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You will love your Flash Cat. I have been shooting mine for about 8 months. It is the flattest shooting open gun I have had. Good results with Silhouette Powder and 124 / 125 gr JHPs @ 1.155-1.160 OAL ( per Johnny ).

just coming from the test drive, went with 2 different loads 7.7 silhouette 1.145 oal 124JHP(Johnny´s instruction) and 169 PF, then i took the ammo i used with my previous gun 7.5 silhouette 1.155 OAL 124 JHP montana and got 165PF. i am shooting IPSC so i am gonna try 7.4 sillhouette to get it flatter, it was a lot different than my previous open maybe is the recoil master, but i am loving this flashcat right now

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[Open Gun Pictures]

Just receiving my new Limcat flashcat

can't wait to test it

[9mm major with hybrid barrel or poppel holes]

my father has 4 poppleholes in a full size 9major open with a brazos thundercomp, no problems so far

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[STI 9x19 Mags spacer]

I have one sti mag and i am using it without spacer

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[Advice for a new Open gun]

Update

last week i sent my gun to my gunsmith to make the new upper unit, with the parts you help me to choose and today he sent me this pic, i am really happy with the result

I can´t wait to receive it tomorrow to take it for a test drive

Thank you very much to all for your help

best regards from venezuela

[Shorty 9mm major]

Is Brazos selling their short Trubor barrels separately from complete guns?

i don´t think so, i bought a 5" barrel and made the thread, and the comp separately, but i am not sure, i haven´t seen it

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[Advice for a new Open gun]

Updating this thread

i received the parts listed Above last friday, but i have a national championship this week, so i bought another slide, a brazos thundercomp(2 weeks ago) and rebuild my last upper, when i come back from the national, i will build the new FS Upper unit

It runs realy flat comparing with my older setup, and comparing with my father´s open gun

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[Shorty 9mm major]

I am using right now a shorty 9mm major with a brazos Thundercomp barrel, i just received it last saturday, works really good, using silhouette and Montana Gold 124gr JHP works really good

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[New Member from Venezuela]

Welcome, I have a few friends from caracas. Not shooters though. I've been trying to get them into it.

thanks, convince them to shoot

[Advice for a new Open gun]

Ok, Silhouette is my favorite Powder. With 124gr Montana Gold CMJ set 1.165 it takes 7.7gr with a regular SPP to make 172 pf out of either of the twins pictured in the previous post. The DP2 is good with no holes and not a hybrid. I find that the RN bullet in 9 major just make the gun more reliable, and the accuracy is good. Note that Silhouette is reverse temp sensative, in cold weather I drop down to 7.5gr.

If you are going to run a hybrid with 3 or 4 holes then I would recommend the Brazos ThunderComp II. However, I don't recommend hybrid or poppel holes in 9 major. If you want it flat and soft then go with a Bull Barrel, the Cone comp has a bit more flip, but is still very good. With poppel holes the Brazos TruBore cut blank might be a good combo, but it will take more powder to make power, but if you only need 160pf it might be ok.

Other good powder choices are HS6, AutoComp. If you can load really long like 1.185+ then you can run 3N38 or AA#7.

Imr7625 shoots about the same as 3N37 in my opinion and N350 is awful.

I wouldn't knock 38SC, it is a great open gun caliber, you can do more with it, and if you can find your brass you can load it 20 times or till it splits. In 9 major my best advise is use once fired, shoot it once and let it go.

with the silhouette so far so good, it is a really good powder for 9mm major the best i have tested i will use it next year with montana MGB9MM124GR. CMJ and winchester primers

I really dont want poppleholes for two reasons 1) my scope mount will interfere is i made them, 2) i dont like the feeling, i will go with bull barrel 5.4" and the PF will be around 164

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[Advice for a new Open gun]

You might try a different, slower burn rate powder. 7625 is on the fast burning side/IMHO. Not saying that it was the cause of your broken slide but it may have contributed. Going with a slower burning powder (and using more of it per load) will also produce, in general, more gas to improve the effectiveness of any compensator you choose.

you are completely right i also think it was the powder or the link, the thing is that was the powder i found in that time, right now i found Silhouette and thats is the powder i am going to use from now on, this year i shot and i didn´t take time to check what was the best for my open, i took advice from my friends that shoots open class, but they are 38 super BIG mistake

