BBoyd

yeah, I think they should have parking "For Big Chested Women Only". now that's something we could all get behind.

plus 1 on the cmmg followers. I also had a 40 round back that hung up, I put a cmmg stainless steel follower in, and wham that thing feeds like a 20 rounder!!

yep.....1+ on all the above. This was thier best match yet! a long day of shooting, sun, and more fun they anybody should be allowed to have...plus I got see a couple of old friends which made it even better. Thanks to all the folks who helped with a super match.

is there a 40 round mag spring or do you just streach out a 30 round mag sping?

I use Winchester Super Field (WSF) with a 180 grain jacketed bullet. However, I just read an article in Gun World magazine on loading the .40 and the author found the 155 and 165 grain bullets to have better accuracy. the article shows the 155 mont gold with 8.8 grains of Silhouette to have been the most accurate with a .835 group at 1,205 velocity. check out the may issue of gun world. i may switch to a lighter bullet.

good topic I have a cart and my long arms ride, muzzle down and when you read posted rules, they will say all long arms need to be carried muzzle up. I unbag my long arms at the car trunk, and I have unbagged my pistol there, when I first arrive for the day. If I am in doubt about the cart carry I usually email the match director first and ask them if carrying in a cart, muzzle down is OK....I've never been told no. some ranges prefer that long arms are kept muzzle down since they never want a round to leave the range and have posted rules which state that. Chamber flags....carrying your pistol hammer down, slide forward, mag out, holstered is OK, but long arms have to have a chamber flag, isn't hammer down bolt forward just as safe? I usually have lost or misplaced my chamber flag by about the 3rd or 4th stage since I've set it down to load, or stuck it in one of my pockets, or dropped it somewhere.

.......what a great hobby this is......now isn't this more fun than collecting baseball cards! I'll take either number 1 or 2 if you've been thinking of giving them away.

Yep I got one, bought mine last year. I think it sucks. Here I'm going into peak 3 gun season and need the AR, and Chip would like me to disassemble the trigger and send it back to them for an unspecified period of time. They should have sent me a new trigger group and have me send the suspected defective one back. Let them rebuild it, send it back to the vendor who screwed it up or throw them away. why should I be any more incovienced then I already am. I'm not sure I even saved all the parts from the old trigger to put back in. I think thier handling of this reflects poorly on their otherwise usually fine products. They should have sent everyone involved a new trigger group.

We'll survive it all. We've had numerous recessions and the economy has always rebounded stronger than ever, as well as the stock market. If you are over 40 you will remember the first gas shortages we had in the 70's. We had long lines, most stations were closed on sundays, here in Missouri we had odd and even days to buy gas depending on the first letter or number of your lsc plate. Gas nearly tripled overnight, people switched to diesel cars, smaller cars, etc. I had a friend buy a Renault "LeCar" a battery operated POS, which he paid a premium for, and in two years couldn't give it away. Same with diesel cars they were way popular for two or three years and then they nearly disappered. I bought my first house in the 80's with a 16.25% home loan and was considered lucky to get it. The experts said if I didn't hurry up and buy a home right away I would never be able to buy one since interest rates would never go down. They did. The coming ice age scare in the 70's, which all the experts said we were headed,didn't happen. The Berlin Wall came down, who would have thought they would ever live to see that. Russia went broke. Their domestic gross product is now the size of South Korea. Why we let them influence us like they do is anyone's guess. 2nd hand smoke scare, come on, we grew up in a haze of 2nd hand smoke, if it was as bad and harmful as they claim people my age would all be dead. Lead scare. Some cities had lead water pipes for years and years and years. I had a lead soldier kit that you melted lead and pored it in a mold to make lead soldiers. The people in those cities are still kicking. Lead was in nearly all paint cause it made good paint. Some cities sit right on top of lead heaps, Bonne Terre,MO is one, once the largest lead mine in the world. Bonne Terre is still there, filled with people, and here's a surprise, some really old ones to boot. Mercury, in 7th grade my science teacher passed around a small amount, hand to hand, so we could all look at it. we survived. Creasote scare, how many millions of telephone poles, railroad ties, etc criss cross this county, all put up by someone's hands. we survived it. Ronald Regan was reelected with a 48 state sweep and the unemployment rate was 7.3%. It's been below 5% for the past 6 years and you would think it was the end of the world. we'll survived. The federal deficit as a percent of Gross Domestic Product, is lower than the yearly average of the past 40 years. we'll survived. The plague. we survived The influenze outbreak in the 20's the killed 20,000 people. we survived Polio. yep TB. yep Y2K. yep the comet Kohoteck (sp?), oh yes, in the 70's, it was headed right toward us, but alas, after they recalculated the distance, it missed us by 10,000,000 miles. I could go on and on with the stuff the experts predicted that never happened. The American spirit will overcome, innovate, rise to the occassion, and continue, I'm sure of that.

