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Rubber mallet? You trying to tickle it or move it? Get the gun solidly supported--or grab it in a soft jawed vise---and hit the
punch with a hammer. Not a little bitty brass one--a real hammer. Those trigger pins can be a B!^(H . Buy the stepped
slip in pin from Cajun, and a couple of spare trigger return springs while you are there.
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$250 is W-A-Y down toward the bottom of the "good glass" price range. Take a look at the Nikon Buckmaster 4.5-14 x 40
In a fixed power, you might find a SWFA SS 12-42 on sale for your $250.
You should be able to easily see .223 bullet holes at 100 yds with your current 12x Bushnell. Check your scope adjustments.
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How much do you want to spend?
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My wife has VERY small hands. Thin grips on her SS gun, small backstrap on her M&P.
Just built her an Open gun and got a Extra Small grip from Jason at Extreme Shooters.
That with a Mitchell right side mag release, short trigger and a Low Pad thumb safety
seems to fit her tiny hands just fine.
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Click on the little CC box to get closed captions in Italian. Then on the "Settings" gear shaped thingy, select
Italian auto generated, then auto-translate, then select english from the drop-down. Not sure it's very accurate, but
it sure is entertaining!
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If you are applying pressure and not getting a chip, your reamer pilot diameter may be too large for the barrel. Some
types of rifling run smaller on the minor diameter, and sometimes tolerance stack rears it's ugly head.
Try slipping the pilot of the reamer into the muzzle of the barrel. If it won't go there, chances are it won't fit on
the rear of the barrel.
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I've got one of the 155's coming---should arrive tomorrow. Not sure anybody NEEDS one---it's just another option. I'll probably
give it a try on Saturday.
Follow-up. Got the 155 today. Ran about a hundred rounds through it, no problems. Holds 26 re-loadable and I can get
27 in it, but it's really tight. I'll leave it loaded with 25 overnight and see if it settles in a bit.
I think it will get some use. Lots of stages that a few more rounds than a 140 holds will be welcome.
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"Shooting area" is no different than a fault line. Or a start box (4 fault lines configured in a square). If you are touching the ground outside, you are OUT.
So one foot out and one foot in is OUT-------unless the WSB states something like "Standing completely outside the shooting area". Not sure how that
would fly at a level 2 or Level 3, but I see it at Level 1's.
The rules are the rules for all level of matches.
I think at level II and III matcges the WSB are better so they would tend to write them without so much room to game it.
When it says standing outside the shooting area, even if you are standing on the fault line touching outside the fault line you would be considered outside the shooting area.
Rules the same for all levels? Really.
1.1.5.1 Level I matches may use shooting boxes, specify where or when specific target arrays may be engaged and specify mandatory reloads in short and medium courses only. Long courses are exclusively governed by 1.1.5. -
"Shooting area" is no different than a fault line. Or a start box (4 fault lines configured in a square). If you are touching the ground outside, you are OUT.
So one foot out and one foot in is OUT-------unless the WSB states something like "Standing completely outside the shooting area". Not sure how that
would fly at a level 2 or Level 3, but I see it at Level 1's.
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3.4 with a 147 Bayou, OAL 1.140. Makes 129-134 in 2 CZ's, 2 1911's, and a Glock 17.
Same guns, 147 Montana Gold 147 CMJ took 3.7 gr.
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What brand of mag?
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USPS has gotten a little weird lately. Had a package from Shooters Connection get hung in Kentucky for 10 days.
Opened a case on it---it showed up 2 days later. That said---got a box-o-bullets from Donnie last week, 2 days
from order to delivered, and I'm farther from Louisiana than most. At least you are getting yours eventually---had
a 3,000 bullet box of 9mm go completely missing. They never did find it. Precision Delta replaced it.
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One other issue with a left side racker. If you are running a 90° C-More mount, the slide racker gets pretty long. The
geometry gets to the point that you are pushing the slide sideways as much as pulling it back. Had a left side zig-racker
on my wife's gun. Switched it to a right side titanium short racker bent up about 40°. MUCH easier for her to rack the slide.
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Wife and I both are running SoundGear custom molded electronic plugs. They work like an electronic muff---they actually amplify normal sounds a bit, but
attenuate all loud sounds down to (I think) 82 Db.
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Short stroking. After the hammer cocks, the slide on a 1911 travels back about an additional inch. About the last half of that inch exposes
the ejector. As others have said----what's your recoil spring? 17 lb mainspring and a 8-9 lb recoil spring is a place to start sorting it out.
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Call Dillon on Monday.
As far as I know, the primer feeder has not changed in the close to 20 yrs I've had my 550B.They will tell you what you need. Good chance they will want you to send it in, and you will get it back ready to run.
I've heard of people sending in total wrecks (flood, rust, fire) and getting back like new units, no charge.
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These reamers, do they affect headspace? Or just add a bit of bore to the rifling without touching the part that the case mouth butts up against?
A chambering reamer will affect headspace. It cuts the whole thing-----chamber, the step the case mouth registers on, and a bit of the rifling.
A throating reamer only cuts the rifling beyond the step. It increases the length of the leade----the area beyond the step where the part of the
bullet beyond the case mouth lives.
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If you get a chance, try some Solo 1000. I haven't tried it in 40--but in 45 I honestly believe it's just a touch softer than Clays.
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What are you building? Shooters Connection has CK widebody classics in stock, no ramp cut. Clark/Para frame cut is easy.
Just finished 2 open gun builds on CK frames, CK slides. No problems.
Really wanted to try a Phoenix Trinity frame with a spiffy custom serial number---the new "10 frame minimum" killed that idea!
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Techwell here. The aluminum grips work well for me, and help make weight.
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Update---Just got off the phone with the nice people that make Green Mountain bags. They
don't list purple as an option on their rugs, but they will make me one! Sweet. Even getting
her name embroidered on it. Woo-Hoo! Cross one big one off of the Christmas list.
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GunGoddess has some
She's a Gun Goddess fan---but they have nothing large enough. This is for a 5" Open gun. 90° C-More,
Ice Magwell, and a slide racker the size of the shift handle in a '57 Chevy. She's currently using a
17" Bulldog case--and it's none to large.
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Who makes/can make (by Christmas) a pistol rug in purple large enough for a 5" Open gun?
Want to get one for the wife. She's currently using a large Bulldog case--and it's just barely
big enough.
Custom case with her name embroidered on it is probably where this is headed---who makes them?
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Assuming that's true, even if you have only .002 variance per part, you're dealing with a number of parts, so that adds up to be a much bigger number. It's not like swapping out parts on a Glock or AR.
Agreed. Never said it was Glock easy----just that it's a heck of a lot better than it used to be.
As far as I know, the primer feeder has not changed in the close to 20 yrs I've had my 550B.
9mm Major load - 115gn and HS6
in 9mm/38 Caliber
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8.8 HS-6 under a 115 Precision Delta JHP. 1.175 OAL, WSP primers. 5" KKM, two .156 barrel holes, Bedell comp.
Chrono 174.5 at a match last week.