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Oh be very careful. My brother did the nail and hammer trick to a primer on an anvil. Sent half the primer into his stomach. About 3/8 of an inch in. It was thirty minutes of agonizing do it yourself surgery to remove it.

They have my prayers. May all turn out well.

Thanks, I'll take a look.

Invest in a shot timer as well. You can use it for dry fire practice too. Have one since last June. I got the old reliable "big blue box" and used it quite a bit set on random start.

I think that long pause right after the truck blew up was because he had to finish peeing his Huggies.

El Presidante it is. Good idea on revisiting the ones that bit me.

Yup, that is one I'm looking at. Thanks.

I have been shooting regularly for a little over a year and with my location and schedule I don't get a chance to shoot classifier's over the winter months. I am currently a D classification even though I out shoot some C occasionally a B shooter at my weekly indoor match.I seem to choke on classifiers during our warm season monthly matches and I want to go into them with more confidence. I know I should be in C.

I have a back yard shooting range and 4 metric stands and 2 poppers. Which official classifier or classifier's should I set up and practice to give me the best shot at improving my performance at my next classifier. I am working on building a couple more target stands and might find the funds for a couple extra pepper poppers but prefer to use that money to build a plate rack.

I guess he's feeling lucky not having any eye protection.

Sigs would work well if you want to stay with a steel gun. I have a P226 Tac Ops in .40S&W (it also comes in 9mm). It has a 5"barrel, steel slide, hard coated aluminum frame and is SA/DA with a decocker. Tritium sights are standard and it is plenty accurate. I bench it with factory ammo and get consistent 3" groups at 25 yards. Sig has plenty of other models that would also work.

+1 one on the Grams. I tried all of them and had issues with all except for the Grams.

I,m not from there but my guess is that the population is more religious than most places and they keep the Sabath for church and family. I have the opposite problem in Illinois. Most of the good matches are On Sundays so I miss some. Hope someone here can find you a nice match close by.

Reread , I said my Rescomp will only hold 21 reloadable ( I can get 22 to barley fit).I get 22 reloadable in the magazine with using a STI tube that I machined down the side ribs from the inside and cut down the Grams follower. I could try to clip the spring and cut down the follower a little more to make it an easy 22 reloadable. I am a little leary because I had the bullets jam up once in the magazine.

So it's tight but you can start with 22 in the mag plus one in the pipe? For starting with 23 at the peep. Or is it just 22 total to start? If you use the Rescomp tubes, Grams guts and Dawson SNL pads you should get 21+1. I do not use it to reload during the course of fire because of the tight seating and the chance of the magazine not locking up during rushed reloads When using the STI tubes and Grams follower that I machined I was able to get 22 in the mag plus one in the chamber. But seating it with one in the chamber was very difficult and I decided not to use it because of the possibility of a malfunction. I could machine a little more off the follower and clip the spring for a little more room but i have not seen a pressing need to start with 22+1. It was more an experiment to test the limits.

Dawson SNL pads and Grams guts gives 20+1 easy. The pads needed .010 machined off the bottom to reliably fit the gauge. I purchased the tuning kit and went through everything in the video that came with it and found no change in capacity or performance. The Rescomp tubes gave me 21+1but was difficult to seat the magazine with one in the chamber. I did some machining on the Grams follower and the ribs inside the STI tubes and was able to get 22 of .40 S&W in the mag but difficult to seat it with one in the chamber.

Patrick's article really brought it home. thanks for the help. I will be picking up an Cylinder, LM and IM and set up in the back yard range for some serious practice and testing. I have some 6" rounds and a couple of poppers and clay holders to work with. Hopefully I will have a plan by the time things get going here in spring.

Thanks guys, I'm ordering tonight.

I know this has probably been hashed to death but the more I read the more confused I am. Some say the stock choke is fine and others say a light modified is needed. Then There are those that say anything more that a cylinder choke will mess with the wad and pattern. Before 3-Gun the only shotgun experience I had was shooting rabbits with an old Savage side by side. Chokes seem to be a mystery to me and more art than science. I would like to purchase once and not look back so please school me. Which one will work the best in this sport? Does an extended choke make sense since I am installing a Carbon Arms 9 round Versatube? Not looking to save money either. Been down that sorry road too many times.

Normal cold weather does not affect steel as much aluminum. In our company we would shrink fit parts that would normally need several thousand psi to accomlish by placing them into dry ice at -110 F. These parts had been hardened to 64Rc and only shrunk .0006. They still required 1000-1200 psi to press in since there was still .0004 press fit left after cooling in dry ice and this was done without any lubricants. Since they are used in aircraft they had to be x-rayed after assembly. We never had one fail inspection. I think synthetics are the way to go in very cold weather as that is the only thing that would affect function. But then again my experiment I wrote about earlier in this thread showed no significant function problems using Tetra grease and Weapon Shield when firing a custom 2011 LTD stored in a -5F freezer.

I would take a Dremel to the area in the magwell that the base pad retaining pin is coming in contact with.

Glad you signed in Gary. Welcome. What part of Illinois are you ?

Wow, I really started something here. Had no idea Tap Talk would stir this much controversy. I guess in a way it answered my question. I will not be using Tap Talk any time soon. I'm having enough trouble warming up to Apple's system. Still trying to figure out why my iPad won't launch graphics on some web sites. Checked out a friends Android tablet and his launched the web site launched fine. Oh, while I'm here the emotion icons are not working even though I have the activation box checked.

I finally made my first Apple purchase in the form of an iPad Air. Every Apple owner that I know told me that I would be blown away and would never look back. Maybe they forgot to chip me at the Apple store but it's not as intuitive as I was led to believe. Anyway what is the deal with Tap Talk. Everytime I log onto the Enos site a alert comes up to encourage me to try the mobile version in the form of Tap Talk. Is it worth paying $4.99 for what I assume would be an abreviated version of the Enos site? I have found that most mobile sites are more confusing and have less function and info than the full site versions. While I'm here, can anyone help me find out why graphics will not load on some sites. If you have a iPad Check out the ar15armory.com site and see if the graphics load on the home page. I checked and Java Script is enabled. Sorry for the rant but I feel as if Apple product virtues are oversold.

Sorry, I seem to have a problem with reading comprehension. Explains my SAT scores.For 165 gr Montana Gold I use 5.1 gr of Titegroup and 1.18 OAL which results in 1040 fps.