Kyreb

Having been here just a few months...I can honestly say I never want to live anywhere else. This is one really neat place to live.

This is the trap I fell into...the initial cost of the gun vs. what it takes to get it "race ready". My wife was downsized and went back to college so funds were tight. I bought a box stock Para P-16 (the limited was not available back then) and had my gunsmith build it as I paid him a little bit each month. By the time I had the Para where I wanted it, the STI would have been a whole lot cheaper and maybe more reliable too. Take a hard look at the STIs offered by shootersconnection.com Chuck is a competitor, a great guy to do business with and a master distributor for STI.

I have shot a heavily modified p-16 for the past eight years. I also bought another P16 limited for IDPA use. (Did this due to the investment I had already made in mags) I have since sold the Limited to a buddy that was just entering our sport. I have mixed opinions about Para in general. IMHO- Their metalurgy leaves a lot to be desired. I had a couple blemishes (casting voids) appear in the grip on my limited gun when it was checkered. The slide cracked early in the life of the gun due (again in my opinion) to another void. Para reniged on the warranty because I had a gunsmith cut a dovetail in it for a FO front sight. I also have experienced extractor and ejector failures that I also blame on their substandard metal. The new P-16 has a plastic mag catch. I would recommend replacing that immediately with a steel catch. It is junk. All in all, I think I'd take a real hard look at STI if I was just starting and looking at a new gun.

I believe I was standing behind at the time holding the timer...the situation did not seem to cause too much pain...I thought it was a nice run... especially under the conditions! Rick

I bought one for my AR. About 5 years ago I was seriously thinking about getting into high power shooting after attending the clinic at Camp Perry. I lived about an hour from there at the time while the nearest USPSA club was north of Detroit. Fortunately, the Toledo guys got a range and were up and running the next year. Anyway, the Redding die worked great. Very fine adjustments. I was loading heavy low drag long bullets with a critical OAL. However, I do not change seating depth often enough in my pistol rounds to warrant the added expense of additional seating dies.

Great video Sharyn! Really enjoyed working stage one with you and Larry this weekend. Already looking forward to SCC'07! Rick

I had better luck with the flat points than I did the round nose. The round nose shot OK in my 610 but not my Para. What pistol are you shooting ?

I remember being an RO on a stage where it was raining cats and dogs. A competitor asked me if it would be OK if his buddy run behind him while he was shooting so the buddy could hold an umbrella over him. I was laughing my butt off before he told me they were actually serious.... Guess I was considered a hard azz RO that day...we all stayed nice and wet and cold that day.

As we speak..dogs are being trained to sniff out minor PF ammo. As we approach the match roadblocks will be set up and our vehicles searched just like down on the border. excuse me I have to go now...the tinfoil lining my hat needs to be replaced....darn government satellites overhead ya know....and then there are those black helicopters USPSA is funding ...but that is another story....

Are you shooting 10mm or 40S&W with those magnum primers? I would imagine that the magnum primers may have a thicker cup material thus requiring a heavier hit. Do you have any idea what your trigger pull is? .40 SW....The same load as I shoot Limited with my Para. I bought several thousand of the Federal magnum primers when a local shop went out of business some years back. I do not have a trigger gauge, but it is light. Put a replacement spring kit in it from Brownell's and stoned the internals a little..nothing else.

Does a hammer fall with any more force in DA versus SA mode? My 610 seems to be more reliable in DA. I still get the occasional misfire (failure to fire) in SA. (Using federal magnum SP primers) Live with it or go back to a heavier spring? I have yet to shoot a wheelgun in a match. Rick

Congratulations! I have been trying since the mid-80s to get Mrs.KYreb involved. Since we moved to Houston she is teetering on the edge...I picked her up a G34 that she really liked at a recent show. I hope a few practice sessions with it and and she will jump in. Great Job! Rick

Not enough competitors was the reason I was given at one match....at two others they did not offer SS as a division (told that after I showed up though, not at the end of the day) BTW...I am not b!tchin....just stating stuff that happened. Heck, I just saw it as practice anyway. I am sure with more SS participation, these situations would have been rectified. Both were small affairs and I think I may have been the sole guy shooting SS. The thing is..if this stuff happened to a new guy or a possible new convert from IDPA, they might not come back. I want to see our sport grow and SS survive as much as anybody.

