Nic_USPSA_C
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Had the same problem. Installed my Zig Raker in a Vice and used too much heat.
The heat damaged the spring in the ball detent, the ball detent on the end is the only one working.
Used it this way without any issues.
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Nice build. I enjoy shooting 9 minor open at local matches as well.
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11 hours ago, stevepitt said:
My latest, I've had it for awhile, but still playing with different comps. Not sure what I like best yet.
Steve Pitt
I have also been trying different comps. I currently have an open gun that has the same one shown in this picture. I also have one with a Akai Steel Shoto, just picked up an used Atlas Comp to try as well.
Your gun looks great, what kind of finish do you have on it? Who did it?
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I prefer a taller window. Started carry optics years ago with a vortex venom, it was wide and short. Switched to a FF3 which was narrower but taller.
When I started out it seemed that my aim was usually low, left or right didn’t seem to be a problem. After a bunch of practice and a year of matches the dot is in the center of the glass. This will come as you practice drawing and getting muscle memory built.
Now I use a DPP.
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19 minutes ago, texasdawg said:
Just finished this one. It started off as just replacing a cracked slide. Bought a Brazos' slide, but barrel and comp didnt fit well, so bought an Infinity barrel and Binary Engineering Ti comp and fit it to the Brazos slide. Wanted to stroke the gun, but the existing frame was a short dust cover. So, I bought a LSI long dust cover frame and stroked the gun .200" after extending the rails. I had to grind the beaver tail to fit the LSI frame and the slide and frame were both in the white so decided to try Cerakoting at home. Beadblasted all the parts and picked stainless steel and graphite black for the two colors. Wish I had picked a more silver colored color, but it is what it is now. Kind of looks like raw SS, but the black was just what I wanted. Here's a pic,,, buying parts now to try making a gun from start to finish instead a piece at a time.
Here is another one that I did, it is my first and I call it the ACME Blaster. It is all sorts of eBay and miss matches parts that should not work - but it does.I wanted to show you how I milled the dust cover in an attempt to blend in the front slide cut.
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14 minutes ago, texasdawg said:
Just finished this one. It started off as just replacing a cracked slide. Bought a Brazos' slide, but barrel and comp didnt fit well, so bought an Infinity barrel and Binary Engineering Ti comp and fit it to the Brazos slide. Wanted to stroke the gun, but the existing frame was a short dust cover. So, I bought a LSI long dust cover frame and stroked the gun .200" after extending the rails. I had to grind the beaver tail to fit the LSI frame and the slide and frame were both in the white so decided to try Cerakoting at home. Beadblasted all the parts and picked stainless steel and graphite black for the two colors. Wish I had picked a more silver colored color, but it is what it is now. Kind of looks like raw SS, but the black was just what I wanted. Here's a pic,,, buying parts now to try making a gun from start to finish instead a piece at a time.
Looks Nice.
I just picked up a Brazos Slide and Frame for from their Black Friday sale. My next build starts soon. I have to work on fitting the barrel, I haven’t fit a barrel right yet.
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Ordered a slide to frame fit frame and slide.
This will be my 3rd build, thinking about building a light open gun.
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On 10/28/2020 at 5:56 PM, Aircooled6racer said:
Hello, here is one I built. I think it turned out ok. Thanks, Eric
Looks nice - 9mm?
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1 hour ago, Carbine_Philosophy said:
I don't know if I can say I built it. I like to think I merely upgraded it to where it was always meant to be.
Looks like it would be fun to shoot - thanks for sharing.
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4 hours ago, stardust tommy said:
last build in 38super
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1 minute ago, AzShooter said:
Rimfire Pistol Open...Does that count?
Looks good.
With the lack of 9mm - Rimfire Open May be the way to go.
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1 hour ago, grujo said:
Nice - You shooting 9mm Major?
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Thanks for the info..
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Had a salt shaker 170 mag at a match this weekend. Follower flipped over and bunched the spring up in the bottom of the mag. MBX mag with MBX follower and spring. Do any of you have a cure for this?
What springs and followers do you use?
Anything I should check to keep this from happening?
Is it common to load a magazine and be able to hear a bullet move around in the magazine? Seems like this happens often so I unload a few bullets and put them back in and do this until the rattle goes away...thoughts?
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21 hours ago, outerlimits said:
what's next, wax bullets?
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1 hour ago, Racinready300ex said:
Everyone says this, but I don't think it's accurate.
It's great to see youth in this sport but most young people can't really afford this game. The future of this sport is guys in there 20's and 30's who have enough disposable income to play.
Also a $5 entry fee? How do you pull that off? You have to pay $3 per shooter to uspsa if you're running a classifier, and you're required to run a certain number of classifiers a year. So that only leaves you $2 per shooter to cover targets and pasters etc. That probably wont last.
We charge $5 per shoot on our Thursday night match. We do not shoot classifiers on Thursday nights. We also tend to use recycled targets from our monthly match.We hold a once a month USPSA match on a Saturday and charge $15 for that match which usually consists of 1 classifier.
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Just now, Underwood said:
yes... in the ones with the comps
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5 minutes ago, Underwood said:
Nice looking collection. Do you shoot major power factor? -
On 9/8/2020 at 5:30 PM, GrumpyOne said:
Don't quit your day job.
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On 8/24/2020 at 4:46 PM, GrumpyOne said:
Good stuff in this thread!
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On 9/4/2020 at 6:44 PM, GrumpyOne said:
Summer is over.
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On 9/11/2020 at 5:57 PM, GrumpyOne said:
Yeah?
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Just now, 18111811 said:
Make its own association and transfer PCC there...
Now that is a great idea!
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1 minute ago, Matt1911 said:
One of my local matches will have a single stage just for fun after the main match. They switch it up on what guns you can use. Rifles, PCC'S, revolvers, carry guns, rimfire, shotgun. Just something to bring a little extra flavor.
That sounds like fun and a great idea, may have to work that into one of my upcoming matches.
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I stroked my last open gun
I cut the reverse plug towards the muzzle and milled the rails back toward the hammer the same same amount that I took of the reverse plug area.
This has worked for me. Started a new build and will not stroke this gun so I can run them both and see if I notice a difference.