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  • Birthday 05/17/1949

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    IDPA, USPSA, Steel, Bullseye, Long range pistol
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    Dale Cauthen

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  1. After owning a couple of STI's, I figured out I replaced most of the innards anyway. So instead of buying an Eagle, bought a 2011 frame, a Caspian slide, Kart barrel, Cylinder and Slide trigger set, Dawson sights and then had it put together by a good smith and cerakoted. Some fine day, someone will finally be able to explain why a .40 shoots so much "softer" than a 9 or 45 at the same power factor. But for now, they just do. And going to the 2011 cures 99% of the magazine problems that ran me away from single stack 1911's.
  2. Amazon has them in stock. According to Uncle Mike's site, size 19 accepts the 1911 up to a 5 inch barrel. The holster is $22.47 and you get it shipped free if you can find some magazine pouches that also have the super saver shipping option. I've heard a rumor that one or the other competition organization will soon require only single magazine holders. So you might want to go that way if possible. Don't spend any more than necessary on equipment or knicknacks to begin with. Spend the money on ammo and instruction instead and you'll see a lot more results for your investment than if you go buying this week's new doodad.
  3. My experience with the wide body STI is limited to the gun I built last year and have just sent off to the smith to have ion bond coated and a few other things done that I don't have the tools or experience to tackle. But I'm fascinated with the gun because it seems to handle so much more smoothly than 1911's I've had in the past, both single stacks and fat guns. So, thanks to everyone who has contributed to this thread. You're helping an STI newbie along. That said, I have been shooting a single stack STI 9mm for a couple of years and when I've had nose dives it has been due to worn recoil spring and putting in a new one with the correct tension fixed it immediately. Even in my single stack magazines, or maybe especially in single stack magazines, the cartridges do come up at a different angle depending on how many rounds are in the magazine. This is with the 9mm and is due to the shape of the cartridge. Since this is a tapered case, they will tend to stack and if you're having problems in the middle of a match, don't have a new recoil spring of known power or just don't have time to change it out, try downloading your magazines by one round to see if that resolves the issue.
  4. I ordered more magazines from Dawson a couple of weeks ago, even though they showed them as out of stock and said they didn't know when they would have them. They shipped as soon as they showed up and I got them last week.
  5. I've been shooting an STI Trojan in 9mm for a couple of years now and the only problem I ever had with over insertion was with a "no gap basepad" magazine in the STI magwell. The rest of my magazines have the "Competition Standard" basepad and I now use that "no gap" magazine for my Barney. It's fine with the slide closed. But if you speed load one of those with your slide locked back, you just blew that stage.
  6. Not a stupid question at all. Some of the best money I ever spent was buying the cheapest Springfield Armory 1911 I could find about 20 yrs ago, just to learn to work on my own 1911's. Now, fair warning, I ruined the slide finding out what I should never do. And tried a lot of things that didn't work before I started actually understanding how the weapon functions and starting to have some successes. But the experience was well worth the expense. You will never be as good a shooter as you can be if you don't understand your firearm. My only admonition is to always remember the safety rules and whenever you've made a modification start with two rounds in the magazine, then load three, then four before you pop a full magazine into a newly modified gun and start shooting it. And, always, make just one change at the time. Otherwise when something doesn't work you won't know which change went wrong. And when things do work, you won't know which change did what. You will learn and you will become your own best judge of what modifications work for you. Don't be afraid to try.
  7. Actually the height on the front sight is fairly critical. Regardless of whose rear sight I run, I find it usually winds up screwed all the way down and I still need another click or two to get the point of aim for dead center in the 0 ring right on. A .180 rear sight is too short. Dawson has a good explanation of front sight heights on their website. But I don't see his fiber optic front for a Para listed anymore. Para lists one that is .195 for a reasonable price. It looks like the Novak so probably is a good option.
  8. One of my P16's has a very long trigger reset so that I will occasionally get "trigger freeze" from not letting the trigger go forward far enough. The other nearly identical P16 doesn't have the same issue. What do I need to do to this gun to make the trigger reset closer to the end of the pull so I don't have to remember to back off of it farther when I do have to go to my backup gun ?
  9. If that grip is working for you, by all means file or dremel off the sharp edge on the slide stop. If you haven't been holding with your left hand there for so long that it's automatic, or your groups aren't as tight as you would like, have you tried rotating your left hand farther down ? That would get you off the slide catch and might give you a little more recoil control as well as making it more unlikely you'll ever cause yourself a malfunction by dragging your thumb on the slide.
  10. How is your accuracy ? Do you shoot better when the load isn't recoiling as hard in the gun ? My .40 load only makes 135 power factor. But in my 5" XD I can usually shoot the stage clean with that load. So my score is the same as it would be if I was shooting major power. And I'm not nearly as tired by the time we're shooting the last stage of the day. Dunno about anyone else, but I shoot better when I'm not tired out too.
  11. http://www.cheyennebrass.com/ best source of good brass I've found ... I just bought him out of processed 9mm, picked up 10k of the processed 9 from him a few years ago and it was totally problem free
  12. I shoot minor power in both 9mm and 40 XD's (IPSC Production class) with lead bullets. Soft bullets don't do well in either. But they don't do well in other guns either. So that's not a quirk of the XD. I've been shooting 3.8 gr of 231 in the 40 and the accuracy is good but they're not taking down poppers as well as I would like and when the air is still on the range the smoke is a problem. So I'm looking for a load with the same 180 gr. lead truncated cone bullet and Universal Clays if anyone has been working with that powder.
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