38superman

Doesn't matter. My football season ended at the Iron Bowl.

YOU'RE DOING WHAT?! If this has been discussed here before I'm definitely not spending enough time in the forums! When's the wedding? Who's the "lucky" lady? Is she good with the kids? I didn't even know you were in a relationship... When did that happen? Are you gonna be allowed to come out and play with your friends? ***************************** Sorry for the thread drift Bobby. Please provide details of the East Bama match. I vote for the girl in his Avatar

I'm with you. When it comes to winning I don't have much of a chance (yet) but I do keep working at it. However, I do learn a lot from these guys. The biggest thing I've learned is that I simply need to practice more. Come to the Classic. The one in October was hands down, the most fun I had at a match all year. Tls

Bobby, You should think about driving up to Nashville this weekend. NTPS in Dickson will be having their monthly club match. There are sure to be a lot of single stack shooters there (myself included), because a lot of folks are getting ready for the Hillbilly Classic this spring (which you should attend) and the SS nats. I would be happy to throw 10 bucks in the pot for high overall SS. However, I warn you, there are some serious pistoleros shooting SS in this club. If you aren't producing master class scores,.... well I hope you don't need the money. Tony

+1 You might want to reconsider before you enable the grip safety. Sooner or later you will pull the trigger in competition and the gun will refuse to fire because your hold on the grip didn't depress the safety enough. The problem may not be apparent, so you end up burning time and trashing the stage while trying to troubleshoot. The grip safety on my open gun is disengaged and I've had reason to regret not doing it to other guns.

I'm sorry your family has to deal with this vile disease. She has my best wishes for a good result. Stay strong.

I am an engineer and I don't believe in anything but provable, repeatable results. The scientific method requires us to observe, form a hypothesis, theorize and perform testing to prove the theory. If you believe this gun is somehow tainted, put it to the test. Have someone go out and point the gun at another state trooper. If the the result is the same, the gun is actually cursed and should be disposed of properly. I could take care of the disposal for a small fee. (All curse verification testing by others). Tony

Best wishes to you both. Tls

What a coincedence. I was thinking about shooing mine too.

Not me. Mine worked perfectly...... for about 10 minutes. I called them and they said "replace the battery". I did, no change. I sent it back and IIRC they kept if for about 4 months. When I finally got it back, it still didn't work. It's now sitting in a box gathering dust under my loading bench. BTW, a digital scale I bought from them has now stopped working too. I'm really happy for you guys that have had good results and service from their products. Unfortunately, that was not my experience. Tls

Who ya gonna call.....?

I'm with Howard on this one. Buy a Springfield and ship it off to your favorite smith. Have him hand fit a match barrel and bushing, a high end trigger group, FO sights, Ed brown safety, a quality extractor and a magwell. You have now doubled the price of the gun but it is still cheaper than a full blown custom and will shoot like a champ. Get some of the new Wilson or Tripp mags and you are in business. For what it's worth, in production 1911's, the most accurate off-the-shelf gun I've owned is my Smith & Wesson. Tony

I hate to pass up the Open. I missed it last year for the first time since I began IPSC. Its 800 miles one way, lodging, $200 entry, ammo and time off work. I'd do it anyway if I thought there would be enough Single Stack participation. However, over the last 3 years it's only drawn 8,4, and 7 shooters. If I'm going to shell out the money and time, I'd like to see enough folks to make the competition more interesting. Considering the economy, who knows how it will play out this year. I suppose I could take two guns and jump to limited if no one else shows up. Tls

So will I, ..... IF I attend.

