RippinSVT

Thanks!

Thanks, noted.

Okay so if I bought it from you I can be reasonably certain its been align reamed? If not I can take care of it. I'll probably just shoot them both and see what happens and go from there.

Thanks, much appreciated!

Thanks Warren. That's what I'll do then.

Hey guys, I'm building a switch-barrel 2011 Open gun currently, one barrel is an old threaded Kart/Baer 38 Super tube I had laying around, which I added a Millenium Customs comp to. The second barrel is a Trubor (that I'll chamber in 9mm) machined with the Brazos Thundercomp 2 ports. Do I need to align ream the Trubor? Brazos says you do on their website, but I wasn't sure if the description said that by default in the comp section. Under the STI-cut Trubor barrels section they don't say anything about align reaming. Also, do comps ALWAYS need align reamed, or do you sometimes get lucky? And where should I buy one of these reamers? I have a lathe at home if it matters.

I am building essentially the same gun. CK frame CK slide (I'll mill it down to about 11oz) CK steel grip Trubor 9mm with Thundercomp 2 (and a 2nd 38SC barrel, coned Millenium comp on Kart/Baer I had laying around) EGW trigger group Predator 90-degree C-more mount

I think the solution you are looking for here is an undersized die from Lee or EGW. Having loaded and processed hundreds of thousands of 9mm and 38SC from dozens of sources, the U-die solves all these issues with bulges, case tension, etc.

I do, CK steel. Seems to work fine so far.

I'll be the outlier. I love my Safariland 014 setups. I have 3 of them for Bianchi 1911's, USPSA Glock, USPSA 2011.

I actually had this exact issue. I just milled out 1/4" off the holster recess and worked perfectly. I'm actually selling all the Carver bits to Open-ize a G34 if you want any of it.

Thanks for the responses. It's a lot of Speer, Winchester, Federal standard, Federal +P, and Federal +P+, with several other headstamps mixed in like WCC, Hornady, etc. I pretty well plan to leave it on the ground during matches.

Anybody tried using nickel cases in 9 Major? Generally speaking I hate nickel cases, but I got 6k for cheap and processed them on my 1050 (which sucked because you can imagine there was a ton of .380, 9x18 Mak, steel, and aluminum in the batch). It's a mixture of headstamps...standard, +P, and +P+. I did a quick volume check and found them all around 14gr of water. Prior experience shows that nickel cases are brittle and prone to cracking, so these would only be used once. The main objective, since I have 6k of these things processed, is to put all my Major in nickel so it's easily discernible from my minor Bianchi and Steel loads that I load in brass in much larger quantities. 6K USPSA major loads will last me a few years whereas I'm shooting probably 40K+ annually in minor for my primary sports. Anybody have any intel about good/bad experiences in nickel for 9 Major?

Grant and Helen shoot Tanfos if I recall correctly. Perhaps Grant will weigh in.

I started building one for Moose before he decided on a singlestack open gun. As I saw it, it was much easier to get a cheapo takeoff magwell and adapt a riser to that, rather than making it from scratch. Those that have seen my adapters for Warren's pads know what I mean. However, I was planning to make some one-piece 2011 pads from delrin. The issues that made it more difficult were the interior recess that must be machined out so that the front of the grip frame can sit inside it, and the fact that there is little standardization between the frame manufacturers. SV, STI, CK, PT, etc may not all be able to use the same pad. If I was going to do it, it would be just for the standard polymer STI grip.

It's dumb. It's been a flop in USPSA, and it'll be a flop in AP.

I won 1st Expert, 5th Metallic, and 3rd Practical Event and made around $700. Can't remember the breakdown but it was like $350 for 5th, and $150-200 for class/event wins.

I'm fine with Major in Limited, but that .40cal minimum turns me (and many others) off. I understand the safety issues of shooting 9mm Major in a non-comped gun, but 38 Super would be a no-brainer. It's just my opinion, but although I have loaded .40 in the past, I load 9/38 for 99% of other purposes, sports, divisions, etc and I can't justify it for one division of one sport. Bianchi (3 divisions), Steel Challenge, PPC, USPSA Production/Single-Stack/Open, 3-gun, Bullseye CF, etc are all 9mm and 38 Super for me, with 45 for SS and Bullseye sometimes. 40 cal is the only turn off for me due to component compatibility when I'm loading tens of thousands of rounds on my main machine (auto'd 1050). If it weren't for that, I would be a serious Limited shooter since I am a fairly successful iron sight 1911/2011 shooter in other sports

Are you looking because the mags aren't dropping free from your prone pad? Some guys run 1" screws into the plastic basepads so they can grab them out if they stick. Otherwise CPMI used to make weighted brass basepads that were 1.5oz. They be easy to make out of brass as well, or get some hollow extended pads and fill with lead.

I think Lake Charles would be awesome, although logistically it could be tough in the Springtime. I'm of the opinion that it should be held in the Fall to make it distinctively separate from Bianchi and Crawfish Cups. I'm in the process of trying to get AP set up at the World Shooting and Recreation Complex in Sparta, IL. It's 2.5hrs east of Columbia near where I live. They have on-site restaurants and shops, HUGE parking lots, RV hookup and camping, close hotels, 4000acres of shooting ranges (mostly shotgun, 1.7 miles of trap lines alone, they host the Grand American), 12 large pistol bays with high berms, many plate racks, and room for Mover and Practical on the unused side of the main 1200ft berm. It is a cheap flight into Mid-America Airport from many locations, which is 30 minutes north of the range. If I can get something going with a couple good movers it could be viable in late 2018.

Amazon sells big mosquito nets. I bought an 8x12' for like $10 and stapled the edge to a piece of wood trim the length of that edge. Wrap the wooden piece a few times then staple for a sure fit. Then I took big flat washers and folded the 2 remaining corners over the washers and superglued them in place. The washers act like weights and in the event of high winds you can even put stakes through the center of the washers. To store it, I just roll it up. The next one I make will have two wooden dowels on the one side so I can fold it in half and roll it up more compactly.

David do you have the full squadding you might be able to email? Or just your shooters? I am not even sure who to contact at NRA these days.

I'm not mad about it David, I'm glad you got it. I really don't care that much except that they could easily email it. It's simply curiousity.

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I swear I got mine a week or two prior in the mail last year.