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  1. Akacala, Have you done any work on the trigger? Mine could use some improvement but I'm not a slave to a soft primers with relaoding so I'd be hesitant to change springs.
  2. I went with a mismatched sight combo but ended up really liking it on my 625JM. Dawson precision .100" wide FO front with a Cylinder and Slide fixed Extreme Duty rear sight. Could have gone with the C&S sight combo but their front sight posts are pretty thick and not nearly as fast as the .100" Dawson.
  3. I can tell you I have been utterly impressed with everything MidwayUSA has done during this craziness. They haven't raised their prices, were the first ones to limit sale number to allow everyone to get a piece of the pie and have been doing the NRA round up since the early '90. I didn't buy much from them before because they aren't the cheapest, but after buying AR and Glock mags at pre-panic prices ... I'm going to be a loyal customer.
  4. I've been on a firearms "history" kick lately. I just finished Glock - The Rise of America's Gun by Paul Barrett. It was an interesting read that casts some light on the plastic pistol empire. I will say Mr. Barrett throws a few digs at gun rights groups, mainly the NRA, but also treats gun control groups with the same level of scrutiny. It's obviously written by a non-shooter even though Mr. Barrett has covered the firearms industry for a long time, he's still an outsider. It was at least entertaining to see what a motley group Gaston used to build his empire. I'm about a third of the way through C.J. Chiver's The Gun, which is easily 4 times the length of Barrett's book. However, I find that Mr. Chiver has put much more time into the research and tells a more complete history of automatic firearms leading up to the AK style rifle, which is the book's main subject. This has been a really good read so far, covering repeating arms in the Civil War through WWII and beyond. He is also a lot more reserved with his opinions about firearms, although he makes one statement in the forward that would have me believe he's a shooter himself. Both are good books, Glock is a light read while The Gun is a little more on the heavier side.
  5. This should set you up nicely for a Burris. http://www.jackweigand.com/swhpmnt.html
  6. Alec, I give a +1 for the Burris FFIII, I had one on a Mark III that I shot steel with. Great little reflex dot and you can get them for a good price now. I was getting a little too lazy with my steel sight picture work so I decided to let it go when I sold that pistol. But I was very impressed with the reflex dot performance and durability. JP
  7. My wife and I bought a Life Fitness treadmill at the beginning of our last pregnancy. Had it for almost 3 years and it still runs virtually like new. The base model F3 was what we went for, as far as price versus value this was one of the better deals we found. http://www.lifefitness.com/home/cardio/treadmills/f3baseunit_2.html?console=/Home/Consoles/GoTreadmill/GoTreadmill_en_US The fitness store we bought it from did 12 months same as cash and 10% so it wasn't that bad in the end. Much higher quality than the Sears, Dicks Sporting Goods, other big box store brands. My wife runs about 15 miles a week on it and I do about 9. I have no doubt that it will last for 10+ years. We're shorter people at 5'8" and 5'0" and the folding works for us, but if you're any taller I would recommend getting the non-folding for 2"-3" more tread platform, we ended up never folding our's anyway.
  8. This is great stuff guys. I'm going to have to try the empty cylinders to a load on the last shot to check how much I'm moving during pull.
  9. I think I saw John Z Sr on this forum somewhere, he puts on the matches you should talk to him about getting a match started up your way. The biggest thing is the rules are SIMPLE, nothing complicated or convoluted. Just shoot and have fun. The more I think of it the more I'm convinced the 627 is the way to go. It's hard to not want an 8x revo.
  10. I'm a small framed guy (5'8" / 150 lbs) but have larger hands for my size. The Smith grip (the other non-Hogue it comes with) on my 617 are a little too small but the Hogues work. My G4 G34 has the large backstrap and I've held a few 629s that feel fine to me. I was also trying to stay away from 5 - 6" barrels, mainly because I like a 4" barrel (I have 3 other revolvers with 3 - 4" barrels, none longer) and the longer guns are PC which means I have to pony up $300 more. Is the extra barrel length worth it in accuracy? That's actually something I had not considered. I do reload and not that losing 100+ pieces of brass in a day would break me, but as everyone knows scavenging revo brass is much harder than semi-auto brass.
  11. Let me know how the DS-10s work for you, I just bought a 617 (so sweet) this weekend and speedloaders will be the next investment I make for our local rimfire shoots (ZSA and Ruger Rimfire).
  12. So I'm looking to get into revo comps (ZSA (big locally), ICORE and Steel; to a lesser extent IDPA) and want a full-size .357 to compliment my M-60 PS (which is a great BUG comp gun). I am heavily leaning toward a 627 Pro Series because of the moonclips and I can shoot in ZSA with the 1911 crowd and still put up a decent showing. But would any of the more experienced shooters recommend anything else? I'm mainly concerned about keeping it at a 4" barrel, in .357, and under $800. I have entertained the thought of a standard 686 then chamfering and do some trigger work or the 686 SSR Pro Series. Only issue is if I shoot steel then there is less room for error. With the 627 there is also an issue that I'm relegated to ESR in IDPA and have to worry about 6 shot reloads and empty cylinders, which I still don't know how big of a challenge that will be. Any thoughts from the more experienced guys out there?
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