ErikW Posted January 21, 2005 Share Posted January 21, 2005 public Yahoo photo album SV Infinity stainless frame kit (including stainless drilled and tapped magazine release) SV Infinity silver Enos I.T.S. trigger insert SV Infinity guide rod, hard chromed (pulled from a Limited gun) reverse plug of unknown manufacture, hard chromed (pulled from a Limited gun) D.I.Y. grip reduction and retexturing STI bald/bare Classic slide (panel cut, Caspian-style serrations, flat-topped and serrated, two porpoise holes) STI S-2 TruBor bull barrel/compensator (reamed for .38 Super Auto, two porpoise holes) STI link and pin set STI stainless magazine well extension Allchin C-More mount C-More 8 MOA clicker with Arrendondo glare hood Ed Brown wide ambidextrous safeties Ed Brown memory groove beavertail Ed Brown stainless rebuild kit EGW ignition parts kit (blue not stainless, DOH!) EGW oversize firing pin stop EGW extended ejector EGW stainless oversize slide stop Wolff 17# hammer mainspring Wolff 9# recoil spring unfinished, in the white (until gun is fully broken in) Slide Glide Lite on barrel, disconnector rail, guide rod, and recoil spring Kellube on frame/slide bearing surfaces (until gun is fully broken in) built by forum member BrianH of Experimental Machining Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigDave Posted January 21, 2005 Share Posted January 21, 2005 Nice, clean looking heater, Erik. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BSeevers Posted January 21, 2005 Share Posted January 21, 2005 Nice Foo Foo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twix Posted January 21, 2005 Share Posted January 21, 2005 Understated and elegant. No frills. Very nice. Are you putting a mag release button on there? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Larry Cazes Posted January 21, 2005 Share Posted January 21, 2005 Erik, its hard to see in these pictures. What is the configuration and dimensions on the barrel holes ? Is this a full length five inch slide? Must be a new job in Nevada?! Let us know what your load is and how it shoots..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D.Hayden Posted January 21, 2005 Share Posted January 21, 2005 Get a close up of those grips... looks like a nice job. I thought you were done with those space guns? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SiG Lady Posted January 21, 2005 Share Posted January 21, 2005 Ahhhhh Soooooo... Classssssyyyyy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kdj Posted January 21, 2005 Share Posted January 21, 2005 But ... aren't these things considered "gay" in NV? Other than that, it looks very nice and a bit lighter and faster than the Supertanker. So, how does it shoot?????? Kevin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ErikW Posted January 21, 2005 Author Share Posted January 21, 2005 I haven't shot it. It's a standard Government length slide, and the TruBor is 5.1" or whatever. The holes are... um, small. <shrug> It's not so nose heavy as the Supertanker, balanced more toward the trigger. BrianH sent me some pictures when it was almost done and I told him to ditch the thumbrest on the scope mount. Foo-foo! I didn't know Allchin mounts included thumbrests. Speaking of the mount, it's a little off-center, on the left. It doesn't really affect pointability, and if the more-offset Brazos offset mount can work, I'm sure I can live with it. I am not going to add a button to the mag release. Speaking of magazines, none of my STI mags drop free. I understand SV mags and tubes are as rare as hen's teeth right now so I'll have to make my current magazines work. That means marking them, then sanding inside of the grip. When I gave the frame to BrianH, I had textured it with fine horizontal lines. I later determined that texture wasn't ideal and re-did my other guns. I did a quick and dirty re-do on this, with a spade tip on my wood burner. I'll try to shoot it tomorrow with some 124 gr 3N38 loads and I think I have some 115 gr 3N38 loads still around. I bought a half-pound of 7625 to try because I want to get away from the pricey Vihtavuori powders. (Eight pounds of 7625 is $110 locally at Sportsmans Warehouse.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Julien Boit Posted January 21, 2005 Share Posted January 21, 2005 Nice gun, and nice job Brian. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jessej Posted January 21, 2005 Share Posted January 21, 2005 So this is the heater you were talking about. Looks sharp man. Hopefully in a few weeks I'll be able to post some pics too. Nice E~! Thread Drift - ya gonna make it to special classifier match this sunday? I'll take ya out for lunch or dinner Beer is good! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.L. Hardy Posted January 21, 2005 Share Posted January 21, 2005 erik, don't do anything to your mags until you take out the mag catch and insert them to see if they drop free. most of the time the mags aren't the culprit the catch is. sti catches tend to drag on the front of sv tubes. generally you can either get a sv catch or relieve the sti one and things will be good. good shooting, j.l. hardy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill Schwab Posted January 21, 2005 Share Posted January 21, 2005 Erik, How long did it take for Brian to build it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
