kneelingatlas

Pull em, the powder is trash. I pulled ~100 tonight and that was plenty for one sitting, it took about 40 min. If you're interested, I would break them off a little at a time each reloading session: maybe pull 50 at the beginning and 50 at the end. The 550 makes it easy to reload primed brass, so you're good there.

I've only played around a little with a 38 GT, but Beer Barron and Gump seem to be enjoying theirs.

The scope mount is a Cheely, from his VIP run I haven't shot it over a chrono yet, but I plan to this month and if it performs like I expect it to I plan to make the three 12 o'clock holes bigger. To your original question: 9 or 38 If you're going to get an off the shelf V12 GT I recommend a 38, but if you're going to build something custom I would start with a 9mm Limited. Reason being that I'm not really enjoying 38 because of the brass, but I had a 9mm V12 for a time and it is pretty hard on the gun to make major. 8.3gr of HS6 under a 124gr only made 164pf in my 9mm GT, that was as high as I ever went I never shot that load through any of my other Open guns because it only took 7.8gr to get 176pf in my CZ TS Open gun. I've heard tales of "soft lugs" and "soft slides" on 9mm GTs, but I think the reality is that a steady diet of ammo that hot would chew up any gun in short order. My regular 175pf 9mm load in a 5.1" barrel with no holes only makes 158pf in a V12 GT barrel.

Sort of... It's a 38 barrel and a 9mm slide so the breech face is too small to chamber regular super, but it runs 38 supercomp like a hound of hell

Cool! stop by and say hello, I'll be shooting a bronze Open gun that day, can't miss it!

Make your own!

Welcome to the forum! Are you shooting Pala? I'll be there on the 24th

Very nice!

No

Glad to hear it's working out!

I have thought about a CZ 75 SP-01 Shadow, for a long time. I don't have a lot of CZ/Tanfo knowledge, but isn't it a small frame compared to the Tanfo Limited Pro/Stock2/Elite Limited which are large frames? As far as SSP/Prod I can see it being very viable, but USPSA Limited mag capacity would suffer. Am I right? 9mm capacity is the same between small and large frame CZ75 pattern pistols (23-24 in a 141.25mm mag), it's .40 where the large frame (or TS wide body small frame) shines (21 vs 15).

I guess that should've been a question rather than a statement since I've never shot IDPA...

and a full dust cover

Your best resource is to search the name of the powder you have in the .38 subforum of reloading.

Yes, I have a 9mm barrel which drops into my 10mm Hunter.

This is the part I call the disco (disconnect or interruptor): http://www.brianenos.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=191773&p=2138255 This tuning thread is for the CZ DA, but it's close enough to get you started. If you read from the beginning you should know what to do.

With regards to your DA woes: the hammer doesn't really effect the DA pull weight, it's all about the plunger spring, trigger return spring and the hammer spring. The SA breaks in the hammer and sear, but the DA shot breaks on the disco and the trigger bar.

Quick question before I get started: when you draw in SA, you have the safety engaged right?

Shocking! I have never broken a slide stop on any of my TSs (one in 40, one in 9 and one custom 9 major Open gun). The Open gun has the most rounds through it, I'd estimate ~8-10K of 115gr bullets doing 1,450-1,575fps. Granted the compensator dissipates a lot of energy, but those are some high energy loads and I've never used a spring heavier than factory (I've gone all the way down to 8#). So I'm with pivo, try a lighter recoil spring and see what happens. With factory 40 ammo I would use a 12# or 10#.

What "other forum"?!? there is no other forum! What did you get when you came here? "Id be really surprised if it were that old... I'm guessing late '90s, early 2000s." Boom! that's all you need

A Shadow release fit my T-120 without modification.

About three years ago I posted one just like it for $1,700 on a local site and had six buyers respond in a few hours. The Anacondas aren't in as high demand as Pythons, but you might get $2K for it.

I reuse the staked pins

Bigger hammer!!! The most important tool is a solid vice, any movement dissipates the energy from the hammer blow.

You can either file the safety or the sear, the sear is cheaper, but the safety is easier so it's up to you. Just go slow and check frequently because the difference between a functioning safety and a ruined part is less than the depth of your hammer hooks