konkapot
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I've tried over the years training with a different gun than my match/duty gun and it's never worked out in any meaningful way. Tried it in limited, production, and singlestack.
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Sent it to Benny, who had it back to me in about two days. He said that the previous smith did a "pretty good" job fitting the barrel. Benny did some work and now the gun runs perfectly.
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Those ARE awesome domain names though.
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Not being an a-hole, but seems like a moot point. In a few thousand rounds YOU will have the Genuine Experiences.
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Spoke to Benny Hill on the phone today; reasonable man to talk to and willing to take on the job.
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One of the things that bothered me was that the alleged test firing after the repair probably didn't happen. A gun that doesn't have a working thumb safety is clearly not ready to ship back to the customer.
Another thing that gave me the itchies was that the original builder of the gun was a very well known, long time gunsmith. So we have one legit gunsmith AND one lesser smith......neither of whom could fit the barrel properly. It's cliche to say, and applies to probably all the trades, but it's hard to find skilled craftsmen these days.
Get off my lawn, kids these days, etc etc etc.
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Natchez has Small rifle magnum. $100/thou shipped. No limits. 0900EST
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I am done with the original smith for sure.
I've reached out to two smiths recommended to me; no response yet.
Will update
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Check obvious stuff (clean, properly lubed) and maybe capture some video from the left side of the gun while shooting?
Also maybe testfire without the shokbuff
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He did have the complete gun.
In addition to the poor workmanship issue described above, he told me that he test-fired it before return. Obviously not the case.
I'm not trashing him.
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I was unclear. If I were to remove a very small amount of material from the slide the safety would function properly.
Strictly focusing on the improperly cut barrel.
Agreed on the gunsmith; he's done good work for me regularly since 2009, hence me using him.
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Will it effect function?
Can I shoot it like this?
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Long story short. Gun needed a new barrel.
Gun arrived back from gunsmith with new barrel. Slide now sits in such a way that the thumb safety will not flip up; the notch in the slide is slightly too far to the rear.
What would cause this to happen?
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10 years has GOT to be a record thread resurrection
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If there's a 20 round stage there's 100 points available. So 92 out of 100 points.
Not super exact; a stage with a lot of partials might skew that a bit, a stage with a lot of steel would skew it the other way. Has been a pretty good guideline
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400 officer department.
The same 20-ish officers failed to qualify. We had two quals; one was a fairly normal police qual, the other was a variation of the Farnham drill. Of the 20 officers who didn't qualify, typically 19 of them failed the second qual.
Someone had a great idea of giving the "struggling" officers the opportunity to write down what they thought their problem was...put in their own words why they were not shooting well. First guy wrote "Because I suck at life and I suck at everything I do."
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Same department.....we had a guy who would periodically disappear. He'd use say 4 days of leave time but not come back for about 6 days. At some point he played the "I'm an alcoholic" card and then the "I've got a substance problem" card. This went on for some time.
Bottom line is that he'd go hang out with his doper girlfriend and then come back to work.
HR wouldn't fire him. It's decided to send him out to the range. They thought/hope was that if he failed that might solve the problem
The rangemaster assigned me the duty of giving him about 4 hours of refresher and running him through the quals. He then said "If he does anything weird or stupid I want you shoot him in the face." Sound extreme......but we had some concerns about this guy.
Officer shows up to the range and seems.......ok. Not great, but not outrageous. I inspect his gun and it's reasonably clean. I then look at his "duty" ammo and......it's not duty ammo. It's a mix of fmj some oddball hollowpoints, some lead reloads....just a random mix of crap.
He responded well to training and actually shot well on both quals. Either a testament to his fundamental skills or how easy our quals truly were.
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When I very first started...was unclassified still...I spent 3 days with Frank Garcia. He was quite specific re: points. He said 92% of the available points is a good goal for a match. This really helped me....at first.
Re: Teaching someone to shoot accuracy first and THEN hoping speed will come.....
My profession is teaching people how to shoot. I have to start with accuracy and then, when possible, move on to "speed."
That being said........the biggest obstacle to my personal shooting goals has been to push out of my comfort zone wrt hits:time. So the focus on speed first might have value.
When I bring former/current LE to matches they struggle the most with the overall "tempo" of our discipline.
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We were doing rifle training for a basic federal LE program. They had all gotten pretty good training on pistols, so at this point were not new to guns or shooting.
We had a shooter who was just struggling with her rifle. Could not get a zero. Five of us worked with her; sling/position/trigger/breathing etc etc etc.
Someone asked her "Are you sure you're focusing on the front sight."
She said "Yes sir I'm focusing on the right front sight."
Yup. She was using the right wing of the protective blade. Apparently had been switching back and forth between the left and right blade. None of us caught it.
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I've already got another one.
Mid size police department, transitioning from Beretta 96D to the officers choice of a couple of Glocks or Kimber 1911.
Every single officer came out and got to test drive the guns. Every single one.
Midway through this process I noticed one of them was really struggling to make a decision. Really seemed to be ciphering over it.
I check in with him and offer to help; let him shoot more, dryfire more, whatever it took to help him out.
He said "I'm just wondering which one would look better in a shoulder holster."
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Force on force training for DoD. Shipboard stuff.
Reaction force is moving to contact and we hit them very very hard from the front.
Point guy did a complete 180 and vigorously engaged his entire team. His own guys. Smoked them.
I stopped him in the middle of a reload and settled him down. His eyes were as big as fifty cent pieces. Total condition black.
"I've never experienced that much stress before."
He was aware, generally, of what he was doing, but not specifically aware.
If I can think of other short examples I'll chip in more.
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FP spring fix was not a fix. Dramatic improvement, but still had 2 out of 200.
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AHI I will take a look at that.
An unexpected development. I was dryfiring and it didn't sound "right." The firing pin seemed to be flush with the FPS.
Removed FP and it was clean and unbroken.
The FP spring seemed a little short. Replaced it with a new one which was much longer than the one in the gun. Cracked off a couple of primer-only cases and will livefire tomorrow.
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No wet clean. No case lubing. NO crimped primers; cull those out.
Firing pin is brand new; problem was present with both the old AND new firing pin. FP channel is spotless.
What did you have to do to your priming system?
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To address this issue a few months ago I went to a 20lb mainspring. Also set aside the CCI primers, which were being slightly more problematic
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