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xtian999

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  1. I did it. Vortex red dot, Docter mount, Hayes install. It’s awesome.
  2. Sent the slide, mount, and optic to HCG. Got it back and the results are great. All parts look good together. Ben had to enlarge the dovetail on the slide a bit to accomodate the mount, but it works. Vortex sits a little higher than the old sights, so no co-witness, but that was expected. Gun cycles my regular loads fine with a little softer recoil. Dead on accuracy. Much tighter groups in IDPA style shoots. Dot is a little hard to pick up from the draw, but I’ll get used to it. No spring change was required. Fits my Webber holster, but not my old Safariland. Not really an edc gun anymore, but for steel and paper, it is super. Overall result is great and I would do it again.
  3. My 6-pack inspired solution: A simple threaded-eye end yoke would solve the binding on the upper end of the failsafe. I think they cost about $1.50 plus a few washers and a pin. Toss out the farkakte s-rod and cut a section of threaded rod to length and re-use the lower end hardware. Maybe someone out there will put a few together and make a few bucks.
  4. I am new at this. For some reason, I thought that the stock hardware had been well sorted by the manufacturer. Lol. Now I see that it is just a departure point for endless tinkering and kitchen table inventions (insert your favorite beer here). Well, I’ll be off to the corner store to ponder the latest snafu...
  5. There is a special place in the long hereafter for putting out an instruction manual with critical errors.
  6. Triple black belt in Dillon-Fu!

  7. OK. I re-read the manual a few times, studied the pics, and set it up as shown by G.O. The powder bar makes the whole trip across now and the measures are way more consistent than before. Not perfect, but better. Still going to buy that new powder when I find any around town. Thank you fellas for the help. Dillon gets a wet noodle for the misleading photo. My confidence in this Kluge-tastic, Cantankerous Contraption is somewhat restored.
  8. Thank you for the advice. Was Rube Goldberg on the design team, or just a consultant? This reminds me of the days when a guy who could fix a Holley carb could name his price, Now it is the chips that make a car run. So where is the place for the chip on this thing?
  9. Well, just today I was seeing variation from 2.9 gr to 4.0 on the same setting. Brand new digital scale, using the same shell, set the tare, run it through the machine, weigh it, check the tare again and repeat test again. Lots of completed rounds back in the parts bin after a suspicious test. I will say that I have noticed that any change in the height of the powder tower, as seen in the amount of flare, has an effect on the powder charge. Keeping the nut tight on the powder system helps with accurate metering. But even cranked tight, it still varies quite a bit.
  10. I am just sorting things out w/rl550c and noticed some variation in powder weights using flakey 700x powder. How much variation is normal? Is the powder type critical to powder measure accuracy? Is there a better choice of powder for 9mm/125gr coated bullets that will work with the Dillon Auto Powder system? Thanks.
  11. I got a Webber for my HCG RIA Tac9. Works just fine.
  12. I have noticed that by the end of a match, it seems like about 25% of the shooters have done at least 75% of the taping. Also, the guys with the factory shooter style shirts are more likely to be fiddling with their gear or talking than taping and resetting targets. Not in every case, but definitely a noticeable trend.
  13. I have heard the theory that the best American engineers end up in the high paying tech and defence industries, whereas Europe and Japan have not had large defence industries since WWII, so their best engineers design autos. Thus, we see better engineered import vehicles. I still buy Ford trucks anyway.
  14. Some guys actually buy a new gun as a backup, but I think most backup guns are the former primary guns that took a back seat to the new, new gun, and the old “new gun” is now the “new” old gun.
  15. I have seen a few done with bondo and custom paint that were really cool.
  16. I brought my 9mm to a .22 only match b/c I didn’t read the email thoroughly enough. The good news is someone handed me a loaner gun and it all worked out.
  17. I handled one of these at Hayes Custom today. About the same size/heft/feel as an AR10. Too bad it does not run double-stacked mags, but otherwise very cool.
  18. There is definitely room for improvement in the way it is.
  19. So, the thread is about a 1911 and glock mags, not striker-fired. The idea is to pair a nice 1911 type trigger with a reliable, readily available magazine. The Hudson is striker fired, so it is out. Not everybody wants to pay 2-3K for a pistol and then $100 and up for each mag, even if they can afford it.
  20. Obsessiveshooter has a point. Cheap, reliable double stack mags for the 2011 is a worthy goal. It does not take into account the wide availability of Glock mags and cross-compatibility with a shooter’s other guns. For example: I bought a Ruger PC9 last Friday and had all the mags I needed to shoot matches on Saturday and Sunday. That may not have been the case if I had to chase down a fringe Mecgar product on a holiday Friday afternoon. But hell, if Mecgar wants to make ‘em for my RIA Tac9, I’d buy ‘em.
  21. I certainly don’t claim to have thought of it first. It is just one of those ideas that makes sense. I was at a match with my new Ruger PC9 and a guy noticed it and said that he has one of the old ones with the Ruger mags and when they decided to go Glock compatible, everyone wanted one and it became a hit. So... I said, “Someone should do a double stack 2011 the same way.” and we both knew right away that it sounded like a good idea. As far as grip angle, it will be whatever it has to be to make it work and that will be ok. If it can be done, I think it would be a hit.
  22. You got your engineering degree from Hershey?
  23. All sacred cows aside, it would probably be a 1911-ish slide, hammer, and trigger, and a glock-ish grip. But with 3D mfg and CAD design, how hard can it to put the chocolate and the peanut butter together?
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