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Offline tgibson

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Re: Upcoming USPSA Matches in February
« Reply #25 on: February 25, 2012, 08:41:43 PM »
Scores are up from today's match at Emmett:  http://www.idahouspsa.com/results.php?match=460

TG wins! 

 :o  WOW!!!  No one is more surprised than me!  Great match, great squad, lots of fun.
Adios,
TG
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Re: Upcoming USPSA Matches in February
« Reply #26 on: February 26, 2012, 12:04:38 AM »
Nice shooting today Travis!
We did have a great squad, made the best of a cold blustery day.
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Re: Upcoming USPSA Matches in February
« Reply #27 on: February 26, 2012, 08:05:51 AM »
From what it sounded like, we were in the "eye" of the cold front compared to what the lads in Parma had to deal with yesterday.  Emmett's good luck with weather definitely was there for us!  

I need a new follower or spring for one of my mags.  Went to premature slide lock with 2 rnds remaining.  Same thing happened last week at Nampa and finally realized at his match what was going on.  In retrospect, it's been about a year+ since I last replaced them...
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Re: Upcoming USPSA Matches in February
« Reply #28 on: February 26, 2012, 06:07:37 PM »
Eagle giving you issues  Evans......you should probably give it to me considering the problems and your need to keep your local shooters happy!

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Re: Upcoming USPSA Matches in February
« Reply #29 on: February 26, 2012, 06:27:41 PM »
I need a new follower or spring for one of my mags.  Went to premature slide lock with 2 rnds remaining.  Same thing happened last week at Nampa and finally realized at his match what was going on.  In retrospect, it's been about a year+ since I last replaced them...

Let me know what you figure out, I just put grams followers and springs in, and had to work the follower and slide stop to get it to work right, I still get a premature lock with 1 round on 1 mag, so I need to work it a little more. Brazo's has a good article on this.. http://www.brazoscustom.com/Home.htm

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Re: Upcoming USPSA Matches in February
« Reply #30 on: February 26, 2012, 07:16:06 PM »
Just disable slide lock...
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Re: Upcoming USPSA Matches in February
« Reply #31 on: February 26, 2012, 10:33:43 PM »
I've read that article a few times, and still trying to debug the problem.  But I'm out of town right now so can't do anything until I get home.  A few things I think may be the problem:

It only started doing this recently, so the spring may be getting old or feedlips may have spread a little.  It consistently happens when there are two rounds remaining in the mag, and with two rounds in the mag the follower is too far below to be making contact with the slide stop.  I think somehow the top bullet is making contact with the slide stop -but how?  It could be that the spring is weak and allowing bullet bounce in the mag during recoil and that is what is activating the slide stop, or there is too much slop in the feedlip dimensions -once again allowing the bullet to move around during recoil and contacting the slide stop. 

This happened with this mag when I first got the gun, and a new spring/follower kit from Grams fixed it.  So have a few new springs on order, and we'll see what happens when they arrive.  I do recall beveling the sharp edge of the follower at tad to get it to clear the mag catch hole...  I'll also mic the mag lips when I get home to see if they are out of spec. 

I thought long and hard about disabling the slide stop all together, but so far I haven't done it -and I don't think I will if I can get this mag fixed.  I hardly ever go to slide lock in Limited, but I do in L-10 and IDPA so want to keep that feature for consistency. 

My other two mags (bought them new) are still going strong.  It's just the one mag.  That'll be my third mag/barney for now until I get this debugged.       
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Re: Upcoming USPSA Matches in February
« Reply #32 on: February 27, 2012, 10:11:03 PM »
If you don't want your gun to go to slidelock, disable the $2 follower NOT the $50 slidestop and related parts.  Its easy.  You'll be able to figure it out after looking at it for about 3 seconds.
Adios,
TG
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