BayouSlide

I have a Lyman 6-shell sidesaddle on my Remington 870 which is the bees knees as far as I'm concerned. I'm planning to pick up a Remington 1100 Tac 4 at some point. I'd probably add the same carrier to that gun. Anyone had any function problems running sidesaddles on an 1100? Thanks guys!

For something very economical with decent quality, I revived a well-worn G29 with this finish: http://cgwgun.com/centacglock.aspx Good customer service and fast turnaround, as well.

I always add a couple of capfuls to my tumbler when I add polish, then I'll let it run about 5 minutes or so before adding the brass. Keeps the polish (I use the Franklin Arsenal polish from Midway) from clumping and the brass seems to be a little cleaner and maybe a little less dusty overall.

When it comes to Dremels and guns, the felt wheel is your friend

Same loads, same bullets. The main difference is that match ammo is all 9mm Winchester brass, fired once to three times. Practice ammo is mixed brass, now on it's sixth loading. Everything gets gauged; match ammo also gets checked for OAL within narrower specs.

Zero problems since I've gone completely over to Vanek production triggers. I do use Federal primers, FWIW.

One more idea: going on memory, here, the problem actually might have been the magwell wasn't fitting tight on the grip, so tightening the screw to the plug pulls the front part up. Make sure the magwell fits evenly and tightly to the frame...you could kinda feel the end of the grip squeezing in a tiny bit as you pressed the magwell into place. Took a little more effort than I thought.

I had one for a while and found it a little finicky, but was able to set it up. My first try, IIRC, gave me the same result you have. Eventually I could press the plug where it should be but then found some interference with my TruGrip, which required a little trimming to get the magwell to fit snugly...then I had to dremel out the edges of the plastic insert so my Arredondo base pad would fit. Reminded me why I shoot Production. With a couple of insertions with a CAREFUL increase in pressure, if it's close, you may be home free. IIRC, the plug is kinda tapered and it's that last fraction of an inch that hangs up on a virgin frame cavity. Therefore, a little more pressure may be less damaging than you think. YMMV so be careful and good luck.

My closest "local" matches are now 1.5 to 2 hrs away. Will travel up to 3 hrs for a local 3-gun match, since they occur only a couple times a year around here. What makes a "good" match? Five or six stages featuring intelligent stage design...i.e. always challenging but not designed to be merely awkward for the sake of being awkward. Anybody can create a stage that is off the wall...only a skilled stage designer can create one that is difficult enough to be challenging and provides a good test for shooters at ALL skill levels. My second pet peeve is setting a pace for the squad or match that rushes an average shooter to the point that the match becomes less enjoyable and you feel you would have done significantly better with just a little more time to prepare for your run. When you're driving three hours+ to and from a match, you feel shortchanged when you don't have a minute or two per stage to collect yourself and check your gear before the timer goes off.

Matches available every weekend within a 1.75 to 3.5 hr. drive. With other demands on time and resources (i.e. cost of gas and ammo components), I shoot with the two clubs that are within 2 hrs. drive each month. But the weather ain't been cooperating this year...soaked range means no match at one club. Throttle back a little during the hottest summer months when the pain outweighs the fun I'm lucky to have a sheriff's range available within 10 minutes of home for practice twice a week, if I like. Over the past year or so, I'm finding I enjoy the matches, the competition and the people, but without the "all you can eat buffet" shooting obsession that is natural when you first dive in to the sport. Maybe that's why I'm still in C class

I own Blade-Tech, Sidearmor and Comp-Tac holsters, at least two of each in various calibers...good gear all. I used to own a Fobus at one point...draw your own conclusions For USPSA, a BladeTech DOH is hard to beat. +1 on the Sidearmor pouches: four singles on my Production belt with a Blade-Tech double in the back just in case.

I gauge every round, practice or match. Use Dillon dies in my 550B with a Lee FCD in final station. Mostly 9mm mixed brass for practice, used about 5X and counting. Winchester 1 - 3 X fired for matches. IIRC, maybe 3 - 5 failures to gauge in about 16K rounds...and all of those still chambered and fired properly in my G34 Glock with factory barrel.

