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Some photos of the new Gat! Before: After: 25 yard group shot out of the only bullet that they had at the store. WJM

I am using a 9 pound recoil spring and a 13 pound hammer spring. I also have the stock one, but the gun seems to recoil just fine so I am not too worried about that, the gun just felt a little slugish is all. I may have to look for some N320 right now I have around 18 pounds of TiteGroup that I want to use. Thanks, WJM

I took it down a little more on the bevel on the originally sharp part. I had a theory that me racking the slide wasn't enough speed or force to accurately put a bullet into action without moving the bullet that is in the magazine forward. (Thats what was causing an issue). In live fire it works fantastic. I shot a match this weekend and my father used the same gun. Neither of us had an issue with the gun as far as mags not falling freely. We did have it twice not return to battery with a bullet in it. Almost seemed like the 180gr bullets we used just didn't push the slide back far enough? Thoughts? Anyways to answer the question I was able to solve this issue with minor gunsmithing. Loving this gun just installed the extreme red grips and boy the gun is sexy and accurate! Also anyone reading this have a .40 minor load with 165's? I have Montana Gold's that I am going to try out but also have BBI's on order for this gun. Thanks, WJM

First couple things I have noticed from the few videos. 1st- Are you using a clock? I can't really tell but that will speed up your times a lot. Especially in dry fire to me. There is a dry fire thing on Matt Burketts website that will allow you to set a par for Dry Fire. 2nd- It looks like you are locking your elbows out. Of course I could be wrong since the video is from a different angle but to me it looks like they are locked outwards. If you bring your elbows to not be as locked as they are they will act as "shock buffers" and your recoil will lessen. WJM

Well I was going to make a match video but I don't know if I want that video to be public because it went so bad. I made some massive mental errors that honestly I couldn't recover from. The gun however was flawless! Little to no recoil, it reloads smooth and is coming along. I have dry fired with it for about 12 hours since last week when I got it, and the reloads are approaching .9 seconds or so, and the draw is pretty consistent at .8 seconds. Transitions are a little harder to learn. I am having issues overswinging it when I do wide wide transitions, so I have begun doing a thing Eric Grauffel does which is to bring the gun close and then push it back out. That is slower (not by a ton) but it is much more consistent. Movement is still probably my biggest issue so thats what I have focused on in dry fire. I started the hardcore training thing as outlined in Stoegers dry fire book, and I am in my 3rd day of it. So far it is helping especially with a new gun. Tried out my Glock last night for an upcoming IDPA classifier, wow it is too light. Hoping to make master on this classifier, then I will probably hang up the G34 for a very long time. Just don't have a true desire to shoot with this gun and would rather shoot the Tanfo. Thanks, WJM

I polished the entire thing, it is as smooth as a baby's butt. The mags are brand spanking new. I think the gun only has 500 rounds through it or so. Do some live fire today and try it out. Thanks, WJM

Here is what I have done so far, should I go further in this direction? So far it has not made a difference at all with this. Thanks, WJM

Is there such a thing as taking too much material off? I am hesitant to remove too much, so I am in the process of removing a little by little and putting it back together. How much of an angle should it make? Thanks, WJM

Bought a tanfoglio stock 2, and it is having issues with mags dropping freely. Frequently while shooting the bullet that is in the mag (not the one in the chamber) will get push forward so it is not in its previous place. The bullet is then catching on the front of the inside of the magwell. Essentially the magazine will not drop free unless I pull it out which when pulling it out I believe pushes the bullet far enough back to cause the mag to again clear the inside of the magwell. Is there a fix to this? Do I need to tune my Mas and if so how do I do that? Thanks WJM

Welp sold out completely. Congrats if anyone got them! WJM

http://www.sportsmans-depot.com/products/European-American-Armory-Stock-II-Witness-Semi%252dautomatic-Double-Action-Full-9MM-4.5%22-Steel-Chrome-Walnut-17Rd-Adjustable-Sights-600605.html This is the only Sportsmans depot that has this one. For whatever reason the other two do not have a Stock 2 9mm in stock, this one apparently has a few of them. Buy them while you can! WJM

