Shane45

The odd thing to me is that extractors dont get heavier by themselves. Since you ran a lot of rounds trouble free, this is puzzling. Perhaps it was to heavy from day one causing it to burr up which pushed it over the edge? This is the one Im trying in my current build. http://egw-guns.com/store/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=34_42&products_id=201&zenid=d48232c05122913b65f4b9926ec6f05c

Im sure its true. Its the current trend in Narco Terrorism... Until people, states, government get up the balls to do what really needs to be done, we will see this trend grow like it has elsewhere.

"Why did it take so long for someone to pick-up on this?" It didnt. My post right afetr his pics was "Factory extractors on factory 1911's tend to suck. Replace the extractor with a quality unit." However, boogered or not was a bit to hard to tell for me because it looks like someone did some modding to it which left some areas black and some metal making it to hard to tell if there are burrs and or metal being pushed around. Replace that sucker!

Your about a month late http://njgunforums.com/forum/index.php?/topic/20624-time-for-a-laugh/page__p__273888__fromsearch__1#entry273888 http://njgunforums.com/forum/index.php?/topic/20627-time-for-a-laugh-2/page__p__273962__fromsearch__1#entry273962

What weight spring was the replacement? I got one of EGW's new extractors. Im giving that a try. I have been using Caspian extractors.

Factory extractors on factory 1911's tend to suck. Replace the extractor with a quality unit. Its something I would do anyway so its not a wast... I would also replace your recoil spring with a wolf. If you give a little tap on the back of the slide does it go into battery?

If your refering to my comment, its a valid comparison supporting my statement that in the tri state area there is a considerable anti gun sentiment in LE, notably strong in NYPD. My "sample" and opinion is derived from heavy contact with LE all over, not just a single department.... Generally the pro 2A LE I run into are at shooting competitions and are "gun guys" so they get it. But in my opinion and experience, these are the exceptions, not the rule.

Im not a fan of lapping unless absolutely needed such as misalignment or tube/ring mismatch in an oversized tube or undersized ring... My least expensive scope was 2200 and most expensive 3300, neither sets of rings/mounts they sit in where lapped.

Well it hasnt been my experience. Outside of the tri state area its better, but in, I have run into a metric ton of LE that feal only police and military should have firearms. This seems particulerly pervasive of NYPD officers I have met.

Ammo was factory Corbon match. Let me know when your ready

I wanna come work with you!!!!

Did ya send him the link I posted on his way out the door ?

Thanks Axe. Thought about that Mal but I didnt want to burn time or make noise and give away we backtracked the trail.

I have a few but I'll tell the Hawaii story. We were traveling out to a waterfall on the big Island. This constituted driving on some VERY remote roads. Im talking easily a half hour without seeing 1 person. And these roads were arrow straight! Wish I was on the Busa . Anyway, we had to go through this total shitstain town. Literally it looked like Beruit. Since the roads were arrow straight I could see for miles that no one was behind us. It was late in the day. When we came through the little crap town and on to the falls, I could see we now had someone behind us. I thought this odd. Why would a local townie suddenly have the urge to go to the falls late in the day. And I was POSITIVE no tourist was stopping in this town. So we get to the falls. Its a path that walks around the entire "rainforest/falls" area. Im on alert and probably should have called it quits right there but we drove REALLY far to get here. So we start down the path. Since we are the only bipeds around it is very quiet. I hear the car pull up. I hear all 4 doors close. I now go High Alert! I put my fingers to my lips to indicate be quiet. I move us off the path and into the forest. I hear a bunch of guys RUN past where we moved off the path. I move us back onto the path and go backwards to the entrance and back up to the parking lot. There, is a crappy old beater local car. I didnt even have a knife to flatten one of their tires . We get out of there quick. I am POSITIVE I saved us from harm that day. I HATED not having the means to protect us if discovered trying to escape! We were a good hour at least from any help from anyone...

I had a generator. I sold it off. In a SHTF I think that gas will be an issue rendering the generator useless. But if I had to establish a perimiter at night, Im golden Not to get too sidetracked but I have considered getting the family into camping. Thats some gear and hobby that I think could prove REAL usefull if thinks wents heavily sideways. I dont get to deep into TEOTWAWKI but being of the "luck favors the prepared" mindset, my thoughts are run for the hills so being somewhat prepared to do so makes sense.

FWIW I went PVS14...

For me its a bit in the catagory of a gieger counter. Useless right now, priceless in the right situation. Although lately with the wierdness hapening in just about every neighboirhood lately, it would have been mighty handy a couple times already to spot things my dogs were alerting on but took me forever to ID.

ARE YOU FREEKING KIDDING ME?!?!?!?!

vladtepes I understand what you are saying. However, another overlooked item is that Im not going to just stand there and let someone stab me. For an edged attacker to be effective against me, he will need to reach me before I can draw and he will also need to get ahold of me. Its not a finish line, you have to effectively deploy. I actually dont care for these arguments because they take on a bit of an unrealistic scenario. A situation like this isnt going to be a wild west showdown of gun vs knife. Its really going to come down to who is aware first. But for the sake of the argument at hand I know what my speeds to deploy are and what distance that roughly puts an attacker "inside the wire".

I think your estimate is low. You need a pretty good sized air compressor to run a blast cabinet.

On the topic of an armed citizen, I think this is a shining example of how it DOES work. It seems to me that a private citizen capable of stopping the threat arrived faster than law enforcement. Had the threat not already been subdued, he would have been the best chance at that time for stopping the active shooter.

Not to get too sidetracked but something lost in the 21' rule discussions is that those discussions seem to be outlined for Uniformed officers working with retention holsters. Some of the new retention holsters are better but I remember some of the ones deployed by NYC, holy crap they were rediculas. It would be more like the football field rule! But change over to civy land and my Kydex Safariland, I think in a mutually aware situation, an edged attacker may well be looking at two hole in his chest even from a 12' start.

Kenw, my answer is simple. It will take a lot of time to undo the damage that has been done by anti gun legislation. But there are examples if anyone cares to have them cited, unfortunatly one of the potential citizens that could have put a stop to this went for cigarettes first!

Wojo, send this to Mr. M http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B02E6DC143EF93AA35755C0A9679C8B63 IIRC it was over unpaid rent!!!

Unfortunately Im only set up for small parts (1911's). My oven and cabinet are to small for rifle work. Even skimping along the cost to get setup or pay others to do parts of the process are likely going to exceed just having it done by someone. I use Norrells, not guncote but Im betting the procedure is reasonably close which means the SS will still need to be blasted. So my best recomendation on the DIY side of the fence would be to get someone with a sizable cabinet to blast it and then go with an air dry version of guncote. Just make sure you let it dry a long time. Air dry takes a while to cure from what I understand.