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al Is it possible that there is something inside the shirt pushing it to close to the mag pouches.

I have two. A plastic Navy Seal model and a Titanium. I love the titanium model. It is 5 years old and has never had any issues. The strap on the Navy seal model is not very comfortable. It is 8 years old and was subject to a defective case which broke in two. Luminox repaired it at no charge. The date keeping feature no longer functions properly and as a matter of fact it is at their repair center now. My Citizen Aqualand divers watch is 15 years old and except for batteries has never let me down. Because of this I just purchased a Citizen Titanium chronograph eco-drive model. This is my new favorite watch. Not as bright in the dark though, but will never need batteries.

Here is my Caspian 6" high cap. I just finished it mechanicaly and test fired yesterday. Its "Tight and Right" as it functioned flawlessly, and accuratly. This week I will do the final cosmetic touches and have it out to IONBOND by mid week. Once the finishing is complete she will be a beauty. I did not lighten the slide as it was to my surprise not overweight. The slides I have for other guns all weighed MORE. I am happy with the feel of an unlightened slide and prefer them.

For me off hand distant shots are all about the timing. Dry fire helps but live fire practice is a must for this. I can never hold steady on shots like this and when I try always seem to miss. I simply observe the aiming point and prep the trigger, and release it just as the aiming point comes into contact with the leading edge of the target. I am in essance allowing (not forcing) the aimimg point to "sweep" the target and timing the shot to break when it will hit it. A great trigger also helps.

Make sure its tight is correct. As you stated overtight is not good either. It takes a certain feel to tighten a choke. But it must be tight...The shooter I was refering too thought his was tightened properly. I always felt his may have been overtightened, but he indicated it was only finger tight and had the propensity to back out on him.

You will not break even or save a little. If it comes out right you will have pride of ownership. If it comes out wrong you will have frustration beyond belief. You would be better to buy something by a quality maker for under $1000.00 and change parts a little at a time to help 'Learn" the 1911. Get some good books on the subject and then maybe try to build one yourself. I just built a 6" caspian hi-cap, $2100.00 for parts and about $200.00 in tools. I have been working on 1911's for many years but this was my first full build. My patience has paid off as it is awsome.

Watched the DVD the other day and enjoyed the actors/characters but was disapointed with the ending and some of the holes in the story. Surprisingly I was drawn to the character Chuger. By the end of the movie I actually liked him. He actually had integrity, albeit in an evil way. The look he flashed the clerk who "married into the gas station" as he was leaving was priceless.

+1 to having it in and +100 to having it tight. A competitor at our local range had his choke loosen up and finally got caught by the exiting shot/slug. He was lucky as it did not damage the barrel but the choke was folded and twisted and landed down range a bit. I never saw anything like it before.

With my TA-11 I have to rezero before every match and I really like to reafrim zero when I get there! Meopta the same as well as the U.S. Optics 1X4, so I don't really trust optics..... Kurt, Exactly how much homemade cider do you consume????? LOL I must be very luck cause i only seem to need to adjust zero when I change ammo lots/brands. I verify zero all the time and rarely find any change with both my Meoptas and my TA-33. I am sure that you probably get a lot more rounds down range than I do. Now if I could only figure out how to grab a quote when I post.......

A true marksman will do good no matter the sighting system. "Nothing beats Irons" is as true a statement as "Nothing beats Optics". For me personally it is the unforeseen variables of our sport that make optics my choice. For instance, one stage at the Area-6 3-gun had the shooter in the woods shooting targets that are also in the woods, with the sun shinning bright, the dancing shadows made it impossible to see the front sight, it cost a bit of time. I shot optic the following year and the conditions were the same, no problem seeing the sight though. Same problem shooting into dark areas, hard if not impossible to see the front sight at times. Some would consider that a challenge they desire and argue in favor of Irons. I think it boils down to enjoyment of the shooting. This is an activity I persue for recreation and I enjoy shooting optics over Irons. Others with a different view would go the opposite route. Thankfully we have the option of both. So whats better the 9mm or the .45?????

Last two Wilsons I purchased were not dimpled. I too use a dremel with a bur and polish the area after so it works smoothly, yet still maintains a positive hold with the detent.

+1 to limp wristing. I have been teaching my 10 yr old son with an M&P 9mm. Gun has never jammed for me. First mag for him was just like you described. A bit more practice and problem went away. Get your wife out to practice a couple more times.

I havent seen a live performance in many years, but this thread has brought back some memories. In High School growing up in Tucson AZ concerts were what we lived for. Rush, Journey, STIX, Bob Seager, The Eagles, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Charlie Daniels, SRV, Alice Cooper, ETc. By far my favorite when it came to showmanship was ZZ Top. I saw them every time they came to Tucson. One concert started off with a huge head behind the stage and huge white sheets covered the whole stage and ended in the nostrils of the head. All the white sheets got snorted up the nostrils to uncover the stage. (I dont condone what that stood for but it was a way cool affect way back then) and they used lazers in their show that were spectacular.

This is how I do it. I prefer to keep all shotgun ammo in the same relative location. If I had ammo on my belt and on my chest and on my forarm and on my gun (ive seen some do all that) I would waste too much time searching around for what I needed. The green bag is just for a small stash of emergancy SG ammo for really long stages. it works very well, and when ive needed it saved my a#%.

