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Not all that experienced in the pistol comp shooting, but went to the thin aluminum grips with sandpaper type panels and they didn’t work at all for me. Found LOK Bogies grips based on input from here and love them. Aggressive and really helped my grip on my SP01.

A slightly different approach you might look into: I took my daughter to an Appleseed shoot and was really surprised at how much the class imporved my ability to shoot offhand. Well worth the 2 day investment and actual $ cost is negligible.

I tried the Leupold DPP dovetail mount on my SP01 and it would loosen after a few rounds. Not worth it. The CGW mount looks solid though.

I believe its the Deltapoint Pro. I'm sure I havent tried them all, but compared to the Trijicon and Vortex models, the DPP has the largest screen and for me, easiest to pick up the dot.

Thanks. Turns out my local Cabelas has a few in stock so i plan to check them out tomorrow. Any thoughts on barrel length? I was originally thinking 24, but most franchi's come in 26 or 28. Both seem overly long to me, but not sure what is the standard in 3 gun.

I had never considered the franchi, but after reading a few threads on BE, it looks like an excellent option especially for the price. Where do you buy extension tubes, and other parts? Thanks for making me rethink this ?

Buying my first shotgun and a few questions come to mind. I was planning on an M3K which after modding it with extended tube, extractor, maybe a springkit would probably be $750-800. I saw the versmax competition online and it looks like an out of the box solution for $1100-1200. Ive read a lot of threads here (megathread inc) about the M3K and it sems like a solid low end solution Would love to hear some opinions on the versamax. Thanks

Well this particular mount does not use set screws in the dovetail. The dovetail piece slides right into the slide, the plate lays over the top and the DPP is then screwed into the dovetail piece and torqued. The Leupold tech called it a press fit. I think its either a bad design, or i got an undersized dovetail piece that wont stay tight.

Yes blue loctite

I mounted a new DPP on my SP01 using the Leupold dovetail mount system. Mounted exactly per the instructions including torqueing to 25 inch lbs. Took it to the range and it came loose in 5 rounds. Tightened again, same thing so called Leupold and they are sending me a set of shorter screws to try. Has anyone used the Leupold mounts successfully? The 'press fit' seems sketchy to me so curious to other experiences.

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Was talking to a guy at a match this wekend who was using an SP01 tactical like mine. We were comparing what mods we had done when he mentioned replacing the slide stop with a low profile one from a RAMI. I tend to ride mine occasionally so i swapped my RAMI slide stop in and it works great...i measured both with calibers before making the swap and the largest difference was maybe .001" at most. Are these in fact interchangeable?

I wear 2.0 readers and my eye doc made me a pair of shooting glasses that have a very weak reader in the right eye only. It's a .75 which allows me to see the targets as well all though I have to have both eyes open. Works really well just takes a few minutes to get oriented to them.

No one using slide glide for lube?

I just upgraded mine with the ultralight package from CGW. I called them and discussed what was my least expensive way into a good trigger. They recommended the UL package as a foundation and then go from there. I also polished what I could and the trigger is great in both DA and SA. Not shadow great, but more than good enough for me at this time...eventually I'll put in the short reset kit and start playing with the recoil spring as well.

I use Berry's with reasonable accuracy. I think they offer only a few types rated to run above 1250 FPS though (thicker plating, hollow base etc). all my loads run <1100 FPS. I expect you would get much higher velocity than 1100 fps in a PCC.

24.5 grains H335 with a Berry's 55gr FMJ works quite well for me. reasonably accurate (steel plates at 300 yds no problem) and cheap. z

Great point...it really doesnt take up much room.

This is great input. Mine seems to be well dialed in now and seems to get more accurate the more I use it. It does spit a little powder over a run of 100 or so and I am not sure from where. It really is minor though. The powder accumulates on the top of my press near where you can see the heavy spring on the autodrum. This is for 9mm with titegroup. The ability to fine tune a load is what I like about it. The autodisk system is great, but not easy to get the exact charge you want unless you modify the disk etc... Thanks xdr

Thanks....good to know. xdr

Would be curious to hear any long term reviews updates on this powder measure. I have one, but really just put it into use yesterday on my loadmaster press for 9mm. After seeing how easy it was to set up and dial in plus how accurate it throws TG, I am also wondering if anyone has used it on a Dillon 650? Thanks xdr

Who knows about the static build up/ignition but the mental picture of a large cartoon beetle shaking your powder measure is hilarious?

This may not be 100% relevant, but I called them yesterday with the same question for my P07. The answer given was the P07 has less metal in the slide so the replacement plate was not an option. I am think the P09 would have the same issue. They also stated their current lead time for an optic cut was ~10 weeks. z

Yeah, ive pondered this as well. I probably just over thinking this grip thing and making things worse.