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[Advice for a new Open gun]

this is the gun i have right now

caspian 4.5" slide/ sti barrel/ comp? WHO knows what it is LOL, SS guide rod, this is my first open gun, and y went from D class to B this year but the gun bounces a lot and the dot is not quiet, also is fault of the imr 7625 powder

with the broken slide i decided to search for info, and build a new upper unit, i have been using for the las 2 months my dads gun wich is STI slide/shuemann hybrid comp with 4 poppleholes/ brazos customs comp/ recoil master and the gun is a lot easier to shoot responses better than mine but it is really on the heavy side this gun, so i want something as flat as possible but easy to handle between targets and transitions

best regards and thank you for your opinions

some videos of the behaviour of the gun

[Advice for a new Open gun]

Go with the schuemann barrel. If you do not want to use popple holes and are goin with 9 major use the Dawson comp. I have shot a 9major gun with that comp and its very soft shooting. All the other parts are good.

Go with the schuemann barrel. If you do not want to use popple holes and are goin with 9 major use the Dawson comp. I have shot a 9major gun with that comp and its very soft shooting. All the other parts are good.

He is talking about my gun,he shot it looked over at me with a grin and said it was like cheating. I have one with a Schuemann and 3 with Clark Barrels they all shoot good. It is hard to find a Schuemann maybe try an SVI.

I should add I have a Bedel Ti and a couple BCG II's, the TJ DP#2 it the one you want.

i chose the shuemann, and ordered the rest of the parts except the comp, i am trying to get the dawson comp but it didn´t accept my credit card at the dawson´s page, weird i am going to try again tomorrow if it doesn´t accept the credit card i will have to buy the bedell, and next year i will order the dawson with a friend in USA

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[New Member from Venezuela]

Are you in Maracaibo or Caracas?

How's the shooting in Venezuela?

Jack

i am from puerto ordaz about 8 hours from caracas, the shooting here is not so big as USA, but in a national match there are about 150 shooters, we have them in diferent regions of the country, for example to maracaibo i must drive for 16hours to shoot but i like it and that all that matters

Can you drive there in a car ??

of course Xd

[Advice for a new Open gun]

Hi i have just finished the shooting season here in my country but i got not so good new, my slide is broken in three diferent parts,the weird thing is that the slide just had 1k rounds (i changed the slide in july), so i decided to build a new slide, but i am in venezuela and i don´t want to make a wrong choice so these are the parts that i chose, my father made his new upper unit in february in 9 major also but he is using popple holes, the parts i will buy them in shooters connection, i usually use speed shooters but they dont have most of the parts i need, this will be used in a new Sti classic slide i also got a colt slide i choose what i will use when i receive them

Barrel

Schuemann .355 Bull Barrel Threaded 5.4" 32 twist,i chose this one because i used to have one in the limited gun i had, also there is a kkm KKM .355 Caliber Bull Barrel Threaded 5.4"

Extractor

Aftec Advanced Competition Extractor

Guide rod

STI RecoilMaster

Firing pin and firing pin stop

Limcat Firing Pin - XL

STI Firing Pin Stop

ISMI Firing Pin Spring- Heavy Duty

Racker

Cheely Custom Slide Racker

Compensator

Here is where i am full of doubts because i only have 3 options, notice that i will be using Silhouete powder, with 125gr RN bullet, and winchester primer with a PF of 164 aprox, i dont want to use popple holes but i want a real flat gun with a good recoil

here are the options

Bedell Custom Titanium Comp

BCG Thundercomp 2

Dawson Awesome Comp #2 TJ

from some imput on the internet, and my little experience with the brazos, i think the best option is the dawson but i don´t know the weight of the comp will become an issue also is larger than the brazos or the bedell, because the brazos works better with popple holes,and the bedell i dont have so much reference of it, i have a friend that had the brazos and the bedell and he told it has a similar behaviour like the brazos

also i will order this trigger group

Koenig/EGW Ultimate Trigger Kit

because i tested it in my dads gun and also tested the extreme kit but i like the egw most

What do you think about this set up? i am asking because in venezuela is a lot difficult to get the parts and i am going to import them, a mistake will be hard to solve here

Best regards and sorry for the long of the post

[New Member from Venezuela]

Hi i just registered in this forum, My name is gregorio From venezuela, last year i finished college and this was my first season at open class, my father is also practicing IPSC, i am using a 9mm major open gun

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