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  1. Here we go: http://www.taylor-tactical-supply.com/1911-recoil-springs-p/1911-recoil-spring.htm
  2. Welcome! Can't help but wonder, what's with the user name?
  3. 700X is CHEAP too. Local store sells it for like $16.89 a pound. 8 pound kegs could probably be found at a hell of a deal if you shop around.
  4. Completely understand the desire for an economical but accurate and trouble free bullet to load. The coated bullets (though I have very limited actual experience with them yet) by all accounts are pretty good from good vendors like Blue Bullets, ACME, Bayou Bullets, et al. I have known several people who've had nothing but problems with cheap plated bullets like the Berry's though. Look into Precision Delta. Nice, accurate, true jacketed bullets at a great price. Check them out. Order 2K of the same bullet and get free shipping. It's a pretty good deal for real jacketed bullets and several reloaders I know who use them love them and yeah they are cheap but good. https://www.precisiondelta.com/ Comes out to 9mm 124 gr FMJ $88 per K shipped if you order 2K.
  5. Ha! I hear you, brother! I actually prefer Steel Challenge. No running around on the clock, no running back and forth between every shooter pasting and resetting, etc. Stand and shoot. I'm old, fat, and slow and the summers are hella hot here. Welcome to BE!
  6. Welcome. Where in south Ohio? I used to spend summers at my grandmother's around Minford (nowhere). Family all around there, Scioto and Jackson counties. Beautiful country and the greatest people. ETA. NM saw your later post you are above Cincinnati. Not too far from there anyway.
  7. That makes a lot of sense. I was spending the whole match trying to concentrate on the first target. Many of the stages you couldn't see the first available targets from the start position so I'd stare of in front of me listening for the beep and was reminded by a couple other shooters to look at where I would be going/shooting. Of course it makes sense if you don't actually start with your gun in your holster, "first things first" is to get the gun in a good grip and go from there. Thanks!
  8. Don't know if this is the right place but I am a "beginner", sort of. New here anyway. I've been a gun nut for decades. I shot some IDPA in the late 90's. Took a break and tried again in the mid 2000's and actually got semi-serious. Started out and shot the classifier made highish marksman. Got a membership at a local indoor range then and pretty much religiously went 2 to 3 nights a week after work to put a couple hundred rounds through my CZ-75 (pre-B) and shot a match or two a month for a couple years. Got to be a pretty good pistol shot somehow. Never went to shoot the classifier again but was shooting with the Expert class before tapering off again. Never got real fast but more often than not would shoot "least points down" at the local matches which would have several Experts and Masters shooting. My job started requiring more travel and more OT and somehow shooting fell by the wayside. So 2017 comes around. I shoot 1911's now, and love them. Nothing can ever beat the feel of the CZ in my hands, it's like a literal extension of my hand. But the timer doesn't lie and with the super crisp trigger and short reset of the 1911 I am "faster" (of course with me you have to use the term "faster" loosely) than with any double/single action pistol. Anyway so I got hooked up with some old shooting buddies and we're shooting USPSA. Not classified yet. I also realize I am much fatter and slower and the past decade of neglecting my pistol shooting has degraded my abilities more than I would have thought. Also I have no problem admitting that even if I jumped in with the abilities I had 12 years ago USPSA is a different beast than IDPA was. I've shot 3 classifiers so far and all indicators point to a C classification. I know if I work at it I can go up quite a ways in the next couple years. But I have a lot of work to do, so much time lost. So if I can make this work here is some vid. Yes I know I am old and fat and slow. I have lost 15 pounds in the last year and will continue that direction. No I'm not going to start jogging every morning and doing yoga and eating all green stuff, (Haha, I'll be 48 in August, old, fat, have gout, bla,bla, blah...) but I WILL take baby steps one at a time to move closer towards being the young warrior I use to be compared to what I am now. So here's a vid or two, I swear I was so much faster 12-15 years ago. That's how I remember it. First string was classifier CM 06-07 Steely Speed IV, all steel, second string was three of those commie IPSC targets then two steel poppers. You can see I got to the first firing position and my trailing foot hit outside the box and I had to bring it back to start shooting:
  9. Funny thing, you'd think shooting long guns from the wrong side would be a pain. My experience isn't so. Like I said my right side is my natural "strong side" even though my left side is more dextrous. Writing and eating left-handed, swinging a bat or kicking a ball right handed or footed. I really think it may be because one of the first rifles my dad handed me to shoot was a big 50 cal muzzle loader that probably had a 24-26 inch octagon barrel. Didn't kick bad but it was heavy, front heavy. I think I put my right (strong) arm out front to hold that big gun up and my left (more dextrous) trigger finger just worked out. So all through my shooting life I picked up a long gun lefty and shot. Bolt actions, semis, shotguns, whatever. Long story short, years back, I found a lefty bolt action I was interested in, and asked the proprietor to hand it down. I shouldered it lefty, racked the bolt, and it was just... wrong, somehow. Didn't know why right away, so I did it a couple more times. It hit me. I could see how it could be more natural with practice to use it that way, but I was so use to being on the "wrong" side of the gun I always took just a half second to watch the round going in the chamber. Being on the "correct" side I missed that. In carbine classes in recent years the instructors at a nearby class make quite a point of teaching to make the rifle ready and then turn it to do a visual "chamber check" before anything else. They repeatedly asked me when I failed to do so "how do you KNOW there's a round in the chamber?" I say "because I watched it go in when the bolt slammed forward! Remember, I'm on the wrong side of the rifle, I don't have to turn it over to see the ejection port." That was good enough for them.
  10. I noticed that, too. My condolences...... JK. I am even more of a freak than just being a lefty. I write and eat left handed, shoot a pistol right-handed, shoot long guns left-handed. Right side is strong side. ??? At least I don't have to deal with buying left-handed holsters. Long guns I shoot the right-handed ones fine from the "wrong" side of the gun.
  11. So I've shot two matches since putting the Dawson front on. Put a green fiber piece in it. Much nicer than the red. Marked the slide where the center of the original sight was and put the new one as close as I could eyeball it. Shoots pretty much dead on. It is a little easier/faster to find than the original fatter front site. And I do like the green dot. Doesn't help me move my fat ass from place to place any quicker though.
  12. Michigan pin shoot? Isn't that where they always had Second Chance?
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