp they fall over like they have been hit with a sledgehammer ! In Europe we shoot IPSC and we only need to make a power factor of 160. Any 200grain .45acp TARGET load makes that easily. Target loads in a .45 are very pleasant to shoot. I am going to get hold of some cast 175 grain bullets and try them too.

Compensators DO work with .45acp but not as good as .38 super and 9mm major. For a direct comparison you only have to fire the gun with the comp barrel and then replace it with the standard barrel and shoot it again with the same ammo. BIG difference. Vectan have published some new loads with SP2 and a 200gr FMJ. ELEVEN grains of powder gives 1100fps. Should be plenty of gas there for the comp ? I'm gonna give it a whirl.

I used to shoot a single stack compensated Auto Ordnance .45 with a Tasco PDP3 in the U.K before 1997. That was before Tony .B. Liar took them away from us. I bought the barrel in Florida. It would shoot into one ragged hole off the range bag at 25 yards. I moved to Spain 4 years ago. So just for a bit of fun this year I built a "RETRO" open .45. A Norinco NP44 which is a Para P14 copy, Para mags and after market Para parts all fit. IGB Austria compensated barrel, Dawson Precision Mag well and Dawson extended baseplates on the standard mags. I can squeeze 18 in one of the mags. Jack Weigand double sided mount and and just bolted a Truglo 40mm red dot on it. It shoots just like I remember they did. This one is just as accurate. 4 grains of Vectan BA10 with a 200 LRN hardcast bullet recoil is perfectly manageable. Thats a target load that factors at 167. Economical to load too unlike 9mm major and 38 super. Factory ammunition is OUTRAGEOUSLY priced here 30 EURO for 50 .45acp !! When it comes to guns, accessories and ammunition you guys in U.S have no idea how lucky you are !

VERYYYYY nice...................!!! I am curious as to what type of holster you are using ? There is an awful lot of metal on the mount under the front of the Weaver rail on the frame. Good luck with the competition.

These Israeli slide rackers are excellent. Handle just pulls out to remove the slide for cleaning on frame mount guns. I now have two of them. They can be used right or left handed. No tools required to remove and install the handle. Zahal

Heres one of mine.............G17 9mm 7.5 inch barrel with five ports. Major calibre no problem.

You could use the TF brass basepad and make a non permanent modification. Mill or file up a piece of aluminium or plastic to make a removeable plug to fill the hollow in the basepad. Then at some stage in the future you can remove the plug and sell the basepads on if you wanted to ?

RESCOMP CR Speed.................Only way to go.

I have a Norinco NP28 9mm double stack pistol. I am told that the Argentinian Bersa Thunder Pro 9mm 28 round 170mm long magazines available in Argentina are compatible with this pistol ? Can anybody confirm this ? Thanks.