kneelingatlas

Welcome from San Diego, where are you shooting?

I was talking specifically of the OP's choice between and Surely a comp with a better port design would be more effective, but given the choice above, I'll take the extra baffle.

The comps are aluminum right? Go for the four port, the only downside would be the additional weight, but with aluminum it's negligible.

You can load shorter or ream the throat, I've never seen any degradation of accuracy.

Sorry for the thread drift Red, drilling holes in the barrel and stroking the slide are two separate mods which compliment each other, but are otherwise unrelated.

I always figure 50/50

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Ah, I like this one!

Stroking the slide does lighten it to some extent, but the real benefit is that the energy of the slide is dissipated over a longer distance of travel, reducing slide speed before it impacts the frame. I have a bone stock TS with which I plan to create some slow motion videos isolating increased stroke, stay tuned

They look like the same maker, I bet it you contact him through Amazon you could get them. https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B01FDARTD2/ref=mp_s_a_1_31?ie=UTF8&qid=1476966069&sr=8-31&pi=SY200_QL40&keywords=Cool+Hand+1911&dpPl=1&dpID=51IjbX6GkRL&ref=plSrch It's the same gun, I'll bet if you send the seller your picture, he'll find them for you

1.295" top to bottom, no palm swell.

But first round off the firing pin stop and increase the stroke

I second that!

Brilliant!

That's them, thanks!

I picked up this cherry TS on Gunbroker and I think I really like these grips, does anyone know who sells them?

That combo is not Production legal, you can only replace the slide with one of the same contour and length.

Very nice!

I've loaded Major at 1.100", but then again, I tear the tags off my mattresses too!

The $15 ones are large frame and the $30 are small frame. Factory large frame mags are made by MecGar and are identical to the MecGar branded mags except the markings.

Looks like Sweetback listed it for him:

Sales need to be posted in the classifieds

I don't know about them "constantly" breaking barrels, I have a 2013 Czechmate which has had no issues, do you know what year your friend's is? How many rounds did he get on each barrel? I've shot CZ Open guns for four years with barrels from all models (they're all made basically the same) and have never never broken anything except one slide stop on a well used Shadow I bought. Between the CM and the GT, I don't think either is more or less likely to break although if a CM breaks it will be the barrel and on a GT it will be the slide. These are race guns, run 'em hard enough, long enough and things will break/wear out. The reason I prefer the CM to the GT is the trigger, comp and the fact that the CM is tighter/smoother than any of my 2011s. The tiny two port comp on the GT is terrible, and the 12 holes require huge charges to make Major. The CM comp is not the best I've shot, but much better than the GT, on the downside it's heavy, but no heavier than a steel comp, steel grip 2011 and plenty of people seem to like them. I would consider the Trubor, CM and GT in the same league with my preference being the CM, TB, then the GT. They're all high entry level race guns which will open the door to a custom build.

The Czechmate is a much better choice than a Gold Team