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44 minutes ago, motosapiens said:
I don't think anyone really knew.
That is pretty cool.
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You can buy straight barrel 5" pistols that are shop tested & verified to shoot 1.5" 50 yard groups.
I wonder if the cone tends to help with reliability since you only have a small area (lengthwise) where barrel and slide approach a tight fit? Sort of like the reasoning behind a tapered wall (9mm) cartridge.
I have not seen any reliability data on one versus the other.
Interesting question.
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14 minutes ago, tdp88 said:
I get that, I just don’t like subjective rules.
Yep.
I'm a big fan of the 100% certain thing. If I think a person messed up I will probably offer an opinion to them after they finish the stage (if they seems the type that appreciates warnings), if it is clear that the person messed up then I will call it.
Seems to work out, people get by with 190's on the 180 with me because in real time I can't get the protractor out and compare the shooter to the designated 180 line and factor in my viewing angle, but the stuff that you would worry about seems pretty easy to call. Even the trigger finger, when the shooter lives with his finger wrapped around it and you are at the right angle.
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13 minutes ago, tdp88 said:
It just drives me nuts that some guys are looking to DQ shooters.
I understand that.
I just would never give a person a warning if I was certain that they broke a safety rule that I was supposed to enforce. It just seems better for everyone if you don't get into the exceptions business.
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39 minutes ago, tdp88 said:
Unless someone unintentionally fires a round during a reload or while running, it shouldn’t be a DQ. Most of the time an RO can’t get a clear view on the trigger guard while someone is moving.
Just finished watching the scenario play out. Open shooter, they warned him about it 2 or 3 or 4 (or more) times at different matches and the warnings did not cross the circuit between his trigger finger and his brain or apparently make it to his dry fire practice.
So he let off a round while running and got the dq and maybe, hopefully, the point was finally made.
Agree that the r.o. has to be 100% sure there is a problem and it can be hard to get a clear view. The way I see it is that 10.5.10 says dq the guy with the safety problem and if I'm r.o. and I do not enforce the safety rules then I need to own it if the unsafe guy we let squeak by ever hurts anyone when the a.d. finally happens.
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2 hours ago, mcracco said:
Level10 toolhead spring:
The original spring in my 1050 got too weak for the handle to come full up on its own so I replaced it with the spring in the 1050 spare parts kit.
The one in the kit was longer than oem and came with a longer bushing that had to be swapped when you changed to the longer spring.
Do you know if the newer spring bushing pretty much identical to the aftermarket?
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8 hours ago, mmlook said:
unless there's mostly steel
And the poppers are well calibrated, and you don't have any of the poppers that don't fall reliably from a minor hit on the side the scoring zone, and the poppers are not changing calibration as they sink in the mud, and you don't have occasionally gusts of wind blowing on the backs of any poppers, and you don't have activating poppers that take three years to fall down from a good hit with minor pf.
I hate minor and the big poppers, it probably shows
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Little poppers, no worries.
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All 5 guns work with both the oem pins & Xtreme pins & 3 of the 5 work with the PD gen 2 pins.
If you measure the PD pins from the flat that the FPB contacts to the round surface opposite you find that they are very slightly smaller in that dimension than both the Xtreme & the OEM, I did not check the other dimensions to explore whether or not there might be more play between the PD pins and the firing pin channels.
Not knocking the PD part, at this point all I know with certainty is that a couple of my guns would not pass a FPB check (done in battery, seems weird that the guy checked your gun with the slide back, not the first Abbie Normal thing I have heard of at the equipment check stage though) with them installed. I almost wonder if manufacturing tolerances/specs of the extended FPB and one piece sears might have changed over time resulting in a little less lift? I'm running the Xtreme Titan hammer on my guns which I suppose could also be a piece of the puzzle, seems like I read that the sear rides it a little differently than an oem hammer.
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Not blocking. Have 5 Tanfos (I have a problem) set up the same way, 3 were fine.
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On 10/18/2018 at 4:22 AM, Hi-Power Jack said:
Only took one hour/week
Guess I could have plunked down $1,100 for a 650 and saved myself 30 minutes/month
or one minute/day.
Brain fart deleted
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Both of mine failed with the slide forward.
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On 10/15/2018 at 12:08 AM, V2plus25 said:
If he then experiences any light strikes then we'll drop in the extended FPB to fix the problem.
I assume everyone is also verifying that the FPB still blocks the pin after modifying/installing revised fob or sear or pin?
At a gun check on an upper level match I assume that the match official will push on the back of the firing pin with a punch with the hammer back & verify that the block stops the pin.
2 of my guns would not pass this test after installing FP, extended FPB, 1 piece sear. I changed firing pins & this fixed the problem, I wonder if there is a better way though as the increased engagement length is still very marginal, perhaps something could be done to allow the one piece sear to rotate back a smidge more and maybe get a little bit more lift on the extended fob? . Talking to PD about it, Joe said they had seen one gun that had dimensions so far off that they welded a piece on the extended FPB to get sufficient lift.
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6 hours ago, CHA-LEE said:
Smooth yet deliberate up and down movement of the handle makes everything run more reliably.
