Dranoel

Getting TO being old was tough enough. I'm afraid BEING old is gonna kill me.

That one was too easy. But I'll give some others a chance at it.

I miss Waylon. Hound dogs on my trail School children sitting in jail Black cat cross my path I think every day's gonna be my last

Fakin' Jamaican - Shankin' Pickle Another lesson 'bout a naive fool Who came to Babylon And found out that the pie Don't taste so sweet

Killed this thread, didn't I?

Happy Burfday, Brian. I still owe you a couple drinks. You can collect any time.

Just out of curiosity... What were you expecting from your SVI? Did you think the gun alone was going to make you a better and faster shooter? Did you think you were suddenly going to become Max Michel's nemesis? Your shooting club's top USPSA shooter? Able to hit a 6" steel plate at 100 yds with iron sights? Just what did you think $5,000 was buying for you? If you have not mastered basic shooting fundamentals, an SVI will do you no more good than a RIA or a Hi-Point.

Zatōichi

One of the reasons I gave up on thumb rests is that, while it may give you a consistent grip position, it makes recoil control more complex by adding the additional factor of thumb pressure. You can spend a couple hundred hours and several thousand rounds in practice to refine it. Or just keep your grip, and your pistol, as simple as possible. I put one on a pistols a few years ago and shots were going everywhere. And it wasn't one direction where I could see, "Ok, I'm shooting low-right, I can adjust that by..." it was totally inconsistent. Got rid of the thumb rest and everything tightened back up. The more you complicate things, the more difficult it is to be consistent.

Good... Bad... I'm the guy with the gun.

Army of Darkness

Been my experience that most USPSA matches are totally unrealistic. Have fun with the games while keeping your reflexes hones and your body moving. Then it won't be as hard to get back to maqtch readiness when the time comes.

I have been transitioning to dots from iron out of necessity. I'm getting old and my eyes, especially at arms length, just don't focus the way they used to. It this pont, even with new shooting glasses iron sights are just a blur. I have always shot mostly on index, using the sights only in the last instant before firing to confirm proper alignment. Since the dot is higher than iron (at least on my guns) it has caused me problems because my brain still wants to go on the "old" index for iron and that put the dot out of alignment and I have to constantly readjust. It takes a lot of practice to get the index perfected to begin with, having to make a significant change to that index is going to take at least as much effort. It's been a slow process but I'm getting there. This past Wed. I went all .45s at the range and it was a good way to test my index 3 ways. I have one .45 with irons, one slide ride and one static mount. As I said I can no longer see iron sights with any degree of accuracy, so I shot it purely on index and worked on learning to index the dots while still confirming the alignment at the last moment. This was the result: all shot at 40 ft freehand, top 2 were with iron, bottom left with static dot, bottom right with slide ride.

I've said a dozen times on here (and other forums) I don't care where the dot or sights go when the gun goes BANG!. The front sight/dot could go up 3" and do a figure 8 for all I care. Two things are important to me in this aspect of shooting: 1. Where were the sights at the instant the round fired? (not 0.010 sec after) 2. Did the sights return to the original point of aim after the gun cycled. Anything in between is irrelevant. But understand this: In order to achieve a positive answer on #2, you are going to need a NEUTRAL GRIP. Tight and firm, yes, absolutely. But both hands and both arms need to be exerting the same force to do so. If one is pushing/pulling harder than the other your sights will not return to NPA. Why is that important? Because it takes time to re-adjust your sight picture after the shot. If you are neutral and your sights automatically return to you NPA, then all you need to do is have your eyes on the center of the target and the sights will be there when you squeeze the trigger.

12f and:

A while back I found one of my first builds (#6, I think) in a local pawn shop. An NRA Action Pistol/Bianchi Cup .45. I really didn't need another .45 and especially not one as specialized as this. But I thought it would be cool to have one of my older builds, so I bought it. (for just a bit over what I sold it for 25 yrs ago) I was in a bit of a quandary over just what to do with it. Leave it as is, as a reminder of how far I've come? Update it to my current standards? Or do a total rebuild as something different. The slide/frame fit is still tight and smooth, but the trigger is a mess and the rear of the frame/grip safety needs a serious recontouring. When I finished the Legacy Twins (the pistol in my profile pic) I had an idea to build an AR15 and a knife to match that theme and have a complete set. But when I got around to getting parts I went off the rails and built something totally different. (The Perfect 10) Then decided that was not the rifle to match the theme of the Legacy Twins. But another idea started percolating to build a pistol and knife to match the carbon fiber theme of the Perfect 10. I had actually planned to buy another frame and slide, but then got to looking at this pistol and the brain started percolating a fresh pot.I hadn't been thrilled with keeping the shroud as it just kept getting in the way of things, but getting rid of it meant I would have to weld up the holes in the dust cover and have the slide milled for iron sights. Unless.... What if I cut the shroud down and made it a simpler scope mount? I could Cerakote the frame and slide in black, (after making some other mods and updates) add a set of CF grips and wrap the mount in CF like I did the rifle stock and grips. And the plan was born. Call me crazy, but wait til it's finished.

Denial on "C" means C-nile.

Get a slingshot.

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