troupe

I have been doing grips for years, but I would recommend the steel grip. The extra weight softens the recoil, simple physics.

troupe, on 22 Feb 2016 - 2:08 PM, said: I don't think anyone is flipping rounds in the air to look cool, it's a fast/efficient way to clear the gun and retain the round I did not know that you are on the clock clearing your pistol !!! Turn the gun over, ejection port down and let the round fall to the ground, after you holstered and range is declared safe, pick your round up. You have just lost 5 to 10 seconds of your life by not being efficient, but you and the RO still have your vision, motor skills in your hands, etc. You have spent thousands in your equipment, ammo, travel, match fees, time, etc. One round lost in the grass is not worth it because the round was not "retained". I would not want to see any shooter or RO get hurt, and I truly believe that you would not want it either. Think of the liability when your round strikes the ejector , the round is ignited, shrapnel hits the shooter and the RO. I have witnessed it and the damage can be severe. The shooter that it happened to was lucky that the surgeon could get the metal out. The RO did not sue the shooter for the damage that he sustained in the " fast and efficient " unloading procedure. How easy of a case would that have been for a Civil Attorney. How many times has a gun malfunctioned in one way or another, on the last round fired, and the shooter says, glad that it was the last round and I finished the stage ! We all have been there. How do you not know the tip of your extractor did not just let go or became chipped, loosing tension on that last round, and in the process of the " fast and efficient " unloading ignites the round. Not trying to get off topic, just trying to let the 30 plus years of experience in the sport and over 20 years around trauma be of value to all shooters. We shoot in a sport that can be very dangerous with unsafe gun handling, and things happen very fast in this sport. Once the boom happens, there is no restart. The sport has been very good to me and I have been fortunate in the friends that I have made in the industry surrounding our sport. I am at the point in my shooting that I know that I will not be winning the Nationals, but "YOU" may, so be safe brother and have fun !! I do hope you make it to the winners circle at the Nationals intact !!

Grams

Glad to hear it is still running well. It was very good to me. Very soft shooting.

Thanks for the heads up. I will look into one. Thanks , PS: I miss the hills terrible, Fairmont, W.Va.

Remember one thing, just in case you use mags connected together. They will not work with a magwell, just in case. Don't know if you ever run into that or not. I like the double mags if a reload is required.

If your smith can make a delrin guide rod, it will help even more. We used to have them back in the day. Very lite, slick, and cheap.

That is a good one. I call them dinosaur sticks. Dang computers.

Glad to hear it is running.

Another thing that appeared to me is that the floor of the front 2 ports appear rounded on the bottom, Nowlins were cut flat or square without a radius. I always believed in the nozzel, just more machining that the smiths did not want to do.

I missed the nozzel all together, Bob did make some like that as well as John Nowlin. Robbie Leatham used a comp made by Bob on his open 9. It had 5 ports up and a bleeder port out the side of the first port, with the nozzel. Is the barrel a Nowlin barrel, Aaron Harris that used to build open guns used the Nowlin comps and then made some extra cuts to call it his. If it was a Nowlin built gun, it probably would be marked as such.

It looks like a EGW cone comp that has been flat topped. They still sell that comp on their web site.

10W30, works great and it will fill a needle bottle from Brownells many times.

Mech Tech, I did not know they were still producing uppers. I had one for a Glock and it was very accurate.

If you search up sight block, you will see my 5" 9mm very similar to what you are speaking of. Good move, it is like the comp guns of old without the porting. It only makes sense.

If it is stainless, it is easy to finish if anything is done to the frame.

Another MIM sceptic, if MIM is done right, it is good as anything else. Corvette connecting rods are MIM and cracked !!!!

I told you Tom is the best on this gun, bar none. Class act, hope he is doing well.

The looks of the rear sight on the Bul looks very similar to the old Kimber sight. If it is the same dovetail, a few extra cuts and a Bomar type sight can be installed with very little work by a good smith. Check the dimensions, it sure looks very close. The reason I mention this is that I had built a couple of the old model Kimbers in the day, the dovetail was right and it only needed a couple of cuts and you had a Bomar cut. Is the Bul lower stainless or plated.

JP barrels shoot very well and are easy to fit, all is done when you get the enhanced bolt. It is worth the money with the small firing pin. JP barrels are Lilja blanks, and you know Lilja's history and John puts out quality. He is a shooter like the rest of us.

You need to flip the funds, $400 for the rifle and $800 for the glass. It will be used in those price ranges, but it will get you started. The glass is important, it has to track, and you can't hit what you can't see.

You all that are flipping the rounds in the air because it looks cool are asking for trouble. It is a stupid move and sooner or later , it will catch you. It shows great skills.

If you don't declare it, and it is found, YOU WILL BE TALKING TO THE FBI AND HOMELAND SECURITY !!

Send it to Tom at MOA, there is no one finer that knows a Stoeger. It would be money well spent.

I tried it and would have had a good time, but was turned off by a Tactical Monster Range Officer. This guy worked for a jewelry store, made very good money doing so. The stage had multiple targets to engage, big for a IDPA match. I shot my targets as described, left one shooting area and as I was coming to a wall to shoot around, the targets were visible and I engaged them as I was sitting up for the shots. This guy starts screaming at me, would you do that in real life. I accepted the penalty, procedure, what ever he decided that made him feel good. He continued to scream real life. After a few minutes of his tactical lessons that he felt that I needed, I could not take it anymore. I really do believe that he was upset that I made my hits on the targets before my feet stopped moving. After 21 years as a LEO, I feel that I may had a small bit of experience to speak on his tactical lessons that he wanted to continue with. I never claimed to be anything special, and I will be the first to say, just because I was a LEO, there are Officers with good experience, but piss poor tactics. After enough of his ranting, I quickly informed him that it was a game that he is playing, hence the reason for rules, second, I informed him that no one that I ever have had the honor of working with, military or law enforcement, had been killed by cardboard targets. I then advised him that if the multiple targets that was arranged, and any one with half ounce of common sense would not charge into a gunfight without back up first being called in. Then I also told him that the bullets sent towards his bad guy targets was very good cover, if he did not think so, switch places and see if he did not keep his head down. I just could not take it. I still would shoot IDPA, but was turned off by this guy, what a JERK, and he probably said the same thing about me. I have many good friends that has done very well with IDPA, Frank Glover for one. Franks range has held many , many matches and I believe he has even held the Nationals. Love Frank to death and Frank would not even accepted this D.H. behavior. I always joked that IDPA stands for I DON'T PLACE ANYMORE. I would be glad to have the chance to shoot some more with my old friends, after all, it is still putting bullets down range, and that is why I started the shooting years ago, because I enjoyed a shooting GAME. As for the other, that is why Special Forces, Rangers, Delta, SWAT, SIRT all have a selection process and for a good reason, you either have it mentally or you don't. Remember, in the right circumstances, cover fire is tough to beat !! In a real life gunfight, the only rule that I know is to survive, and I can promise one thing, if I get shot at, the rules are gone until the threat or threats is neutralized. Keep shooting and be safe.