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Steve- I still havn't received a comfirmation. Can you let me know whether you received my application or not?

Happy B-day Linda and hope you have a special day.

My Trojan won't feed from the Wilson's at 100% reliability with factory length ammo. I am testing some loads today at 1.200". I tried some loaded to 1.230" yesturday and those proved to be too long with the factory STI barrel.

And efficiency comes from reducing or eliminating "delays." Search out your shooting skill set and find each place you could be doing something sooner. Being a natural efficiency freak, this topic is usually in mind, whenever I'm improving anything I'm doing. When preparing a shot of espresso, to get the grinder turned on as soon as possible, the trick is to get the portafilter in my right hand and my left hand on the grinder's switch, as soon as possible. It's like a mag change. As soon as the mag change is initiated, the first thing that must happen is that the mag must leave leave the pistol. So you need to figure out how to make that happen as quickly as possible. At the same time, the weak hand must move toward the next mag, so that by the time the mag is out of the pistol and it's positioned to receive the new mag, the new mag is coming right into the mag well. Or like with transitions, in order to move to the next target as quickly and precisely as possible, the previous shot must be called with certainty. Or leaving a shooting box - to get moving as soon as possible, again, the last shot must be called with certainty. be Yeah- the non-shooting stuff.

Looking good. Now don't be sandbaggin on the classifiers!

Yeah, I think it is more of an issue of what magazines you use rather than the gun.... Now that I think about it, the OEM mags have a spacer in them and shorter loads ran good with them. They just don't have removable basepads....

I think if you got mags with spacers in them like the Tripp mags, you should be able to run factory length ammo reliably in the Trojan. But the Wilson's seem to have a problem loading the first round. I have had some issues with the 47 and 47NX loading the first round when loading with 8-9 rounds in the mag. But I am countering that with a OAL at 1.230". G-man- what say you?

I can't wait to hear what they say when you burn it down in a sub 4 second time!

Jake I think you missed my point. What I mean is not to rush your shots for the sake of speed. The fundamentals of shooting cannot be taken for granted to increase one's speed. One needs to work on seeing quicker. But rushing the shots will be the surest way of crashing and burning. The biggest chunks of improvement will come in the non-shooting stuff I believe. As in this case- shooter has the ability to shoot well (fundamentally), but is looking for speed. Speeding up the non-shooting stuff will get better results than if he starts taking the shooting part for granted just to reduce stage times.

I think my gun stickers actually got me out of a ticket yesturday! The officer got to talking to me about shooting and was wondering about the club stickers. After a short while he handed me my license and insurance card back and told me to slow down and have a good day....

Most increases in speed or reduced stage times is in the non-shooting stuff anyways, IMHO. Don't outshoot your sights and work on speeding up your movement, transitions, target indexing and gun manipulation.

Yeah- I was gonna say an STI Trojan...

Thanks for the tip on the holster issue. I have been looking for models to fit...

Thanks for the info Chris. I am loading some up at 1.230" right now. That is as long as I can get away with and still have enough bullet to crimp onto in front of the grease ring of the 200gr Black Bullets Int. I will load some up at 1.200" for testing as well.

Boy- I would think so, but I will leave that to the experts. All I know is that there is really no need to blend in my experience. The TechWell matched up so good that there really isn't any need to. YMMV

This is the one I put on my X-mas list:

+1- that is what I meant to say...

Yeah- I had Chris take some material off so there was a little more of the basepad to seat them consistantly. A disc sander is on my X-mas list. I must say the magwell has made a world of difference over the SVI. My reloads are far more consistant, and the only thing I changed was magwells. Haven't been practicing like I should be...

Maybe King's? No purple, but they have pink.... http://www.gunaccessories.com/1911/Kings/BasePads.asp

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Good to know, thanks for sharing your experiences. Are they running 100% now?

That sux for sure- but if you do the same it will only perpetuate the problem. Remember that you have to look yourself in the mirror. I would worry less about them and do what you think it right. Edited to add: Talk to the match director about bringing it up in the next match's shooters' meeting...

WTG Nemo! Wish I had been as successful this weekend...

Shooting SSTK and forgetting to top off at the LAMR is quite the bummer. With an unplanned reload, it made me shoot from the seat of my pants and not how I programmed the stage, costing me several seconds on the stage. On another note, I seem to be having issues with my ammo. I have been running an OAL of 1.180" for .40cal in my SSTK and seems to be having feedramp jams. Can anyone confirm that a longer OAL will correct that issue? I plan on loading to 1.200" and test.... I am using Wilson 47NX and 47 mags... issues with both mags.

That is probably the reason Howard suggested to load them FULL one time. Maybe that is enough to have the springs settle and to align properly?