My dad told me when I was a youngster that if I wanted to excel at any sport I should play against those who are better than me. Offering LE only venue’s may attract a few more LE participants but without the competition from the private citizens, who know this sport better than most of them, who are they going to learn from? Is this to be marketed as training or sport. I believe this concept is a good idea except for excluding non LE citizens. The marketing approach taken by the NRA will be the key to its success IMO. I am not LE however I have family, friends and many acquaintances at the local matches who are. Many of them have expressed to me that many of their fellow officers do not know such activities exist, or scheduling prohibits participation. Tailor these matches for the LE officer, market it to them, but open it to all. This would also garner more volunteers to host a match. This type of activity should also be looked upon as an opportunity for LE to rub elbows with citizens and get some positive PR as well.

First picture is my dads first bike (with me sitting on it) a 1964 Honda 305. I wish he still had it. Second is my favorite bike ive owned, a 1987 CBR600F Hurricane with one of the SHOEI helmets I custom painted to match. Third is my current 1999 CR250R, with the mods shes a handful at my ripe old age of 45. Wish I had this bike when I was 20. oops pictures posted out of order, you guys will know whats what.

I have two of each. Arranged on the belt to best suit the stage at hand. On my six rounders I have ground a generous notch (Not big enough to interfere or change the way the shells are removed) in tne front of the carrier that I can feel with my finger right in between the fourth and fifth shell. Really cut down on grabbing five when I wanted four. Also helps to reinforce the muscle memory in dry fire practice and load.

Sigfla I too have not had good success with the narrow front/wide rear combo. Close shots was always ok but dropping distant shots is not good. I have found that with a little trial and error you can find what works best for your eyes/style/ability. For me I find a little daylight (as opposed to filling the notch completely) between the front blade and notch is good. With a small fiberoptic that leaves some of the front sight blade visible on the sides. For close shots if I see the dot between the notch I have an acceptable sight picture for the shot, farther out I make sure the blade is centered. This works well for my bad eyes.

I have had great success with the Walther P22. My son (10) and my Daughter (8) both shoot it very well, and it has excellent fit and ergonomics for very small hands. It hs thousands of rounds thru it and far from worn out. It was finicky about ammo at first (all 4 of my Rugers were also) but once we found what it likes it has been litteraly flawless. Whatever you choose you must work the bugs out first until you are satisfied it is running properly, that way when a malf happens you will be confident it was a handling problem. My kids while learning would ocasionaly limp wrist or ride the slide with a thumb or something else that would cause a stoppage. It was never the gun though.

They are great. When I grew up in Arizona there was a place that built its business (some UofA students as I recall) with their version of a slurpy called EEGES (Im not sure if I spelled that correctly). They offered a large variety of flavors and sizes up to a Gallon. Pina-colada was our favorite and at parties it would get mixed with Rum........

Does your 590 have the cylynder bore barrel or screw in chokes? Mine had the cylynder bore and would not group slugs well. I sent it to briley and had them modify it for choke tubes. With a slite bit of choke it groups very well at 100 (3" or less if I do my part).

Oh how this gets my blood boiling. My son had a few altercations a few years back with a well documented school bully (my son was 8 and the bully was 10 at the time). My son finally got off the bus one day with a huge bite mark on his arm. After the school did litteraly nothing about it I had a talk with my son, a real heart to heart about protecting ones self etc.. Well in less than two days this bully tries it again and my son let him have it right between the eyes, the kids nose was a mess and my boy got suspended from school for two days....well worth it in MHO. They actually became friends after that and the bully is on a straiter path (not neccesarily due to my son). Now a fellow class mate has been suspended. Again the bully in this case is well known to the school and has done nothing to monitor his interaction with fellow school mates and finally his bullieing had to come to a head. The kid in this case is as usual a soft spoken book reader who seemed an easy victim to the bully and was a victim for a long time. Until yesterday, when the school officials again did nothing and the kid cracked him in the mouth so hard the bullies tooth came thru. Of course the victim was suspended again. And the bully was codled and handled like he was a victim. Now I do not condone fighting at school but what kind of lesson does the school system teach when bullies are allowed to go unfettered to the point that good kids are punished, and the bullies are treated like a victim.

Try 75 or 77 gr loads. Black hills or PRVI. I have found they perform great in a 1/7 even when it doesnt like 69's.

John Chatterton actually frequents the forum on the "Deep sea detectives" website. Word is over there that a movie is in the works based on the book.

Yes I certainly did notice. Her name is Kathy Chatterton, wife of John Chatterton. She has a list of records and titles in competitive shooting as long as my shirt sleeve. Still on les Baers website also. John is quite a guy also, his bio in the book on his tour in Vietnam as a medic was very stirring and vivid. The sub off Block Island you refer to is the U-853. We had a trip planned to dive it that got cancelled due to weather. Another opportunity never came for me as I moved to Florida soon after. This picture I took diving the Coast Guard Cutter "DUANE" sunk off Key Largo in the Florida Keys. It is in 130' of crystal clear warm water. A stark contrast to the Fridged, dark, 230' that the U-869 lies in off the NJ coast.