HardinS

Nearest gun smith that can that I'm aware of is about 2 hours away. And I have a race gun I would normally use; don't want to spend much modifying this one just to be able to compete with my friend in HM.

It's been 6 years since I was there, but we used Extended Horizons and liked them a lot. Ed Robinson's was a little crowded. Our best dive though, was renting tanks from Maui Dive Shop and doing airport beach ourselves. It's shallow, so great lighting for photos, and your bottom time is just about infinite. The nature preserve toward the south was somewhere we wanted to dive, but storms had come from that way when we were there & the conditions sucked for it.

I realize this is an old thread. How did the match go? I usually would use my Mossberg 930 JM, but I am competing at the Blue Ridge Mt 3-gun match in Heavy Metal, to be able to do it with a friend in that division. My only suitable pump shotgun is an older Mossberg 590 with a fixed cylinder bore choke. I've agonized over whether this will decimate me or not. I've patterned various loads and tried them against steel plates I have & a popper too. At 30 yards, no birdshot I have could drop my popper, including some HV #4 pheasant loads. Some Federal #4 2 3/4" turkey loads did drop it easily. So I could pay a fortune & run turkey loads - if my shoulder could withstand it. So I've been reading a lot about using CB for 3-gun.

For comparison, this is my Para P18.9 Pro Custom

I picked up my Para P14 Pro Custom a couple days ago to practice with it, and noticed the hammer spur was broken off the hammer. I don't know how or when it happened. I have probably about 4000 rounds through this gun, and it has always functioned perfectly. It's been an ideal competition gun for me. I've competed in a couple IDPA matches and one 3 gun match. I'll be competing in the Blue Ridge Mountain 3-gun match in a couple weeks, in Heavy Metal division, and I intended to use this pistol. I know that changing the hammer on a 1911 with as much use as this one has requires changing the sear also, and I don't know a real good 1911 smith near me. Would it hurt anything to just run the pistol during the match as is, with the hammer spur broken off? I've fired 300 rounds with it broken and not had a single malfunction. (I had been concerned it may no longer have enough mass to hit the firing pin hard enough.) Should I just compete with it as is?