I'll stick my neck out on a limb here and, as the owner of two Vanek production triggers, considering what you're looking for, I can't imagine there's a lot more to be gained over a drop-in Vanek. Maybe it's my limited imagination Seriously, talk to Charlie Vanek, order and open the package, punch out a couple pins on your G34, drop in the new parts, and then pat yourself on the back as a custom Glock triggersmith

Could use another small pistol primer cup for my 550...I'd be happy to send you a few bucks for it if you don't need it.

In case anyone's interested, according to my notes, the AAA 147 gr. loads chronoed at 136 PF in my G34 at the Mississippi Classic in 2006.

Four Sidearmor single mag kydex pouches, plus a double Comp-Tac kydex (clip on style) added towards the back, when needed.

To add my vote to the chorus, if you're like most Production competitors your search will begin and end at the Blade-Tech DOH.

A "Mozambique" is two rounds COM followed by one round to the head box.

Had a chance to road race motorcycles for a number of years as well as help a little with a semi-pro with aspects of his marketing program for a year or two. Pros in any sport who solicit sponsorship realize that, first and foremost, sponsorship is a business/marketing decision and the first question the hopeful sponsoree must answer is not "What's in it for me" but "What's in it for you," i.e. the sponsor. As other posters have stated. family or a local business "might" want to kick a buck or two if they like you, just to help, but that's a gift, not a business/marketing decision. Our sport isn't a widespread enough market (enough numbers) with enough exposure (enough consumer eyeballs) to attract much interest outside the group of competitors themselves. A tiny handful of top national shooters will reap whatever opportunities are available from a industry sponsors who are primarily interested in marketing to shooters. Businessmen don't want to subsidize your hobby...they want to subsidize their own hobbies

Appreciate the link to the previous discussion on this, as well. Guess I'll be GTG with my Holosight, too.

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Anybody have any experience on how the Racing Red lenses work to either enhance or diminish a red fiber optic front sight?

Which would you rather have? A free G17 or a G34 for a hundred bucks? A G34 for a hundred bucks, no question. I have both. My G34 is my main competition gun, the G17 is backup. If I would LOVE another G34 for a hundred bucks. After 30K plus rounds through my G34, the balance on the G17 just feels wrong

I've got the Rudy Exceptions and love 'em. Tried another brand first, that were cheaper but way inferior. The Rudy's really work because the wrap around shooting glasses portion attach by means of a secure center clip on outer portion of the nose piece of the frames, leaving the inserts attached to the frame itself. The protective lenses can thus be switched easily between dark or clear without touching the inserts. And the inserts are in the proper focal plane. Mine have a tweaked bifocal to get the front sight sharp. I FINALLY have something that works and really feel they're worth the cost. Although the brand I used first were much cheaper, I wasted the cost of a set of progressive bifocal lenses and never got 'em to work right, especially because the inserts on that brand relied on a rather flimsy nosepiece mount that put the corrective lenses "behind" the frames and, thus, too close to my face for humid Louisiana shooting conditions. I've posted elsewhere on the forum regarding my experience with them...a search should pull up my earlier post/s. Get 'em and don't look back, buddy Edited 'cause typos make me

YMMV, but sometimes lighter isn't better...Probably comes the majority of trigger time shooting Production USPSA with my Glock, but I almost found the Contour URX a little TOO light at first, twitchy rather than planted, if you get my drift. Whatever the reason, I like it best with the addition heft and balance from the dot sight. When I shot steel challenge-type events with my 9mm I actually found the additional heft of a tungsten extended guide rod helpful in planting/stopping the muzzle where I wanted it in the wide swings from target to target. Of course, that wouldn't necessarily be useful in a fast run on a plate rack. All that said, what I don't know about shootin' would fill many books...Brian our host wrote one of 'em