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Check out the Titanium comp that Angus Hobdell used to beat all the STI/SVs at the American Handgunner: www.ghostholster.com It was machined (and gun built by) Ti comp guru & forum member Brian Hawley of Expiramental Machining. His machine work is outstanding.

Somewhere between the business models for a paint-ball field and a golf course, there should be a business model for a successful range that caters (in part) to USPSA. I say "in part" because I agree that a range cannot survive on USPSA alone. Fortunatly, many LEO/contrator/Military training programs are coming around to realizing the value of USPSA exercises & the use of bays with side berms for training. If we can keep the EPA at bay, there may be hope for the future.

I love N105 for 9Supercomp. NO pressure signs at well above major (new and old). I do not use hybrid holes on my Supercomp (9x23mm). However, I have to compress the heck out of the rounds for them to work and run them at max OAL. I do not think there is enough room in a 9mm case for our 165 +Open Major; may be for the 1911 guns loading long, but not for the 1.160" we have to run in Glocks, CZs and Tanfoglios. If there is, then N105 would be just as safe; NO pressure from this stuff.

If I remember correctly, in this incident, the officer later testified, under penalty of perjury, that she did not pull the trigger and that the gun simply went off. The gun is an SA/DA Beretta and they carry them decocked. How could such a thing happen? you wonder. Actually, under stress, it is quite common and natural. THe muscles tense up sub-consciously and the trigger is pulled without any wilful intent by the officer. She honestly never intented to fire that weapon. However, understanding this fact of physiology, NO ONE should be shocked by this video. Where was the break down? Either she was not properly trained to keep her finger off the trigger or she forgot her training under stress. Good thing the suspect was not seriously injured.

I guess I know who's car we will be taking to all those Area matches next year. Seriously, congrats - that is an amazing car made even more so by the SMG transmission; how do you like the paddle shifters so far?

John Dunn wrote: "If I had pick a favorite it'd be Johnny Cash," Johnny will always be THE man in black and though I do not consider myself a country music fan, I am certainly a Cash fan. Everyone ought to own a Cash collection. And have some whisky on hand to drink while listening to Cash.

That about covers it. Only source for mags right now is CZ-USA and for 140mm basepads: Taylor Freelance. TS or a Standard IPSC is otherwise ready to go out of the box with maybe a little skate board tape on the grips. Max loaded length for .40 ammo in these mags is around 1.165 to 1.170". Custom parts from MaTfakta (via www.strictlyipsc.com) are delayed due to overwhelming demand. Regards, D.C. Johnson

" Really nice if a little small. . . .That being said, if/when Steyr comes out with a longslide/comp version, I'd be all over it." Agreed. What size in the M40/M9? Nearly identical to my Glock 19. The Glock 19 is not the most popular sized Glock for Production. The grip on the Steyr is VERY small though; I think it is THE polymer gun for those with small hands

Want relief? Its just a restaurant away: www.greasecar.com One time investment and no modification required beyond installation. However, how will you deal with the guilt of cheating OPEC out of its petroleum revenue? Poor Chavez! Poor House of Saud! Wish I owned a diesel & a home with a garage.

I use the blade tech in competition. For carry, either the 9 or the 40 will fit tight in a Dillon brand CLS (a belt slide holster) made for the Glock 17/19.

I own an M9 and M40; the latter is my primary carry gun. If you order it with the factory Night Sights, they are post & notch. As EERW points out, a gunsmith can make Heinie Slant pros fit & look as if they were made for the M40. My M40 is unmodified. The finish is Tennifer (no surprise, its an Austrian gun). The frame is deceiving; it is more of a steel chasis wrapped in plastic (a little like an STI/SV) but for certain, the pins ride inside the steel chasis; the gripframe is polymer. The traditional rifling allows use of lead bullets; I have also shot Montanas, plated, jacketed, etc. The barrel has excellent support; I have fired 9Major ammo out of the M9 in the form of the Hirtenberger L7A1, though it fell below Major in the shorter barrel. Tom Freeman of the U.S. Air Force Shooting Team earned his Master card with a Steyr M9. It is an often overlooked option for Production or for IDPA.

demand? Truckers & diesel powered trains can not cut back on "discretionary travel" so there is no softening of demand (as has been seen with consumer travel in light of rising gasoline prices).

If your gun does NOT have hybrid holes, N105 is terrific. You will probably not like it otherwise. OAL - as long as possible; N105 will fill the case, be compressed & still not produce pressure signs. Takes a bunch to reach major; will look at my data after work.

"What kind of training is this, soldier?" "Aaaaaaarrrrrrmy training Sir!"

You are correct in that this was a big discussion some time back. Appears that the rule is interpreted as: "half cock for the de-cocker models but all the way down for every other gun" To me, this is unfair & unsafe since: 1) on models without a Series 80 safety/ FP safety like the 2005 model CZ 85 Combat, the gun could well go off if dropped with the hammer resting against the pin. I suppose this condition is considered safe, because its what is required. 2) If its safe, then why not require the de-cocker guns to fully lower their hammers right against the firing pin? All they have to do is grab the hammer & pull the trigger (oh, the horror). Hey, that is how other guns are de cocked & I have yet to hear of a verifiable AD that way. I previously stated that I think the rule should be interpreted so that all DA guns should start with their hammers in the same position (i.e. NOT with the hammer resting on the firing pin). Seems like the most fair & safe interpretation to me.

