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Love the SV single sided thumb safety.

ICS, the load was 124g bhp PD over 10g VV 383n OAL 1.235. Three holes. Usually averages PF 168. This case was likely armscore.

Hello, i have both 9mm and 38SC pistols. Had quite a few case head seperations with 2pc 9mm cases. Never saw a case head sep with 38SC until yesterday. I'm posting a photo of what was recovered.

I have used the Infinity double sided mount for RTS scope mount maybe three matches and like it very much so far. I am using the mount with a Delta Point Pro. I don't have any experience with other mounts for microdot scopes so cannot compare to any other mount.

I have an older SV factory Open gun with three holes. It will run Major PF or Minor PF. BeerBaron's advice in post 10 is correct. I personally run 10.2 g 3N38 under a 125 JHP. The gun will run Winchester white box if asked to. First try Beerbaron's suggestion (starts with 9 g). If that doesn't work, maybe look into the extractor tension or as others have said. Good luck. Sounds like you have a great gun. You will love it once it's all ready up.

Wanted to upgrade my 2008 SVI with Ti frame but received word from Brandon, "Due to our current back log we are not taking on gunsmith related work including grip installation on older pistols". I am... disappointed.... Your results may be different from mine.

Not sure what difference it makes but I have 3 hybrid holes in my SV plus comp. I load a 124 jhp over 10g-10.2g 3N38 to 1.235". Some, but not so much in the way of fireballs but they say it is loud.

What does a Buddhist from Brooklyn call a guy who doesn't play fair and or tell the truth? A citta and alaya

+1 for PD bullets. I have tried many low cost bullets while shooting Limited with an STI barrel, mostly with success. Lead, Precision molys, various brands of plated. No real complaints except smoke and gummed up seating dies on my reload press with hard cast lead. Now I am shooting a comp gun and want to keep the comp as clean as possible. I've shot plenty of MG 124 jhp and PD 124 jhp. The only thing I notice with the PDs is the lower cost over the MGs I share the difficulty with laying out for bullets by the case, but 2000 PD 124s at $89/M shipped is the best compromise for me.

I have had no accuracy issues shooting a couple thousand PD 124g JHP through my AET barrel.

Vita Voori 3N38 When you see the blue flash You know you're not flinching 10 grains Ok, so maybe it's a Doha and not a Haiku.... Feel free to add a line

Is your extracter Aftec? I have also cured this problem by removing the rear spring on the Aftec.

I had lasik along time ago. I had really bad nearsightedness and astigmatism. I am right handed and left eye dominant. They gave me mono vision, distance vision in my left eye and near vision in my right eye. Over time my eyes returned toward their prior state. As they did, I began correcting my right eye for distance and "using" the developing near sightedness in my left to see the sights. Recently, I have had a lasik touch up. Now my left eye is for close up and the right eye for distance. I recently switched to open so now I correct my left eye for distance. Crazy! Anyway, I have two comments on lasik: After your brain has coped with nearsightedness for many years, when you correct your vision it needs to develop new skills. The eye muscles need to work differently. This caused me to be really slow to pull my focus from the target to the sight at first. My brain also had to learn to pick out the relevant target image and the relevant sight image from the two sets of images. This takes time. The most important factors in this adustemnt are the desire to hit the target (causes your brain to learn to see what it needs to see to make the shot) and patience. I hope this helps. Keep at it.

I think that Colorado gunsmith also radiuses (is that a verb?) the FP stop to work with his spring set up. I am no gunsmith and reserve the right to get smarter....

Can't think what new or different to add. My recent experience has been the same. Used IMM pistol with random feed problems. Shipped to Brandon for new extractor, barrel holes added. Returned promptly looking like a brand new pistol. No failures since. Brandon was incredibly polite and helpful to me, a new open shooter, and generous with load data and information. No charge for labor, only for parts. IMO, he's the best.

I have a Racemaster holster. I assume the Racer and the Racemaster are similar in the way they hold on to the trigger guard. I have tried a few different 2011 type grips with my holster. My experience is that if the trigger guard is undercut, even double undercut, and the front of the trigger guard in unmodified, no problem. I purchased an older SVI pistol with polymer grip 2011 polymer gip pistol with a trigger guard that had been rounded. The front was no longer flat. When the holster was locked, the gun sat in the trigger guard block of the holster securely but could rock (tilt) pretty far forward. When the holster was not locked the gun sat in the holster well enough to start a stage, draw re-holster and then re-lock. Short term acceptable for me, but way less than ideal. I went looking for a new SVI polymer grip immediately and was relieved when I changed it out. Assuming again that the locking mechanisms for the Racemaster and the Racer holsters are the same or similar, if you have 2011 grips where the front of the trigger guard has been rounded or modified, I don't think you will be happy with that set up. I hope this helps.

Nope. Not true. Great article. You should submit it.

Cha lee, Appreciate you taking the time to detail your observations regarding sights over many gadzillion rounds, especially the thoughts on depth of the rear notch. That's not something I have given a lot of consideration to, but it's certainly valuable to call those low shots, at least for me. Thanks

I had an annoying extraction problem with my early M&P Pro 9mm. It was solved by replacing the stock extractor and spring with a tooled steel extractor plus extra power spring obtained from Kenny at Speed Shooters Specialties. When it was installed, the gunsmith (Steve Moore, CO) also releaved the pad the extractor pivots on. I have since had maybe two instances of extraction problems over maybe 15,000 rounds that I attribute to the nasty range brass I use. I consider the problem solved.

Awesome looking gun, Cha-lee. Can't wait to see you shred a stage with it!

Non-dominent eye corrected for distance. Dominent eye for front sight.

I have been shooting an Edge for about a year. When factory stock, and new to me, the gun seemed to have a very soft recoil with major pf loads and very little muzzle flip. It also seemed as though I was waiting on the gun to cycle. After having the slide lightened recently, the gun waits on me. Recoil is over faster and is perhaps subjectively sharper. Muzzel flip seems about the same. I think that this is a good modification for me. I need to shoots alphas faster.

My STI Edge lightened and tuned by Rick Hebert