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eric nielsen

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  1. The reason I bought aftermarket firing pins, four times, is because they were designed better and worked better than the original equipment from Caspian, Tanfoglio, and STI. So if Grand Power has a FP that works but isn't optimal, they're in good company. I hope someone will make a FP that seals the internals of the X-Calibur slide from primer flow. If that's Grand Power, great. If it's someone else, great.
  2. Those primer strikes look like the result of a firing pin that is too round at the tip. Dawson, Henning, or McLearn should be able to design a FP that will stop the primer flow. I have one or more FP's from each of these builders and what they have in common is a relatively flat face and a near-perfect fit to the FP hole through the slide. The Grand Power has a conventional round profile, this is a problem that can be fixed.
  3. A lot of top Ltd guys use production-legal gear. Blade-tech holster, Boss hanger, Ghost pouches "outie", and DAA belt. Heard there's this guy named Stoeger, supposedly he uses and also sells this stuff.
  4. Thanks again for the videos, Patrick. I know you shot these guns at steel matches but if you get a few minutes, could you compare the ease of reloading the pistols you've reviewed? HK VP9, Grand Power K100, CZ P09, and Walther PPQ - if you could rank them from toughest to easiest to mag change, that would be great information for anyone wanting to buy one of these for USPSA Production division. Please.
  5. Read down to "vertical test" - it's 1 level of safety past what your gun's already failing: http://www.brianenos.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=26255
  6. With your 2nd paragraph, you pointed out the things you can work on. Between now and training with Smitty, test your abilities and take notes of what shots you can make. Shots you've proved you can make standing, after a tricky position set-up, on the move, leaning around left, leaning around right, crouching sorta low, crouching very low, and so on. Once you know how small a target you can take and how fast you can take it - successfully - then you can put together stage plans that look more like the guys who are doing it in less time. There are DVD's out there by Saul Kirsch and Matt Burkett that address strategies they used in a match, but those are plans that can be executed by high-level Open shooters. The best strategy DVD that I've seen looks to be unavailable now, that was Saul's coverage of the 2003 Open Nationals. He has a set covering match & tactics at the 2007 Nationals, might be worth a look. AFTER you know what you can shoot. It seems like simple-type stuff to me now, but what I remember of my first few months in Open (initially B class, 4 months later A) is I figured out when and where I needed to stop the dot, and when I could let it flop around some and still get good hits.
  7. Never caught this thread until today. Maybe that's bad luck, or good timing. In the past several months, two of my colleagues contributed directly or indirectly to the deaths of hospital patients. When I read the above quotes by Brian, I instantly knew those words point to the difference between days when I'm very good at my job, and days when I'm not as good. Not to say that my days away from shooting are all filled with casting aside negative thoughts, some of those I hold on to as lessons learned. But knowing I can activate a mind that does know what it is thinking about, that is a powerful tool which now earned, I refuse to let slip away.
  8. Mentioned before but if you find the situation that the original poster did - reading letters/words only with the shooting eye set for distance - it's most likely because your dominant eye has led the way (been very dominant) when you read letters & words. It still needs to be set for a front sight distance for shooting. If you over-do it, you may get a clear rear sight focus - that's too much "Add" in the Rx. No one really wants to hear bad news that "helps" but here it is: the chance that your health insurance vision benefit will pay for shooting glasses, or anything else that isn't your exact eye care Rx, is very close to zero. Even if it's the only pair of lenses you ask to make that year. You'll need to take your vision Rx, get the near vision number for the eye you use to sight the gun (or slightly less "Add"), get the distance number for your non-sighting eye, and order your own glasses. Two very good companies are Zenni (cheaper) and Decot (pricier). Longer version found in post 15 (and post 24) here: http://www.brianenos.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=194860 Follow that with this: http://www.brianenos.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=184713&page=2entry2083879 and this: http://pistol-training.com/articles/vision and you're on your way.
  9. http://www.brianenos.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=184713&page=2entry2083879 http://pistol-training.com/articles/vision Can't thank Jshuberg and Gabriel White enough. This vision technique has totally changed my shooting.
  10. That's how accidents happen. Pay attention, THINK about what you're doing. Decocking a gun or ULSC should never be automatic... Did you catch my member number? I've never had an AD at a match, never been DQ'd. Thanks.
  11. http://www.brianenos.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=184232 Recently shot a steel match where I had to lower the hammer 30 times. After the very first time, I barely thought about it at all.
  12. Just shot my first ever Steel Challenge match at this club. Good range, couldn't be easier to find. They're building new bays & berms so it looks to be a very happening place. Be aware, the turn-off is in a 65-mile-per-hour, 4-lane zone so you will be helped by a GPS telling you when you're close (like 0.4 miles) and by signalling EARLY and CLEARLY to any cars behind you so they will change lanes and not run you down from behind. To the east, the nearest food/shopping is a Hess followed by a WalMart Super Center and a McDonald's. Hour from my house so that's where I'm staying. Was going to say "off-season rates for beach hotels" but if there are spring breakers around, forget that, stay in Deland or Deltona.
  13. Thanks!! I'm 90% sure I will buy one but would like to put my hands on one at a match, gun show, or dealership first if possible.
  14. For those that have both, how would you compare the ease of performing a mag change, P09 vs Shadow, or, P09 vs Stock II?
  15. What's not the same is the breechface. When you use a conversion barrel and whatever extractor/ejector/spring combo for "best" function, the result is going to be nowhere near 100% reliability. Once the expended brass clears the back of the chamber, there is nothing but pressure and momentum holding the case against the push of the extractor. The most common jam (and it will be common) is a case turned around and never kicked out of the gun as slide slams forward and crushes that same case. They might be okay for slightly cheaper practice and for family day-at-the-range, but shooting a conversion barrel is a waste of match fees, travel time, and gas money. It's not the way to go for any sport, any division.
  16. Using a follower that's too small to be reliable but just right to allow 1 more round capacity.
  17. I would also suggest getting SV magazines and a mag catch that will make them work in a P18. I'd go with that vs any Open Glock. The upside of Para for Open is that they already have the steel grip/frame that some people are paying crazy $$ to get on their STI or SV gun. Downsides are mags (do not try to make Para mags work in Open, not worth the effort), pin-hole locations (can shorten the life of your trigger job), trigger choices (few), and thin dust cover (for mounting optics on).
  18. Most of the 147 grain 9mm bullets have some sort of boat-tail shape in back, in order to not stretch the thicker (tapered cross-section) brass that's further back in the case. The ones that don't have some risk of either stretching the brass or compressing the base of the bullet; either bullet type can be a problem for stability of the bullet in flight; either problem will show up sooner & worse in a short barrel. Just a guess, the 124's might be the largest bullet your 9c can shoot accurately (with the right spin) or maybe you can go no bigger than 115s. Either way, look at the crown of your barrel. If it's gunked up with carbon or lead deposits, clean it off; that may help with some if not all your different ammo types.
  19. eric nielsen