.40AET Posted January 21, 2005 Share Posted January 21, 2005 Cool, it looks awesome! Now that he's done yours, he can start to work on mine. ; Let us know how it shoots. I bought the same trigger set. How do you like it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MoNsTeR Posted January 21, 2005 Share Posted January 21, 2005 Suh-weeeet! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
schmitz Posted January 21, 2005 Share Posted January 21, 2005 Awsome Erik, please let us know how this beauty perfoms....you're a lucky guy. Brian, perfect job, immaculate Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ErikW Posted January 22, 2005 Author Share Posted January 22, 2005 (edited) jeseej, I'll see whether any of the Washoe crew wants to make the trip over the hill. J.L. thanks a lot for the tip! It sure felt like they were dragging against the grip but I hope you saved me a lot of work. Bill, I'm trying to remember when I dropped it off when I was in Oregon for a match. I'm pretty sure it was when my front sight broke off my Limited gun. (Edit: that was at the Columbia-Cascade in August.) I'm wondering about hard chroming the TruBor. After I have a nice coating of lead and gilding on the baffles, is it going to be possible? Does the integral comp/barrel complicate things? I had a Limited barrel hard chromed and they did the outside, but not the bore. With only one match per month here in the Truckee Meadows, I'm going to be torn between Limited and Open. I might have to make more trips to Richmond and Yolo. I loaded up some 3N38 and 7625 under MG 124 JHPs. I tried to load 7625 under Zero 115 JHPs but it was a compressed load and damaged the bullet. How do you manage it, Nolan? Edited January 22, 2005 by Erik Warren Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrianH Posted January 22, 2005 Share Posted January 22, 2005 Everything will get re-blasted right before plating, and Virgil will mask the bore. All the crap in the comp will come out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
short_round Posted January 22, 2005 Share Posted January 22, 2005 Dude ... you're so gay. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
.40AET Posted January 22, 2005 Share Posted January 22, 2005 I tried to load 7625 under Zero 115 JHPs but it was a compressed load and damaged the bullet. Eh Crap. So I guess there's no point in trying that powder/bullet combo for the 9mm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcoliver Posted January 22, 2005 Share Posted January 22, 2005 Dude ... you're so gay. If I had a gun like that I'd also be really gay! And just so we're clear, I mean gay...as in full of or showing high-spirited merriment. Okay? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ErikW Posted January 22, 2005 Author Share Posted January 22, 2005 Hey short round at least it's not polished to a blingy high sheen. I shot it this morning. I think it will be possible to load the 115s over 7265 because I was making 1515 fps out of the 124s (187 PF, proof load, hehe). Basically just dropping a 115 over the same charge should do it at a sane PF. It's surprisingly soft, even at 176 PF. No hand slap or nastiness. I was surprised that it ran in below freezing temp with SG Lite and Kellube, but it finally crapped out with a failure to eject. Then it failed to strip a round. But that one magazine doesn't click into the gun right and I think it sits too high or too low. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ErikW Posted January 24, 2005 Author Share Posted January 24, 2005 Mongo Impressed! 89% of ong45 at today's match and I hadn't shot a foo-foo gun since Area 1. Missed a strong hand shot at 15 yards on the classifier (I blame the trigger) and missed a hoper on a swinger I tried to double on one pass. The gun ran 100% despite the cool temp. Didn't really notice a difference between 115 and 124 gr bullets (both over 3N38). Really soft, just a little more blast to the face than the old Supertanker. I've got to trim the right side safety because it's killing my finger (knuckle) and screwing up how I grip the gun. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
short_round Posted January 24, 2005 Share Posted January 24, 2005 Hey short round at least it's not polished to a blingy high sheen. Give it time ... resistance to hard chrome is futile. It will happen shortly after you catch yourself calling it "my precious" as you rack the slide. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nolan Posted January 24, 2005 Share Posted January 24, 2005 I loaded up some 3N38 and 7625 under MG 124 JHPs. I tried to load 7625 under Zero 115 JHPs but it was a compressed load and damaged the bullet. How do you manage it, Nolan? Erik, My 115 grain JHP load with 7625 is: 115 Montana Gold JHP Win Small Rifle Primer 8.6 grains 7625 1.235 OAL 176+ Power Factor It will still be a compressed load, but not badly so. Nolan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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