Gregg K

Since you got the 650, I'll encourage you to get the powder check. One of the best things with the 650 besides the case feed is the ability to install the powder check. If it saves one barrel or one gun, the cost is nothing. I have seen a lot of squibs from 550 users. A friend that recently lost a barrel to a squib said that he tries to watch and check every case but got distracted once. The powder check is good enough to alert you to a no load or a double.

That reminds me of something Clint Smith said in a class. He basically said that if your life is in danger from someone, you use whatever you have at your disposal with the most stopping power to stop the threat and a 4000 pound Cadillac has more stopping power than a 230 grain ball from a .45.

Yep, the old site wasn't very good but the new version just plain sucks. Sure hard to find things even when I know they have it.

From The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean This is from memory but I'll try to get it right. Bad Bob comes to town to kill the judge and is calling him out. The judge is in the hay loft behind Bad Bob with some buffalo rifle and shoots Bob in the back blowing a big hole in him. The towns folk gather around and ask the judge the question That wasn't a fair stand up fight was it judge? Judge responds: Hell no it wasn't a stand up fight. I was laying down to steady my aim. I'll have to rent it now so I can get it right.

I have used a lot of Federal primers in a Dillon with no problem. Everyone I know shooting revolver with a nice trigger uses Federal primers to get good ignition.

That wide Ed Brown looks a lot like the Wilson High ride ambi, it's just a little more square at the back of the lever. I like the big lever Wilson High Ride. I cut down the off side a bit to keep it from digging into my trigger finger. I don't think about it much but I find that I do lean on the safety a little. Never broke one. I vote to keep the Kimber and learn to shoot it better and put the Glock back in the kitchen.

I have run 50k through a Kimber TLE with an ISMI 12.5# using 200gr 168 pf loads. No buffs and the frame is fine.

I have Dawson's fiber optic front sights on my Glock and 1911's. I use the .100 wide sight. The standard Glock front sight width is much too wide for me.

I have been waiting the last 2 years for that one to come true. I haven't seen any yet.

Thanks for sharing. I'll check it out.

There is actually no need to use more powder in loads for a 4" 1911 because you don't have to make the power factor in your gun. IDPA rules say that the ammunition must make power in "a gun of MAXIMUM barrel length for the DIVISION of the same gun type". If your ammunition makes power factor in a 5" gun, you are good to go.

It would seem that there are a few IDPA guys that have a grudge for IPSC guys. I have been told before that I can't do any of my "IPSC crap". Funny thing is that I have never even seen an IPSC match much less be a shooter in IPSC. I would assume there are guys in both camps that just aren't very tolerant or understand that we are all on the same team so to speak.

Yep, you are good to go in all three. There is still something not right with plastic in CDP.

Yep, I have never been able to call all of my shots. Still working on it. It's funny, I never had an SO complain when I shoot 3 zero downs on the last target in the stage. Better not do the exact same thing in the middle though.

That's pretty much the one that I built. It sure helps when sorting through that bag full of springs that you just knew that you would never forget which one was which.

Reading the rule book, I can't find anything against it. I can't have a full length dust cover unless it's a plastic gun. I guess I'll try to get something from Berryville but from past experience getting a response is pretty difficult. Flat topping the slide should about balance out the weight change.

I working on building a new gun for CDP and like the looks of the no front radius cut Caspian slide. I have 2 concerns, one is would it be legal for CDP provided it made the weight limits and two, would it make the weight limit. Anyone have any idea? It would have a standard length dust cover.

As I read the first post I was wondering if you were watching this one. A sore subject that I'm sure your tired of by now.

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If you want the gun to be lower you should get the Comp-Tac belt holster. The settable cant rides much higher. The belt holster was designed to be IDPA legal and holds the gun as low as possible and still be IDPA legal. Call Greg at Comp-Tac, I'm sure when you tell him you want to game IDPA, he will recomend the belt holster.

WWB has hard primers. If your trigger job included a lighter striker spring, it may need cleaning or replacing. The light springs don't seem to last as long. May have to use standard striker spring for WWB. Federal primers are much softer and easier to light with soft firing pin strikes. If your light hit is somewhat off center, your recoil spring may be too weak and the slide is being pulled slightly out of battery when you pull the trigger. Need the right balance of striker and recoil springs

Along with fitting in the box, I guess it would be how they would define the rule under "Permitted Modifications". It says under "Permitted Modifications", "Internal accuracy work (includes: replacement of the barrel with one of factory configuration). The question for Berryville is if a barrel that is .5 longer is "one of factory configuration". I would just call them.

I agree that the classifier is good practice because it incorporates almost everything that we do in IDPA. As Mathew said, it gives a good benchmark as to how we are doing. The only downside is that with enough practice at the classifier, you will find yourself shooting master on the classifier but at a match you will be competing against Sharpshooters. That's just the nature of IDPA.

You would normally have it back by now but you caught them right in the middle of preparing for the Nationals then they were closed for a week to run the match and now they should be settling back into the grind with the match over and scores posted.

Thanks for the information on the thickness of the wood used for the official Berryville box. I just figured that as long as I was building one that it might as well be identical. I got it built today to the exact specks. I used birch plywood that I already had since it was 3/4" and should not warp as some said of the pine box. Thanks for the info and tips!