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Glad to see you started posting here. Good luck with your goals

Last year I did a little experiment to try and make a Sig 365XL into a somewhat-competitive CO gun. Part of that process was sourcing mags. Sig only made 15 round mags, which wasn’t nearly enough for a good CO gun. However, Promag makes 20 and 30 round mags for the little Sig guns. Why would they do that? I’m not sure, but I’m glad they did. I got two of the 20 round mags along with some 3D printed sleeves to fill in the space between the bottom of the grip and mag baseplate. Ill tell you, those mags took a lot of work to run correctly. However, what I found was that cleaning out the gunk inside the mag bodies as well as substituting the Promag followers for OEM Sig followers were the keys to getting the mags to work reliably. I also sanded down the edges of the followers just slightly so they wouldn’t bind as much around the 8-10 round mark. So to answer your question: based on my singular experience with one type of Promag, the mag bodies and followers need the most attention. If I could replace the springs I’d probably do that as well.

Shot this in PCC. I’m fairly new to the division so I wasn’t expecting much. 7A/1C for 38 points 2.85s 13.333HF 77.03%

The folks I’ve seen do well on this are drawing to the lower target then transitioning to either of the side targets, then hitting the other side target after the reload and finishing up top. I absolutely bumbled this one and accidentally put 5 on my first target and put 3 on the next to avoid the extra shot penalty. Time was 7.96 which is pretty good from what I’ve seen, but the penalties killed me.

Question is in the title. I just got a Taylor Freelance magwell for my Q4 SF, and ahead of my first IDPA major I'm trying to make sure that my stuff will pass gear check. Haven't been able to find the answer to this question elsewhere.

The Walther steel frame guns feel the most like 2011s to me

One way to dabble without spending a ton of money is to take your normal CO gun, get a threaded barrel (if you don’t have one already) then throw a comp and magwell on it. It’ll cost you $2-300 and give you a taste of how much you can shred with a real open gun. It won’t be competitive, but most of us aren’t competitive anyway so don’t worry about it. If you find that you like going that fast, start saving up your dimes for a used open 2011 and a reloading setup.

I did this last year. Was B class at the time but managed to shoot a GM score during a classifier match. I appealed the flag and it was removed about a day later. Things that helped included having video showing my run, as well as a handful of M runs earlier in the day. If you know anyone else who shot the match and maybe had video of the stage, that might help your case.

Okay it seems like the problems don’t show up when I use RN bullets. It happened most often when I was using Syntech

I got a Q4 SF recently and it has been great. On the advice of Hwansik Kim, I threw on TF +6 basepads and grams spring/follower kits. I get the advertised 23+1 and they generally work fine, but I will sometimes get a round that hits the feed ramp low (or “nose dives”) and locks up the gun. Anyone else run into this issue? Anyone have a solution?

According to the Alien owners FB group, Laugo is making them. They seem to be selling in only a few places, one of them being this Spanish website http://casapuntos.com/laugo-arms/4218-freno-de-boca-laugo-alien.html

Haven’t tried ordering direct from Walther, but this might be your best bet: http://www.carlwalther.com/q5.htm

They seem to be permanently OOS

You’re completely correct. Local SO rules knowledge is inconsistent at best. Unfortunately I’m just a dude who dabbles in IDPA so I don’t know any better than them. Here’s a guy shooting it at IDPA nationals last year. I assume that if it’s okay at nationals then it’s G2G elsewhere:

One local guy shoots it in ESP. I’m assuming that means it’s legal

Big fan of the 2.5moa SRO. I usually run 6moa on my open guns, but 2-3moa seems to be the sweet spot for CO guns

I think it’s worth it. Getting a Honcho reinvigorated my desire to practice and made me improve pretty rapidly. And although I didn’t dabble in other gun games much before, it allowed me to dip my toes in whenever I wanted. For what it’s worth, I also went from B in limited to M in about two matches with the Honcho, so that’s kinda cool!

I run 115s in my Honcho with 3N38. Everglades plated ammo for practice and PD JHPs for matches. Shoots VERY nice. Though I’m thinking of putting in a 7lb spring because the recoil feels slightly harsh with the 6lb

This post is incredibly helpful. My insurance covers hearing aids up to $1400 every 36 months, which just so happens to be $1 more than the cost of the Soundgear Phantom plugs. To be honest I had no idea how to even start the process of getting them, and emailing Soundgear was only somewhat helpful. Your post nails it.

Speaking of this, are there any videos out there on how to disassemble this thing for cleaning and lubing?

My bad. I missed that part

Did you get the non-lockback version? The follower should not be catching on the slide stop and causing the issues that you're describing if the follower has the appropriate cutout to prevent the slide from locking back.

I don't know if this has been asked before, but for those of us who attend majors and can't realistically afford to drop an extra $5-7k for a second open gun, what are parts to keep on hand to keep your gun up and running?

If you don't see yourself really getting invested in Limited, just go with the less expensive gun and shoot 9mm. It's kind of like shooting SS (or even prod) but with less reloading.

Welcome! How is the shooting community in Bulgaria?