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  1.  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.

     

     

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    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.

     

     

     

     

  3. 1 minute ago, ShortBus said:

    Well, I think you definitely turned out better than we all thought you would haha

     

     Someday I will tell you all about the first open gun Caspian ever built and they throated the barrel. 

     

    .38 Super & throated barrels = ☠️

  4. 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    I have flirted with the idea of getting back into pistol sport a few times off and on over the years with a couple outdated open guns that never ran.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. 
  5.  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? 

     

     

     

     

  6. 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.......

  7. Not sure I understand the question. Are you asking what holster will work with a Core? If so, I use a Safariland 014 with mine.

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    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.

  8. I wear 1.0 di insert in my Rudy's . Enough to see the front sight sharply without to much target blur. Right eye only. Without it the front sight is a blur.

    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.

  9. i'm still amazed by the number of people who still think that the path to shooting greatness lies in their ability to run faster, jump higher and leap tall buildings in a single bound when in fact it has almost nothing to do with that. Anyone who is in even remotely reasonable shape can be a top tier shooter ....

    And before those of you who are non believers post anything, do the following simple test ....

    go out to the range tomorrow and set up and shoot El Pres and report back your results. If you can' shoot that (or any other typical stand & shoot classifier) at 90% or better exactly what will getting in better shape do for you to shoot El Pres better?

    To become a better shooter, you need to learn to shoot better .... not run faster or bench press more ...

    Of course having said that, as someone already pointed out, there is nothing bad that happens by getting into better shape ....

    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.

  10. Shooting?

    Forget shooting.

    Being an overweight person who can't move sucks PERIOD. Being fit and healthy is just, well...HEALTHY, regardless of the activity.

    There are no cons to being in shape, whatsoever. NONE.

    I vow to never again have my stomach hanging over my belt. Eff that.

    Take care of yourself. Eat right. Move your body.

    Every time at a major match I have some RO tell me "Boy, I wish I was lean and fit like you are. It all changes when you get married and have kids."

    Bullshit. You got lazy. You let yourself go. Period. If you want it bad enough you can do it. If you can make time to get to the range, you can make time to plan your meals and do some physically exhausting exercise a few times a week. It's a choice.

    +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.

  11. 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.

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