OH MY GOODNESS. This gun is flawless. I probably will never willingly shoot a Glock again. (Besides IDPA of course). The advantages of this gun are so many that I can't even list them all. Its weight is perfect, checkering on the grip, perfect. Little to no recoil out of this .40 S&W and I honestly love this. I did some group shooting last night. 25 yards was doing a 2.5 inch group freestyle, and that was after shooting less than 100 rounds through the gun. I really am truly impressed with this gun. Basepads from Henning and grips from EG are scheduled to arrive tomorrow, and I have a match this weekend. Really excited to see if I can somewhat master this gun in a few days but we will see. Dry fire is nice. I can now draw this gun in about .8 seconds, reload in around 1 second. Around the same as the glock. With basepads on this gun it will smooth the reloads to probably less than 1 second. Thanks for reading, WJM

http://www.brianenos.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=211028 KneelingAtlas is selling a .40 right now. I don't know him personally but he is extremely knowledgeable with these guns and has devoted much time to the forums and helping people understand this brand. WJM

My dad shooting the Man Vs Man match at our local club. Crushing it! Myself shooting the match. I ended up placing 5th overall. Had a couple bad stages that I didn't gain any points from but otherwise it was a good match for me. Really helped with the draw. Didn't want to post about it until it was a for sure deal but new gun is on the way! It will arrive at my FFL any minute and dry fire with it begins tonight. I bought a Tanfoglio Stock 2 that my dad and I will be sharing for the forseeable future. I haven't shot a double action single action gun in competition ever so this will be a challenge. But nothing that dry fire can't cure. I will post pictures once I get it, and maybe video of dry fire. Hoping that it goes well and I can get it to be normal before my next match which is this upcoming Saturday. Thanks for reading, WJM

Not really advice persay, but I noticed that what helped me the most was watching myself on video. Maybe if you filmed yourself on your next range outting we could better help with advice. WJM

Todays match! Ended up 3rd in Production. Got beat by a high level GM and another person who is a B class shooter but really should be a GM. Anyways, I had a few mental errors that I wasn't able to gain back. A couple times my stage plans were very challenging and built so that if I didn't go 1 for 1, I would have to do a reload and that messed up my plan again. I need to work on stage planning to leave myself a round or two for fudge factor. I have another match next Saturday its a Man Vs Man match basically a steel match one versus one. Thanks for reading, WJM

Live fire today after the week from hell. Sunday I studied for a Chemistry test I had on Tuesday. Monday I had my dog that I had for 7 years die. Anyways it was a shit week. Today I did a live fire session, worked primarily on distance change up from Stoeger! Was really really helpful. I was consistently getting it under 2 seconds, had .3 splits to the far steel, and .2 second split from close target to close target. Anyways, my fastest was a 1.7 ish, and my average was close to a 1.9 ish. Match tomorrow so I should have some footage. Thanks for reading, WJM

My dad and I did a live fire session today. Focused primarily on moving and shooting. Used a drill from Ben Stoegers training to win! Just a movement drill with 4 targets and 10 yards. Really helpful to learn what it feels like to shoot alphas at speed while laterally moving. Since this is one of my weaker areas I was glad to try this out and apply the dry fire I had worked on. Ended up running them around a 5.1 or so, Stoeger runs them around 4.8 I believe or high 4's. Anyways I felt like I was doing this perfect or as near perfect as possible. Ran an average of a 1.09 second draw, splits were good, walking was good, dot was jumping around (too much), and it just felt good. Decided to run an impromptu IDPA classifier. Ended up with a 91.64 time. Pulled way too many points on the second portion of it, but hey I felt better than before so I am happy! Thanks for reading, WJM

