timcalhoun

Saw it last year when we visited the museum and IMO it was by far the most interesting piece there (the museum was totally awesome! You should go if you haven't been). I too was stunned that I never had heard about this rifle given that I've been a gun nut since the age of 5 or so. I was very excited to learn about it though.

The flare doesn't matter really, just make it easy to place the bullet on top and no more. That way you don't over work your brass. Something is no right here. I'm wondering if you bullets are not .451 or if lead .452. I just measured 5 different loads of which 2 were factory, and all of them are measuring .470-.471 at the case mouth.

Sorry, I thought you just explained that when you get the crimp to the point where you don't get set back, your bullet starts to deform? I would measure for you, but I use a EGW undersized die for my sizer die, so the number I would give you I don't think would help much. You can always measure your factory rounds. But often (if you sizer die is right) you need to only straighten the bell, and actually use zero crimp (as others have said). Personally I always crimp all my pistol ammo. My 45 rounds measure .469 OD under the bullet, and .470 at the case mouth. What do your bullets measure?

You have really been given the best advice already. Get a lee factory crimp die and forget about it. I really don't care for many crimp dies that come in 3 die sets. Often they are better used as paper weights. As you are experiencing, often they seem to give you either not enough or too much crimp.

We are now going to try to move it to the 3rd weekend of August. If we can make it work we will. The range owner and MCTS will have to agree to that weekend since that is the normal MCTS weekend to shoot. I hope we can, but in any case I'll post it here when the date is finally firm.

A couple things. You will mash that button way harder under pressure than you will at a practice session. Often, it will only show up at a match and nowhere else. Secondly, if these are slide lock reloads, there is not a ton of pressure pushing the mag out at that point, and many folks have the gun at the wrong angle allowing it to hang up on the way out just on it's own friction (this problem will really rear its ugly head the faster you get). I'm sure you have seen this, but check out the angle of the gun when he ejects the mag and how then and only then he changes the angle to insert the mag.

I'm pretty sure STI uses the same frame no matter what caliber. To my knowledge there is no such thing as a 9mm 1911 frame. Slides, firing pins, extractors etc....yes, but I don't believe frames.

That really sounds like the mag catch. Before I even put a mag catch in a gun I will releave material on the button side so that when the button is pushed, the rise of the mag catch cannot touch the magazine. Then make sure it is flush or below the mag well on the main plane as well. The slide release can also do this depending on the magazines used (Mags and followers are all a little different). What happens is that a part of the follower will push up ever so slightly on the rounded part of the slide release lug, and will want to drag ever so slightly on the release. I doubt it is the trigger bow since STI's bow channel is usually plenty deep. But you never know. Plus I've seen brand new bows out of shape.

Yep David, more ignorant rhetoric. Let's pretend that he didn't put in an Ed Brown extended mag catch or maybe a different trigger, and let's pretend that my buddy running an M&P in limited doesn't have to shake the hell out of the gun trying to get his mags to drop free and you might have a point. Know this David. I am only a fan of the platform because of what it has proven to me. If I thought for a second another platform would give me even the slightest advantage I would be gone so fast it would make your head spin. I can point to dozens of people who have after putting tens of thousands of rounds down range (closer to 100k), who have worked very hard to make A or M class that have switched to the 1911 platform after gaining those serious skills. On the contrary, I know of not a single person who has gone the other direction. Plus, maybe you shouldn't hijack a thread since I see the big orange Administrator sign under your pic.

It's the trigger bow or mag catch. When I put a new mag catch in, I modify them to make sure this wont happen. Does it do it for all the mags? If not, you can put the troubled mag in a vise and "adjust" it.

You know, the 0 man would do well to study this democrat. in 62 he cut spending and taxes to deliver us from a recession. He was not a keynesian. 3 out of 4 of my grandparents were democrats and all died as republicans. Like Ronald Reagan said, "I didn't leave the democratic party, the democratic party left me".

Okay, I can relate to that one. LOL Next month is a classifier match. So, we will have 4 classifier stages and one or two normal stages. Classifiers are more often than not stand and shoots, but it is a good opportunity to get your classification in one match (usually takes 4), and if nothing else you can see where your skill level is in the grand scheme of things.

Napping???

Great match although some pretty challenging shots. Can't believe that both Hognut and CK1 both wussed out and did not show.

Sure, you'll be fine. But we can find you another mag or two probably.

I actually might make both days this month................I can't remember the last time I was able to do that.

+1

I was totally there until I found out you can't use your own pistol.

Like others have alluded to- If you want exacting specific examples of legally armed citizens OCing and getting bested because of it, you will be hard pressed to find it. Mostly because the majority of states require CC only, and the ones that allow OC, the vast majority of folks there CC anyway. Then you compound that with the fact the an insanely small percentage of legally armed citizens are even involved in such things.......well, it's no wonder it's hard to find. But if you break it down to the basic principle of "know entity VS an unknown entity". Then there is so much empirical data it's overwhelming. If you go to the pages of ODMP (officers down memorial page) you will see that time and time again when officers were bested in a gun battle, it was because they walked into something where they didn't know where the weapon was or if there was a weapon at all. Many times there was no reason for the cop to suspect a weapon and then it's too late. When I fly, I know there are armed air Marshals on the plane, but I can't tell you where they are. They CC for the same reason most do, because it is a proven and sound tactical advantage. I know it would be a great help to terrorist if they were in uniform. A sniper can keep a whole platoon pinned down not because of his superior firepower or numbers, but because they don't know where he is and therefore it's very hard to defend or even know what to do. So you have to choose to ignore the entirely sound principle and ask for a near impossible examples in hopes of justification???? Why????? I do believe that OCing has the potential of preventing the crime of a petty criminal robbing say a Mapco or something. However, I fail to see how OCing would ever prevent a highly motivated, hardened criminal that actually has the cojones to pull the trigger, ever do so.

While a mil-spec is of course "upgradeable", you should know that the best replacement parts are almost all oversized, and will need fitting to one degree or another.

Sorry............double tap.

I think the model 92 was designed in the early 1970's. Maybe 72 if memory serves.

I know several people who own WW 1 era 1911s who shoot them regularly. You can get your own here if you keep an eye out. They will run WWB all day. Whittaker Guns

Looks kinda like a Para LDA............strange.............