Back in the 70's scientist claimed we were headed for another ice age, that the planet was cooling due to the thickening of the ozone which wasn't allowing enough sun rays to come thru, so the planet was cooling and the end of the world was just a few years away. It was claimed that freon and fluorcarbons which were used in aerosol cans, like hairspray, yes that's right, the women from New Jersey were responsible for global cooling and we had to give up these products right away IF we wanted to live. This was reported in Newsweek and every newspaper in the world. There were congressional hearings on the subject. 30 years later, scientist now admit they were wrong about that global cooling thing. You can draw your own conclusions from here.

Last winter I sent my worn, blued, STI Edge to be refinished by Robar Ind in Phoenix, with thier NP3 Nickle process and it came back looking great. I am well pleased with the results. The finish is flawless, they did just a great job. It's easy to clean. it's closer to stainless steel in color instead of a hard chrome look.

I want one! I want one! I want one!!!!!!!!!

Yep, looks like an exact duplication of a sky 76 to me........except for....no webbed jump seats? looks great Chris, thanks to all for their efforts, looking forward to the match.

K-Mart Popcorn and a slurpee were a family staple when I was growing up. The best.

Faith Hill.

I've spent so much time looking for good deals on .223 ammo, I was suprised to find Wal-Mart's price on Win AA's and STS's shotgun shells have gone up from $5.99 a box to $7.57!!!!!!! I couldn't believe it. We will have a .22 division before it's all over since that's all anyone will be able to afford. Like many I usually shoot 100 rounds of shotgun in practice and at least that many .223's every other week during shooting season. I may have to give up golf.

+1 on to much tension. you got a death grip on the gun. It somethimes happens to me when I am trying to shoot up close targets too fast.

That gun should feed factory ammo like corn thru a goose. your reloads might be a different story, but since you've stated it wont' feed factory ammo I would send it to Kimber, through the dealer you bought it from. Kimber should stand behind their product, call them and tell them you want it looked at and send it back to them. If the don't and won't make it right, post that info and what they said on this Forum. I know a half dozen shooters with Kimbers, myself included, and they run like there's no tomorrow.

sometimes you folks on this forum are way way too funny!!!!!I was drinking my coffee this morning when I read that last post from Spook and it made me laugh so hard I spilled the coffee down the front of my shirt. Oh boy...., hey that could be a good reaction drill.

I shot a colt gold cup in IPSC matches, every week for nearly 4 years and never did zip to the gun other than clean it. I still have it and still shoot it on occasion. I say shoot away and lets us know when and if you ever have a problem with it.

Unbelievably.....a nice man and a heck of a good shooter. My sympathy to his family.

this is a well run match, with well thought out stages, fun to shoot, and the BBQ truck they bring in for food is over the top. I've been to the past two and will make this one as well.

those guys are so funny......and they are very gun friendly, they've had several gun shooting myths on thier program and they are interesting, like firing a .50 cal into a swimming pool and shooting off padlocks, it's a good program

Kimber in .45. You can pick a different company but .45 is the classic single stack round, anything else is an almost.

If you are shooting at matches, or plan to, ask around amoung the shooters, someone will have a crony, or one in thier car, and if you ask they generally will set it up after a match and let you shoot some rounds thru it., every so often someone would set up thier crony during one the first matches of the season and let anyone who had a need to test their rounds. If you belong to a club, someone will have one, and probably with a little asking around, you find someone who will let you use thiers. just a thought.