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I remember both him and the late, great Bob Munden with the famous, "Shot Of The Week" in the mid and late 90's on "Shooting USA". He also featured Byron Ferguson, a famous longbow archery shooter, who performed some really interesting and difficult shots.

I picked up a pair of Beretta 92 Compacts from Gunprime. They are good to deal with, and ship fast. They didn't come with the Walnut grips or the +2 magazine extensions. I added those after. Both run like scalded dogs. Pretty hard to beat the price, that's for sure! They're still showing them in stock, if anyone is interested. https://gunprime.com/product/beretta-92fs-compact-92-fs-js92f850m/

I picked up one from Davidson's through my local dealer for $1,323.00 out the door. But they've gone up a bit since then. (About 3 months ago). https://www.galleryofguns.com/genie/Default.aspx?item=BER-92BRIG-9D&zipcode=85307

Thanks. The only burring I had was on the original guide rod itself. And that I polished off with a stone and some Scotch Brite. So if I get the new guide rod, that should end this nonsense.

So, I'm assuming if I go ahead and purchase this Longslide Henning Conefit $40.00 Polished Stainless Steel Guide Rod for my 9 MM Witness Stock III, this will correct the problem? And this burring I'm experiencing will stop, and no longer be a problem?

So I'm assuming this guide rod burring that is happening on my gun is a common occurrence??

I have never had a Stainless steel guide rod damage anything on any semi auto pistol I've ever owned. And this is the first time I had a guide rod itself show any type of burring or marking from simply being fired in a weapon. As I said, everything polished up nicely, but this should not be happening. Let alone be happening in a high end gun. I have no idea if replacing the guide rod with an aftermarket one will prevent this from happening. But I'm willing to give it a shot.

I know this is an old thread, but I shoot a EAA Witness Stock III, and thought some of the guys here might be able to advise me. There is a lot of information here. I just got back from the range with my box stock EAA Witness Stock 3. The gun ran beautifully. 200 rounds without a single hiccup. The trigger was beautiful. When I got home and field stripped it for cleaning, I noticed the edge around the recoil spring guide rod where it seats into the barrel had several small burrs on it around the outside edges. There was no battering or deformation of the gun or barrel where it contacts the guide rod itself. Just on the O.D. of the headed portion of the guide rod. I was able to chuck it in a cordless drill and remove the burrs with a small India stone, the polish it nice and bright with a bit of grey Scotch Brite. All is well. But I don't like the fact this is happening. The rod itself polished quite easily, which makes me think it could be too soft, and that is what is causing the burring. I would like to replace the guide rod with a polished Stainless Steel model, like the one's that are shown in the many photos in this thread. I'm assuming I need the long slide model to fit a standard Witness Stock III. If someone can advise me on this it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

It was bending a lot worst than that under the tension of the recoil spring. Plastic, (polymer), guide rods are fine, if they are designed and manufactured from material that maintains rigidity. (Think Glock here). The POS that they put in my CZ-97B is bad joke. It was bending so bad it was allowing the spring to scrape against the bottom of the dust cover, binding up the gun. I installed the Stainless Steel guide rod from Cajun Gun Works, and the gun cycles beautifully. It should have come from the factory like that. You shouldn't have to start shopping for replacement parts before your first trip to the range with a brand new pistol.

This was the old one.

I ordered the Stainless Steel guide rod from Cajun Gun Works. They already shipped it. It will be delivered on Monday. When I take the old one out, I'll try to take a picture of it and post it. It's really warped.

