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MikeBurgess

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  1. Don't see many chromed magazines, but it shouldn't hurt anything. Chrome should only be a few ten thousandths of an inch thick so its not going to throw you over the length limit
  2. for Open most striker guns have 2 major short comings, 1 is the recoil spring needs to re-cock the striker making for a limited selection of usable springs and therefore a much smaller operating window. 2 the barrel tilts up at the muzzle as the slide cycles, menaining if you add something heavy like a comp it has to swing up and sown every time the slide cycles, this limits the size and material choices avaliable for comps. For Limited guns I think the biggest put off is/was the small frame GLOCKs (G22/35) are pretty unpleasant to shoot compared to a 2011, and by the time any other competitors brought competition to that market the 2011 boat had sailed, that said a large frame GLOCK (G20/G40) are actually very nice to shoot and I would use one if limited wasn't a dead division.
  3. honestly I think its a multitude of reasons, that all add up. I think there were quite a few questionable slides produced in the last decade or so. (Caspian and STI had bad batches for sure) Higher pressure 9 major, people loading said ammo to 185PF because its "flatter" or I just load what Bubba says he uses. Build quality, Barrel holes of various sizes and various distances from the chamber.
  4. One other thing I try to tell people, Open gun slides are a consumable, what I see locally with guys shooting everything from home builds to Infinities, mostly in 9 major, is slides seem to have a half life of about 25K rounds, if you budget that into your thinking it wont hurt as much if one breaks. As a side note on this, shooting 9 major its probably best to not go too high in power factor in search of a magic load, .
  5. I'll say the unthinkable. once you have learned to pull a trigger straight back the gun makes very very little difference in your performance. If the gun is sufficiently accurate and 100% reliable there isn't much more to be gained, especially in SC where there is no major PF scoring advantage.
  6. One thing to think about with open guns is the operating window is much smaller and if you are not up for working on them yourself you will want a local smith that can work on them for you. Ask the locals you shoot with what they own and who does their service. 19/2011s and not hard to work on but they are nothing like a GLOCK, pretty much every part you may want to change will need to be fit to the pistol almost nothing is drop in. that said a properly built gun should go 10s of thousands of rounds without needing much service other than springs.
  7. do a test, 1, Go to a match, this way you are focusing on the sights and stage and not directly what did round feel like. 2, Bring a mix of 115 124 147 or whatever weight bullets you can et your mitts on, mix it in a bag and load your mags form said bag. 3, shoot the stages with the mixed ammo. 4 draw your conclusions from this experience. my takeaway from doing this years ago when I was a decent B class shooter, with a mix of 115 124 147 any 170 bullets was the various ammo was more different in sound than anything else. the gun either went Bang BANG or bang every time I pulled the trigger, the sights went up and came down just like always and by the end of the day I had decided that for me any ammo that functions, makes PF and hits where I expect will work as well as any other.
  8. You may want to try this on a timer and see what the timer actually says. It may be skill level or personal perception dependent but here is an example. A friend and I were practicing with our open guns and getting bad hits on a set of 3 close targets because we were accepting too much, we got mad and started making ourselves see the dot in the A for all 6 shots on this array, it felt like it took lots of time to see the dot enough to know it was an A for every shot but the timer said it didn't.
  9. I wouldn't say foolish, most (all?) of us are doing this for fun, shooting a division you want to is more fun than shooting one you don't. end of the day nobody is getting rich because they finished a place or two higher than they would have otherwise.
  10. I've had the privilege to shoot with a few national and world champions over the years, and even in Open when they are going stupid fast they aim at the A. Speed opens up group size don't give it a head start by not aiming
  11. One thing you noted is incorrect. people are NOT (by and large) blowing up frames, they are blowing out extractors and breaking grips.. A friend blew one up a few months ago, popped a new extractor in it put on a new grip and was back in business. I think the tungsten grip plastic appears to be more brittle than regular plastic grips/frames. Having seen a blown up a GLOCK or 2 over the years, the case thats left in the barrel looks the same and the extractor still departs for parts un-known but the frame (grip) doesn't break on them.
  12. Peening will save one thats close, not sure one thats enough to allow the hammer to fall counts as close. I was able to save the one on a Caspian I had when I replaced the ignition parts, the hardest part is figuring out how to hold the safety in the right place well supported and hit it in the right place, it feels like you really want a 3rd hand but its 100% doable. As for the RH safety being weird, check how the tang and slot fit together, I have seen them both too tight and too loose. no idea what direction your issue is.
  13. The chaos I weighed was right about 10 oz (I don't have it written down) having put a few uppers together lately I think 10 oz +/- 1/2 is the sweet spot for a 9 major gun, I built one with an 8.5 oz slide and it is pretty violent in comparison.
  14. non specified had positions work great at local matches, you never get home and see videos of a whole squad starting hands at sides when the WSB said writs above that way. that said for locals I try to keep it wrists below or touching x or wrists above when facing up range, for major matches with fixed staff I will vary it more because the staff will know what the start position is and should get it correct.
  15. Your only talking about 1/2" at most in difference possible, there just isn't that much real-estate back there and when your holding it 24" from your face that 1/2" is meaningless. I have milled a bunch of slides for various dots and the biggest driver has always been what material I have to work with. That said I normally go for as far back as will fit, not scientific but I figure the further from the explosion in the chamber the better and lower likelihood of brass hitting it.
  16. my answer is that target is or isnt down range of that position
  17. CR Speed holster either modified by carver or Dremelled to fit would work fine like they do for GLOCKs. not the coolest holster on the market but also doesn't seem to stop Eric from winning everything
  18. 100% yes, everyone talks about Open tech advancing, but aside from better dots it really hasn't. 99% of what people say are advancements are just fashion trends.
  19. MikeBurgess

    Milled Rival

    Why would you need a thinner plate? Open guns all have much higher dot over bore than any slide mounted and its a non issue there.
  20. So far I have see little difference in what various 1911 format guns can handle, one of my open guns has a $65 eBay RIA 9mm barrel in it, its probably only got 10k ish on it but is holding up fine, actually cant bring myself to get rid of it because it will eat all the ammo that fails the Hundo. IMHO a manufacturer would need to go out of their way to make extra sub standard barrels and slides to make 9 major a no go.
  21. occasionally I run into stages where there is a first position with larger movement to the rest of the stage that flows together better the flowing portion if that flowing portion in 23 to 25 rounds then reloading to a 155 is nice. yes I could load to a 170 but I rarely practice that.
  22. 8 swaps 0 new, at most 1 guy thats new thats been shooting in open with a staccato
  23. Normally start with a 170 and reload to 155, usually have 2 155s on the belt and a 170 in the gun and an extra 170 in the bag. If I was to start again today and was 100% committed to open I would just go all 170, I'm sure if that's all I reloaded with they would feel normal and would reload at the same speed
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