I asked for a few things for Christmas:
I’ve installed the grips but not the black hex head screws:
The OEM grips look better, but the rubber grips feel better and will no doubt be better at the range. The don’t look bad, but don’t look as good as the black stained wood grips. They were simple to install.
I can’t wait to take these to the range.
Last night I visited Elite Shooting Sports to shoot my .22TCM MS 1911 and Metro Arms ACC .45ACP 1911.
First, I started out with the .22TCM 1911. I was immediately accurate with it (well, accurate enough considering I’d not shot it since April 2015, I was shooting it pretty well):
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I then moved the target out and focused on the head:
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I then moved to the .45ACP and didn’t fare as well. The last time I fired this handgun was Feb 2015:
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The recoil took me aback. Now, when I first shot this gun, it felt great in my hands. For some reason, it didn’t feel great this time around, but this could be because I’d just shot the .22TCM 1911, which has VZ grips. It could also be because I’m more used to 9mm now (this gun has substantial push/recoil, even with it being a beaver-tailed). Here’s more:
I can’t understand what I was doing wrong. Yes, I’m aware of target analysis and what it means when I’m grouping to the lower left of the target. I actually took my time with several magazines to ensure I was properly actuating the trigger, but I was still hitting lower left. Although I was able to touch the bulls-eye, I wasn’t able to do it consistently. I couldn’t hit the head of the target, either.
I was using TulAmmo and Winchester white box JHP. The TulAmmo was inconsistent, power-wise, as I noticed that the slide moved slowly many times, so I switched to the Winchester and noticed less of that, but only shot maybe 25 rounds of it. I still wasn’t hitting where I wanted, but at least the slide was acting normally when the gun went BANG. Another thing — this gun does NOT like TulAmmo. The ammo kept hanging on the feed ramp. I didn’t notice this when I first shot it back in February.
Here are my range notes from February:
Half of the ammo was Remington UMC (green/white box). 47 of it was Perfecta FMJ. I had 3 x FTEs with the black (original) mag.
This gun is FUN to fire! The recoil is much less than the P220. It is also very controllable, aim-wise — I nailed the bulls-eye several times and the majority of my hits were toward the middle when compared to the groupings of the other guns I’ve fired.
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| Very odd failure to extract situation here…I had to drop the mag to clear it (it wouldn’t rack back). |
Lesson learned – don’t shoot TulAmmo from this gun!
Notice in my notes that I had no issues controlling the gun, I was able to nail the bulls-eye several times, and most of the rounds were hitting toward the middle. What has changed? The ammo? My perceptions on this gun’s recoil? I’ll admit, when I first pulled the trigger, the recoil caught me off-guard (I’m used to firing 9mm). It could’ve ruined the rest of my session with this gun. Should I keep practicing with it? I’m not planning to carry any of my .45ACP handguns, so it’s not essential that I train with this particular gun. It’s a range gun, for now, but it does bug me that I can’t put lead on target with this gun like I can with my other handguns. I just might change the grips, though (to a set of VZ grips).
And then, when I went back to my .22TCM, I found that I couldn’t hit anywhere near where I was aiming, when I had such a good session with it at the beginning of the range session. I fired 25 rounds before deciding to quit for the night…I left the range in a bit of a fog. I’m not sure why my aim was so jacked up after switching up guns…maybe I was slapping the trigger or maybe I the gun wasn’t properly centered in my hands…I don’t know.
My sister’s birthday is today. She’s 40 years old. I got tired of trying to guess what she wanted and asked her to tell me if she needed/wanted anything. She said she wanted ammo.
She has a Walther PPK/S .380ACP. She has a North Carolina concealed handgun permit and carries as much as she can (she’s also a federal employee, so she can’t carry anywhere near work…she can’t even leave her weapon in her car while on work property).
I bought her 200 rounds of Winchester Personal Protection JHP ammo. It’s JHP ammo that is designed for defense (it is not range ammo). I told her to ensue that she shoots 25 or so rounds to ensure the gun can fire the ammo without feed or extraction issues.