I've had a brand new CZ-97B sitting in the box for a while. It is the old model 97-B with wood grips. Today I decided to field strip it, lube it up, and get it ready for the range next week. When I disassembled it I found the factory stock plastic recoil spring guide rod to be badly warped in a bowed position. The slide racked OK out of the box. But after I field stripped it to lube everything up, (the gun was filthy and dry as a bone from the factory), and reassembled it, I couldn't get the slide to rack. It was binding up after it went back an inch or so. I had to take off the slide and rotate the recoil spring and guide rod so the "bow" in the guide rod went up into the slide, instead of down toward the dust cover like I had it. With the bow in the rod pointing down it seemed to be causing an interference issue. The slide then racked as it should. The bottom line here is that I'm not at all satisfied with the cheap, warped, flimsy plastic guide rod supplied with this pistol. I'm almost afraid to shoot it, for fear the guide rod will rotate 180 degrees through firing, and tie up the gun. Or possibly even damage something. I can't be the only guy that has had this condition develop with this gun, and it's factory stock, flimsy plastic guide rod. So I'm considering purchasing a Stainless Steel Guide Rod like this one from Cajun Gun Works. https://cajungunworks.com/product/stainless-steel-guide-rod-97bbd-tactical-sport/ Has anyone else had this issue with their CZ-97-B? And have you gone to a Stainless Steel Guide Rod as a solution? Is there a downside to going to a steel guide rod? I'm thinking this is nothing but an easy parts swap. There isn't any "fitting" so to speak. And the Stainless Steel Guide Rod will not warp and deform like the cheap plastic factory model has. I can't believe a premier gun company like CZ would supply a pistol like this with such a cheap, flimsy part from the factory. Thoughts?

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Tisas Regent Range Report, (400 Rounds) I got to the range last week with the new Stainless Tisas Regent, and gave it a good workout with a total of 400 rounds of various ammunition fed through no less than 6 different magazines. I am happy to report the pistol performed flawlessly. Not a single FTF or FTE, or any type of hiccup of any kind! Needless to say I was extremely pleased. The 6 magazines that were used were as follows. 2 original Browning Phosphate coated 13 round magazines, with the, "springy thingy" at the bottom, to assist in kicking the magazine clear of the gun. 2 gloss blued 13 round Mec-Gar magazines that were shipped with the pistol. And 2 gloss blued 15 round Mec-Gar magazines that were new in the box. The magazines were all filled to capacity, and all fed flawlessly in the pistol, regardless of the type of ammunition they contained. With the exception of the Phosphate coated Browning magazines with the spring assist, they did not drop free when released. But all were very easily removed from the pistol when empty. All 6 magazines locked the slide back when the last round was fired. The ammunition used was as follows. 100 rounds of CCI 115 gr. FMJ Blazer Brass. 100 rounds of Remington brown boxed 115 grain law enforcement training ammunition. (This ammo was the hottest 115 gr. FMJ Ball I've ever shot). 100 rounds of Federal 124 gr. FMJ. And finally 100 rounds of Federal 115 gr. 9BPLE +P+ Hollow Points. All 400 rounds cycled the pistol perfectly. 4 magazines, (2, 13 round Browning's, and 2, 13 round Mec-Gar's), were shot rapid fire as fast as the trigger could be pulled. "Mag dumps", if you will. This was with the Federal 9BPLE, and was done to test rapid fire functioning with high performance ammunition. All 4 magazines fed perfectly. The brass was ejected cleanly and about 6 to 7 feet to the right, and 3 feet to the rear, in a nice neat 3 to 4 foot circle. I examined the cases as I gathered them and returned them to the box, and none showed any signs if denting or damage. I would call the extractor on this gun perfect. No problems with it what so ever. All shooting was done at 25 yards. The sights were adjusted perfectly, printing dead center with a 6 O'clock hold. The gun was warm, but was allowed a substantial amount of time to cool as all 6 magazines were reloaded. The trigger was slightly gritty for the first 100 rounds or so. But it smoothed out nicely as the shooting progressed. And after the last box of ammo went through the gun, it was breaking cleanly and very crisp after a minimum amount of predictable take up. Overall I couldn't be more pleased with this pistol. It ran with 100% reliability for 400 rounds. With a good variety of different types of 9 MM ammunition. As you can tell from the picture, the gun got quite filthy after 400 rounds. But after a field stripping, and a good cleaning in Kerosene, followed by a good blow drying and re lubrication, it was as clean as when removed from the box. I'm going to pick up another one of these pistols. I just don't think for the price you can beat them. They are well made, reliable, accurate, and very nice looking pistols. And with Browning ending Hi-Power production, these are as nice of a clone as you're likely to come across.

Did the Kadet .22 Conversion require much fitting to the frame?

If it bothers you it is not terribly difficult to disable.

Yes. It will not fire with the magazine removed.