I am working that week, so I can't shoot, but it is a great match. It will be very challenging shooting SS at the FL Open for sure Z, When we first met I believe it was at the 2005 Fla Open. IIRC you were shooting Single Stack in that match. It's always a great match but always full of long field courses with high round counts. Definately a challenge with a low cap gun. I really don't know if I'm going to this one or not. There's a limit to how much time I can get off work and there are other matches I want to attend this year. We'll see. Tls

Just out of curiosity, how many of you are planning to shoot SS at the Fla Open? Tls

A lot depends on whether you buy lead bullets or cast your own. If you cast your own: Pro's - Cheap Easier on the gun (bore). No supply chain issues, waiting for backorders etc. If I roll my own, no politician can ever stop me. Cons - Dirty Toxic Smoke Can't easily be pushed to the higher velocities that jacket bullets are capable of. And.... Casting your own bullets is WORK. It's tedious and time consuming. For those of you that are accustomed to quickly cranking out thousands of rounds in your Dillon, you will lose your mind trying to produce a thousand lead slugs. The upfront cost of the furnace, tooling, dies, molds, lubricators. The availablilty of lead. You don't just go down to Home Depot and go down the "Lead" aisle. I used to melt down wheel weights. I would scavenge them wherever I could. The alloy is a little less dense and weighs a little light. A 240 gr mold would produce a bullet that weights about 235. It's also a little harder than your typical lead slug. In short, there is no free lunch. What you save in dollars you will burn in time. I will stick with jacketed. I spend a considerable amount of my free time reloading. I don't need to add to that if I don't have to. Tls

Timmy, I think you should set your ambitions higher. After all we are elitist snobs. I will never be satisfied with mere voting rights. I won't rest until I am vested KCJMBO. Knight Commander of the JMB Order. In search of knighthood, in April I will embark on a quest. A quest to joust with the finest shooters to ever wield the 1911. Let me reaffirm my determination to join you my brother in search of glory on the fields of PASA. Let it be done. Tls

You might consider a set of sights from Dawson. A red fiber optic front and an adjustable rear sight with green fiber optics is a nice setup. I had this on a 4" XD-9 and I really liked it. Tony

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I recently saw one in a Memphis gun shop. PM me and I'll put you in touch with them. TLS

I have the gear to shoot in any division except Revolver. I like them all. Each division has its unique appeal and challenges. I see no reason to restrict myself to playing in just one sand box. I am primarily a Limited shooter. In my USPSA career that is the division where I've shot the most. I have probably 2 or 3 times more Limited classifiers on file than any other division. This fall I shot in the Hillbilly Classic and had a blast. I made the commitment to shoot the Single Stack through the winter and go to my first SS nats next spring. I've been getting after it pretty hard since then. In the last month I've shot the Classic plus 3 or 4 club matches. I plan to stick with it until the end of next year. After that, .... we'll see. Tls

I wouldn't trade my SVI for anything...... except maybe two more just like it. My Brazos open gun and my SVI are the only guns I own that haven't been to the gunsmith for some sort of upgrade. Don't need one.

Please don't take this the wrong way, but for a man that was sold 7 defective firearms, you seem overly concerned about protecting their reputation. That said, there are two ways to look at this. First school of thought: You can send the firearms with known defects back for repair. Any reputable manufacturer will have no issues with that. If you truly "do not believe that this is the normal quality of their product" then why insist on sending them all back? Second school of thought: Absolutely, positively instist on having each and every one of them inspected for function and safety. If that many guns were proven to have a problem then the whole shipment is suspect. This is especially true if the guns (or parts that built them) came from the same manufacturing lot. Even the most reputable gun maker can have a batch of parts that is out of spec. If their quality control inspection takes a sampling rather than check every individual part, bad ones can slip by. This is even more likely if the parts are sub-contracted to a vendor where they cannot oversee the manufacturing processes. If they are to be carried by police officers on duty or off, they must be absolutely reliable. Err of the side of caution. Send them all back and don't take no for an answer. Tls

I find that a quart of vodka before a match will calm me right down. Seriously, I remember those butterflys in the stomach and heart in the throat when stepping up to the firing line, especially at a big match. I've always found that it disappears when the timer goes off,... or maybe I was too busy shooting to notice. After the first stage or two it generally goes away. You are absolutely right. Repetition and time will replace that nervousness with calm and confidence. The excitement I get now doesn't come at the beginning of the stage, it comes at the end. If I shot well, that is my happy place. Tony