JonF

Crotch It, yeah! Satellite of looove!

I've felt this on a few pistols before and its beyond annoying. I want to tape the gun to the cardboard, send it to 25 yards (cuz i'm a long-shootin baller, lol), make a zipgun from a 500S&W case and a house key and lob the bullets at it instead of the paper. Seems like guns with a FPB will usually have a case of the Slap and some guns i have had like the glock and the CZ-52 have had a FPB and Slap-itus unless you do some action work on them. What else is plagued with this nasty affliction? I'll want to avoid this like an erection at church.

Mmm, more blingin pistols for me to bid on. Crack factory sales reps, all of you!

Keep it. I have a speed loader for it that you can have.

I see the light... err... actually i dont cuz there's a flash hider installed!

Get it, bring it to a local range, invite us all out and charge us $5/shot to pull the bang switch. Its the quickest way to fame around here, guaranteed!

Tell you what, Ed, i got some spare hardware over here and you're welcome to it. Come on by and we'll set your target up right and then we can take them both to your club and have at it as i've been itchin to check out OB. yeah?

OMG, i've got the same pic! 'Cept mines' more blokey!

Ed, i put them in a vice and torched them until cherry red then grabbed them with a big wrench and folded them over 90 degrees. The downside is that bending the bolts is time consuming since you have to do it yourself and keep a few extra on hand in case you damage one. So far they are taking frags with no sign of adverse wear, however, i did manage to get a direct hit on the end of the eye-loop which completely unraveled it--talk about a one-in-a-million shot! In the future i have an idea to mount it slightly differently which eliminates the need for bent-bolts. I have a piece of that perforated 90 degree angle-steel that i will attach directly to the plate creating a bracket to hang the eye bolts directly from. This way if the plate bolts get fragged, they are just ordinary bolts and then i can use the eye-bolts without bending them ever again. One issue that i did notice with the nuts on the front of the plate is that while they withstand the destructive force of the bullet splatter, the splatter tends to loosen them slightly with each shot. Not sure if its the vibration or just the physical contact of the shrapnel unwinding them but even locktite didn't help so i ended up staking them on the threads which seems to be holding quite well.

Whatever you decide on for your target stand, keep in mind that the Range 14 official rules stipulate that the steel must be allowed to freely swing away in some fashion. I've had a few of the range masters there inquire about my steel swingers. Especially the red-haired manager, James, who gives me a hard time if he's there and i don't show him the same target and get his approval every time i set it up.

If the savage you are eyeing has the accu-trigger, its a really nice action. I have the Savage 93 BVTS in 22 magnum (bull barrel, stainless) and it too is a proverbial tack driver. 1 MOA at 100 is easy with this thing with good CCI ammo. I dont know where the trigger was set at on its scale of high to low but when i got it, it was so nice, i never adjusted it from its stock setting. The one thing that CZ has available on its centerfires and not its bolt rimfires is the double set trigger. I once messed with a CZ with the double set and it was just sweeter than Yankee31 waving his little flag.

A bunch of us bought the wideners plates and have been using them regularly with no issue. I personally use mine at six at 200 yds with everything from 22 to 7.62x54, 8mm Mauser and 7.5 Swiss and the plate is still totally flat after hundreds of rounds. I have to repaint it with a visible color after a few dozen shots since the splatter scrapes the paint away but the steel doesn't so much as even dent. At the same yardage and same calibers, my old 1" mild steel target craters and dents with only 7.62x25 and the bigger calibers were tearing it to shreds.

Thanks for posting that. I've got my bid in!

Shane's gonna need a towel to mop all the drool off his junk.

Yeah, the porche is a bad spot for swampers-very unsightly! I like to keep mine in the shede or the garage.

Shane, its a range toy. I'm not an "operator", i don't do CQB, DMZ or LSMFT (bill cosby reference ), i just shoot it for fun offhand and on the bench anywhere from 25-200 yds indoors and outdoors hence being able to hold it and bench it. It has a fixed 6x optic and the other thing in question hanging off the barrel is a laser.

You guys have a legitimate point and, yes, i am concerned with the issue of accuracy hence the addition of the specter length rail to replace the old CAR handguards. My quandary though is that i like the laser to be on vertical axis with respect to the barrel, however, in the up position, it blocks the scope and in the down position, there's no more rail real estate to mount it to. OTOH, the doo-dad in front of the AFG is a QD bipod mount that i could possible swap out with a QD light/laser mount since i wont be using the laser outside and i wont be using the bipod inside. I have to get rid of the tape switch for that one though.

Oh hell no! I love SCUBA and will go to any depth they'll let me but i wont set foot on even the first rung of that thing!

My tokarev-15 with some new furniture and free floats. I like the FDE/black combo so i ditched the all black stuff for some new bi-tone goodies.

Damn dude!

Fair enough, airplane shane, sometimes we have to make due with what we have. but i was just curious since he was explicitly building this with competition in mind so a lighter setup might have been a typical choice. I know i wouldn't want to hump my RRA varmint gun around a competition field for very long!

that looks a little heavy for 3-gun, no?

speaking of disappearances, whatever happened to tinyboy? he was such a fixture here then, like a flash, gone.

No, the hammer would work the same as any SA action - it has to be first cocked either by hand or by the slide reciprocating, just like any SAO gun such as the 1911. The tuned action is 2.5 lbs in SA mode.