kneelingatlas

Get a reloading press first.

Never happens with my horizontal Cmores

Perfect Mark!

Nice work!

msg73, The pistols I have my different comps on are so different in design (barrel length/holes/slide weight) I can't make an objective comparison, but I do have a full sized 2011 w/o holes I plan to use as a test mule for comparing the following: CFD, A Zone, Thundercomp II, McLearn, Cheely and hopefully Eric's as well. I must say though, my gun with the CFD comp has two holes, and I use 9.4gr of SP2 under 115s so I have a completely different experience of it. I'm my opinion you're not giving it a fair chance with that load; with no holes in the barrel you should be able to make major using a 115 and a slow powder like 3n38 or even N105. I would not go faster than HS6 with that setup.

Superdude, I've found a distinct range of powders suitable for Open loads with Silhouette/CFE Pistol/WAC on the fast side and 3N38/SP2/N105 on the slow end (I'd consider powders like Lil Gun outliers). I definitely prefer these slower powders combined with 115gr bullets, but I've seen for each the point where they 'give up' and more powder results in less velocity. More holes in the barrel/shorter barrels sometimes push this point below major. At this point, given the choice between a heavier bullet or faster powder, which do you prefer?

Powder? bullet weight?

I have a little Tupperware I hold under the funnel, manually drop ten charges and weigh it. After I pour the powder out of it I fill it with bullets, easy.

Do you want to be surprised by the recoil during a match?

An indoor range where I shoot matches has outlawed steel because of lights being broken by schapnel, but the stages are creative and challenging so I haven't noticed. "fun steel" on the other hand is pretty lame with paper plates

Here are the 8 1/2" x 11" scans.

Stick with the CZ, you won't be happy with the Tanfo trigger coming from the CZ, the grip is slightly bigger as well, so that won't help you either.

18 degrees as far as I can tell

I don't know much about hardening steel.

I would start with factory plastic grips for that.

I bought some old school Tanfo parts on eBay once and the sear set came with this guide, I though I would share, see the new images below.

Thanks gunnit, here's my first effort with my full sized 9mm with the Binary Engineering Ti Comp, I'll probably re do this one with the checker board and with the same frame rate as the slow ones above (I decided to standardize at 5% speed so they're all the same). Rather than using the same load for all guns tested, I think I could do better comparisons (eventually) using my favorite load for each.

If anyone has one I can use, send it my way

One of these days I'd like to test your comp design Eric, do you have any lying around?