When speaking on the phone with her, she also stated she’d been watching my Facebook posts and had gotten herself an Alien Gear IWB holster (the Cloak Tuck 2.0). I was very surprised, as I thought she was carrying in her purse. She asked for belt suggestions. I told her to go back to where she bought her gun (in Fayetteville) and ask them if she could try her 1.25″ belts (she shouldn’t need anything bigger for the PPK/S). I told her that a good strong belt is essential but she’s already been wearing the holster and says it’s extremely comfortable for her.
On a different note, I saw someone on the forums complaining about their P320 Subcompact’s round trigger guard and the fact that the grip module assembly might not fit in other holsters designed for other sizes of P320 handguns. Well, I’ve a P320 Compact shell for my cloak Tuck 3.0 IWB holster. I’ve the P320 Compact and have the parts to convert it to Subcompact. I converted it and tested fitment in the aforementioned holster…it fits without issue, probably because I’m using the Compact slide with the Subcompact grip module. In that configuration, the slide dictates fitment more than the SC’s trigger guard. That’s a good thing, since I didn’t want any more holsters / shells.
UPDATE:
I field-stripped the P11 immediately after a range visit. If you remember, I described a problem with the gun awhile back.
I’ll take it to the range again with grease applied to areas that didn’t have it prior to my last visit. To summarize the video, I fired a bit under 300 rounds of various 9mm ammo from it and only had two failures to return to battery. Both failures were with Remington UMC 147-grain flat-nosed FMJ. I had no failures with TulAmmo steel-cased or Winchester PP JHP.
And, as usual, the gun was certainly accurate (my trigger discipline aside):
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I also spoke awhile back about the lack of a holster for this gun. Someone who viewed one of my videos gave me a point of contact that could make one. I was thinking on trying to make one myself. Either route would be good, I think. I just need it to be an in-waistband holster. Once I have that and once I get the battery issues resolved, I may consider carrying this gun.
Check this out:
According to the LA Times: Suspects’ weapons were legally purchased. Police said the two suspects were armed with two…
Posted by Mr. Colion Noir (@MrColionNoir) on Thursday, December 3, 2015
Incredible!
If they got them legally, it’s probably a given that they weren’t on the terrorist watch list, which is ironic, because Obama mentioned that a law is needed that prevents gun purchases for people on the watch list. It will fail if radicals such as these two are not on the watch list.
WTH kinda of buggery is this double-talk of theirs??
A snippet:
San Bernardino shooter Syred Farook was apparently radicalized and in touch with more than one international terrorism suspects, according to law enforcement sources cited by CNN.
Farook reportedly communicated with overseas terror suspect over the phone and using social media.
The network also reported that Farook traveled to Saudi Arabia at least twice prior to Wednesday’s shooting that left 14 people dead and at least 17 injured. During one of those trips, Farook reportedly brought home Tashfeen Malik, his wife and parter [sic] in crime, on a “fiance visa.”
My comments:
WARNING: ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM COMING THROUGH!!!!!!!!!!!
They’re going to have a difficult time convincing the nation that this was a workplace-related. This wasn’t your run-of-the-mill active shooting. And all those gun-related laws that CA has didn’t stop or slow down this group. And the topic of creating laws to stop people on the terror watch list from purchasing guns…do you actually NEED a law for that? And would that have stopped this group? They’d have had to have been on the watch list…I don’t believe they were on that list (they might be scribbled in, though).
I saw this posted on Facebook yesterday:
“The last thing Americans should have to do, over the holidays or any day, is comfort the families of people killed by…
Posted by The White House on Saturday, November 28, 2015
My response is:
Here we go again with trying to make a whole population feel guilty for someone that’s either crazy or doesn’t care about rules. True to form, Obama didn’t even wait for the bodies to stiffen before rushing to the podium. What’s wild is that he admitted that they don’t yet know the motives of the shooter. If you don’t yet know the important facts, why make a statement?
Do any of you feel guilty when a murder is committed and a gun WASN’T the murder weapon? Probably not. Why is this any different? Because a gun was used? It’s not the gun that’s the problem…it’s the fact that people keep using the media as a tool to final fame in their end game. Also, this game of “its so commonplace that we’ve become numb to it” is ridiculous. Whenever I see something like this, I just shake my head, but I’m not going to give up my right because some fool murdered someone. That’s why people who commit murders are tried in courts of law…they try the assailants, as they committed the crime. Not me or other law-abiding gun owners, but he assailants.