Not if you are dumped into L-10 at the end of the day

I shot SS for the last three months while my Para was in the shop. While I am 100% behind the provisional division and hope it is a success, IMHO stage design and match organization will make or break the proposition. For instance, I found myself having to do a static three mag reload on a stage at one match (18 scored rounds from one small shooting box/area) and being lumped into L-10 at a couple of others due to lack of SS participation. These situations were disheartening to say the least. I also think SS is the path to draw more IDPA types into our sport. Having played that game some over the past couple of years, there are a bunch of people over there getting tired of the equipment rule changes and low round count matches. I know many are cautiously eyeballing our SS. We just need to exhibit a little common sense and courtesy and SS will be a far bigger success than anyone currently anticipates. My 2 cents. Rick

I have had the thing awhile. Over the last year, I have been finishing up a degree at night school and relocating to Houston, I have not had much chance to work with it. I am seriously thinking about offering it on EBay and buying something more trustworthy.

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This is almost exactly where I think mine stands. I hope to get a chane to compare it with some other chronos to confirm. Just have not had the chance. Rick

I have always gone with about 1" high at 15 yards.

Any chance you want to sell that 610??? -Cuz. Nope. Got it tuned and running just right. Rick

That is good to know. I have a 4" bbl 610 in the safe. At least I have something that may shoot these things.

Short story: I recently upgraded from a standard red to a standard green Chrony. The results from the green one seem "quicker" than those from the old unit and various club chronographs I had used in the past. I ran some Winchester "White box" 180 TCs over it yesterday. Average velocity was 1022, PF 184. It was 80 deg F, sunny , low humidity. (for Houston in April) Jeff Maass pages give 1046.8 velocity and 190.PF. No firearm data listed. Just curious if anyone else had ever run a check on this stuff. Rick UPDATE: Last night at the local Tuesday night match two other competitors brought chronographs. We set them up in sucession and I tried my loads. Short Story: My suspicions were confirmed. My Chrony is registering right at 100 FPS faster than it should be. Looks like I will be on the phone with them today.

Firearm: Para P-16 with a Scheumann bull barrel. Trying out some Berry 180 grain RN in hope of curing a feeding problem. ( The RN did not but Ed Vandenberg did after his 50K round tune up) After two horrible matches and a really disappointing practice session yesterday, I got back to basics. Pulled out the sandbags and from a bench at 50 feet found out my pistol was shooting 10 shot groups of 12 to 15 inches apart( best of 6 groups) . I am talking shotgun patterns here. My Chrony listed these rounds at an average of 1045 FPS. ( Warm, but I do not really trust my Chrony. That is another story) I ran to the local Wal-Mart , grabbed a box of Winchester 180gr TC "White box" and returned to the range. The first group was into one ragged hole of about 1 1/2 inches. So the gun and hopefully not the guy behind it do not seem at fault. I did not change the crimp from where I had my 550 set up for Zero 180s. It that the culprit? Too tight? Update 4/17: With as light a crimp as I could get through the case gauge....The 180 RN tighted up some..down to roughly 4-6" groups through my Para and 1 1/2 " or so through my 610. Another batch of Berry 180 flat points shot well enough in my Para for practice anmmo but not what I would want to use in a match. These grouped around 2" or so. I I placed an order with Agnus Friday..going back to Zero from here on out. Update 4/19: Berry is taking back the 2000 I had that were still sealed in the box. I am swapping them for .45 200 gr SWCs. My trustly Springfield does well with those bullets. I just had to pay freight both ways.

Been to Knob Creek many, many times. I personally have never seen anyone there that could hold a candle to your average C class IPSC competitor. IMHO..The MG rental range there is a tragic accident waiting to happen. Only a matter of time with the poor gun handling by the renters and lack of adequate RO supervision there. Their game is more "see what neat toys I have" and seeing how much lead they can throw downrange in the fastest manner, actually hitting anything qualifies as a distant second place. Still, it is a heck of a good time. Wish I was going this weekend. I'd just stay near the main range and the gun show tents.

Bought my clips from Dillon after some thinner ones I got at Midway gave me 50% misfires. Federal primers made a big difference too.