kneelingatlas

If I lived that close I would buy the warehouse guys some beer and root through their inventory looking for the parts I want!

And if anyone successfully orders a blued 9mm slide (standard or long slide), a Hunter slide in 10mm or a Bullseye slide in .40, I'd love to hear about it.

I'm ashamed to admit it Bamboo but that's why I didn't mention the 6" 9mm barrel until I got it in my hand, I knew there were a lot on back order so I didn't want anyone to call and snatch mine!

I know, its hit or miss, I've called one day and it's "out of stock, we'll put it on back order for you". then called the next day and ordered it.

If you're interested in a wonder finish long slide with super sight in stock.

Dugiv, I'm impressed you got a call. On a brighter note, I received my 6" 9mm barrel today! Now I just need a slide to put it in...

A heavier recoil spring will drop the brass closer.

What give politicians the right to judge what other people need and when they need it?Edited to add: I just remembered I said I would cut it out... I guess that makes me a liar. My politician remark was 900% sarcasm;) It looks like we're all on the same page then!

What give politicians the right to judge what other people need and when they need it?Edited to add: I just remembered I said I would cut it out... I guess that makes me a liar.

I take offense to you speaking on my behalf; I know you probably didn't even notice you did that, but that's the consequence of the collective language you chose. I am an individual, I do not have a need for instant gratification, I do not refuse to wait my turn, yet I am lumped into the collective you chastise. You may of may not believe you have a need for instant gratification or a problem waiting your turn, but judging by your responses above I don't think you're including yourself in that collective either. It is much more socially acceptable to criticize we than you people, but it seems to me that's exactly what you're doing. Surely this seems like an overreaction to an innocuous comment, but I see collectivism as a particularly ugly form of bigotry. Edited to add: I understand Brian created to talk about guns and the sport I love (and I suspect most here love it as well) not philosophy, religion or politics, so I'll cut it out.

I don't know which economics books you've been reading professor, but I think that's exactly what the law of supply and demand explains.

If you're concerned about frame/slide damage, I would get some aluminum shock buffs and tune the length of your slide accordingly. By that I mean you want to remove the spring and pull the slide all the way to the rear until it stops on the frame, note the length of slide sticking out the back of the frame. Then install your spring and shock buff and repeat, you want the fully rearward position to be just short of the one you noted before, that way you get maximum slide travel but the shock buff takes the impulse. If you want the slide to come back further, clip half a coil from the spring and try again.

Viking, you've got to be careful with your Tanfo vocabulary, standard means 4.5" barrel and long slide means 4.75" barrel.

Are you seeing the sights as your second shot breaks? are they on target?

Personally I wouldn't be as concerned with the classification as I would be trying out the division before I spent the cash to get into it. My idea isn't so much 'borrowing' but trading: if you've got his rig, why not let him use yours as long as he likes (as long as you're not interested in shooting it)? In a club with 30 shooters I would bet there's at least 50 complete rigs covering all six divisions, so there should be no reason I shooter has to buy an extra $2K in gear before he knows if he likes shooting any particular division. Maybe I'm way off base; how many competition pistols do you own? I have three: Production, Limited/L10 and Open and that's not counting the ones which are just legal in the division.

Do you have anyone in your club with a 625? maybe they want to shoot a few classifiers with your Open gun...

That's great to hear, what profile bullets did you use? OAL?

Is resale value a factor?

If you're not shooting at least 90% of the available points, you should focus more on getting good hits. Penalties are killers, avoid them. At least this is what I've been told by guys better than me. Once you're getting good hits I think its important not to think about shooting faster, but about doing everything else faster and eliminating wasted movement. I recently shot next to a GM and he didn't seem to be shooting faster than me, he just did everything else faster. When changing shooting positions I'm trying to focus in the voice in my head screaming MOVE!!!

It depends on the bullet, I have some lead 155 grain I can't load longer than 1.1 without hitting the rifling, but I think 1.135 should be right for a 180 grain FMJ. I hear Bayou bullets work well in the TS.

With the terms defined, CZs and Tanfoglios are similar enough in form and function that like frame sizes have some degree of compatibility. Magazines are for the most part cross compatible without modification (small in small and large in large, but slides are different enough to require modifications to function together.

Akacala, generally there are two basic frame sizes amount pistols: small and large. Small for 9/40 and large for .38 super/10/.45. This holds true for CZs, Tanfoglios, Glocks, ect. This is without regard to how long the barrel is (compact, standard, long slide); does that make sense? When Tanfoglios and 2011/1911 large frame pistols are chambered in small frame calibers, a spacer is employed either at the front or rear of the magazine.

Also, your small frame CZ parts don't fit the Tanfo small frame because the the slide rails on the CZ are a hair bigger than Tanfo. Tanfo slide on a CZ frame is a little loose and the CZ ejector is too wide for the channel in the slide.

Tortuga, the SP01 slide fits on the TS (see my Open TS), but the TS is a small frame (albeit a wide body small frame) so no 10mm or .45. The difference between large/small frame slides is in the space between the hammer and the breech so this SP01 slide had to be cut behind the breech and welded back together with a spacer in between the two halves.

Got it.