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tha1000

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  1. Gotcha. That makes sense and could very well be the problem. Thank you.
  2. I'll check on the mag front at lunch. I've read your second paragraph a couple of times and I'm having trouble tracking what you are saying. I have backed the over travel screw out to allow more travel, are you saying I should go the other way with it to see if I am allowing too much over travel?
  3. That will be the first thing I monkey with, most likely. I tweaked it some time ago, but it never gave me this issue. Just looking for other ideas that could be causing this before I tear it down.
  4. A while back I had an issue an issue where if I kept the trigger pinned to the rear and cycled the slide, i would get hammer follow. I remedied (or thought I remedied) by installing a new disconnector. Fast forward to today, now if I pin the trigger to the rear and cycle the slide, it is not resetting.... trigger still moves freely and I have verified that it is not an issue with the overtravel screw. It resets properly if I am not holding the trigger to the rear or if i am resetting the trigger during recoil (as is my usual shooting method), but it happens every time if I use the "pin and reset" method, either via firing the gun or hand cycling the slide. I'm assuming it is either related to the disconnector or the sear spring or some combo of the both. Any thoughts of things I can / should try?
  5. I use a U die and factory crimp die and still get brass that won't gauge and certainly won't run in my AET barreled SV. Just bought 15k brass for cheap. Seems half of it is glocked.
  6. It's an interesting question. I live in a city that is literally 80+% African American. There is one African American that shoots the local, highly attended, USPSA match on a regular basis. But then when I go visit my wife's family in South Florida, it is not out of the question for me to be the only non-Hispanic on a squad... I would posit that it is some stigma that guns and their association with gun violence and crime have in the African American community that keeps shooting sports from being more popular...
  7. Even my guns that lock back, lock back with one still in the mag. I'm shooting a L10 match in the not too distant future which should be interesting. Sv new or old, STI stock, tti, grams, Arredondo, sps... just doesn't seem to matter. Must be my bullets.
  8. My next step would be trying .400 sized bullets.
  9. AET barrels have tight chambers. I've had issues with my SV's and .401 coated bullets, but .400 bullets (blue bullets and fmj) don't cause me any issues. Is it possible hat your bullets are .401 and either keeping the gun slightly out of battery but within reach of your extended FP or being crammed into the tight chamber and suffering set back?? I'm not a gunsmith, but I had reloading growing pains when switching to the AET barrels and figured I'd relay some of my experience. Blue Bullets case gauge better than FMJ in my hundo.
  10. tha1000

    More AFTEC

    I haven't had a chance to test the aftec I put in my 9mm, but it seems pretty stout on the tension front.
  11. The new production STI MSH is definitely too small for this grip. I dont know if dims have changed over the years or if the original MSH was oversized and has stretched out the polymer grip....
  12. I don't care enough to hunt for it, but I recall him making a race gun for someone.
  13. I thought they were the same as well and considered the lack of a magwell being a contributing factor. That being said, I swapped back to the aluminum msh I am having issues with and it is noticeably larger than the NIW STI polymer main spring housing. The old one fits with no gap and much tighter to the grip safety than the new one. If I kNew the make of the old one, I'd just order it again. No idea who the maker is though. Probably SV.
  14. Search is your friend. Basically bending one of the coils to get the bullets more nose up. I did it because I was getting nose dive jams, but it fixed my getting in front of the extractor problem as well.
  15. Does anyone know the differences? I have an older (2004-05) SV that I recently started getting occasional light strikes with. After trouble shooting, it appears that the main spring has wallered out the aluminum MSH and created a ledge, for lack of a better word, that was occasionally interfering with the mainspring and slowing it down to the point of a light strike. I replaced with a 1911 MSH that I had laying around the house and it cured the problem. The 1911 MSH obviously isn't profiled for a 2011 grip/magwell. Instead of doing some hours of filing, I just ordered a new polymer factory STI main spring housing thinking it would be a drop in part. It drops in, probably too well. There is a noticeable gap at the bottom of the grip. Are the main spring housings between these two grips the same size? as it appears that the STI I ordered is a fraction too small for the SV grip on the gun. Or is my grip stretched out at the bottom, which is possible as I am not running a magwell on this gun? and is a gap between the grip and MSH an issue from an eventual reliability stand point? It is pinned in and seems to currently function properly. I didn't think to take any pics.
  16. I had this issue with my SV and old style sv mags for a while. I tweaked the mag springs and put an enos bend in the springs and it fixed the issue. I haven't had it for some 7-8k rounds since. I tweaked the mag springs for an unrelated issue, but it has fixed both problems. YMMV.
  17. Thank you, but no need. Its apparently a redesign. The non-milled hole is the new style. As far as removing the bottom magnet, I had to hold the nut to keep it from turning with a big flat head screw driver.
  18. My understanding is that the Mississippi Classic is on hiatus for 2017 due to major berm work at the range in Byram.
  19. And for the love of Christ, how do you get the bottom magnet off?
  20. I ordered 3 mag holders, two plain, one with magnets. The bullet out pouches on the two plain pouches are not drilled out for the rubber washer/spacer. The one with magnets is. I am assuming that they should be drilled out to fit the rubber space in. Can any one confirm? pouch on left is the one that has the magnets. you can see that the other one is not recessed.
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