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Its great when customer service comes through like that, but your title to the thread is misleading, This is a 1911 blowing up!

Damn time to buy a motorcycle

I like this technique better

A lot of people use black guns to make open guns, it just depends on what your goals are. If you have the money, talent, dedication to win locally and your main goal is to win, buy a sti open gun and don't re-walk the trail that many of us have already been down. If you are just interested in seeing what you can do with the guns you own and if it doesn't run 100% it isnt that big of deal than go ahead with what you are thinking about. If you really want to win and just don"t think you can afford a real open gun than save your pennies while you shoot other divisions with your other guns and when you have enough money buy a real open gun. The only reason I have laid it out this way is many people have tried guns like these and very few have won with them. Meanwhile you spend as much money or more re-inventing the wheel only to have something that almost runs as good as a STI etc. So you think to yourself well if its cheaper almost runs as good sounds pretty good! Then one day you find your self frustrated because that one hiccup every once in a while is what is keeping you from winning every month and now slowly but surely you have spent over the last 2-3 years enough money trying stuff to but a real open gun.

Ok I dont know much about 1911's springs what is the standard main spring weight? you are installing a 15# and a 9lb recoil spring why do they go together?

My sentry with a wilson mag and the dawson flgr weighs 42.1 oz if i can trust my cheap electronic postal scale

IF the RO does his job correctly he should NEVER tell a shooter he saw the hit.. His only job from "make ready" until "the range is clear" is the gun and the shooters trigger finger. Pat Didn't he say clipboard RO (not RO running shooter?) I should have been clear in my statement, as a scoring RO I have seen NS hits. As a RO running the guy I'm just watching the gun.

But on a side note a RO should never say he saw the hit unless he is positive he saw the hole appear, I have seen no shoots hit and would say that if the shooter said he did not hit it, but the fact that he said he saw it and your sure you did not hit it is troubling.

I picked up a sentry for IDPA and so far the only thing I did was change out the god awful Recoil master with a Dawson no tool flgr, I am trying a few different loads to see how they run, I'm going to try 147 grain precisions, 124 jhp, and 135 bayou's to see what works best for me. I bought a 10 lb recoil spring but I installed one of my used 12.5 that I pull out of my Brazos limited gun every 3000 rounds. I need to weigh my after changing out the flgr and see what it is.

I had never heard that but it got me curious on how to do that then I found this.

I shot both hs6 and autocomp in my 9mm open glock I like autocomp better mostly because it is cleaner, I would clean it before the season starts and call it good!

Here is the uspsa web site to find a club just enter IA and it lists the clubs in Iowa http://www.uspsa.org/locate-uspsa-clubs.php

Welcome, there is a lot of USPSA and IDPA shooting in Iowa!

You can progress to in the shooting sports according to the time money and effort you put it to it. If you don"t have the money but you got the time, dry fire until you puke, You need to have guns that go bang when you pull the trigger but you don't need top of the line stuff as much as you need practice. I started in the 80's when everyone was shooting single stack 45's, and I had a lot of free ammo and free time as I was a range instructor in the marines and shot for the base shooting team. All I had to worry about was Guns and equipment, So I shot about 150 rounds a day every day trying to figure it out on my own because there wasn't any resources like this forum or the many top shooting instructors that are available now. I couldn't do much different back then because there was not the technology or resources that there is now. When I got out of the Marines and could not afford to practice and knew nothing about dry fire I got discouraged because I came out of the Marines at the top of my game and my performance steadily went down for a couple years until I quit. I took a 15 year lay off and started again. My advice to a new shooter, find the best shooter you can find as a mentor, use other shooters success as much as you can to shorten your learning curve. Read the top shooters instruction books, videos, etc. Attend classes. Shooting is mostly a mental game, but don't try to reinvent the wheel, learn from others.

+1 no fiber optic? because that is an advantage to black sights?

I lead the transition team at Cherry Point when we had to teach the Staff NCO's and officers how to change from the isosceles and the 45 to the weaver and the beretta. Somewhere around 1988. It was a challange to run everyone through a 3 day course and get them qualified.

Your boss doesn't seem to have the proper leadership skills needed to manage people. Which that alone might be enough to make me find a new job, but the job market is tough right now. Tough times makes things like a gossiping boss seem not as important. What do you do?

Maybe have someone in the squad stand at the bags and not help out with anything, just to keep an eye on stuff!

This is what i did, and I made 2 of them, installed them between my mag pouches and practiced settin 3 mags verticle on a table start, lean forward let both mags hit the magnets while slamming my gun down on the third and not touching any of them and start in about half a second with 3 mags. Now I need a waist high table start in a match.

A picture of what your doing would be great, what I am just now putting together is a arredondo belt keeper $5 and a round magnet from the harware store. The belt keeper has a double belt groove, I drilled out the face and installed the magnet with a 1/4 x 20 bolt, next I will slide the keeper on in between my mag pouches so I could put a few on my belt if I wanted to.

Jesse did you have 3 holes in that target? If there was there is no way you should have been DQ'ed, If there was only 2 it supports the real time issue of them making a call!

The RO dosent have video replay like we do but she didnt see it at the time, even though by her looking around she might be thinking something was weird. The back up RO I would bet money is who brought it up and pushed the DQ. I have done something simular on purpose a few times, shooting production knowing i am going to shoot it dry one handed and reaching for a mag as i am doing so. Using the video tape i wouldnt have DQ'ed you but at real speed I can see why they made the call.

I learned to shoot weaver in the Marines and dropped it as soon as I started shooting competition, if your worred about the targets shooting back at you and you want to blade into the target than go ahead and shoot weaver, but it will slow you down.

You made the right call, most of the time Being a RO is straight forward, every once in a while you get some things like this, trust what you see and make sure you keep it safe, don't try and be a gottcha guy, but if you know it was DQ do it.

I enjoyed the first 2 audio books, I wasnt going to get the third one but I might now.