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1 hour ago, BeerBaron said:
cool. what did you buy?
I got a Trubor from Brazos. Bob is tuning the gun and mags now, should have it by the end of next week. Hopefully it will make for a nice "budget" open gun. Now I've got to get some dies and start learning about powders for comped guns...
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Thanks for all the info. I went with supercomp for many of the reasons you guys have listed. The gun is also for my girlfriend and she felt that 38 had a slightly softer and flatter recoil impulse than 9 so that has a lot to do with it. Hopefully the gun will run out of the box but if not I'll be tuning the extractor or replacing it with an aftec. I'm sure there is plenty of info on those subjects here.
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My goal is to buy an off the shelf open gun to shoot 38SC. I'm looking at one in particular that is only offered in 38S and 9mm. Would it be better to buy a 9mm gun and ream it or buy a 38S gun and fit a new extractor? What are the pros/cons of each one from a reliability and durability standpoint?
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Does any one type of racker require a more narrow dovetail than the others?
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On 1/1/2017 at 11:14 AM, Hi-Power Jack said:
Slide racker
Made grip thinner, lightened the slide, put in a 10 lb spring, lightened
the trigger pull, grip tape, smoothed the mag well area to eliminate
excess plastic, glued the grip screws so they don't loosen/
Who are you guys having install a slide racker? Thinking about picking up one of these and to me an open gun HAS to have a slide racker. There isn't a lot of meat left on the slide so I would feel better about sending it to someone who has done a few. Any advice about smiths, rackers, etc.?
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2 hours ago, PrimaryBruce said:
Ryan and I had a talk about how many of you guys are still hunting for mounts.
The Fastfire III/Venom models were BY FAR the most popular of all.
We've decided we are going go do another run of them and make the dovetails a little bigger so hand fitment will almost certainly be necessary.
They can be pre ordered NOW on the website. These next ones will be hard anodized instead of cerakoted and we hope to have them shipping in 2-3 weeks!
Great news! Not sure I'll ever shoot CO but I'd like to have one on hand anyway.
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Mine is in the 4-6' range. Running 133ish PF ammo and an 8lb spring. I also have an extra power extractor spring.
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7 hours ago, Fatso said:
Dang! I didn't know that about conversion barrels. Suppose that makes sense!
Sent from my iPhone using TapatalkYep. Aftermarket barrels are allowed in production as long as they are the same caliber, length and contour as the original.
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I'm a big fan of SNS bullets over N320
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Typically after 2 matches and a practice session for me, totaling about 700 rounds, adding oil in between.
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On 2/15/2017 at 6:50 AM, Mountbkr said:
The first match i went to i intended to "spectate" but as soon as i got there and everyone discovered i was planning on watching them, i was overwhelmed with offers of gear and guns to shoot. I ended up taking someone's equipment and shooting with them and am glad i did so. I believe walking around and watching might work for someone who is overly cautious but if you are the least bit competitive, you will be glad you joined in and shot.
My girlfriend had the exact same thing happen. She has since fallen in love with USPSA shooting.
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1 minute ago, TrackCage said:
It's not that the classifier is typically one of my worst, but something about knowing it counts for more lends itself to stupid errors. I have some room to grow in the mental game too. There's no reason to let it get to me and tank the stage, just because I know it's the one that counts.
If you can change this mindset you'll bump to B in no time. You can't think of the classifier as being different than any other stage. Don't think anything different and don't do anything different. Read, or listen to, the course of fire, walk through it, physically and mentally several times until you have a solid stage plan ingrained into your subconscious and when it is your turn to shoot, step into the box and shoot the stage. You'll be surprised how much better your classifier scores, and consequently your match scores will be.
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6 hours ago, TrackCage said:
So to your point, I definitely still have some work to do to catch the top performers in the quality of their hits. The mike killed me, because of course, it was on the classifier.
You shot 72% of a GM. If he's a real GM then you should be able to bump to B pretty easily. Is the classifier typically one of you worst stages?
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On 2/8/2017 at 9:47 AM, lgh said:
Thanks CC. The question I have is how much does it/did it alter sight alignment when you present from the holster like we do with irons. Was it satisfactory or way off, leaving you hunting for the dot and requiring one to re-learn presentation for the RDS equipped gun.
I'm hoping someone has found that the dovetail mount is good enough, at least with some of the red dots. That would be the cheapest approach. Milling in a Docter would be the most effective but expensive and I would prefer a different RDS with adjustable intensity.
In my experience if you are already familiar enough with the gun to draw and acquire a good sight picture from muscle memory, transitioning to a RDS is sencond nature. My only experience with a slide mounted optic is an RMR on a 19 MOS.