Took a few days off of dry fire, (had some serious midterms that I needed to study for) but the last few days I have been popping practice sessions left and right. Tonight I designed a mock stage for 12 rounds. Involved heavily in moving and shooting and reloading either while moving or from an awkward position. Really really helped with letting my fiber settle more while walking forward and moving and shooting. I noticed that my reloads are consistently in the one second area, and everything is improving more. The one thing I am NOT happy with is how I post up into a position. When I shoot a position often times I will end up having one foot planted and the other ready to push out of it, which leaves me off balance. I haven't had an issue with this EVER, however I am worried that on a 20 yard target this could become an issue. We will see however from all my videos I have of myself I suspect it is nothing too serious. Thanks for reading, WJM

This was a steel par time match from a couple weeks ago. I wanted some practice for the Berry's Steel Open in a couple months that I am hoping to place high at. This match was a big learning curve to shooting steel and for whatever reason I am a lot better at shooting paper than I am at shooting steel. I also shot an IDPA match. And well that didn't go so well. They just have so many damn rules and its just hard for me to transfer gears from one discipline to the other. It was useful practice like always, but I can't run at the same speed, I have to stop while reloading, I have to ALWAYS be watching for cover and cover calls. Just BS like things that I don't particularly enjoy having to do. I think I am going to stop even practicing very hard for IDPA just because to me it is a lot less fun than USPSA. Don't get me wrong I still will probably shoot all IDPA matches around me, but that will not be something I practice once a week like I normally was doing. I put a 13lb recoil spring in my gun (it was backordered for a few weeks) from Taran Tactical and as usual I am in love with his products. I got the rest of my basepads so I now have 6 fully functional mags, with a new recoil spring. The last thing I want for my gun is a plug for the end of the gun and thats probably the littlest thing for me to worry about. Did 2 practice sessions this week that were live fire. College is starting to kick in but I am still trying to work with my pistol an hour a day while also working out an hour a day. Ive put on about 10 pounds of muscle mass and I can definitely tell that these arm workouts I have been doing have helped control the recoil more. I am also able to get into positions better from my leg workouts. I haven't done any grip strength things like Vogel does, but I do a lot of deadlift which helps a lot with grip strength. Anyways thanks for reading, Wyatt

Shot this USPSA match this Saturday! Felt mostly good with it! I ended up placing about 83% of a very high level GM at my local match, and took 15th overall behind a bunch of limited and open shooters. Dropped way too many charlies. I am still experimenting with how many charlies it is acceptable to pull if I am booking faster but still it was an unreasonable amount. Working more on getting out of and into positions. I am good once I get into the position but the portion of arriving there I am still having some slight issues with. Thanks for reading, Wyatt

Well today was fun! I know that I have an IDPA match coming up, so I have been wanting to do some live fire to practice things like concealment, cover, the crap holster and mag pouches that I have, that type of thing. Anyways! I figured if the accelerator was so helpful with USPSA I may as well as cover and concealment and loading from slidelock with the accelerator! Needless to say I was very pleased with my speed on running this drill. My slide lock reload is pretty much the exact same as my speed reload, and my draw with concealment is obviously slightly slower but hey that isn't too much to fuss about. I was pulling most of my scores into the mid 6's, which I was happy with. Ran some SHO WHO drills, and also ran some mozambiques. Ran my fastest mozambique to date, at a 1.33 seconds. Was pretty happy with that! Anyways same old same old, doing dry fire every day (unless I do live fire), and thanks for reading! WJM

What a day! When I think about my worst shooting day to date I can probably remember this one hopefully for a long time. First the positive! I am getting better at long courses. Mid range courses are still my best ones, but courses requiring 30-40 rounds are slowly becoming a lot easier to me. I nailed all my reloads which I am accrediting to dry fire! My draw was awesome! Until I got to the classifier, and naturally the one time it really matters if I get a fast draw is the time my draw goes to shit. A few things I learned after today is that I need to work on moving into positions and out of them. When I enter them I am usually pulling the first shot into their because I am stepping on the ground as I shoot, pulling my shot off the goal. Honestly I am just very disappointed in myself for how I did today. I threw.. 5 no shoots? Maybe it was only 4. Either way its completely unacceptable, but hey it happened and move on. The point loss was something I was unable to make up form the rest of the day. Caused my hit factors to go super down. Im just disappointed because I know I can run with the masters on courses, and I didn't show that today. I hate not running what I am capable of, but i'll be honest it was just a bad day. Everyone has those right? Thats the video from today. Don't mind my terrible scores but its alright I learned a lot! Thanks for reading, WJM

