kneelingatlas

Are you kidding me?!? Everybody knows!

Not it!

If either of you end up with a spare rear sight from the Mossad, I'd love to buy it from you.

10mm Hunter slide

Yes, I've been playing with the idea lately, the way to do the rib like a true sight tracker would be to machine a shroud to thread onto the barrel, with a corresponding cut in the slide; lots of work. The other way to do it would be like ogiebb said: a blank comp, like the Czechmate: Another idea I had was to find the spare barrel from a Gold Team (the unported one), cut the single compensator port off and cut a dovetail for a front sight.

As long as they're all small pistol primers, the brand doesn't have a significant effect on velocity; some say magnum pistol primers and small rifle primers bump the velocity by 30-40 fps, but they're harder too so if you have a light hammer spring I would stick to Federals if you can get them. I just use CCI or Winchester for minor loads.

That's why I sold my .22 conversions: good triggers = bad ignition, crap triggers = reliable ignition, besides I can reload 9mm for the price of .22 ammo. I much prefer the Buckmark to the Ruger, the grip angle is closer to the CZ (Ruger is more like a Glock) and the trigger fulcrum of the Ruger is too far forward of the trigger, creating an up-and-back trigger stroke (same with their Model 77 rifles).

4.0 only got me 117 PF with plated bullets in a 4.5" CZ barrel so I would load ten rounds each: 4.4, 4.6, 4.8 and shoot them over a crono. I'm guessing all your bullets types will produce very similar velocities, so I wouldn't bother comparing them until you find your charge weight, then shoot them for groups side by side.

Of those powders I have loaded WST with 125gr Xtremes and 124gr lead round nose, here is the data:

No, the pistol cycles perfectly, for the comp I chose the small frame Tanfoglio type because they're readily available on Numrich, but the three port you see in the picture is actually for a .40 (.425" holes) not 9mm as advertised (they've since fixed that... almost) so it wastes gas, but I've also been going the wrong direction with my loads: heavier bullets and less powder. My current load is a 135gr bullet over 7gr HS6, it makes Major and is very soft, but the muzzle jumps a little; I have some 100s and 115s on order.How much do you want for your Czechmate?

There's a lot of useful information on these forums in the side chatter.

I'll bet whoever did the action job put in a light hammer spring which is causing your light strikes. I've found .22 conversion kits only work with factory springs.

+1 when I want to share load data I take a screen shot of the spreadsheet.

Picked up a box stock CZ 75B and shot a classifier match last month and out shot all my other classifications by 10%... maybe I should switch to Production.

You dog! Your first post on Enos and it's to show off your CM. I've got a poor man's CM (converted TS), but I just can't seem to get the right comp... or maybe the right load...

The mags are hit and miss, I took some measurements here: http://www.brianenos.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=170597&hl=%2Bmagazines#entry1891397

I use files of various grit, then fine sand paper

I use 1000 + grit sand paper on flat spots (sides of the trigger bow and hammer) and a felt wheel with automotive polishing compound on everything else.

I'd like to hear from someone who has shot similar Open guns in both 40 and 9 who can describe the difference in feel.

I have one in route to my FFL as we speak

He must be an IDPA guy! "DEPLOY TACTICAL SNARL!!!"

This is the spot right here, a few passes with a file, test fit, repeat. It's over sized there on purpose; my new CZ barrels have come the same way. When I bought a new barrel and found myself in the same situation I was Google searching for barrel fitting and came across this post by David Milam of Cajun Gun Works (schmecky): http://www.czfirearms.us/index.php?topic=47664.0

That's it.

I have a small competition frame, but I haven't decided how to build it out: Production or Open...

COAL will absolutely effect pressure which will directly relate to a change in velocity!!! I tested the same load (9 Major) with different OALs and found that I lost 5 fps (0.4%) for every .01" I lengthened the load. However a barrel 1" shorter lost 61 fps! That's 5%