eric nielsen
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My 2 cents, quick/easy things to do to a Glock for USPSA in order of priority:
1. Get a better sight picture. Can be as simple as using razor and file to narrow the factory FS, widen the rear notch, and tone down the white dot and outline w/Sharpie pens (I liked green front sight, blue rear outline).
2. Hang as much grip tape or texturing on the gun as is legal for your division.
3. Try several people's match triggers and see if you do better with lighter, longer release/reset, or necessarily heavier, shorter release/reset.
4. Find a cheap way (there are many) to accomplish your choice on #3 above. Search this site for "vertical test" and be sure your gun passes.
5. Hang as much weight on the gun as is legal for your division. For Production this is not much. For Limited, 10-12 ounces is possible, including a mag well which is a must for all divisions but Production where you use the Plug.
That's it. Didn't mention most of the options listed in first post. If you do the above and still don't like or feel held back by your Glock, it's time to move on to a different gun platform. HTH
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Any of the Viht powders mentioned can work out fine for Major in a 38 super, I've used them all. Present load is 9.xx gr of 3n38 with MG CMJ 124s and CCI primers. In general, in pseudo-burn-rate order fastest to slowest (just my opinion):
N350 - works the comp great, famous for overtaxing cases at the old 175 power factor, primers falling out of loaded rounds
3n37 - leaves the fired cases and your gun very clean but heats up the gun a LOT. great powder for 9x19 Major
3n38 - great overall balance of comp effectiveness, not overfilling the case, not too hot, rarely shows pressure signs
N105 - will not show pressure signs; fills to the top of your cases, God-awful loud may induce heart attack in the elderly
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SIRT pistol
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Russell it might be worth your while to watch this thru to the end (before Dec 24th): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0HW4sTC7Qw
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3U33hUoxbs - Shannon Smith, USPSA Limited Champion.
The whole premise of these guys' youtube channel, The Shooter's Mindset, is freaking brilliant. There are people who succeed who never let anyone else go crawl around in their head and see what's in there. The interview subjects on TSM are your opportunity to do just that.
I would watch the entire interview, there are more than a few golden nuggets in there, stuff I didn't know and I've shot with Smitty since 2000. The topic of this thread shows up in particular after the 20-minute mark but later he also speaks about having the confidence to commit to a shot guided only by index (if your index is that solid).
For whatever reason around 1996-97 it became "common knowledge" that the way to shoot irons "as fast as" with a dot was to elevate your front sight up out of the notch, but centered side-side. Then shoot that way while only looking at the targets. Some, not all, of the practitioners of this realized your probable-hit zone opened up tremendously; in other words w/a dot or w/lined-up sights you could be pretty sure of a bullet impacting within a couple inches of your intended spot, With above-the-notch target focus, that might go to a hit circle with a diameter of 10 or 12 inches at 13-15 yards out. The 97 Limited Nationals had lots and lots of close targets plastered with no-shoots or hard cover. Not a single A-zone was covered (except on Six Chickens) but the number of penalty shots fired by Super Squad shooters was quite high that year. So maybe like other "common knowledge" items (like Brian's 'that was a good stage for a dot' story) this one faded away because it was flawed.
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Completely failed to execute a well-known classifier. Squad ahead of us is still shooting the next stage. Friend asks do you wanna reshoot that - not for score, just to get in a good classifier. I only have 5 that count in Production. I hate reshoots but that one was bad (see bottom of pic). Looked at my bag full of loaded CZ mags & said "Okay". Good for about 85.66 nationally. Thanks Jay!
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If you have long arms you may find every little bit lower you get your pouches on the belt helps you a lot. The pouches in posts 2&3 above are a good bit lower than CR Speed or Safariland or Ghost as set by the factory. They look really good.
In the old days some guys would flip the belt attachment upside down and get the pouches a lot lower; just tried that w/my CR Speeds and that crashes your hand right into hard square corners, ouch.
