Guy Neill

While it seems familiar, nothing "clicks". Do you have more information? How old? I expect you are saying it is a reload.

Seems a major difference between the two is that the Load Target has an ambidextrous safety while the RO does not.

To me it seems first a choice of what magazines you want to use. Colt style or Glock. There are dedicated receivers for each. I have not used a wide variety of PCC's but CMMG makes each variety. I lean toward their Mk G, but either seems capable. And there are numerous others.

I cannot tell from the photo if the case was fully in the chamber so that it was fully supported. The blown out case looks as if it was not fully supported. This could happen, even with a ramped barrel, if the ramp was overcut, leaving some of the case unsupported, or if the cartridge failed to fully chamber, but the slide was forward enough to allow the hammer to drop. A case not completely crimped, or suffering a bulge near the base may have caused the slightly out of battery firing. You can check the ramp by dropping a round in the barrel (out of the gun) and seeing if there is any of the case ahead of the extractor groove visible. If there is, the ramp would seem to be overcut. If not, the bulge or crimp may have been a factor. A stepped case should have separated at the ledge, and this one did not, plus you have stated it was not stepped. The ring is mysterious. Could it have come from the bullet? I have not seen a double charge in a 9mm, but a double in a 45 disintegrates the portion of the barrel seen through the ejection port (at least the one I've seen did). I would expect more damage if it was a double charge.

The ejector hitting primers has been known for many years and is not unique to any caliber 1911/2011. The habit of covering the ejection port is not recommended. One of the worse injuries I've seen was with a 45. Never put your hand over the ejection port.

As with much of our shooting, you should try both canted and straight and see which works best for you. Perhaps some weak hand Bill Drills and see how the hits and times compare. Use the one that comes out best. What works for one may not be best for everyone.

Balletically the cci small pistol primers and small rifle primers should be very similar. The main difference is the thickness of the cup.

Different barrels - different dimensions. Changes in the chamber diameter, leade (or freebore) and the diameters of the bore and groove all can have an effect.

Yes Primers that have too little priming compound, or are somewhat contaminated may not generate enough heat to ignite the powder, but may melt/fuse some of the powder. Guy

While I have not used a Magnetospped, I expect the velocity will be a bit higher due to the measurement being closer top the muzzle. Chronograph measurement is ten yards or so from the muzzle. Not a lot, but a difference.

Back when I ran matches, especially when I was starting a new club, I tried having matches on Saturdays some, and Sundays some. There was more attendance on Sunday, so we settled on Sundays usually, trying to offer the opportunity to the most people. I regretted we could not get everyone that wanted to shoot there on match day. But it will vary. Sundays can present some people problems as well. I would not try to interfere with anyone's church attendance, and we had several shoote5s that had church services on Sunday (as is common). We settled that if they could make it to the range by 1 o'clock, they could shoot the match. I think some of them wore their leather (long time ago) to church (maybe guns too) to save time once they got to the range. Good luck.

Are you saying his splits are fast - or not fast? What are your splits?

Have you tried having a dummy round somewhere in the magazine while shooting to see what happens when you reach the dummy? Best to have the magazine loaded by someone else so that you don't know when you will encounter the dummy. It also crosses my mind that you might try setting a target at ten yards (or maybe seven) and fire five shots at the "B" zone - first as you normally would. Then after evaluating the hits, fire five where, afte4r each shot, you lower the gun and count to ten before firing the next shot. See how the hits compare to the first. Perhaps repeat the above, but with a dummy round somewhere in the magazine. Maybe you could film the exercise.

Why are you dismissing trigger control? No trigger control will result in no groups. When using the laser, are you watching the dot, or your sights? The laser (and you) will never be perfectly still. Can you dry fire and drop the hammer without disturbing the sight picture (try this without the laser)? What do you see when the hammer drops? Aim at a light switch or such across the room (be absolutely certain the gun is unloaded). How much dry fire are you doing?

Some years later I got serious about dry fire practice - meaning I was working on trigger control. That improved my shooting greatly - and reinforced my belief that trigger control is critical.

Too old? No! If you are interested - go for it. You will learn and become a better shooter. And have fun!

Either take the rear sight down to lower the impact point, or build up the front sight.

That appears to make it 0.082" for zero at ten yards.

Do you want it zero at ten yards? Assuming a 7" sight radius, and moving it 4" at ten yards, you need to remove 0.076" by the calculator I have.

What is the sight radius?

Update – 5-24-19 Loren completed the third series of the new chemo earlier this week. She is doing quite well, at least so far. They removed the drain they had placed in her left lung as nothing was draining. She is up and about much more than she was a couple of months ago – even to the point of driving once again. She has not been on oxygen for the last month or so. They have not yet done a scan to look at things, but one is coming up in June as I recall. While they will never cure her, hopefully the new meds will hold things at the present level. Fingers crossed she continues to do well. Many thanks for all the well wishes and prayers. Guy

A long, long time ago, in a galaxy - no, wait, that's a different story. A long time ago I spent a weekend with Ross Seyfried. One of the exercises he had us do was to shoot an offhand group at 25 yards focusing very carefully on the sight picture. Once that was done, he had us do another group, but putting all our concentration on the trigger. For me, focusing on the trigger had far better results than the careful sight picture. So I will say trigger is vital to accuracy - again -- at least for me. Guy

I'm interested. Guy

One thing is to never (ever) force things if something jams up. A smooth rhythm - no jerky starts and stops, such as trying to go really fast. Anything that applies more than usual force to the primer(s) needs to be avoided.

Of all the BIB's I've seen, more would allow chambering another round than would not. There are many variables, so no absolute on where the bullet will stop in the bore.