Cuz

You can also send it back to Glock and they’ll refresh all the internals for free and give it an inspection too. Since it is pretty old, and it is going to be used for CCW.

Very nice, now a couple of questions if you don’t mind. Do you have a favorite? Which one sees the most range time? Seems like it would be a difficult decision as to which 1 or 2 to grab when heading to the range, unless they are each more purpose driven rather than acquired over time “just because”… That set could make a calendar with each gun featured in a pic for each month.

This thread reminds me that I need some better cold, and wet weather gear.

I didn’t know about it either, thanks.

Thanks Kurt. I will order a replacement when I can find one, but it’s good to know I can run the gun in the meantime without doing any damage.

Does anyone know if this o-ring is "essential" or "optional"? What does it do?

Is this part really necessary? I decided to clean my Stoeger M3K shotgun since it finally stopped working, and when I took apart the bolt, the firing pin retaining pin O-ring was split and destroyed. What does this o-ring really do? Do I have to have it? I finished cleaning and assembled the shotgun without it, but before I take it out and shoot it I was wondering if I "HAVE" to have that part or is it possibly optional? Thanks, Cuz

I’m getting excited to try trap shooting as my winter sport up here in New England.

Not to mention the potential for gun malfunctions with underpowered ammo.

I wouldn’t mind being a GM in name only, but don’t you have to switch to PCC for that? I never shoot anything but local matches, and only a few a year at that, so my classification doesn’t mean anything to anyone but my son. As long as I stay one level ahead of him I am good to go for all the household banter…

I too would like a decent sight pusher for the P365. Every time any home gunsmith project starts with "just clamp it in a vise", things go downhill from there...

I sure wish I had that kind of time to shoot, but I don’t, so I have to make trade offs. My gun runs fine when it’s clean, and it runs the same way after 1,000 or 3,000 and equally well after 8,000 rounds. I can’t tell the difference. Maybe you need a more reliable gun if you have to keep it so clean just so that it runs well. I’m kidding again, let’s not let this thread derail just because some of us actually enjoy cleaning guns and some of us don’t. I have a friend who is always cleaning a gun, because he says it relaxes him in the evenings, when others maybe sit down and watch tv before going to bed. To each his own.

Touche. I definitely can't argue with that. Maybe that's why I suck at the precision shooting sports and tend to gravitate towards the big easy targets like USPSA and Knock-down steel...

I disagree. The downside to cleaning your gun, is that you just wasted that time when you could have been doing something else, like shooting. The upside to running a dirty gun is that you didn't waste time cleaning it, when you could have been shooting it.

I doubt that any time he spent cleaning made him a better shooter. I wonder if he spent all that "cleaning time" practicing, maybe he would have many more than 9 national records. But, he'll never know, because he wasted valuable practice time cleaning his guns. Obviously my above comments are in jest. Congrats to your Dad on his accomplishments, and things are very different at that level. Me, I'm a hack just out to have fun, and cleaning guns just isn't fun to me. Many guns don't "need" to be cleaned regularly to function, and there are others that do. It's usually the shooter that needs to clean the gun, not the gun needing to be cleaned. I specifically shoot guns like Glocks, and Revolvers BECAUSE they run just fine with minimal cleaning. I also have an SVI in the safe that I shot for about 3 years without cleaning it. Just a little oil on the slide every now and then. At some point I transitioned to Glocks, and tossed the SVI in the safe, dirty of course, and it's been sitting there untouched for at least 15 years. I'm confident, that I could pull it out, put a few drops of oil on the slide and it would run just fine.

I noticed a difference and like it. I have their thick tungsten rods in my 17 and the extended one in my 34. It's a noticeable difference. Carver is having a Labor day sale now, normally it's 20% off all Carver branded stuff. I try very hard to stay away from their website when these sales are going on because I always end up buying too much stuff.

The biggest/only real problem I see with compacts in CO is that the grip is shorter, and my hand extends past it, and I occasionally get pinched during reloads. I run a 17 in CO and a 34 when I shot production. My 19 sits in a Galco shoulder rig that I don’t use, but just looks cool.

Thanks, if it is the same, then those would work great for me. I’m tired of my sandpaper grips shredding the inside of these bags.

what material is on the inside of the shooters connection bag? Is it the same as the outside? I have skate tape on my grips and it tends to really chew up the bags with soft interior lining.

Don't you trust the reliability of your gun to go a couple of matches and maybe a practice session or two without malfunctioning? I would NEVER want to own a gun like that. Years ago I used to clean a gun every time I shot it. Then, life took over and I cleaned it every few times I shot it. Then, I started wondering why I really needed to clean it all that often and started not cleaning it. I was amazed at how long it went. And when it does malfunction, it will be at most one jam or hiccup which lets me know it may be time to clean, at which point I also replace all the springs. I don't shoot big matches and in the few matches I do shoot, I make plenty of mistakes on my own, that one hiccup in my gun isn't going to matter. Besides, I always bring a backup gun to a match so if something big happens I just swap guns. I do NOT apply this theory to any carry guns or home defense guns. Those are kept clean, and for each one, I have a duplicate that I practice with until it gets dirty and needs a cleaning, then I clean it, and it becomes my carry/home defense gun, and the one I was carrying becomes my range toy to practice with. This process might not work for everyone, but it works great for me.

Here’s a good one, about 5-6 years ago I bought a Stoeger MK3 and had it sent to MOA Precision for their package deal. That shotgun has been absolutely awesome, and runs flawlessly. Last month I decided to try trap shooting and brought the Stoeger. It certainly got some looks at the shooters with their fancy trap guns. I did lousy, but had enough fun that I decided I needed a trap gun. I went back last week to ask more questions, look at the guns others were using and of course, shoot the Stoeger. One of the guys there with a fancy gun suggested I might do better if I changed chokes, and asked what I was using? He laughed when I told him I didn’t know, I got it cuz it had a red band on it that matched all the fancy red parts that MOA put on the gun. Then he looked at my other chokes and suggested a swap, except that we couldn’t get the choke out, it was stuck in good. A few people tried, with multiple choke tools. Finally the guy got a little exasperated and said, “you know, you’re supposed to take the chokes out and clean them when you clean your gun!” I looked at him with a straight face and said, I know that, but I’ve only had the gun for about 5 years so I haven’t cleaned it yet. He got all flustered and walked away. Wouldn’t come anywhere near me the rest of the day. I thought it was pretty funny.

It’s got me thinking that a lot of the drills I did in my early years just shooting into a spot on the berm to work on flinch control and observing how the front sight tracked up and back should probably be repeated now that I’ve transitioned to a dot. They would probably be helpful learning to track the dot and see how it moves and reacts to the shooting. Sometimes you have to take a step back to move forward.

Those are very cool.

Where are you shooting the steel match? What part of MA are you in? oh, and welcome to the forum.

Standard right handed setup, left index finger pushes mag release. I NEVER have to worry about getting DQd because my finger was on the trigger during a reload…