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  1. Quick load shows pressure under 33,000 psi and velocity around 1130 @ 8.5 grains. 7.6 gets you around 1060 and 26,000 psi. Your barrel may be faster or slower but this gets you in the neighborhood.

    Hello BHill,

    I will give the N320 a shot and see, what it will do.

    Recoil and muzzle blast is not my aim. :lol:

    On the other hand, QL seems not to be build for revolvers.

    My velocities where waaaayyyy slower than QL said.

    I´ll try it anyways.

    :cheers:

  2. Hello guys,

    bought me an used S&W 629 PC with a 6" barrel (looks like a competitor, but w/o the rail), and am new to load this caliber.

    I´m having coated 245grs. Elmer-Keith-style bullets on hands (Lyman mold #429241), OAL 1,614".

    To pass the chrono test in matches over here, I have to do a 250 PF+, what seems very sporty to me.

    That means I have to make over 1.020 fps.

    My powders are VV N320, N340, N350 and 3N37.

    Which powder would you chose to reach that velocity?

    How far can I go with the charge?

    Any experiences welcome!

    Jay

    :)

  3. Amazingly, I use skateboard tape and just apply it to the original wooden grips - no sanding or anything. I just clean the area with nail polish remover (essentially acetone) before applying. It sticks just fine for me and has never peeled off

    Sent by Jedi mind control

    Maybe I did something wrong, but I added some skateboard tape to different pistol grips and it went off from all of them after a while.

    I don´t know why, old tape, stupid operator (me), to much and agressive hand sweat, wrong pistols (Czech), but it didn´t work for me.

    :ph34r:

    :blush:

  4. I sanded down the wood grips, and applied 30 minute epoxy with a small brush (not 5 min it dries to fast!) and poured black sand or grit on them til they wouldn't accept anymore, and they "set". Your choice on grit, spark plug media blaster, or hobby sand... not hard at all.

    How´s the preparation for this?

    Do you just clean with alcohol, or does the surface have to be rough (sanded)?

  5. @moto:

    Maybe I´ve used the wrong stuff?

    Have an original big skateboard - tape, will google yours.

    I was hoping that the epoxy, glued right on, would hold better.

    @MRrevolutionIX

    Had those on it, but they are pretty big on the TS, my hands are only mid size.

    @adamage

    Have tried the alu grips, w/wo tape, they are very flat and don´t fullfill my hand.

  6. Hello guys,

    did someone of you make some sand grips for the TS, with some epoxy or so?

    I had skate board tape on it, but that didn´t really hold very long.

    So I´m thinking about glueing some sand on it with epoxy or something.

    Has anyone been doing this?

    Some info would be great.

    :cheers:

  7. Top left: my ACCU Shadow VZ grips

    Top Right: my Production Optics Shadow blaster (built on spare slide)VZ grips

    Middle Right: original slide for backup Shadow

    Middle Left: her Production Optics Shadow with Scales grips

    Bottom Left: her P-09

    Bottom Right: my P-09

    What are your thoughts about the P-09, compared to the Shadow, f.e..

  8. Sorry, because of the bullet diameter, which might be to small because of the U-die also.

    If you are shooting "weak" bullets (everything else than MJs), the bullet diameter should be compatible to the barrel diameter, which means, the bullet should be 1/1000"+ wider than the barrel.

  9. Cleaning when I think I should, not to often, but I do it once or twice a month (so every six shooting sessions or so).

    Have used brake cleaner with big success, take off the grip panels, just spray it in, brush over it, and then spray the dirt out, oil it.

    Now a friend of mine, who is cleaning his pistol after every shot or so ( :ph34r: ) gave me a can of cleaning benzine (right term?), which does the same, just without spraying.

  10. My birthday present from my wife. I throated the barrel to accept all my practice ammo, and will be replacing the safeties to the thin Rami style when they get here next week. It is an awesome firearm, and can't wait to start practicing with it. I have a classifier match this weekend so I will use the G34 as that is what I have been running, but as soon as it is over it is time to switch over.

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    Hello Hopper,

    I wouldn´t change that safety.

    I had a Shadow with this wide safety and have now another one with the slim safety.

    The wide safety is a perfect thumb rest, and if you want to shoot steel, or try it in Standard, you definitely will miss this thingy.

    I would love to have my wider safeties back, they were a great application for me.

  11. Are you saying that you color the barrel and rack the slide once. Then pull out the barrel, polish the high spots, color and repeat until there are no more high spots?

    That´s correct, but do it carefully and with some fine sand paper.

    With taking away to much material you will force the play of course.

    You only have to lightly polish away those little high spots, as you name it.

    Sorry if my writing above was so missunderstanding.

    I´m not an English native speaker.

  12. Can a heat gun produce enough heat to make the it pliable to tighten the rails?

    I´m German, so I´m not sure about the term, but a heat gun, as I understand it, will produce much more heat than a hair dryer, right?

    Take care and don´t overdo it.

    To much heat will damage your coating.

    I´ve used a hair dryer for so long, until I wasn´t able to touch the grip frame with my fingers, hot enough so.

  13. jayjay1, when you say that you modified the grip by squeezing with a vice, do you mean the frame of the pistol itself?

    Yes, the frame of the grip at its very front end, like I wrote.

    The very first inch or so, not more, and NEVER at the back of the grip frame.

    The CZ style pistols have an outside grip frame, and an inside slide frame, right?

    So by "squeezing" the grip, you are minimizing the play.

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