Congratulations and welcome to the profession. You should quickly become accustomed to the lawyer jokes and more comments like “You DAMN LAWYER!” (Its actually all very funny after a while) as well as the endless requests for free legal advice from family & friends. I would avoid Thanksgiving like the plague were I in your shoes.

Anyone use military pull down powder or REX powder? Dirt cheap.

Not trying to step on anyone's toes, but I think its worth noting that both Caspian and S&W have been very generous in supporting our shooting sports. They both make fine 1911s or 1911 parts that will perform very well in the new provisional Division. I support those who support us.

XRE wrote: "You guys need to get better at scrounging brass, and convince your local clubs to start picking brass, too." The same factors keep coming up whenever we debate the issue of: picking up brass at local matches. I think its a settled issue that Sectional, Area and Nationals are lost brass matches due to the limited abount of time that we have to run many shooters. Some other facotrs to consider: -Blazer aluminum case ammo -Wolf steel case ammo (I'd never use it persoanlly due to smell, but I often see it used indoors where distance is quite limited <25 yards) -Surplus Berdan primed ammo As a match director, how do I justify to these folks & the non-reloaders the need to pick up every single shooter's brass during the match when many of the people doing the picking are simply handed back non-reloadable trash? The other difficulty is that for many local clubs, we reward volunteer RO's & other volunteers w/ brass picked up after the match. The ROs & volunteers tend to be the ones dedicated enough to the sport to reload, while the majority of shooters are often just passing through the match, the sport, or the Area (the D.C. area residents often move). This seems to be a debate between the .38 Super/.45ACP shooters and those shooting 9mm (minor & major) or .40 (which is available & cheap). Funny thing is, if we looked back 15 years, MOST of the brass would have been either .45 or .38 Super. Today, it is looking more like 9 & 40. Regards, D.C. Johnson

Take a look at this thread over on the 1911 forum by a bunch of bullseye & bianchi shooters: http://forums.1911forum.com/showthread.php?t=125301 They seem to like XTPs, Sierras and N320.

I took one out of a customer's gun once that was corroded/cracked about 80% through the hole for the front roll pin (its surprising it came out of the FSB in 1 piece). I have a theory that it was a combination of gas cutting and cleaning chemicals that corroded that tube. If I use a strong chemical like sweets or any ammonia copper solvent, I follow it with a blast of break cleaner down the gas tube & a few mor patches of Kroil after that. Anyone have a GO/NO-Go spec for the carrier end of the gas tube??

Hodgdon powders are available free of shipping & HazMat fee (a U.S. shipping fee of $20 added to mail-ordered powder or primers, but not loaded ammo) if bought at a local shop or some gunshows. Of course, I know that there IS a cost for transportation added in their somehow & our gasoline prices will probably make everything a little more costly in the coming months. But as an example, here in Area 8 (near Washington, D.C.) I can buy Hodgdon in 8 lb drum quantities for about $100 through the distributor, T&T reloading which is located about 6 hours north of us in PA. We are allowed up to 20 lbs of powder in the home without a special storage container. The distributor, T&T reloading also sell primers for $68 per 5,000 and again, there is no shipping or haz-mat fee if you pick up the primers at the gunshow. Same for Frontier Hard-Cast/Plated bullets, which run about $40 to $60 per thousand depending on the caliber and weight. I use VihtaVouri and Hodgdon powder. Best regards, D.C. Johnson

Are these FMJ's actually TMJs or are the CMJs? Real question is: Do they have a "jacket" (like a FMJ) or do they have "plating" (like the ELECTROPLATED gold dots, Speer Blazer, Speer lawman, etc).

A Production GM head-to-head between guys who are not only team mates, but who also have to work together come Monday morning! THIS is going to be good. My money is on Phil. Ooops - almost forgot that Turtle just went SpecOps-SERT/SWAT-double-secret-Tactical/whacktical on us recently. You had better watch out Phil, or Turtle's going to pull out some of that SWAT training on you! Real question is: who shoots better on a muddy track (course)? Looking forward to tomorrow. D.C. Johnson PS: D. Peters - good to meet you & thanks for making the long trip down to shoot with us. Hope you join us again in the VA/MD Section once the weather improves. D.

Thanks Flex! Just got back from 1st day of the very very soggy sectional; this will be an interesting weekend of RO'ing, mud sliding, etc. As for cutting that Clark to fit, believe it or not, I considered cutting the barrel close to length (saws all, metal cutting band saw, whatever is handy & cuts close to square) & then fixing it in a set of precision V blocks, milling the end of the barrel square to the outside of the barrel. If the outside of the barrel is perfectly parallel to the bore and the set up is sufficiently rigid, then this will theoretically work nearly as well as trimming on the lathe.Even if not "crowned", such a barrel may well shoot from what I understand. However, were I to go this route, I would then cut a new crown using a tradition piloted crown cutter instead of cutting the crown on a lathe Call me particular for crowning. Actually, it would make the guy I'd borrow the crowning tool from feel better about spending his $$$. However, the Briley is on the way & should be a lot less work. Besides, with the calls to "get this project going", the Briley should get me back on track as soon as next weekend. Thanks for the link. Regards, D.C. Johnson