Dolomite_supafly

And people think we can only use an IP to ban. We have access to a lot more than just IP and we use a lot more than just the IP to sniff people who are banned out. This guy made it easy because he used the same IP which any 3rd grader can match up a string of numbers.   And we are constantly working behind the scenes trying to figure out who has come back. Do we get them all, nope, but the vast majority of members have unique writing styles and those writing styles are very unique, almost like DNA. Most often it is the writing style that starts an investigation but I also do random checks of people who have been banned days, weeks and even months after they have been banned to see if they have come back. Call it my LE in me but I find it entertaining to look for, find and then boot someone who should not be here.

I watched it over the weekend on Amazon. It is an amazing movie.   Anyone else catch the fact Marcus was in a few scenes?

 And you are banned again.   Please leave us alone idiot.

A 1911 firing pin spring is not longer than the firing pin. It must be something Para does.   Do you mean the spring is longer than the nose of the firing pin when installed? Or is it longer when you lay the two next to each other?

It is not related to anything in the receiver. The sear is fine, the sear spring is fine and there is no need to disassemble.   Have you cleaned the firing pin channel lately? I will say that the firing pin spring should not be longer than the firing pin itself. Something is out of whack if it is unless Para is not building their guns to use standard parts.

Without removing at least the hammer there is no way to inspect the sear for damage. Did I miss it, does the hammer follow the slide or not? That will tell me if the problem is in the frame or slide.

It is the camera angle and the stocks are never straight in line with the gun or at least that is the case with my two. I am thinking the guy probably has no clue about NFA stuff which is more likely than him taking a hacksaw to a useable stock. You can also se a shadow of something going from the gun to the bed.

Pretty sure California measures in the closed/collapsed position and it must be over 26". I think there are a few other states as well that measure the shortest length but I cannot recall which ones.

And bead blasting will help it hold oil.

You know what you are just going to have to trust me.   I have the same stock and the same 14" barrel and I am not going to store or host an image that appears to be an SBR.

The club foot on the end of the stock is what is visible in the picture. So unless he has hacksawed the rest of the stock off he has an SBR.   I will upload pictures and show you what I am talking about

If it is a scratch you can catch with your fingernail it will likely take a lot of sanding on a flat surface then polishing to remove it.   Something else that might make it less noticeable is to have it bead blasted. It won't be as shiny but it will be a uniform texture.

If you look inside the wings you can see the part that is the stock. It is the part that looks square with a few washers under it. If the stock were not attached it would look like wings.   If you want I can upload and circle the area that IS the stock. I would not have known but I have two of these stocks and have had both of the them apart several times.

Unless he has a stamp he has an illegal SBR according to the first picture. That IS a Choate folding stock on it with a 14" barrel.   Welcome to FPMITAP, let me introduce you to your new cell mate Bubba.

The OP obviously knows and trusts the guys in the video. The target guy was shooting the OP's gun.

I didn't get him. Another moderator came out of the shadows and spanked him.

 Yep.   I would check is the sear spring like some have mentioned. And while you have it apart I would add a little more tension to the sear spring. On the 3 fingered spring it will be the middle leg that controls the sear pressure.   And if you feel comfortable I would check the nose of the sear. It should be square without any rounding or at least a minimal amount of rounding. New it was square but as the slide is dropped on an empty chamber it rounds the nose of the sear off and at some point it will no longer sit in the hammer notch.   Have you adjusted the trigger at all? It is possible to get the trigger adjusted to a point it becomes unsafe.

Yeah they need to be very rip.

I have been waiting for 15 years to pick a few May apples. Haven't had any since I was a kid but I can't seem to beat the turtles and deer.

If the hammer is following there are a few things that can cause it. If it is not then replace the firing pin return spring. Also check to make sure the firing pin is rebounding. It is possible for it to slide under the firing pin stop and possibly cause this. A way to prevent it is to chamfer the hole on the back side. If that is if I will say if rarely happens on its own. But if the hammer is falling it is something a little more serious and will require a little more work and cost to repair. If you have been dropping the slide on an empty chamber you have ruined the sear. One of the worst things to do to a 1911 is drop the slide on an empty chamber. I have repaired quit a few guns, especially higher end ones, after friends decided it was cool to drop it over and over again. With sloppy fit 1911's it isn't as big of an issue although it can damage them as well but it does damage 1911's with lighter pulls and no creep triggers a lot quicker. I had a friend who bought a very nice 1911, forget the brand, but it was far outside my price range and was a semi custom gun. He brought it down and we shot it and it was an amazing gun. Well 3 months later he called me because the hammer was falling when he chambered a round. He said 75% of the time it stopped at 1/2 cock but the other 25%it followed it home. I told him to not touch it until I looked at it because it can go offer if the hammer follows it home. I know this because I had a gun do that while I was setting the sear springs. Well when he brought it down the sear nose was rounded over. I asked if he was dropping the slide on an empty chamber and he said he figured it would help the break in if he did that. Well about 30 minutes later we had a new sear in place and it was once again acting like it should. And the other big No-No with 1911's is dropping the slide on a loaded chamber. This will ruin an extractor pretty quickly as well. Sometimes you can tune it back up but more often it requires a new extractor and slide stop to fix the cycling issues. Where are you located?

Most people would piss themselves if they were part of a live fire room clearing had they not spent a lot of time training for it. It is all about the training and the training is what leads to trust.

I know that the items on the list work. I have no clue about whether other parts will work or not.

Did you use the exact same item numbers?

I worked with a guy who carried an automatic in his back pocket. We had just been issued brand Expeditions, we got them a couple of days earlier, and they all had electric leather seats with heaters. As I walked by one the guy was frantically doing something inside the driver's door. I asked him what was going on and he said his knife opened up. I asked if he got cut and he said no but told me to take a look at the seat. Turns out when he went to slide into the driver's seat his knife automatic opened he sliced the seat from the outside edge to the middle of the seat. He was trying to use tan colored duct tape to hide the 12" gash across the seat. Needless to say he got in some serious trouble by the bosses.