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In both of the videos you posted you're easily fast enough to hang with B shooters. What the camera doesn't show is points. In minor scoring you have to shoot alphas, even on field courses. What is a typical breakdown of targets scored in a match for you (i.e. %A, %C, %D, %M, %NS)?
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Don't focus too much on speed for the first couple of months. You just need to get some match experience right now. It's hard to do that when you're on the way home after being DQ'ed. The speed will come naturally so don't worry about it right now. Now is the time to build rock solid fundamentals and learn the big time savers. You'll have plenty of time to nitpick tenths of seconds that could've been saved later on. One thing I will recommend is staying off of the fault lines unless it is 100% necessary. Several times through the video you had the toes of one or both feet on top of fault lines. I would advise anyone against making this a habit for many reasons. We can talk about them at the match Saturday. See you at the range.
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55 minutes ago, Broncman said:
This has been a great thread! As a new shooter to USPSA coming more from a bullseye type shooting , grip is killing me.
My first match I was 15th out of 28 after some trigger trouble. But my score for points was near the top.
On the classifier " take your choice", my first shot on each target was an A. Next was a C out the bottom of the A.
The dip is killing me when I shoot fast. Shooting g an XDM 5.25. This thread gives me some ideas to try on grip.
Vogel has some points I want to try, but
Yong's video make a lot of sense to me.
What weight recoil spring are you running? If your first shot was right on target and all follow ups were low, I'd guess you have too heavy of a recoil spring in the gun rather than an ineffective grip.
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No off season for me in south Alabama.
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7 hours ago, 9x45 said:
Well, that's because he is weird. He started with an STI and went to a Glock, that's backwards...
And his guns are surprisingly closer to Stock than most would thing. Proof that a reliable gun and great fundamentals will take you far.
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21 hours ago, TennJeep1618 said:
That sounds like a sandbagger's excuse to me...
Haha if only you could've seen it Brant. It Was some textbook sandbagging. Didn't even have to fire a shot before I knew it was going to be a 40% classifier haha.
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These things happen. Modify your make ready routine to include a step for verifying that there is a mag in the gun. By doing this and forcing it to become muscle memory you ensure you won't make the same mistake again. Step one of make ready for me is to pull my start mag off of my belt and verify that it is indeed my start mag before loading the gun. I did not always visually check this and one time it bit me when I made ready with mag 5 that only had 10 rounds in it.
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On 11/24/2016 at 7:31 PM, glazer1972 said:
You think those are still good for a carry gun?
I really like the Warren Tactical non-Sevigny sights. Great on competition and carry guns.
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20 minutes ago, johnbu said:
Glad to hear about someone that tried it and found it actually worked.
Thanks again for the advice.
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On 2/13/2017 at 9:24 AM, MissionaryMike said:
Also, as John has mentioned previously, he has achieved lighter and lighter, and more and more reliable results after multiple polishings, inspections, and problem solving, as have I. Previously, I've expressed my frustration in trying to achieve the same light trigger pull as some of you here. That frustration motivated me to keep at it. After almost 2 months of tweaking and tuning, I think that my end result is fantastic – very good reliability, as well as a pretty light DA with my preferred #12 PDO Spring, around #4, 10oz, which is light enough for me. I figured out that the "stacking" feel that I felt w/ the PDO springs was actually a result of the trigger rubbing along the cut out in the frame for the trigger as I pulled back. The cut out looked like a trapezoid, not a rectangle. Weird. So I had to file that part out considerably. I mean, who doesn't properly cut out that part of the frame? Answer: Tanfoglio. There were 2 or 3 other areas in the frame right where the trigger bar glides that were causing a lot of friction as well. The mirror polish on my trigger bar would get all scuffed up after just one range trip. I'm pleased with my gun now, but I tell ya, it took a lot of time to figure things out. Now I'm wanting to put an optimized Stock 3 together.
My results are similar. After initially doing as good a job as humanly possible, or so I thought, of polishing, my gun was about 95% with Winchester SPPs and 80% with CCI SPPs running a 12lb PDO hammer spring. At the advice of John I put the heaviest spring I have in the gun and shot a match. After the match I cleaned the gun and did another round of polishing. I have repeated this 3 times now and the gun runs 100% now with Winchester SPPs and a 12lb PDO hammer spring.
9mm or 38S better to convert to 38SC?
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Yes the gun is a 38 super, will be shooting supercomp. I have read a lot of good things about 3n38 and am a big fan of VV powders. I'm just a lowly production shooter so n320 is my powder of choice. I've also heard a lot of good things about WAC and can buy that locally.