ed_henry

Plain lead or jacketed has work best plated has never been the best and often bad.

I have several firearms that do not like plated bullets. One of the guys we shoot with have a 625 S&W cut the plating on Berry bullet. It made the coolest fan shaped holes in the targets. It appears that barrels with sharp rifling do not do well with plated bullets.

Where are the 10 round 40S&W mags from? Are you sure they fit the box? 9mm fits well but .424(40)- .397 (9mm) = .024 X10 = .24 just a little less than 1/4" I don't think you have a 1/4 clearance in the box over a 9mm. You may and then you could cheat the rear sight a little. Just a thought though why not shoot 9mm in minor it is less $$? I understand if you have a 40 and wish to shoot minor. But why?

Maybe I missed something. SS major is 8 rounds SS minor is 10 rounds. You shoot either 45 or 40 in major SS and still you only have 8 rounds per magazine max. Maybe I read something differently than it was written.

One of the major problems when machining Ti is low feed rate. If you don't feed it heavy enough it will not cut well at all. Too low a surface speed is a problem but nothing like under feeding. Doing machining by hand in Ti can be difficult!

I would try revolver if I could shoot minor with 8 rounds. Really neat Ed

found them at Able Ammo bought 3. Thanks ed

Thank you I will look and see who have 4 for sale.

I have a Ruger PC40 with a Ruger magazine. What mag from Ruger does this use and are they still available? I understand they came with both Glock and Smith mags. Mine is the one using Ruger mags.

Inkman has the right idea. Expensive but correct. Having said that I have not replaced anything other than the recoil spring in 25-30K. Now watch me break something now that I said this.

August 28th and September 25th. The multi-gun matches are usually the 4th Sunday of the month. Bad for me. I have a USPSA match at Crooked Creek those weekends.

I looked at the calendar and could not find and matches for 3 gun. Will there be any in August or September 2011?

I have two 1911's in 40 S&W with over 70K through them one a SVI double stack and the other a SVI single stack. I have one 1911 in 38 super with ~30K that is still happy SVI double stack IMM. Good quality 1911's can go over 100K with minimal maintenance and very few parts replaced. ed

1998 Trojan with Megar 10MM mags 1.200/1.205 180 Grain Montana Gold CMJ No work on barrel or mags. Runs great. ed

Not knowing any better I use a 16# spring for 40 major. ed

does anyone make any aluminum frame 5" gun?

I guess I am stupid I have fired this TIKI and other comped guns from close retention and I have never been burned. This TIKI with the comp does not kick or bite as my colt New dective does.

I have a TIKI from SVI that is exactly what you asked for. A comped 3" 45. It is a great gun but $$$$

I have a Stainless SV TIKI and a Colt New Detective (sp?). They both work after the first 50-100 rounds. I have used both in PPC undercover and our annual undercover USPSA match. As long as I load the rounds correctly the guns work great. I did have a bad mag, I don't know what kind it was as I threw it over the berm after it jammed twice on the disappearing mover. Both are 45 and work great. I have changed the TIKI to 9mm and ran about 300 round through it then changed it back to 45.

none of mine lock back except for production. I have been shooting SS for about 4 years now and have watched a number of people reload to a locked back gun and have over inserted the mag and had the jam from hell.

I like SS. I have shoot OPEN -- LIMTED -- L10 each for at least 3 or 4 years each and I have been shooting SS for about 4 years now and find I enjoy it. I don't shoot anything really well anymore but I do enjoy it. Flexmoney sees our mission count for Crooked Creek Practical Pistol in NE Ohio and has asked why we have more SS mission count than the rest of Ohio combined. There are a few of us who like it and have shown the light to others. ( I realize that some of you may thing it is darkness but I don't care) ed

I have at times set up what could be an illegal stage but still very safe. I had a sore back and was not up to big steel hard cover so I used a no shoot with a star behind it. If you hit the no shoot and got the hit you got both. Big deal! It was a hit as far as the shooter were concerned. I have designed and/or shot a number of stages that were level 0. I still enjoy them and try not to set them up but there are times that they are difficult to fix. ed

Not everyone. A friend bought a Les Baer and a .45 case head rupture cracked the frame in 6 places - to the point where the mainspring fell out of the frame with the retaining pin intact. Les explained that this sort of damage was normal for a case head rupture, but he stands behind his work so he would offer $50 off the price of a new gun. The brass case head showed the typical rupture where the brass blew out at the unsupported part near the head. There was no indication or barrel obstruction or blowout beyond this one part of the case. The frame was sent to a metallurgical research lab where it was subjected to chemical, photomicrographic, and nital etch analysis. The chemical composition of the "forged" frame was "fully within specifications" for 1141 hot rolled resulphurized steel, with a Rockwell hardness between B82 and B83 as measured at 5 points on the frame. The parallel nature of the manganese-sulfide stringers showed no evidence of the deformation that would be expected from a forging operation. I still have the frame that was cut for analysis in the back of my safe - I think I even have the block of plastic with the etched and polished sample of the frame used for the photomicrographic 200x/nital etch analysis. I am not saying that all Les Baers guns exhibit this inconsistency between what they are represented as and what a metallurgical analysis will show, however, this kind of thing does not strike me as something that would happen by accident. HRB 82/83 is butter soft 1141 resulphurized is not cool for a frame if this is really the case RIA uses better material. ed

I love my SVI single stack. I have never seen better. 50-60K (about 3years of single stack) one set of springs and all else runs great. ed

I understand that the slide may or may not fit. But whats with the slide stop?