Jump to content
Brian Enos's Forums... Maku mozo!

Almo

Classifieds
  • Posts

    218
  • Joined

  • Last visited

About Almo

  • Birthday 10/31/1950

Profile Information

  • Gender
    Male
  • Location
    Phoenix, AZ
  • Interests
    Shooting, fishing, wine, coffee
  • Real Name
    Al Papp

Recent Profile Visitors

The recent visitors block is disabled and is not being shown to other users.

Almo's Achievements

Looks for Target

Looks for Target (4/11)

  1. Yes. 9mm brass is much easier to come by than Federal primers!
  2. In addition to the smaller flash hole, I've noticed that the primer pocket is smaller. I've ruined several Federal small pistol primers loading it. Now it goes into the junk brass pile.
  3. I have the Mcarbo buffer. Like bigdawgbeav says, the difference is really subtle. But time will tell if it saves wear on my bolt. It's like an insurance policy.
  4. I've been practicing with it and testing a wide variety of ammo. So far, it's handled everything flawlessly, from target loads to high power loads. It's accurate but I'm still trying to get used to shooting fast with the red dot. So far, I'm still faster with my 1911 conversion with iron sights.
  5. I did a test with 4 Shadow 2's. Each had an extended firing pin and an 8.5 lb hammer spring. I left the 8.5 lb hammer spring in, put the original firing pin and firing pin spring back in, and tested them with Blazer 124 gr, Eley Competition 124 gr, Federal Syntech 150 gr, and my handloaded 125 gr (with Federal primers). One gun wouldn't set off one of the Blazers, otherwise everything fired every time. I tried the one cartridge that wouldn't fire in all of the guns, and it wouldn't fire in any of them even after several strikes, so it may have been a defective primer. So, I'll probably err on the side of safety and leave the original firing pins in. If I have problems down the road, I could change my mind, since this would be such a rare occurrence. This is with an 8.5 lb hammer spring so, if you're running a 10 or 11 lb hammer spring, I can't imagine you'll have a problem.
  6. S&W and Colt should be ashamed to ship out high dollar guns with apparently no quality control or testing. At this point, I'm afraid to buy either of their revolvers.
  7. That's really disappointing. You'd think that, after sending back the first one because of major issues, they would have made sure they sent you back a good one. For all the bragging Colt did about this gun when it came out, they sure have a lot of quality control issues.
  8. Joe4d, that's good to hear. How was the factory trigger pull on the 617? For that matter, how was the factory trigger on the 929? I may have to reconsider. When I bought my 929, they were advertising a 10 lb double action trigger from the factory; I see they no longer say that. Mine was off the scale on my gauge (which went to 12 lb. I measured it on my fish scale, which may not be as accurate as the trigger gauge, and it was 16.5 lb. And the timing was off, so it shaved lead.
  9. By the way, gargoil66, I'm still considering the S&W 617, but I'm a little leery after my S&W 929 experience. I had to do $500 worth of gunsmithing on a Performance Center gun just to get it to do what they advertised it was supposed to do out of the box.
  10. DS-10-SPEED, did you get your King Cobra. The store I was on the wait list for sent me an E-mail saying they were back in stock. By the time I opened it and clicked on "buy," they were sold out. Still curious about the trigger pull. By the way, I heard that the GP-100 speed loaders work in the King Cobra; is that true?
  11. Check for rough spots or machining marks on the surfaces where the slide fits the frame. If you have them, burnt powder could be getting in there and it might be enough to lock it up. Being that you've put 2,000 rounds through it, this seems unlikely, but you never know. Another possibility (which I hope isn't the case) is a cracked slide. If the slide is cracked, it could be flexing enough in recoil to jam up.
  12. DS-10-SPEED, when you get your King Cobra back, could you tell me how the double action trigger feels? I may have to commit to one without actually seeing it, so it would be nice to know if it's worth it. Thanks.
  13. My 929 is 8 years old. Didn't seem like it was that long ago that I got it.
  14. My Q5SF fits in my PDP holster, but my PDP doesn't fit in my Q5SF holster. They are close, so, depending on the holster, it might.
  15. Get one of the free ballistics calculators on the internet and calculate various zero distances for your load. You'll need to know muzzle velocity, ballistics coefficient, bullet weight, and height of dot above center of barrel. Pistol ballistics coefficient is the only one that can sometimes be difficult to find. If you're shooting factory ammo, the calculators will often let you just enter the ammo name. That being said, I've found that, for USPSA-type loads, a 15 yard zero puts me at +/- 1" from 5 to 40 yards (typical distances for USPSA and Steel Challenge targets).
×
×
  • Create New...