    PO Nine

    Stuart - how many backstraps come with the gun? Would you say the bigger one makes the gun point higher than the SP01, or the same? As usual, I have more money than time, and these guns look good. Thanks for the video review, Patrick!
  20. You can break off the outer tab from the slide stop and have a gun that locks back on the last round but won't get palmed up by the left hand under recoil. I shot a G35 like that for a couple years, no issues. I wouldn't try shooting it without any slide stop, as mentioned it holds the trigger pin.
  21. Interesting gun. How much does it weigh with an empty mag in it? What holster are you using?
  22. One thing you may notice early & often is how light a polymer-frame Production gun is compared to any 2011-type Open gun. It really bothered me a lot, especially when doing mag changes or empty-start stages. With a CZ or Tanfoglio that problem goes away, the guns weigh the same as a 2011 just in a more compact package. The grip angle and mag changes are a little different, it's tough to load any gun without a magwell although Glock, M&P might be the easiest in that regard. The Para LDA has always been Production-legal, one of the first Prod nationals was won by Todd using an LDA after he gave it a try-out that season winning Limited at the Florida Open with an LDA 40. But two big problems with it are: mag changes are like putting a very square peg in a very square hole with no flare to the mag tunnel at all, AND, various people had lots of problems with them. And you can forget about detail-stripping one. That was so long ago that a search of the current Benos forum engine might not even find them, just like I couldn't find a decent Youtube video of a full-size LDA in 40 or 9mm. If it wasn't for those issues, yeah, the LDA would be the closest to Open by a mile.
  23. It takes a combination of skills and techniques to do well on "memory" stages. As has been mentioned, it's often possible to make out the difference between two adjacent targets based on appearance - if one has a target base that has spray-paint on it and the other does not, one has a target stick that goes above one shoulder and the other does not, find that and remember that. Also it can take very precise footwork, to where the most important thing moving one position from another is where you place your feet on the ground. Also it will take getting OUT of the habit of shooting every target sequence left-to-right or right-to-left; besides memory stages (and skipping targets) you'll find you get better in matches if you can find away to engage the biggest, easiest target FIRST coming into a position; you can practice both by setting up big & small dry-fire targets in your house and deciding the engagement sequence you "need" to do for your simulated stage, for instance 4 targets in one room (skip target #2) and 4 targets in another room (come in on the biggest one and skip another that you've declared already "shot"). New shooters often assume that the time spent transitioning wider distances is always bad; sometimes it's better to enter easy & leave easy; watch some match footage at Norco Running Gun, that's a club where the majority of shooters do this on most of the stages. Maybe the biggest skill needed, and overall probably the biggest thing I need to work on, is visualizing - better and better all the time. It's something you can do at a traffic light, in an elevator, at a boring meeting, but especially you need to visualize AT your practice sessions. If you only visualize at matches, it's a lot like only shooting live ammo at matches. You've given away a lot of match points before you even arrive at the match.
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