Bakerjd
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I have some from majors I've gone too because I wanted them. Other then those I just wear light weight golf shirts or fishing shirts.
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5 hours ago, CC3D said:
I am either bad at math or thats 9.6 cents each..
Or I'm bad at writing it out in decimals. Would .1c be 10/100 of a dollar or would 0.1c 1/100th of a dollar?
Either way they were about 9cent each.
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I just paid 480.30 OTD for win SPP 5k brick. .09c/ea. I'm ok with that. And actually wish I could find more of the ginex SPP. I really like them. They are thinner then any USA ones, seat great, always go bang and I can seat them really deep. So far I've used 12k plus between a 2011 open gun, tanfo stock 2, CZ A01.
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On 10/27/2022 at 12:49 PM, zzt said:
Yes, lots of people shoot coated in Open. I shoot with several. They all have to routinely clean smurf poo and lead out of their comps.
When I was considering buying a custom Open minor gun for steel, I talked to Atlas. His recommendation was a single 3/16" popple in the barrel and no comp. This was for factory ammo, which I had planned to shoot at the time.
His recommendation and what he builds are totally different. Not suprised at all.
My personal minor PF (130PF 147s) will be a very light weight 5" slide, no popple holes or comp amd slide mounted optic. Minimal recoil yet extremely fun to shoot.
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On 11/29/2022 at 9:42 AM, frankge said:
you righties are lucky, fairly limited for us with impediments (lefties). I had to use a small RMT thumb rest and custom mount and shave it for slide clearance. The ones in this thread would not work as that's where ejection happens. If there is a lefty out there thats interested, I'll post a pic. I put this onmy STI Grandmaster and Brazos Limited guns.
I'm a Lefty and love the evil hands one. There is also the everglades one which I like. My limited/Open guns all have the evil hands on them. It covers the ejection port while slide is in battery but I've fired thousands of rounds with it on multiple guns and never any issues. And I have it mounted right in front of the slide stop pin.
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13 minutes ago, Bakerjd said:
Also any time I try to quote someone it won't let me actually write anything. It just keeps highlighting the quote.
Well I guess it's the Samsung internet browser. Very odd.
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Also any time I try to quote someone it won't let me actually write anything. It just keeps highlighting the quote.
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When I try to comment or post it keeps adding more empty lines randomly? Is it my phone or the site?
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Finally got around to doing it. Feels 10x better
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Anyone know where can I can get an extra wide right side safety?
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If you want aggressive get the patroit defense brass grips. Hands down the most aggressive and best grips on the market.
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On 11/22/2022 at 7:41 AM, lroy said:
It looks the same height as the stock plate.
DD is having a black Friday blem sale in a few days. Can try then.
Maybe I'm just used to shooting open dots, but a few mm of height makes no difference to me.
I really like the look of those plates. Thanks for the tip.
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2 hours ago, zzt said:
I wouldn't worry about it. My main Open gun is in the white and I've shot it for three seasons (in the rain on may occasions). Not a spot of rust. Go get it serrated if you want, and don't worry about rust. A tiny bit of good oil will prevent that.
True true.
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20 hours ago, Johnny_Chimpo said:
The plating is in the low 60s Rockwell C scale. It can be machined through with the correct cutting inserts. No need to necessarily deplate and replate.
I just don't want rust spots. Better to leave it alone.
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3 hours ago, Igarciatf said:
You install it just like anyother Tanfoglio trigger.
I get that. I haven't ever done it though.
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10 hours ago, Johnny_Chimpo said:
Which brand of optic was that?
FTP alpha 3
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I doubt I'll actually do it. Probably just get another A01 and have matching CO guns. I don't see removing the plating, then recoating being cost effective.
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I'm going to circle back on this one. Went to the monthly indoor match and had just checked zero on my dot a day or two before hand. Everything was good. No issues at the practice session. Get to the match and all my gits were about 2inches to the right. My first thought was mayne I grabbed the wrong ammo. I have 3 different bullets loaded with the same everything else bevaise I wanted to use up the stuff I had laying around. Finished the match rather poorly I may add and didn't see anything off with the dot itself. Went to practice the next weekend and checked zero. Sure enough 2 inch off to right. Reset zero. Continued on with practice and didn't have any issues till I was about to pack up. Shot a string and the dot just vanished. Started looking for it on the glass and to see it I had to almost point the gun at the sky. Looked closer at the glass itself and found what looked like a bubble around the right and lower edge. Pushed on the glass and it popped out. So now I'm saving up for a second A01LD. I'll now always have a back up ready to go.
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For me I got really into getting better two seasons ago. I set the goal to go from low c class to mid pack b class in SS. Started doing dry fire right from stoegers books in January, plus added in a TON of reload practice. I would do his stuff every other day and the off days I spent doing reload practice. Then I found an indoor 24hr range at a local club I could live fire some stuff at. Mostly did doubles drills, and transitions. You can set up a stage of sorts and try to run around but the floor is very slick so I don't. Once I got access to that range I did once a week live fire. I found DTFS was something I worked on much better in live fire. Eventually I switched most of my dry fire to live fire and was going 3x a week. 150-200 rounds a session. I ended up placing pretty high for c class in a few majors and winning c class a few times including A5 in 2021 in limited.
Fast forward to 2022 season and I was working a lot of OT, and got lazy. Also switched to CO. Didn't do a whole lot of practice at all. It showed in major match scores. It also kind of made me start to not enjoy the game anymore. At the end of the season I was ready to sell off everything and quit USPSA. I tried switching to open and it still didn't help. Then Mayne 2 or 3 weeks ago I decided to take my sorry self to the range with the open and CO guns and see which one I really enjoyed shooting more. I found I really enjoy the CO gun. So I went again with just the CO gun and after an hour or so was getting my rhythm back. It was fun again. So for 2023 my goal is A class in CO.
TLDR: A lot of it depends on how you personally learn. How dedicated you are. And what you want out of it in the end.
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8 hours ago, motosapiens said:
mostly mgm. they are local to us. we do have some new hingeless poppers with separate base and popper that can be set to bounce and fall forward like you describe, but we have never used them that way.
Are the ones with the latch the ones used at battle for the north coast? Because those amd what ever ones used at A5 2 years ago in KY were spot on.
As for forward falling steel it doesn't really bother me much. One of the clubs local to me used to only allow it do I've delt with it since I first started in USPSA. I do however make sure I take a look at all the steel on stages though since I see a mix of both at a lot of matches.
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Didn't a rather well known shooter do this leap into the shooting area at a area match a few years ago and got the penalty for it. I think it was Taran. The pic and following call from the RO made its way around the usual Facebook crowds.
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15 minutes ago, Sarge said:
Call or email APW. They can remove it
I'd rather not go with them.
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How hard is it to remove hard chrome and refinish in DLC? I want to get the side of the frame on my tanfo stock 2 serrated and its hard chromed.
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Got everything ordered the other day. Just waiting on the two part epoxy to come in and I'll give this a go. I might do a test run on a junk glock frame I have sitting around before going to the canik though.
slide milling for optic
in 1911-style Pistols
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Yeah their LPA plate sits pretty high as well.