Just got the Ghost pouches, set them up to go "outie" like Ben Stoeger does. Again the long arms create problems, inconsistent reloads. Tilted them back 2 clicks - about 40 degrees sweep back - better. Looked at belt attachments. If you flip the Ghost attachment and then shim the bottom under the belt (because now the adjuster is in the wrong place) you get pouches about 3/8" lower which I love. Using 1 click - about 20 degrees sweep back - and all the pouches as close as possible except pouch 1 & 2 left a little more space.
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CZ 75 sp-01
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Have the plastic in one Shadow and the steel guide rod in the other Shadow and cannot tell the difference at all. It's not a massive part compared to 1911 or even a Glock guide rod.
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If your Spartan is in 45 ACP, thing to remember is the 45 caliber STI mags, even w/extensions out to 141.25mm, will only hold 14 or possibly 15 rounds. That is not competitive in Limited division, at all. If it's in 9mm, you might be able to make a decent 3-gun pistol w/the wide frame.
One of the worst Open guns I ever saw was an STI 45cal. It looked like a normal comped, C-More'd gun but only held 18 rounds in the big stick mags and rarely got through a stage without problems.
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I had good luck (no case failures at all) shooting once-fired police brass sold to me by their practice range officers. All shot out of G17s. Only issue is some of the cops obviously had a corner of their extractor chipped off and it messed up their case rims. If you can be sure your friends are giving/selling you once-fired out of the factory box, great.
EDIT: I reshot my own brass (from the practice range) loaded to Major several times over.
What I would avoid like the Plague is picking up match brass. You never know how many times those cases were fired and scary part is the guys who tumble their brass with Brasso or other ammonia-containing products. Shoot, tumble in Brasso, size, load, repeat - that's a cycle you don't want done once on 9Major brass; if you pick up at matches you might get cases that have done that many times over.
Limited 40 case failures - like 200gr bullets in front of Clays - are sort of scary. 9Major case failures are completely scary; they can blow-torch the shooter's hand to the point where they drop the gun (if you weren't on edge enough already).
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Comparing apples to tangerines but...
My Tanfoglio small-frame 40cal gun was extremely picky about ammo OAL, mag spring coil number, mag spring age, recoil spring coil number, etc. What you would call a small envelope of reliable function. Had since-retired LGS long-stroke the gun by removing metal from the slide's lower dust-cover area - the part that impacts the frame since there's no good buffer system for that gun (not until Henning's system).
Long story short, I have not been able to make that gun jam since. Not a match gun any more so I don't have 1000's of rounds to go by but seriously - any ammo, any mag, any spring, any power factor, it shoots without a problem. Probably paid $20 or less because as I recall he set me up on his milling machine and I did the work w/a shooting buddy.
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CZ 75 sp-01
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search the CZ forum w/search term "mags", then, "magazines" - there are several thorough/great threads already
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Thanks all!
Yes, moving from west coast of FL to east coast of FL, only a 2 &1/2 hour drive from Mom, the in-laws, friends.
I'll be at the Factory Gun Classic for sure and a lot more of the Frostproof matches next year.
Blessed life, we can afford a modest house in Viera or Rockledge even before selling our big St. Pete house.
Working on getting an even sweeter deal, I'm applying for my first-ever VA home loan.
Looking forward to whatever the future brings, thanks again.
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Starting Dec. 9th I will be a (hospital) clinical pharmacist, something I have worked towards for about 7 years now.
We will be moving to the east coast where the ocean and the beach access are just amazing. When I try to describe free parking AT the beach, every block, for miles on end, my friends in Saint Petersburg don't believe it. It's that nice.
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No idea what the Mink method is. What I came up with works well because it's safe as any other way plus you can do it quickly and give the RO less time to think about what you're doing. Right-handed person's perspective:
Tilt the gun to the left (away from the RO), place left thumb on right side of hammer, place tip of left middle finger on left side of hammer, place tip of left index finger between hammer and firing pin. Thumb & middle finger do the "pinch" (opposite sides from Post #5 above), left index finger acts as a moving, temporary hammer-block. Depending on your hammer and your rear sight and your fingers, there's some variation in how long you can keep the index finger in there as a block, but definitely long enough to lower the hammer thru more than half it's travel. You kind of slide your fingernail up the groove in the back of the slide as the hammer is easing down.