Did a fairly intense live fire practice yesterday, and then some BS shooting with my cousin the day before. I wanted to go to an Indoor range to see how my Glock grouped, and well it was disappointing. Maybe I expect more from a gun just because of my precision rifle background, but wow this thing is fairly inaccurate. I couldn't bring them to less than 5 inches or so at 30 yards. To me thats unacceptable but I guess I will have to get used to it. Indoor ranges are hard for me to shoot at. It seems like everyone and their dog is shooting an AK and that always causes me to flinch but it was okay for some speed. Basically did drills of 2 to the pelvis, 2 to the body, and 2 to the head in rapid order. Definitely helped with my short transitions. Live fire yesterday was awesome! Unfortunately the weather here is still not awesome. We are at the point where its not cold enough to freeze the ground solid, so it makes miles and miles of mud. So naturally we found the driest spot possible and set up the targets. We were able to run the accelerator a lot, and then just some group shooting and 25 yard drills from Ben Stoeger. Stoeger has a drill at 25 yards where you draw and shoot 2 shots in under 2 seconds both being Alphas. Doesn't sound super difficult but I am getting the hang of the split time necessary for that distance. Ran the accelerator cold (figured thats how I would run in a match, and ran it 4 times to see an average. Ended up with a mid 6 second average for it, and I was very pleased with that simply because I was pulling all Alpha's consistently. Getting really really good at 15 yard shots (what I feel most comfortable with) but what I was happy about was that my splits increased in time at the different distances. For example at the 7 yard target consistently I shot at a pace of .22 splits, at 15 yards I shot at a pace of .34 splits, and at 25 yards I shot at a pace of .44 splits. I wanted to focus on that gradual increase just so my accuracy wouldn't tank. I know I could run this drill if I wanted to much faster, but I am trying to go from the process of learning speed first and not knowing accuracy, to learning how to be accurate at speed. I was consistently getting a .9 draw on the 7 yard target, along with a 1.1 reload which is showing that dry fire is helping a lot. I have a math tomorrow that is USPSA, so I will probably dry fire tonight for a couple hours or so, and then I need to clean my gun (I clean it every 600 rounds or so, and then before every match no questions asked). Anyways thanks for reading, WJM

Well the new semester of college started yesterday, and from there I went and volunteered with the Red Cross for a few hours so it was the first day that I didn't dry fire in over a month! Also wasn't able to get my workout in but thats beyond the point. Tonight I did about two hours of dry fire, I figured I wanted to practice reloads with more of a purpose than I have been doing so I looked up a good classifier that was fast paced and had reloads in it and ended up with two. El Presidente, and Can You Count. I looked up both online, found a relatively fast time for both, set them up in my garage and went to work. I was able to bring my El Pres time to around 4.0 seconds or so, which was flying for me, and bringing most of my reloads to sub 1 second some around .8 seconds. For the can you count I have a friend who did this classifier and ran one of the strings in 3.25 seconds which would've been a GM pace, so I figured well why not run it at that pace if I can. I was able to bring the time for one string down to 2.8 seconds which is much faster than I would be able to run in real life but it still is good to get my mind thinking that fast and putting pressure on myself. When I put pressure on myself I tend to screw up and I like it when I screw up it lets me know where my faults are and how I can stop making mistakes. Using a small piece of paper and placing it in the chamber of my Glock has helped immensely. It allows me to press the trigger at a very very light weight, but it allows for some feedback and helps to imitate pulling the trigger. Anyways it is turning out good, have a match Saturday and probably doing some Live Fire on Thursday, then next week I am live firing Tuesday and Thursday, and have an IDPA match Saturday. Thanks for reading, WJM