AustinMike
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Got a few of these in today and I'm impressed. Flush fit and angled at the front to make a little ramp into magwell. Much better than the Jentra that I had before.
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yep - and who the heck shoots full power .357 out of a 12 OZ J Frame anyway?? I'm not particularly recoil sensitive, but it's still a +p .38 gun to me . . .
I tried. It hurt.
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Just an FYI, Glockmeister has a Deep6Comp plug on sale for $5. It's production legal from what I've been able to gather online, so I ordered a few to try. Here's the link. No affiliation, just passing on the info.
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Man, them things have gone up in price. I had bought mine a few years back for about $300. I had the old welded fixed stock. I think the polymer inserts are a must with that stock to get a good cheek weld. Really, the standard and a C-more or whatever red dot you want is enough to play with one of these things. Wish I'd kept mine, now that they have all the M4 goodies for it and it sounds like they can convert the old ones. 33 round Glock mags have gotten pricey too. Let me kick myself for selling mine a while back. The costs on this rig do add up fast if you turn it into an AR look-alike.
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I use a punch from my Lyman punch set that "fills" the hole in the base pad (i.e. thicker than the Glock armorer's tool.) With that and just the slightest pressure on the mag walls, my base pads slide right off with the tabs still intact. The bigger punch seems to make a lot of difference for some reason.
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I used a Mech-Tech for about a year as my first 3-gun rifle. It worked fine and the matches were in pistol bays anyway, so no great distances. I sold mine when I got my first AR. Kinda wished I'd kept it. They're pretty cool.
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I don't care if people smoke, but I also hate the cigarette out the window thing. Litter is one thing, but when they're throwing lit cigarettes out the window in an area as dry as it gets here, they deserve to be beaten severely. A hell of a lot of property and lives can be lost due to the careless action of one moron. It's great to be riding a motorcycle and get hit by someone's lit cigarette too. Wanna talk road rage? Inconsiderate jerk offs...
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I got tired of lugging my heavy Dell notebook to school, so I just ordered one of these Acer Aspire One netbooks. I just got the SSD model because I don't intend to store anything on it (got a thin USB powered 500GB drive for that.) You can get one with a hard drive for a little more. A little over $230 shipped for the SSD model and cheap was the big factor for me!
This will stay in my backpack so I've always got something with me for web, email, and word processing. It comes with Windows XP (nice, since I refuse to do Vista), but I'm not sure if I'll keep that on it. It arrives tomorrow and I'll just have to see how fast Windows runs on it. I've been running Ubuntu Linux at home these days, with XP inside of VMware when I need it for something (mainly just syncing my Zune and a few things for school that I haven't gotten to work right on Linux.) -
Wow, great match video on GG's website.
I'd love to shoot the cave stage over again.
Thanks for posting the video! Wish I'd been there, cold or not!
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Doesn't seem that bad to me. Loosen the two bolts and pop off the safety rod thing. I was more annoyed at adjusting the powder charge for various things, so years back I bought several small powder bars and keep them in bins on my bench with a label as to what powder and charge they are. When I change a load, I just have to dump the powder, swap bars, put in the other powder and keep going. Pretty fast really.
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I picked up a used standard Buckmark for around $180. That thing's awesome! I've been shooting it with the stock iron sights and do pretty well with it. I use bulk Federal ammo in practice and CCI mini-mag for matches. Once or twice out of a box of 500, a Federal might not go bang. CCI has been perfect. Bulk Remington has been downright unreliable in both my Buckmark and my 10/22.
One of these days I want to get a conversion kit for a Glock so I'll have something that feels closer to my production gun.
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Too many years as a rock-n-roll drummer with no hearing protection. I've forgotten what silence sounds like. I can't hear a damn thing people say in crowds of people. I guess I've learned to tune it out the ring for the most part, but it can distract me from reading/studying sometimes. I work with computers all day and the fan noises mask the constant ring, but that noise makes the problem worse with time I'm sure. It's louder sometimes than others and at it's worst can keep me from getting to sleep. When I'm really stressed out, it seems to get worse. I've had a few isolated episodes the past couple years where it spikes kind of like feedback tone in my head on one side. Very alarming situation all of a sudden. I thought I was going to black out once because it got so loud and painful while I was sitting in a class. Only lasted maybe a minute fortunately.
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Very sorry for your loss. I lost my mom about 4 months ago. It still hurts a lot.
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Interesting little gun. I've already got a 360 Scandium though that I carry daily. I bought my Scandium when I saw it in the used case at a local shop. Think it was like $475, but like new with traces of factory grease on it still. I bet someone fired one round of .357 mag and screamed "OWWWWW" and brought it back. With .38 +P, it ain't so bad. I'll be looking for the LCR around town. I'm curious about how that trigger feels. No "lawyer lock" on it either, it looks like? That's my chief complaint with the S&Ws. Good to see someone thinking outside the box on revolvers. J-frame size guns are the way to go for carry in my book. I forget I'm wearing mine on my hip and speed strips are real easy to carry in pockets.
