obsessiveshooter

When you can get a 6moa Venom on sale from PSA for well under $200, it's hard to imagine spending 2-3x on another dot for the slight gain. I'm waiting on PSA to release the full size Dagger model. It'll likely be optic ready for under $400. I can tell from the shape that It would feel great to handle.

Nice video! I'm going to have to try moving my thumb now.

Thanks everyone! Installing the spring before the grip safety was the ticket. Turns out, what I was seeing was the spring actually under the sear, not short of it. Putting the spring in with the grip safety already in place was somehow allowing the spring to twist in under. All is working like it should again!

yes, with the problem is with it fully assembled (Mainspring housing, grip safety, thumb safety)

Hi, I took apart my 100% reliable Bul Govt 1911 to familiarize myself and to lightly polish contact surfaces (not the sear/hammer engagement, trigger was under 3lb out of the box), and on reassembly the hammer will not catch. Looking closer, the same sear spring's left leg (that I didn't bend) makes no contact with the bottom of the sear, so there's no pressure on it to catch the hammer. It sits just below it, instead of slightly on top of it, like I see in close-up pics online. I shouldn't need a longer Para sear spring; the gun ran perfect prior. I just can't figure out what's causing this. Is this a rookie assembly mistake or did the 1911 Elves do something to my spring to shorten it?

you eont find bigger grips than the armanov. If I were you, I'd layer up something temporary to about 1/4" thick over the front strap. See how that feels. If that works, then you'll need to ugly-ify your pistol to make it work better as a tool. I'd use JB steel-stik at that point, over top a thin layer of tape over your front strap. Once it's cured, I'd pull it off, remove the tape, and then glue the cured steel-stik piece on with spots of glue.

Thanks, I guess at $30 for the tungsten buffer, it's worth it to just get it instead of spending time on a half measure.

I was looking at tungsten powder buffers, and thought, What if I took the weight out of my standard buffer and replaced it with lead shot, stainless pins or whatever to replicate a tungsten powder filled buffer, but for free? I can't be the first person to think of this... What do you think?

You can use the +10% magazine springs from Wolff.

I'm going to practice flip'n'catch where it lands in the breast pocket of my shirt, and after I holster I'll grab my crotch and do a little spin, a la Micheal Jackson.

Weekly dry fire and 15 matches a year, you can definitely reach Master class. You won't get there fast though, and you'll have to be observant, focus on improving your weaknesses, which can be hard to identify.

There should be set screws that adjust pre and over travel. Watch your hammer and sear engagement to make sure you don't adjust too much. There's video and threads on this.

I started with a Glock and was dreaming of a 2011, till I finally held on in my hands. It felt even more like a 2x4 than my glock. When I picked up a (old style) TS, I knew it was for me. Fit to your hands can't be overstated. I bought the TS and it has run flawless for years and years, with no maintenance but springs. That alone is priceless. I could focus on shooting instead of getting my pistol to run. The customization options for 2011 vs TSO are overblown in my opinion. You can get triggers for different length of pull for both. Sights are sights, you don't need a million options. There are probably 5 magwell options for the TS now, so one of those ought to work for you. There's a million CZ grips out there and it's way cheaper and easier to try new CZ grips than on a 2011. If there's one off the shelf holster that works perfect, do you need three others, especially with an adjustable hanger? One thing the 2011 has over the TS is the safety. The factory one sucks, and with my XL hands it's hard to flick off without reaching around the backstrap, making a scoop draw impossible. There aren't many aftermarket options for the CZ safety, and the CZC one is huge and digs into your hand with a textbook canted high weak hand grip. It's shape encouraged me to (1) lay my thumb up and over it and sort of crank down (2) place the web of my strong hand in a spot on the beavertail to accommodated that thumb placement (3) apply strong hand pressure in the wrong way, screwing with my trigger finger dexterity and (4) build my weak hand grip around the location and size of the safety. I'm just a A class shooter, but I generally shoot and hang with the Ms. I've always been plenty fast on the trigger. This whole thumb safety things is part of some fine tuning I'm trying to do with my gun handling, addressing trigger freeze and pushing shots. It sucks to realize I need to retrain my grip after things have become so automatic. I need my grip to be more like a 1911 grip where you flick the thumb safety off during the draw and it's out of the way after that, not dictating your hand placement. I'm currently in the process of grinding on the CZC safety to make it more like that.

