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Ok, I see what you're saying Tommy, makes perfect sense. I was thinking you were talking about the bend in the left portion of the sear finger, not the base of the spring itself, and I didn't look closely enough at your photo.

Thanks smoked. I'm afraid that putting a CK grip on an AC gun might bring about the end of othe universe, but I'll check it out.

This is what I'm thinking, it's just hard to imagine spending $500 on a grip. I had a problem with mags dropping free in this gun, but it was because I'm a lefty and the way my index finger engages the mag release the mag-release bar was actually moving rearward and rubbing on the mags, it wasn't the grip itself. A few minutes with a file took care of that.

The bend in the tip of the sear finger sits beside the sear, right? How does bending this out to 45 degrees make the portion of the spring that actually engages the sear longer?

My 2011 has had occasional hammer-follow issues since I got it mid-summer last year but I could never figure out why. Manually cycling the hammer it works a hundred times out of a hundred. At a match last weekend, I ended up switching to my backup gun because I had three hammer follows in a single stage. I was dry firing with it last night and it happened again...so I started playing with it some more and was able to reproduce the issue on demand. Here's a video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bShLuIX8nWE A friend of mine suggested I remove the grip safety so I can see the sear/hammer operation and identify the problem. Turns out he's a smart guy....I took his suggestion and immediately I can see the issue. My grip has gotten strong enough that it's causing the pistol's grip to flex and that's causing the sear spring to slip down below the sear. Not underneath it, just below it enough that it's not pressing forward on the sear, so the sear doesn't engage the hammer. If I wiggle the safety lever a bit or hand-cycle the slide a few times, it moves back into place. My backup 2011 isn't stippled nearly as heavily as the Akai gun and I never have this problem with it. I'm wondering if the aggressive stippling and undercut on the Akai grip has weakened it enough to cause this. The gun is practically glued to my hands when I grip it, but that's probably making the problem even worse. I'm tempted to buy a metal grip for the gun now, just to never have to worry about this again. Anyway...just figured I'd post this up on the odd chance that a fellow shooter has a similar problem.

Welcome Touji. I'm in Sterling. Been shooting USPSA for 4 or 5 years now. Very active clubs here in our area. Here's the basic calendar: Peacemaker National Training Center: 1st Saturday of each month Fredericksburg Practical Shooters: 1st Sunday of each month Quantico Practical Shooters: 2nd weekend of each month North Mountain Practical Shooters (Strasburg area): 3rd weekend of each month If you're up for driving a little further: Southern MD Practical Shooters: 2nd Sunday of each month. Great match, great people, worth the drive There's also a match up in Thurmont MD that I'm told is a good, fun, quick match.

Dear folks on Squad 18: I'm traveling down from Virginia with three other competitors. They all made it on to squad 18, but I was a bit slow on the draw and ended up on 17. If you would be willing to switch squads with me so I can shoot with these highly unstable, probably smelly individuals, I would be very grateful. Please shoot me a PM here if you can help me out. Thanks very much!

I would ask that question in the Glock sub-forum: http://www.brianenos.com/forums/index.php?showforum=22

Honestly, I had to cut it down a bunch. In stock form, it was so long that unfired rounds would *barely* eject without the bullet hitting the front of the ejection port. Then I had to slim it up quite a bit to clear the slide channel so that it wouldn't bind the slide. I also had to trim the underside up so much to prevent magazine contact that I finally just cut it short enough to sit behind the mags like the one on my other STI does. Needless to say, all of that nice contouring that was done on the underside of the ejector from the factory to prevent contact is all gone. I should have just bought an EGW ejector for half the cost. Would have fit better.

I was more wondering if it was proper to cut the tip of the ejector off short enough that the feed lips come up in front of it rather than underneath it, or if it should leave it longer and file it underneath. I ended up cutting it down, so it's now physically impossible for the mags to hit it no matter how far up in the well the mag comes

Just curious,what's the oal of your rounds? 1.19"

I just replaced the broken ejector in my 2011 with a brazos tuned ejector. I had to do some filing on the top and sides to get it clear of the slide and I had to shave some of the end of it off to keep it from failing to eject live rounds. I'm wondering though if there's a proper length for these? Should it be cut so that the tip of it is behind the mag? Right now it extends maybe an 1/8th inch over the magazine. If I seat a mag hard I can get the left lip to contact the ejector. Is the proper fix to file the underside of the ejector or shorten it? If I don't do one or the other I doubt this one will last long (the other had less than 2k rounds on it when it broke)

That lane was about twice the width of the lane on stage 2 of the VA/MD sectional last year. I could put my size 13 shoe sideways in that lane....barely, and it changed directions at twice from beginning to end. Surprisingly, we had not one fall in the entire match.