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Unfortunately, even Tenifer will show holster wear. At least all my Glocks do, and I use Kydex.
The Tenifer doesn't wear off, it's the black oxide finish on top of the Tenifer that wears off. Tenifer is a process that hardens steel and is pretty much fused to the metal. Pretty darn close to diamond hard from what I've read. At any rate, I don't really care what my competition guns look like as long as they run.
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I went from adjustables to fixed. I like how they sit lower. Any of the fixed sights mentioned out here are "on" enough for our game. I check the POI at around 25 yards and Warrens on my G17 were just a little low and Dawsons on my G34 are a little high. I can ring a 10" plate at 50 yards consistently with either if I do my part, so both are plenty accurate. I prefer a little high myself, it's better for me for shooting steel. Even with adjustables, I dialed it a little high so I can aim at the lower half of plates and see more of the target. Some guns may be dead on, others may be a hair up or down (even within same Glock models). Your bullet weight and charge will also play a factor, of course. Just know where POI is and be OK with "close enough." As one GM shooter told me, fixed sights on a Glock are "the bomb."
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My buddy that runs a gun shop mentioned that he got lots of complaints from folks who had bought a certain popular .380 pistol and Magtech ammo from him. Lots of fail to fires. Magtech is the cheapest ammo he stocks at the moment. He couldn't get failures with any other ammo. I thought hard primers myself.
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What is so special about Tilley (and which one)?
I was thinking of getting a golfers hat, one with ventilation, but I would still end up wearing my bandanna on my neck. I burn easily and my back looks like hell from years of getting burns when I was a kid. My dermatologist has fun every year or so rummaging around all the spots on my back looking for bad stuff.
I wear ear plugs generally, so swapping hats isn't a big deal. A friend of mine was wearing a Tilley and I thought it was constructed better that what I have. Lifetime guarantee too. I'm not sure what model he had, but I'd look at something like the LTM6 Airflo. Wider is better. I've still gotten neck burns wearing hats like boonies that just don't stick out all that far. Machine washable is a must for me.
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I've got very fair skin so I wear large brimmed hats as much as possible out in the sun. I've got a big floppy hat that I bought at a biker rally (of all places). The brim is wider than a boonie. It's machine washable, which is nice. Probably looks stupid, but I don't care. I've had enough skin cut out of me at the dermatologist. I switch to a ball cap when it's my turn to shoot. I also wear pants (5-11 tac-lite in the summer) and long sleeve shirts virtually year-round except on those 100+ degree days. I tried hats with the flap on the back and didn't care for them myself. Annoying having it rubbing back there and I felt hotter wearing one. My next hat will be a Tilley.
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A punch works fine, but the tool makes it a lot easier to get fixed sights aligned. I still use punches to drive the stock sights into the trash can where they belong. I just borrowed the sight tool from a gunsmith friend. I did consider buying one, but free is better. One of the cheapest places I saw online to buy one is at Top Gun Supply. They're out of stock at the moment, but have a thing where you can get emailed when they get more in.
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Are You Allergic? any one Allergic to latex Gloves? We could Have some Nitrle Gloves on hand.
Best to just go with one type - if someone perceives an advantage in one over the other (no matter how slight) you could have an arbitration on your hands
I think they make Nitrile gloves in the same sizes as latex, with the same tight feel, etc - should be exactly the same effect Sad but true.
Know who sells cheap Nitrile gloves? Harbor Freight!
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I changed over to 19 to be with more Production shooters!
Cool! You were on my squad last year. Gonna be a good squad!
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Man, that's a tear jerker. Very noble thing you did. Sounds like Corky led a great life with his family. Gonna go hug our dogs now!
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Is Harbor Freight the match sponsor this year?
oh snap!
It's actually a Harbor Freight contingency match, so be sure and wear your tool belts!
This will stay in my backpack so I've always got something with me for web, email, and word processing. It comes with Windows XP (nice, since I refuse to do Vista), but I'm not sure if I'll keep that on it. It arrives tomorrow and I'll just have to see how fast Windows runs on it. I've been running Ubuntu Linux at home these days, with XP inside of VMware when I need it for something (mainly just syncing my Zune and a few things for school that I haven't gotten to work right on Linux.)
I think they make Nitrile gloves in the same sizes as latex, with the same tight feel, etc - should be exactly the same effect 
Backstrap Channel Insert (aka plug)
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Never saw a Pearce, all I had to compare it to was the Jentra. Pearce, Deep6Comp, I don't care what it's called - I'm happy.