A whole division for Limited pistols with slide optics? Besides the fact thats its a dumb idea, it wouldn't serve any interests but Infinity's bottom line. Of the like 50 timmies out there that bought a 2011 with a slide mounted dot, maybe 1 of them would shoot a uspsa match.

It seems like a high level machinist and high level shooter wouldn't need independent testing to find out if a screw will stay tight. Still, there's no way this hanger wasn't tested before being released. The loctited screws on my offbrand hanger have never loosened, so I would be even less concerned about a Henning product.

When we talk about 2011s, we're really just talking about SAO. If you've felt a Canik with the freedomsmith trigger and springs swap, or a P320 with the gray guns or whatever trigger, can you honestly still argue it would be an unfair advantage for a CZ Shadow to be converted to SAO? Plastic gun triggers can be the equal of a SAO trigger these days, and the plastic guns don't have a thumb safety to mess with. Again, if you can loosen the restrictions and keep competitive equity, then I support it. I also think its dumb to have a "production list". Its kind of presumptuous for USPSA to think that gun manufacturers have the time or desire to navigate USPSA's obstacles, especially if the manufacturer is in some other part of the world.

I've got their Czechmate magwell on my TS. It's great, very nicely machined. You may need to touch the innermost edge with a file to make sure it doesn't stick into the path of the back of the magazine. It doesn't work any better or worse than the big CZC magwell, but it looks 10x better.

I squadded with a guy at the Colorado State match this past weekend that was running a new Rival. He loved the trigger and let me try it at the safe table. It was ok but had lots of oretravel and reset, was heavier and the wide face is a liability. Compared to the freedomsmith trigger and springs swap, the stock Rival trigger is not in the same league. The guy shot so well with the stock trigger, I'm sure he'll be ecstatic about the Freedomsmith once he switches.

Rock Island sponsors matches, so you just need to email the right people. With a little diplomacy and writing skills you can connect the right people to get the forms filled out.

This thread will get a lot of people piling on who missed the fact that you are 16. Great job stepping up to help run a match! And its great you are here seeking advice and trying to learn. We've all made mistakes, often even after becoming certified ROs. You've gotten some great advice here. I've seen new clubs have a culture of reluctance to call a DQ unless something scary happens. The problem is, we push things right up to the edge of the rules in sports. We don't want people getting hurt or worse, so the rules need to set barriers well ahead of simply "don't actually shoot someone or yourself". But again, good for you on your efforts. When I was 16, I would have been way to intimidated to try to RO adults.

But L10 needs to disappear completely. I can't imagine being a local match director and telling the one lone octogenarian that signed up for SS, "Cheater, thats a bull barrel, you'll have to shoot in Open. Because Competitive Equity!"

Why not just allow bull barrels, slide milling holes and raise the weight limit for SS? Those restrictions are needless, and the changes wouldn't affect match outcomes. Hardly anyone shoots the division, so the changes will allow more members to use their SS pistols. I know there would be hand wringing from some vocal purists, but its a practically dead division. I have bull barrel 45 that would be nice to shoot occasionally, legally. I'm betting there's a bunch of milled-slide or bull-barreled safe queens that other people would bring to matches too if they could. Before you write "But, tradition!", look around you at the next USPSA match and tell me how important tradition is. We are out there to shoot fast and have fun, that's it.

Other divisions' participation numbers shouldn't be protected by handicapping CO with equipment restrictions that don't accomplish anything. We all compete for fun. If someone is going to have more fun with a 2011 in CO, and if its true that it isn't an advantage, then why the heck not?

Everyone seems to agree that a 2011 won't change anything. If that's true, then just allow them. "Gun people", of all people, ought to believe in the principle of removing pointless restrictions and maximizing personal freedom. If you know enough to know you can't buy skill, then you won't try to. But who are we to prevent someone else from trying? Maybe some will buy a 2011 for carry optics because its their money, and they just want a nice pistol to compete with. If CO ended up with lots of people shooting 2011s, is that a problem? These would be USPSA members shooting what they wanted to shoot. Its condescending to say that they'll have bought them because "they felt like they had to". People "have to" shoot Major PF in limited and open to be competitive. We all agree this is nothing like that.

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