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  1. yeah It seems a bit much. Overall I like the general idea of them, especially the never come loose screws (assuming it works). the 2 ive shot were very high quality, great trigger, cool looking guns but the non std 2011 parts/barrel setup and the high maintenance make them a non starter for me.
  2. What shape are the projectiles? That can change things. But assuming it was 1.2450 to 1.239 that shouldn’t have a massive effect on feeding. All my 38sc guns feed anywhere from 1.230 to 1.250 with 124gn RN bullets. Check the brass too, especially the rim.
  3. Also, cleaning and re-oiling a gun every stage is not something I’ve ever had to do on any 2011 open gun I’ve owned. That would not be an ok compromise for me.
  4. The honchos I’ve shot were nice guns but I’m just not a fan of the linkless barrel setup. It’s the same reason I prefer my 2 ‘normal’ 2011’s over my infinity. The proprietary parts mean you’re locked in to PT for life. Need a new barrel? Can’t buy a kkm etc. Has to be PT. I also don’t think their locking block/linkless barrel actually solved a problem that existed. Normal 2011 barrels that are fit properly don’t break links or pins on any kind of short time scale. id got with a ‘normal’ 2011 build from someone like venom. As I said, I like the PT guns to shoot but one of the great things about 2011’s is the wide choice of parts. With a honcho that goes away.
  5. yeah I had a feeling he was focussed on parts these days. He makes great stuff and built great guns too. I still have 2 and just gave this one a little freshen up.
  6. is Matt cheely still building guns? I’ve no idea what his wait list is like these days but in my previous experience he was always super fast and easy to deal with. And his stuff works great.
  7. Look at donnyock on this forum aka venom customs. His s#!t works and he definitely knows what he’s talking about. I’ve also been happy with my infinity and my cheely open guns but infinity price and wait times are pretty rowdy and as much as I love their holistic approach to building guns I hate not having standard 2011 parts - example even the firing pin is proprietary as it goes through the ibf screw.
  8. Interesting. I had no idea where the name came from. On my open guns I’ve tried everything from no holes to all the holes (v12 tanfo). Even cool big square holes in my infinity. At the end I now like 3 holes in a line at 12 o’clock about 3/16 in size and a decent comp. The v12 was the flattest and fastest shooting gun Ive had but it was obnoxious and I needed 10.4gn of 3n38 behind a 124 in super to make 165-170pf (open major is 160 in IPSC). The flames were great, but the thing just broke s#!t all the time. the holes is personal preference. If you want start with 2 x 3/16 then add a third if you want to. Guns without holes feel softer to me but I prefer a harder push back and a flatter gun. And then there’s debate on drilling the holes straight or angled back or forward and how many degrees. Lol dont forget the primary purpose of a comp is actually to delay unlocking of the barrel. Not so much to keep the gun flat. It’s gas hitting the baffle walls effectively pushing the barrel forward to delay the unlocking process which means pressure drops before unlocking which makes the gun feel softer. Holes are for solely for flatness.
  9. see if you can get a look at someone’s rts2. I have pretty bad astigmatism and I prefer it over the others. It has a nice low profile body and excellent dot brightness. Plus it comes in a wide range of dot sizes from 2-10moa. I prefer the 8 personally. im not that keen on getting co witnessed iron sights for a competition gun. The whole point of having the dot is that it’s meant to be faster than irons. If you need to use the irons to find that dot I have a feeling that’s not the fastest option.
  10. I’m not sure I’d say people are getting popper boned ‘occasionally’ by either incorrectly set or just plain janky old poppers. my point is the rule to deal with this had some holes but why not address the problem rather than trying* to fix the remediation process. Perhaps consider a standard set of specs/design for popper construction? Maybe have designated popper re-setters at big matches (say area match or higher) who are well versed in setting their allocated popper(s). Hopefully it would help ensure it’s set the same way each time. those are the first ideas that popped into my head but my point is this could be solved to where calling for popper call truly would happen rarely.
  11. Ok, let me see if I understand correctly. The USPSA BOD acknowledges that there’s an ongoing problem with the variance of popper quality and lack of repeatable setup. This is resulting in people getting periodically popper at matches from lvl1’s to nationals. the also recognise the current rules/process doesn’t really provide competitor equity and is unsatisfactory. now how could this possibly be solved? their idea is let’s take the current broken process, but now we’ll ‘calibrate’ it twice. seems like a solid plan to me.
  12. im not a SS guy but if you’re serious about SS you need a major and minor setup because for SS matches come in 3 flavors: balanced minor friendly major friendly from what I’ve seen not many matches fall into the balanced category and overall it seems the types of stages at big matches give the edge to shooting with 10+1 over 8+1 and getting 4 point Charlie’s. I think it you wanted to commit to one gun for SS it’d be a 9mm minor. Otherwise I think it makes sense to have both options and decide based on what the match looks like. it’s probably the only major/minor division where the choice is not 100% easy.
  13. thanks for clarifying. I just saw the bullet weight in a pic someone posted of chrono results and it showed 124.0*. I assumed from the fact that it was dead on 124gn and had an * next to it that they were going off ‘declared’ bullet weight. At that point you may as well just go off declared PF and save the hassle. But if they weighed bullets at least they made an effort to check PF.
  14. So they don’t bother to actually weigh bullets? if they don’t weigh the projectiles they might as well not bother testing the velocity either.
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