I've been reading nothing but good about this pistol since it came out. Brownell's has them in stock in both black, as well as Stainless Steel. It's not hard Chrome plated like the FN Browning's, but rather a full Stainless Steel pistol. As you know Browning has discontinued the Hi-Power. So this Turkish clone by Tisas is the only one of it's kind in current production in Stainless Steel. (They also offer a model in black Cerakote for slightly less). https://www.brownells.com/firearms/handguns/semi-auto/regent-br9-9mm-4-6-13-1-prod118691.aspx?avs|Cartridge_1=APP_9%2bmm%2bLuger&avs|Make_3=Tisas It arrived last week at my FFL, and I immediately drove over to pick it up. This is a beautiful gun! Especially for it's modest price of only $569.00. (Brownell's charged a $10.00 handling fee, and my FFL charged $30.00 for the transfer). So the grand total was $609.00 to get it from Brownell's to my kitchen table. Not too bad for a Stainless Steel Hi-Power. Overall I'm very impressed. The machining and workmanship is impeccable. Very few tool marks on the inside of the slide and frame, and a nice slide to frame fit. The overall fit and finish on the pistol is beautiful! The gun field stripped very easily. It comes with 2, 13 round, polished blue Mec-Gar magazines. They interchanged with all of the other magazines I have for my other 2 Hi-Powers. I gave everything a good cleaning and oiling. Except for the slide rails, which I greased with Weapon Shield Lithium Grease. It went back together without a hitch. I'm hoping to get it out to the range next week. I ordered the Tisas BR9 Hi-Power Essential Reliability Kit from BH Springs Solutions. It gives you an extra extractor, and firing pin face plate. The kit also contains new springs and various roll pins required for installation. It's a good kit with quality parts that's nice to have on hand. I intend to shoot the hell out of this thing, so having a few extra parts for it in stock can't hurt. They could also come in handy for my other 2 Browning Hi-Powers, should any small parts go south. Some of the very early production models of these guns had some issues with extractor breakage. But those were supposedly corrected, and these newer models are good to go. https://bhspringsolutions.com/tisas-br9-hi-power-/358-tisas-br9-hi-power-essential-kit.html If any of you guys are wanting a Hi-Power, but waited too long, and don't want to pay the high prices being asked for the used one's, don't be afraid to grab one of these. Quite honestly, for the price, I just don't see how you can go wrong. If this thing shoots half as good as it looks, I'll be a happy camper. Here are a few quick and dirty phone pics.

Other than Ben Avery, does anyone know of any place in and around the Phoenix Metro Area that's left for Trap shooting? When we moved here, (west side), from Lake Havasu City back in 1997, Litchfield Park Trap & Skeet was just 2 miles down the road. It was a beautiful facility. Then they closed. We then joined the Surprise Sportsman's Club. They were located right around the 303 & Grand Ave. A bit of a drive, but not too bad. They were closed down before we ever got to fire a shot. Red Mountain Trap & Skeet also closed up not long after that. I know Rio Salado has some clay target shooting, but that's a 50 mile drive for me each way. (I'm at the 101 & Camelback). Same with the Wickenburg Sportsman's Club. I'm a member at the Phoenix Rod & Gun Club. But all they have is a manual thrower off to the side of the High Power Range. It's really a shame how many places have been shut down for one reason or another. I would really like to dust off my Trap guns now that I'm retired. But that is becoming a difficult task without going on a long safari, and spending more on gas than targets.

After my negative experience with Dawson magazines, I would buy only Wilson's if I was going to invest in high dollar 1911 magazines.

Thanks. I guess it's been longer than 5 years since I bought it. Time flies.

I spent good money on a couple of Dawson magazines for my Rock Island G.I. Model 9 MM. I was somewhat disappointed in them. One works OK, but the other misfeeds at least once per magful. I was expecting better from such expensive magazines. The stock Rock Island magazine that was shipped with the gun feeds flawlessly. I should have stuck with them. They're a lot cheaper too. Live and learn.

Did Springfield quit making these? Is so, does anyone know when? I picked this one up about 5 years ago. I have never shot it, and was thinking of doing so. Then I found out that Springfield has taken them out of production. So I thought it might be better if I kept it new in the box. Can anyone confirm if they're no longer being made?

I have a hard time choosing. I love em' all!

I now take a multiple vitamin as well as 1,000 additional units of Vitamin D. My last blood panel was fine, and I've never felt better.