I’m not buying the excuse that it happens a lot, especially when the media hypes things up.
Tightening gun control will NOT help…if anyone can point to a place in the US (NOT any place OCONUS) that has seen a decline in murders because of tight gun control, share the data.
The bottom line is, I refuse to pay any price for someone who wants to go out with a large body count. Why should I feel guilty or wrong for a crime I did not commit? I refuse to be even remotely responsible for this act. Some dude killing several people and me using my guns for sport and self defense…two VERY different things. Again, why should I be morally responsible for a nut going on a killing spree?
I’m going to leave this here: Obama is really pushing for the Syrian refugees to be allowed in this country…he doesn’t see a problem and has stated that these refugees are not terrorist, but he’s pointing blame of hysteria to a certain group of Americans. Well, he’s right…not every muslim is a terrorist, JUST LIKE EVERY GUN OWNER IS NOT A CRIMINAL. He’s giving leeway to the refugees by refusing to believe that terrorists might slip into America, but he’s believing that every gun owner is responsible for the relatively few nutjobs that commit murder. That doesn’t make sense. The difference is that he wants to control one situation (guns in the US) but not another (refugees that might be criminals). He ignores that they might be criminals in the refugee ranks but won’t acknowledge that there are criminals in the gun owner ranks. He really doesn’t have control of either group of people, because criminals will be criminals. Again, it doesn’t make sense.
On a slight tangent, I saw someone state that using social media as a debating tool doesn’t help a cause. Actually, for people that are on the fence about political matters, it just might help to open a dialogue with them. Many times, such discussion spills over into real life discussions (example, you visit a relative that might support tighter gun restrictions and he’d read your view on the 2nd Amendment). As well, many of my FB posts are copied to either my Google account or my blogs. Blogs are definitely powerful as a social media tool. Also, sometimes I make videos to spur discussion. Really…if politicians use FB or any other social medium, regular folk can too.
Looking for a good home defense long gun? Some people swear by shotguns but a carbine can also be a good option. Specifically an AR-15 variant (M4).
I was looking at a CETME-type gun earlier in the year, but I didn’t want to worry about quality and those aren’t exactly light guns (they’re certainly not carbines, either). What I’m looking for is something like this:
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You can get an instant quote at that site and the quote is going to depend on your location, meaning the price is going to vary between locations. I can get that gun for between $530 and $640. That’s for a 5.56mm/.223 long gun! With a Red Dot sight.
More stats:
I don’t think I’ll be able to get this before the sale date ends (11/30). I can always wait until the next sale.
Good stuff here:
“This isn’t Minority Report. We don’t arbitrarily strip American citizens of their rights based on crimes they haven’t committed and a list they’re not aware of. If someone is seriously that much of a threat, arrest them and charge them with some shit.
When a person they’re monitoring shows up to buy a gun and the gun store runs a background check, the authorities know about it immediately. At that point, they either tell the gun store owner to allow the sale, or they block it. This is how it’s supposed to work.
Which is why the pathetic attempt to demonize the NRA isn’t coming from the CIA, the FBI, the NSA or any other intelligence or law enforcement group … it’s coming from the most powerful anti-gun organization on the planet: the mainstream media.”
Was perusing the web and bumped into this:
It’s a Glock 17 conversion that allows the firing of the 22TCM round. This conversion works well with full-length handguns, as the extra barrel length gives more “ooomph” to the round. I’ve heard they’re making a Glock 19 conversion, too. And they lightened that slide bigtime.
The two cons are:
The conversion is expensive ($400+ for the slide, guide rod and spring). If you don’t already have a Gen 3 Glock 17, then you’ll have to spend money on that, too. When the fat lady has sung, it’ll be a $700+ for the conversion and the handgun. If you already have a Glock 17, then you’re halfway there!
And the 22TCM 9R round will fit in Glock mags (they’re shorter than the standard 22TCM round).
I’m definitely intrigued.