I recommend practice to the point where you're skilled at it and can load the gun, lower the hammer, put gun directly into holster, put hands directly to start position, nod your head, all in one continuous motion; this leaves the RO with nothing to comment on. He or she sees the gun in your holster with the hammer down and you waiting with the expectation to hear "Stand By". Chances are the very next thing that happens is "Stand By".
Also I recommend do not repeatedly snap the the DA pull either on Load&MakeReady or on Unload&ShowClear. This can lead to a discussion of readyconditionsafeconditiondecockingleverhalfcockfullcockdoesyourgunhaveaFPblocksafetyon&on&on... A discussion is not what you want, you want all the procedures to seem just like a Limited or Open shooter except that when you nod that you're ready, your gun is in the holster hammer-down.
Sorry I don't have a fancy HD hat-cam to demonstrate. Pretty sure everyone I've shown this to continues to do it this way, seems like we're adding a new CZ or Tanfo shooter here every week.
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Yes the TacSport slide gets you to 5.5" barrel length.
Where do they get the 6" slide?
With 1911-type barrel bushing?
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Holy Crap - WANT.
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I think al503 got it. Cleaned the barrel really well and noticed wear on the bottom lug that rides the slide stop on either side of the link. Link was peened in place too well to remove/replace it before the Tues nite match so I tried my 2 spare slide stops.
The new one that has not been shot has a bigger OD and is perfectly round, it seemed to make the bumping worse, like a scraping sensation. The older spare seemed to make the problem go away at least for now. I put plenty of oil around every reciprocating part, no Slide Glide (yet) as the gun seems to object to that after dirtying up with 400-600 rounds, it shot w/zero problems at the nite match. All this makes me think I need a slightly longer link and some more new slide stops.
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Like the title says the new top end on my STI open gun has a noticeble "bump" in the last 1/4" of forward travel on its way to locking up. This is with no ammo, no mag, even. May have caused a few malfunctions this week that I thought were ammo issues (crimp or rough 38 Super case rims).
Thinking this might be due to a barrel link that is just a little too long? Maybe the link holes have stretched as the new parts have worn in? Looking for gunsmith opinions, thanks.
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Somebody needs to go play IDPA.
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You don't need to load long; you don't need to load RN profile bullets. I've shot 1000s of 124gr JHP bullets (3 different kinds) all at 1.080" like Gerard said to in several threads. Also about 800 Black Bullet Int'l 147 flat points at about 1.090". In both my Shadows. No malfunctions for me. Zero.
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The standard spur hammer will not clear the low-mounted Bo-Mar type fully adjustable sight on the Shadow Target. When the trigger return spring on my Target broke I tried swapping just the top end onto my backup standard Shadow: no-go. The Competition hammer gets just up to but not beyond the firing pin; it should work with any rear sight out there. The spur hammer is much easier to thumb-cock but after 50-million reps on the DA pull you feel like hitting 25-yard mini-popper w/the DA anyway.
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http://forums.1911forum.com/showthread.php?t=415779 post #4
My last single-stack 1911 purchase was over twenty years ago. This one looks interesting.
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Are you tumbling loaded rounds? Are you running the chrono after a long hot match? Have you rechecked your OAL after racking them into your chamber a few times (checked for set-back)?
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Slug your barrel. Then clean the heck out of the bore w/copper solvent and slug it again. Very possible the barrel is so fouled especially at the rear of the rifling that your pressure goes sky-high compared to same ammo in other guns.
Then check headspace - the brass needs to expand (a very small amount) front-to-back before the barrel unlocks otherwise, again, pressure goes sky-high.
Should I buy a used SP-01Shadow?
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At my club there is a line of people wanting to buy my backup Shadow for over $800.