Dan, I'm told that the ejector that was put in this gun when it was built (the one that broke) is an EGW ejector. I ordered the Brazos ejector, it should be here this week. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Ouch. That was a hard fall. Good job on the finger discipline and having the grit to get up and finish.

I actually watched that video today. Too bad they're out of stock. Boooo!

Good advice. Thanks Bob.

All tuned up and ready to go - http://www.1911store.com/extractorbcg-proseriesperformancetuned.aspx I'm looking for the ejector, not extractor but I did see the link to the Brazos ejector at the bottom of that page. $40 is a pretty hefty price for that ejector considering it looks like a MIM part.

The ejector in my 2011 broke. What's a good replacement option? I want to avoid cheap MIM parts.

My Bayou .401 bullets won't case gauge in an EGW 7-hole chamber checker and every now and again I get a failure to feed or slow feeds in my Infinity Ultimatch barrel. Montana Gold .401's all pass the EGW and seem to feed a little better. I'm wondering if going to an undersized Bayou would help. Has anyone ordered the .400 undersized bullets from Bayou? How was their accuracy, and are there any other drawbacks to using these vs. the .401s?

I don't understand why they did this. If .357 sig is just a .40 case necked down to take a 9mm projectile, what's the difference between this and just allowing 9mm major besides mag capacity?

No, on the XD the striker is fully loaded. Pulling the trigger merely releases it.

I disagree. The situation as I see it is that the shooter did something that the "reasonable man" would consider to be unsafe and DQ-worthy (fired an unintended shot while in the process of loading his gun as the term is commonly understood). He got reinstated only because of a loophole/ambiguity introduced by the recent change in the definition of "loading". The fact that a loophole/ambiguity exists does not make the conduct right. IMHO this is what happens when the rules are written so strictly as to tie the hands of the RO with respect to unsafe actions. The question is whether DNROI can/will do anything to plug this loophole/ambiguity, such as by clarifying the meaning of "ready to fire". I look forward to his considered opinion in due course. In this case, the shooter didn't "do" anything to cause an AD. A failure of a mechanical system inside his gun caused it. To that point, section 10.4 starts with the phrase "A competitor who CAUSES an accidental discharge..." What did he do to cause an AD? Nothing. He loaded the gun with his finger off the trigger. In that action he was 100% compliant with the rules. You could hold him accountable for the shot if it hit within 10 feet or cleared the berm, but neither of those occurred and nothing the shooter did was the direct cause of the AD. I do agree with you that clarification from DNROI would be helpful.

This is something I'm struggling with. I currently shoot with my non-dominant eye closed. The problem is that I move with both eyes open, close my ND eye to shoot, open it to move, close it to shoot, etc. I think this causes some measurable delay when entering a shooting location, presenting the gun, acquiring a sight picture (which involves closing the ND eye and letting the dominant eye focus), and then pulling the trigger. I plan to try the scotch tape pon the ND lense to see if it'll help.

So here's my takeaway from this thread (distilling out the misc. discussion): I called it a DQ when it happened. It was a fair and reasonable call in the moment. The RM was able to confirm that the gun was in fact broken and it was not a shooter action that caused the discharge, so conditions in 10.4.3 did not occur. Shot didn't go over the berm or within 10' of the shooter. So what rule are we left with that can be used to DQ the shooter? There aren't any, so the proper course of action would be to give him a zero for the stage and let him switch to his backup gun and continue the match. That's exactly what happened and ultimately I'm glad the RM overturned my initial decision because I would have felt awful for wrongfully ending the shooters match. The only heartburn I have with the shooter is that he brought a firearm with a questionable operational state to a match and by doing so, he created risk for his fellow competitors. He should have started the match with his backup gun. Discussion about "ready to fire" and whether that state can occur in any fractional time slice between inserting a mag and a slam-fire discharge has no bearing on the events in the OP.