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  1. Probably 95% of USPSA shooters that reload are using coated lead bullets. There's simply no good reason not to use them unless you are shooting Open. If you pick from any of the the popular companies, you can't go wrong. Just as accurate, uses less powder. It's as simple as that.
  2. Confronting the people privately and directly about habitually skipping out on teardown is the uncomfortable duty of a real leader. Take that step first, then you'll be in the best position to take a punitive measure if it happens again. I think in 9 years of USPSA I've had to scoot immediately after last shots maybe twice. I think both times the match ran unusually late and I was up against a hard appointment time. I've always tried to be one of the hardest workers during the match and especially at teardown. That ought to count for something if in the future I'm in the same situation. Someone on my squad will be butthurt, but I'll be able to live with myself.
  3. As long as it functions reliably, your front sight should tell you everything. Gunsmith types that need to worry about warranty stuff tell you to look at ejection distance. As competitors, we care more about performance. Stef is right- once you get close, slow motion video is needed to see the slight differences in rise and dip. You'll run up against safety and reliability issues with most striker fired guns before you get to an ideal recoil spring weight. At least with Glock type guns, which the archon is I believe, the striker spring works opposite the recoil spring, so if you put something like a 9lb recoil spring in, the striker spring would keep the slide from fully closing. Even though 9lb would probably be ideal for 9mm. I think most glock type pistols need around at least a 13lb recoil spring to be able to function properly.
  4. You might compare Summit City Bullets, they seem to have sales all the time. Right now they have 12% off, so that might put them around 9.3 after shipping. But if Gallant's is an every day price, you won't save significantly over that.
  5. The extra power spring solved that issue for me early after I got my TS. It's run flawlessly since for many years.
  6. The warranty seems to be a general one for all their products. Non-transferable 1-year, that doesn't include wear and tear from use? That makes it kind of a gamble. We need Vortex or Burris to come out with an SRO size dot. Their warranty is awesome.
  7. I finally learned what that phrase is autocorrecting for!
  8. I'd shoot CO with irons in a heartbeat. Trying to beat all the dots would be super fun. It's basically A fudgecicle nobody but a few crayon chewers and winder likkers want, but I get to shoot in the division with the deepest field of competitors.
  9. I'd get CZC basepads and safety. For the rest, Toni System magwell & thumb rest. Their grips too if you like their design. They easily have the best looking parts. CZC is pretty utilitarian in design. You don't need to do a thing to it for it to be good to go, except base pads.
  10. To me it's about easily switching back and forth between irons and dot, and keeping the same weight in the same areas as much as possible so the pistol recoils the same.
  11. Good suggestion. The shields look about as low as you can get, and the polymer frame model might offset the weight of an aluminum adapter plate a tiny bit. They've got an XL model coming out too.
  12. CGW used to mill them. In fact, they made a whole bunch of race parts for them. But it wasn't popular enough of a platform so they stopped making parts and the milling requires extra time or something so they don't offer the service anymore. No one else I've contacted will mill them.
  13. If someone (me) had a sweet shooting pistol that no one will mill for an optic (Tristar P120), is there a dot out there that sits significantly lower than the rest, so that shooting Carry Optics with an adapter plate will no longer be a lame idea? CGW used to mill slides for these, but it just wasn't profitable for the setup time.
  14. Hi! Post this question in the Tanfoglio section so someone will see it that knows a thing or two. Pictures will help as well.
  15. I posed this same question here many years ago, as a way to add weight to my Glock. Back then, it was unlikely that someone would make a gamer brass thread protector, so I was asking about the tiny benefit of a steel thread protector. But now, I can easily see someone making a 1/2" thick thread protector the diameter of an average slide. I'm kinda doubting it would be much of an advantage though. People would would buy it to find out though.
  16. I'd recommend bending the top of the spring so that the follower is at an angle that matches the angle of the feed lips on your magazine. And I'd also check the feed lips on your magazine too, if they are bent closer together at the top, from dropping it or something, it can point the round down. Some things just require a little tuning.
  17. Framing materials are about half what they cost four months ago.
  18. It's wide enough that even though you might be riding it with your strong thumb, it can be digging into your support hand.
  19. Seems like MBX needs to come up with a gen2 that actually runs in a pistol. I'm not a fan of Glock mags with aftermarket extensions. The mag catch holes get deformed, sometimes they don't drop free, sometimes the springs catch on mag body/extension interface. A metal magazine release and metal magazine has the potential to be flawless.
  20. Have you considered grinding off part of your weak hand?
  21. I've got probably 30k rounds through my TS, and it's still a tack driver. I've never replaced any internals, except swapping in a long-reach trigger. The factory hammer, sear, all that stuff is still good to go. Same sub-2lb trigger it's always had. I'm using the same magazines and CZC pads from when I first bought it too. I thought about a 10x bushing, but it's not really needed. In my experience, wear just isn't an issue. The gun doesn't hold me back at all, and I typically run with the M class Limited shooters. Just shoot it, and if you end up not liking it, you will sell it here easily for what you paid for it.
  22. The Lee makes consistent quality ammo, if that's all you can afford. I load on Lee, and it sucks for priming so bad that I hand prime all my cases. I deal with it because I only shoot a few thousand rounds per year. It's hard to justify spending $1k to upgrade, just for time savings. That's the cost of a cool pistol I don't already own!
  23. It went from a 4 hour drive to a no-go for me. I'll shoot my first Nationals some other year. I'm curious how this affects the rest of y'all. Just state facts so the thread can stay open.
  24. Are those DS Perman grips still being made? My Google search turned up nothing. My attempt to make my 1911 as large as possible is with Thick Armanov Spidergo grips, + Pearce finger grooves, which add to the front strap but also a tiny bit of width. I'll add an arched mainspring later, along with a large magwell that will give the bottom of my hand more purchase too. The Dawson magwell will knock out both of these. These changes make room for the weak hand, but do almost nothing to increase the distance from the backstrap to the trigger. Large hands often have long fingers, ya know? That's one thing I think Glock got seriously right, by providing different thickness backstraps that have the beavertail, increasing that particularly critical distance.
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