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There's one on Cabela's online gun room for $2400 (with an additional 10% off until December 24th). Somebody buy it before I give in to temptation.

Going to, or the hope of someday going to, the Bianchi Cup is really the only reason to go to the expense of setting up an Action Pistol program. With this in mind it would be best to set up for the four Cup events as close to, or identical as, the equipment that is used at Green Valley. The Mover is a big part of deciding who wins the match, so you need one. Pioneer Gun Club switched from a cable to a rail mover and it's so much smoother and more stable especially in the wind. What's really needed besides the large spaces and money is a dedicated group of Bianchi minded shooters to build and maintain the equipment. For better or worse, this outlook is why NRA Action Pistol is now a match (Just the Bianchi Cup) and not a distinct discipline.

9x19 was banned by specific caliber, not OAL. Folks started running 9x21 and .356 TSW but the rounds were loaded to the same 1.150", or whatever regular 9x19 OAL is...it was just a technicality to get around the "no 9x19 major" rule. IIRC, Tripp designed the frame, but McCormick was the first to market it. I remember having my CMC frame before I saw TRI frames around. Anyone measure the length of a 10-round .45acp 1911 mag yet?

You've got to look back to the scene in the late 80's/early 90's. There wasn't any Open/Limited back then; IIRC, the only other division was Revolver. Compensators were around and the cool kids were using .38 Super with 135gr. CP Elites, but a lot of folks were still shooting .45acp (.40 was just starting to show up). At the same time, the idea of doublestack guns shooting a Major-capable caliber was just starting to go mainstream. You gotta remember, back then, people were super freaked out about pressure and "Super Face," and most shooting .38 super major were doing it with relatively heavy bullets, first with160gr RNL (Magma mold) and then with 147gr RN (lighter bullets followed). Even the rare folks shooting 9mm Major were using heavy bullets loaded out long in .38 super mags. There were no double stack guns (or at least none commonly available) that would accept a .45acp/.38 Super length round; all the double stacks were 9x19, and virtually no one was shooting 9 Major at 9x19 lengths. There were a couple outliers like the one guy out in Colorado running 9 Major in a CZ-75, and mad scientist/gunsmith Jim Boland had figured out how to cut a 1911 in half and reweld it up to take HK P7M13 mags, but doublestacks shooting Major were *really* rare. Then, Para-Ordnance started making frame kits (they didn't even sell complete guns back then) and folks figured out if you built a gun with a one of their kits, you'd almost double your mag capacity in .45acp to 14+1. Shortly thereafter, Chip McCormick (which later split into Tripp/STI/SVI) and Caspian came out with their frame kits. This part is conjecture, but wanting to forestall another arms race, the BOD decided to create Open and Limited Divisions and limit magazine length to 140mm in Limited, and to 170mm in Open, the idea being that singlestacks would be able to achieve close to parity with doublestacks in Open by running 10-round singlestack mags. However, no one thought to restrict the 170mm length allowance to only singlestack mags (which I think was a *big* oversight), and shortly thereafter the "big stick" was born. Round counts ballooned, mag changes in Open were largely eliminated, and I guess most folks were happy.

Neither. Arredondo. They're cheaper, they work, and they don't get all dinged up when dropped on rocks and concrete.

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Has anyone tried one? It looks like cool idea.

It's on Shyanne Robert's You'll have to search for it, I don't have enough posts to post a link.

Much cheaper than an STI-based gun and I don't think I was giving up much with my SJC built gun. You can buy the kits and assemble something close to what SJC builds, but you won't get all the work, such as slide tightening, which is pretty scary to do yourself for fear of cracking them. Mine ran well with regular Glock mags with Arredondo basepad kits. Nice to have a gun that runs without spending big bucks on tuning mags. The only downsides were the trigger not being quite as nice as a STI/SVI and the grip angle, if you can't get used to it.