Was surprised that occasional upside down cases (9mm) stopped occurring when I got a bulletfeeder and really focused on running the handle smoothly.
The hand that used to reach for bullets now rests on the case feeder support & the bullet feeder adds weight to the case feeder so one of those two things could also be why the nuisance issue went away.
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Thin safety
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On 10/16/2018 at 8:15 AM, IHAVEGAS said:"Aftermarket" is defined in appendix A3 of the USPSA rulebook as "Items not manufactured by, or directly available from, the Original Firearm Manufacturer.
Seems really straightforward.
You can use a safety that is directly available from the manufacturer or you can use one that isn't, that pretty much covers every possibility.
Edit: Unless somebody comes up with a Schrodingers cat safety that both is and isn't at the same time, but then you'd have to get Troy to clarify if you consider the is as the isn't and vica versa or if you needed to look at both sides the other way around.
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13 minutes ago, tdp88 said:
So, a lot of these guys are already set for major and just shoot what they normally do.
Maybe. From what I've seen of the top shooters most of them seem to be fanatics about anything that gives them a small advantage, I would be surprised if they were casual about gun selection for the nationals but I have often been wrong before.
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29 minutes ago, Jim Watson said:
If you apply the Trevor Formula - attenuation only in frequency ranges attributed to gunshot - the NRR 19 dB Sordin looks a lot better at a cherry picked 30 dB.
Thing is, if you apply the Trevor Formula to my NRR 30 dB passives, you get a Trevor Number of 44 dB.
Quieter is quieter.
I wish they would make a muff as comfortable with shooter safe insulation.
But my Midway/Peltors are pretty comfortable to wear.
Not surprising.
Other thing about the Trevor stuff:
"While writing this review, I searched out and read a half-dozen scientific studies (or abstracts containing all of the info I needed) which examined the frequencies and effects of gunshot noise. Because I’m all about spreading knowledge without making you do the legwork, here’s everything you need to know about gunshot noise:"
In other words Trevor is a person with no training or expertise but he googled a few articles and then started writing. I'm not going to repeat the process, but you can find information on the net that is contradictory to his conclusions about critical frequency and ear anatomy/sensitivity. I think I posted some links the last time the subject came up.
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19 minutes ago, RJH said:
What did you say, I don't know what BOC means?
It is an abbreviation for the seasoned shooters who do 95% of the work at matches.
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33 minutes ago, motosapiens said:
do you think it's a real advantage?Just looking at the Nationals, 9 of the top 10 SS went with 8 round major, so it seems like they think it is an advantage.
My wild guess is that major points would win the day and shooters with monster recoil control like Leatham would have a leg up.
I would not bet the farm on it.
Right now I think it is fun that there are different divisions, gives me a break from routine and an excuse to buy a 1911.
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I never was good at conspiracy theories either.
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5 minutes ago, motosapiens said:
The question is, what if they were combined? would everyone shoot 1911's? or would everyone shoot cz's? Or would people just shoot whatever they have? Which equipment would have the perceived advantage?
My crystal ball shows a race for 45 & 40 1911's and giant heaps of production guns in scrap piles.
The big boys can reload fast and major power factor is a thing.
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2 hours ago, Hi-Power Jack said:
Sounds like a great marketing strategy.
You wonder if it is about efficiency gained by making products in batches or perhaps the need to do batch production related to tooling conversions and inventory/shop space limitations.
Or, like with federal primers, we will make these for sale only when we are not booked on our more important product lines.
Or not.
In the mean time Stock 3's are still out there at a nice price & they rock.
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Today no, this is an old topic that I researched previously. I actually have owned 2 sets of Sordins & still use the second set when I do not need heavy duty protection, they are fine when I'm outdoors and away from r.o.ing folks with open guns & 308's & etc.
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5 hours ago, Nevadazielmeister said:
The MSA Sordins are very effective for noise reduction for our purposes, which is mostly pistol impulses. Please don't let the marketing hype fool you.
The only thing MSA has is 100% marketing hype and fabricated junk science.
NR testing is a long established science, Sordins are mediocre for loud pistol shooting (they are fine for 9mm and below and if your hearing is damaged already they can seem fine for loud guns) and test very poorly compared to heavy duty hearing protection from pro ears & others, so unfortunately they fabricated a story that sounds good (no pun intended) and promote the fantasy that they have magical properties for gun shots.
There is nothing magical about earmuffs, if they fit tight (the good ones all do), if they use good insulation (it is cheap there is no reason not to) and if their is nothing particularly wrong with the case material then buy the thick ones if you want the most noise reduction or buy the thin ones (like sordin) if a 21 db nrr rating is sufficient for your needs.
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5 minutes ago, Andyk said:
What is the big deal with swaying pistol rounds? Did you do it before you got a 1050? Notice a difference?
For me the biggest deal is that I feel the problem at the swage station when you have one of those primers that gripped the decaping pin and pulled back into the case. Quick and easy fix instead of potentially wadding things up when you try to install the new primer.
I'd let go of my favorite gun before my 1050.
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Anyone own a Fusion Reaction?
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When I think of my dealings with Fusion on warranty repair issues my blood pressure goes way up. Way up.