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  1. Gordon Fallick built one for me about 20 yrs ago but he's not in the biz anymore. Big Bore was his model name if you find one. Gordon was recommended to me by a colleague who had been on the AF pistol team and had several of his custom 1911's. Had a beautiful Damascus steel 1911 Gordy had built.
  2. lgh

    New Glock 2011

    What category you going to compete in? Your own category!
  3. lgh

    New Glock 2011

    A Barbecue Glock! What a concept! Needs a nice, tooled leather holster. Oops, I mean Kydex.
  4. And don't forget to tell your shooting buddies to NOT shoot centerfire anything at your 22 plates.
  5. Use heavy plates. Anyone who has shot steel has seen what happens to the lighter targets. You replace them. Pay once, cry once.
  6. What you want to do is get your 9mm PCC running like a 22lr. Costs a lot but worth it.
  7. Just about anything works, at least for a while. A guy at a three day course used vegetable oil on his 1911 just to prove that point. I've used Weapon Shield on centerfires for years. It was originally FP10 but the formula changed when the company was bought and the orginator (I think is name is George) started WS. He's a shooter and, I believe, an engineer of some sort. There is a technology behind the newer lubes like WS that reportedly leaves a lubricating film ("layer") after the carrier oil evaporates. The gun is extremely easy to clean when I use WS. Just wipe it out. No scrubbing, scraping, etc. That alone is good enough reason for me to use it. I use One Shot dry lube on rimfires. Really convenient and you don't have to take apart a 10/22 to lube it. Now let the lube wars begin!!
  8. I'm a casual gamer who uses competition for fun and to pick up the skills competition has to offer for the PD my training has taught me. So I have a blast! Show up with the gun I brought and tell them to put me in the correct category. I don't pre-plan a stage. I shoot what shows up when the timer starts. Safety and no shots off target are first priority. No prepping the trigger or other bad habits. I have fun and do ok.
  9. I have one. It doesn't reproduce the pull of my minimally modified Glock triggers. It is good for developing a smooth pull with a steady grip. Shooting a DA revolver does the same and is a lot more fun.
  10. I use this one but there are others https://shooterscalculator.com/ballistic-trajectory-chart.php Just run the ballistics like ddc said. You can figure out the best zero from the tables/graphs.
  11. That doesn't sound like a good idea. You're not addressing the problem. Like Sarge said, start by getting a decent belt. I prefer leather (Wilson) but whatever works for you. Try adjusting the angle of the holster as needed. The further forward you move the holster the straighter it has to be.
  12. That's the way I learned it way back when. Don't swing the gun up to your sight line (known as bowling) or down to your sight line (known as fishing or Zebco). Doing it properly, the learning curve to find the dot is very short.
  13. These last three posts (and probably others) are spot on. Just do a lot of weak hand dry fire like maur describes. And/or deadlifts, bottom up KB presses, bar hangs, etc. But like RT said, most people probably have enough strength to control the 2-3# gun. It's more likely an endurance thing so go for time in tension rather than pure strength. But to be clear, strength never hurts! (I'm Pavel certified in kettlebells (albeit before the 100 snatch test!) and my wife and I train with William McNeely who owned the #1 power lifting gym in the country before settling down and raising a family. You learn a lot from those guys. It's nice to see intelligent posts RE the physical demands of gun handling.)
  14. I used to carry a 1911 or Glock 30. That G30 was like carrying a brick in your pants!
  15. I do get your point but what if you're in the 10% situation? Personally, I'm OK with irons but dots might come in handy. I carry irons most of the time but recently have gone to a G17 when I can carry it. With a dot. I really like that big handle of a full size. OWB when it fits my attire.
  16. Clear violation of rule 3. Rob Leatham said than when someone is shooting really fast they are actually slapping the trigger. I took that to mean he saw little difference between fast press and slapping.
  17. BE says ... 1. Put your attention on the target. All your attention. Repeat. All your attention. In so doing, point your nose at it since that is your sight line 2. Align your sights with the target. That means align your sights with your nose-to-target sight line. Drive the gun down your sight line. Don't swing it over (fishing or "Zebco") or under (bowling) and have to move it another step to get it on your sight line. Drive it down your sight line between nose and target. Not that hard really. 3. Keep it all aligned through your trigger pull. If you didn't hit the target, you screwed up one of the three.
  18. If nothing else, the dot is a great training tool. I still do dry fire both with irons and dots. Without a doubt, using a dot has improved my presentation with irons. (Although it might just be do to the volume of dry fire and not the sighting system.) Trigger control can also be improved with a dot. The dot doesn't lie.
  19. Ditto on this. Unless I'm using a circle-dot, and I never do, the fact that the dot isn't perfect usually doesn't matter. Unless it's a precision-type shot, there are other things going on that are more important that an imperfect dot.
  20. I think I understand what you mean. I have 5 G17, four with dots. All the dots are on milled slides. i.e. no adaptor plates. The dots sit very low. On three of those with dots, I left the irons on and so can see the slide as a reference point in all cases. The G17 without irons has a Vortex Venom. Even though it sits low, I still don't see the slide while shooting. It doesn't matter to me because I learned dots on that gun and never knew the difference - with or without irons. But if someone wants a reference point, just put a front sight on. Depending on your setup, it might require a suppressor sight. For me, the front sight doesn't interfere with sight picture but for some it might. I'm only a casual gamer.
  21. But the same happens with irons. Even the good guys throw a shot once in awhile. Way back when, on the recommendation of my instructor, I determined under what light conditions night sights were actually useful. Not very often. As one guy said, "They help you find the gun." And you still need to light up the scene. And they fade away over time. Since then I haven't paid a cent to put night sights on a gun. Give me a dot and a light any day (or night). Back on topic, I get the impression green is becoming everyone's favorite color. I've been trying both green and red under different lighting conditions and with different dot sizes. Dot size seems more important until you get outside with a small dot. Then green wins. But not by all that much.
  22. The gun should aim to where your eyes are looking regardless of irons or dot. There is no "finding the dot" when you become proficient with a dot. It's there just like the irons would be - on the target. The dot has the big advantage of being in the same focal plane as the target which is where your (tunnel) vision will be focused in a EDC scenario. Basic physiology tells us we will not be physically able to lock in our vision on the front sight under the stress of a threat. All the more important to dry fire a lot. Gun goes where eyes go regardless of sightng system. For the record, I carry both ways depending on situation.
  23. Thanks. Will be doing some SC over the next year. Getting the gear together. A lot of good stuff out there. Should be fun!
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