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Just bought a nice 6” new to me Limited gun .40 late this fall with the thought of getting back in the game but between super limited available ammo and seemingly nonexistent primers, it looks like it was a wrong time to jump back in so I may just now sell it...

Yeah, just an old boomer relic like me, time to head out on the pack ice on a cold night.......

Thank you. I drew my pistol out of this holster so many times 30 years ago anything else just feels strange.

Looking at the rules all I can find is distance to inside of belt and height over belt . TIA.

Someone, and I can’t remember who, makes a thumb rest that attaches to the rail mount. I cut off the existing thumb rest and mounted a Gogun rest. It required a fair amount of material to be removed from the rail mounted rest so it would operate in an open holster though. It is totally farmed together but it actually works very well.

The Frankenstein in question. Getting the *thumb rest [generic]* mount to work in the holster required removing farm implement grade amounts of material. $30 mount was the victim. Looks like hell, works like heaven. You can all relax, I have decided to not give up my day job and become a pistolsmith.

Someday I will tell you all about the first open gun Caspian ever built and they throated the barrel. .38 Super & throated barrels =

I actually shot a fair amount of USPSA back in the days of single port compensators, 38 supers and 185 power factor. Had a couple 550's set up and shotgun/rifle were "side matches." I have flirted with the idea of getting back into pistol sport a few times off and on over the years with a couple outdated open guns that never ran. The M&P project came along last year when a CORE ended up in my hands that a client did not want. Unfortunately for my bank account I live only about 20 minutes away from Adam and Atlas Gunworks. After speaking with them last week, they have something in mind that might work for my massive hand. If I go that route I'll be back in the deep end new reloading set up and all. I still may order a little 9mm major just to see how long it takes to crack a slide on that M&P.

Thank you all for the information and the insight.

It seems to be permanently unavailable there.

As I am unsure of the viability or my commitment to my M&P Open gun project I'm reluctant to commit financial resources to a 9mm reloading set up. Is anyone aware of a new or remanufactured load that would make major out of a 5 inch barrel?

I'm doing the same the really economical way, M&P 5" Pro core 9mm with comp/barrel from Carver and Buris Fastfire III. Add a mag well and an Apex trigger and I'll be at < $1600 including gun. Yeah, I'll also need some mag pad kits and a few more mags but you get the point. Not the gun that a Trubor is but I can always upgrade if I get in the deep end again.......

So just the regular 014 for a M&P has enough adjustability in the muzzle platform to deal with that Carver comp correct? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Yes, the title is confusing......it was late. And yes, I'm interested in what holster will work with a 5" M&P pro with a 3 port Carver comp. Thanks.

Curious as to what works with that set up as I may end up with one.

Trying something new, reading correction contact in my non dominant left eye and small distance correction contact in my dominant right.

6' 9" 225 36x38 so I just wear shorts...... Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

For your neck. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i463R5HGdVg "Tennis" elbow. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2E3SbCUz34&list=PL8EF78154F304AA19 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dgbCDtqdlI All his stuff is great. I'm 57 and have better mobility after getting involved in this type of work than I've had in years.

Same thing here but I went with a 1.5. I can see the front sight but it's not enough magnification to make me fall down [a lot.] Guess they can do what amounts to the same thing with single eye surgery. A friend had it done, now see fine close and at a distance. Apparently the brain very quickly adapts to the new difference.

I don't think anyone is saying the single path to shooting wonderfulnessing is fitness. By the same token anyone that thinks "fitness" is running and bench pressing needs to get a bit more current on a decent definition of fitness. I'm actually happy a lot of people I compete against [in a variety of different sport are fat and lack fitness] because if they were actually "fit" [defined as the ability to produce power over distance/time] I'd have more people out preforming me of those that do by a wider margin. OTOH I feel bad for those same ones sucking wind, sweating bullets and looking for a shady place to sit because by mid afternoon they're pooch. Anyone that doesn't think fitness [defined as the ability to produce power over distance/time] sigh level of physical sounds like someone that's never been at a very high level of physical conditioning in their given sport. Who doesn't get tired during a long day in the heat? Who doesn't get tired during a long match dealing with the mental aspect [pressure]. Who can watch a fit vs de-conditioned person shoot a stage with a lot of movement and think "wow, I bet that's easier if your overweight!] Again, many people can perform at a high level despite being de-conditioned not because of being so. Clearly fitness isn't going to get a ton of play in a sport where I friends wife once said on her first trip to a big match "it looks like the fat Olympics." Finding justification for things is easy. Apologies to those of you that struggle with weight and fitness, I understand it can be quite a demon.

+1 x 100 Every time I see some Crossfit hating going on I see people that don't really understand CF, have made up their mind based on asymmetrical information and have never done it. Granted a lot of CF participants "difficult" to deal with but if you look to what CF is REALLY about, past the You Tube/Games face, it's probably the best way for people of all ages and levels of current condition to improve all aspects of health/fitness/mobility. And for the kipping pull-ups....they're properly done for a good reason but strict pull-ups are a foundation of CF. If someone get injured in CF it's their own fault. Movement is dangerous when done incorrectly or over zealously. As someone that climbed up out of the primordial ooze, I have no desire to treat my body like crap, short my life span, not enjoy my bodies ability to it's fullest extent because I'm addicted to sugar laden processed food and tasty but useless carbohydrates. De-conditioned people can be successful at many sport in spite of their condition not because of it. People keep lowering the health/fitness bar so much because they can't even step over it and that's a shame. At 57 I can't run as fast, jump as high and lift as much as I could when I was 30 but that doesn't mean I don't want to run as fast, jump as high and lift as much as I can at whatever age I'm at.

http://dawngrant.com/category/blog/sports-improvement/clay-shooting/ Popular with some of the top sporting clay shooters in the word.

Jim Anglin made me 2 big stacks that function great.

Thought some might like to see the 'finished' product. All the work was done by Kevin Greeley and really fine work it was!

I was asking a pro shooter about a few used Open guns and he was very cautious in recommending any gun without a super full disclosure on condition/round count and how well they run. His concern was temperamental guns that might only run 100% with some long developed hand load the owner had come up with. Kinda harsh as I believe most here sell thing in good conscious but a gun the doesn't run is either no fun or heading to a 'smith. I bought an old Open gun here last spring. The owner had it as a back up gun and had not shot it, I knew I was rolling the dice. Turned out not to run and is now sitting at a gunsmiths bench. The guy I bought it from was totally stand up about it and felt badly but I saw the risk as mine and have nothing but good karma for him. Moral of story: If you buy used make sure it runs 100% and on more then one pet load.