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ATLDave

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  1. CW is to up to a 16, 18, or 20lb recoil spring. I use a 16lb spring in my 10mm Match.
  2. Yeah, I like my .40-bore Limited a lot. I have broken a sight or two on it over the years (hinge pin at the front). That's not uncommon with major PF, but it seems to hold up very well to 9mm. Glad yours hasn't given you any trouble. May be luck of the draw on the metallurgy of those pins. I ended up replacing the pin with drill stock, hasn't broken since.
  3. What caliber/power factor have you been shooting?
  4. I'm using a Taylor Freelance right now for 9mm Major. I have to use the factory follower, not a Gramms follower, to avoid excess tilt and nose-dive-type jams. With the factory MecGar follower, I can get 27 in there pretty comfortably. With the Gramms follower, I was getting another 2... but it didn't run 50% of the time, so that was worthless! I have had to gently bevel the bottom edge of the spacer at the rear of the mag tube, also. I was getting salt-shaker jams where the rear edge of the follower got trapped/stuck under the spacer. A few swipes with a file to put a 45 degree bevel (showing maybe 1-2mm of exposed steel - a small amount of material removal) seems to have resolved that issue. I only got my 9mm Major gun a couple of months ago, and the MBX Caspian mag has been out of stock the whole time - so I have nothing to say about that one.
  5. I've never fooled with the rear sight notch, but I've but in the Henning front sight. I don't know if the actual blade is narrower, but it has a much smaller fiber which suited me. I did not enjoy the huge fat fiber that Tanfoglio sticks in there.
  6. N320 with 200's (or even 220's if your gun can fit them). N320 produces slightly, but measurably, less recoil than even similar burn-rate powders like Titegroup for the same power factor. Gas ejecta velocity is an overlooked factor in recoil. N320, as a single-base, no-nitro powder, produces lower gas velocity than high-nitro powders such as Titegroup, and thus produce slightly less recoil (and less "pop" from the muzzle). Sport Pistol is reputed to behave similarly, but I have yet to try it or seen it objectively measured.
  7. The fixed rear replacements for the LPA supersights have been "in the works" for many years. Unless you have one custom made, you may just have to learn to love the adjustable one. If your Stock 2 is going to be in 9mm, you likely won't have a problem with it. If you're running major PF, it can give some difficulty. One really important point about it - sometimes, the socket/hole for the elevation adjustment screw comes with or collects grease. If you take the screw all the way out and clean out that hole, a little bit of loctite will keep the sight from losing adjustment. If you don't clean it out, loctite does nothing.
  8. I once saw an RO DQ his own mother (for a 180 violation, not some nonsense about hitting a no-shoot on purpose). He was right, and she accepted it well. I thought it was a high-integrity demonstration.
  9. I've never used Syntech (I load my own ammo), but I put plenty of poly-coated bullets through my Limited's polygonal barrel. No issues, even with many thousands of rounds between barrel cleanings.
  10. They're small frame? Really? I'm just suprised to hear that, since I thought they also sold the compacts in the long-action calibers (45 ACP, 10mm). Oh well, who the hell knows what EAA is doing. Putting that aside, my question wasn't really about the basepad. It's about the tube. If you take the magazine apart, is the bottom of the tube different than the bottom of the tubes of the full-size mags?
  11. I think this is an astute observation. And it also illustrates why stability of rules is more important than getting any particular "right" ones when it comes to equipment. There's no deeper "true production" rule set waiting to be discovered. There need to be very compelling reasons to change equipment rules. Mere preference of a minority of shooters to have it different is not a compelling reason.
  12. So you'd also be for measuring the pull weight on production guns? No more 3.5 connector Glocks? Also, disagreeing with an idea/proposal for rational reasons is not "butthurt." I don't even shoot production, I just know a silly idea when I hear it.
  13. Yeah, but I have also seen/heard a lot of interesting conversations between production shooters about the stages that don't. Where to skip a target because they want all 10 rounds for other things and then engage from a second place where it's available, whether to reload on a single sideways step or delay it one target and deal with a reload while moving uprange, etc. I think those discussions are fascinating. Good stage design creates lots of that. Heck, more than once I've shot a stage in Limited where I've made 2 reloads even with 20 round magazines. One was a stage with 6 shots from along the left side of the stage, then 18 shots through a series of closely spaced ports in the middle, and then 6 more shots 5-6 steps away on the far right side. I didn't want to juggle a reload in a 1-2 step move between any of the ports, so I shot 6, ditched 14 (really 15 since it was a loaded start), shot 18, ditched 3, and shot 6. Two easy reloads in the middle of longer moves, or one heavily pressured reloads while trying to move between spots where visibility of the targets depended on being in just the right area. Clever stage design can force a lot more reloading than just number of shots/number of rounds per mag... and, equally, allow less than the number of positions for even the capacity constrained divisions.
  14. 6 targets, 3 visible from the left side of a barricade, 3 from the right, best 2 per target. Quite a different stage for a 10 versus 15 round magazine. Now imagine that's one part of a larger stage... this kind of thing might come up multiple times in one stage! Are you shooting someplace where the MD makes everything 8-round arrays? If so, there's the appropriate focus of your desires for change.
  15. Yes. Not because you are doing the arithmetic long, but because you seem to think the number of magazine changes = number of stage rounds/number of shots in magazine. That's not even close to correct.
  16. The rules on stage design are not tied to production capacity limits. They're not facially tied to any division limits, but they do appear to perhaps reflect the 8-round capacity of the SS 1911 major guns. Production capacity, on the other hand, has nothing to do with what MD's are allowed to do. Not one thing.
  17. Yep. All that sounds very un-fun and horrible to me. So I shoot Open and Limited! Raw fish sounds horrible to me. Do I go to a sushi restaurant and demand they bring me a fried seafood platter? No. I just go to a different joint. I don't like sushi, but it is OK with me that others do, and I don't want to ruin their fun. I don't understand why so many people - particularly people who are relatively new - are so selfishly insistent that all those who are already eating sushi need to be served fried catfish just because they like fried catfish. And they can't be bothered to go a few blocks to the place with all the fried catfish they can eat.
  18. I think the reason not to fool with the Production mag limit is because some people like having to do lots of mag changes and have devoted a bunch of time to that skill and have bought gear around that division's current requirements. Production is popular. It got popular while it had a billion reloads per stage as part of its character. Those are reasons enough. The people who currently shoot it obviously like shooting it as-is. I am not one of those people, so I stay the f*** out of that division. I don't ask for that division and its rules to come to me... I go to the division(s) that offer the kind of game I want to play.
  19. Oh, I 100% agree with you. Probably more than 100%. I'm just explaining what I understand to be their motive. They think everything but SAAMI-spec 9mm is dumb. They want to be able to use that and face no disadvantage in any d@mn division they think looks like fun. See all the (foolish, IMO) posts that crop up here saying that major should be killed, or we should go to a universal 150 PF with 5/4/1 scoring, or whatever. I find it very tiresome. But I think I know what they're on about.
  20. Because most of them don't want to fool with .40 cal.
  21. Do the compact magazines have a different bottom-end configuration than the full-size ones?
  22. Sarcastic applause to HQ for the "great" job with getting the rules nice and tight before rolling out PCC as an official division. Just brilliant. No holes at all.
  23. Double plugs with powered/amplified muffs is the only way I'm able to tolerate RO'ing and shooting open shooters indoors. And, as others have pointed out, no need to crowd the shooter!
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