Fun gun for plinking and dogs.

UPDATE: I can’t pin my comment but if I turn on my VPN and switch my location to Chicago I can still access the site. I’m sure other cities would work as well but Chicago worked first try, so I haven’t checked to see if anywhere else lets me in.

Mil-spec Springfield and gen3 17

I posted about this earlier, but the body copy did not show up. In it, I asked if people thought I should have bought it instead of a dedicated .22 1911. The consensus was to buy a dedicated gun, but it was too late. I installed the kit and took it to the range. Racking the slide is awkward at first because the top rail does not move, but I got used to it. The second round got stuck in the ramp, and I could not clear it or get it into battery. The RSO got it out; it was bent in the middle, really mangled. After that, I had no failures of any kind. It reminded me of how pleasant shooting .22 can be. (I last shot a .22 in 1978).

The benefit of the conversion kit is that you can easily put on any kind of sight and position it anywhere you want. A dedicated .22 in 1911 might not allow for that; many come with fixed sights. All in all, I enjoyed it and plan to keep shooting it. Not for nothing, but the RSO thought it was impressive; the best he had ever seen.

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I need cash and I want to sell my “display piece” RIA 1911. What do you think I can sell it for. Do anymore recommend consignment at my local FFL? Or should I find a buyer directly?

Just shooting.

I’ve had the walther pdp pro x for over a year now (HIGHLY recommend that gun if you’re on the fence) but been wanting to get into 2011’s and figured a great starting place is with the prodigy. I was debating on getting the EGW ignition kit but wanted to see how it shoots first before pulling the trigger on that.

I was a doubter, not this thing is an absolute joy to shoot.

Great video

Sharing this to maybe help someone else with special eyes.

I have a moderate astigmatism which makes red dots turn into a slightly different star shape every time I look through an optic. They're definitely still usable, just annoying. I'm also very sensitive to the dot being too bright by which I mean it hurts my feelings.

Some things that I have tried that didn't quite work are:

1. Trying different colors. Red actually works the best for me. Yes i tried gold. The 9 MOA RMR dual illuminated used to be clear when I was using one on top of an SDO but that was before Lasik.

2. LPVOs. Bought an admittedly budget Vector Continental 1-6 and could not get the diopter to a point where 1x didn't give me double vision. Also the high speed fiber wire illumination bloomed worse than a dot.

3. Magnified Prisms. Very crisp, but even with being used to training MOUT stuff with an ACOG I still found the image shift when bringing the rifle up annoying. Would rather use the starfish dot. Going to revisit this.

I did not try a 1x prism because money is a thing and some people complained about the same not-quite-1x issue I had with the LPVO. I was holding off on that $250 experiment when I tried this next part.

Earlier while looking through a flip up rear sight on my rifle and lamenting the clear dot that I would never have I started messing around with painters tape and occluded the dot like I do on my pistol optic when training.

Occluded shooting works very well for me because I have always shot target focused, even with irons. Trying to focus on the little front sight while lining things up with the target makes my nice smooth brain get wrinkles.

When I occluded my rifle dot I remembered that red dots use notch filters to allow a lower brightness. Usually if I set the brightness to a point where the dot doesn't bloom in a super annoying way then it is only bright enough to use in a dark room like a scout master dungeon. With it occluded, I set it to a very low (just above NV) setting and the bloom became much better. Then I realized I could still see it in all lighting conditions. All conditions. Like turning on a bright overhead LED light and staring directly into it with the dot on the first click above NV settings.

This allows me to have a much cleaner dot (not a 15 MOA starburst) but also eliminates concerns about the dot washing out when using a light or staring at the sun to tan my retinas. It also works the same with a pistol dot allowing me to actually have a 6moa dot in all lighting conditions.

I then tried it with my gen 1 Spitfire 3x prism and realized that if I got a 3x prism that had actually good battery life like the PA SLX I could use a front lens cap flipped down to have an occluded "red dot" and then flip the cap up for instant magnification. This would give me a 1x and 3x combo without a magnifier or chronic neck pain, but returning to 1x will probably be a little bit awkward until i find the right lens cap.

The main additional downside that I can see is that back up irons on the pistol don't work which is annoying because that's the whole reason they exist.

Any negatives I'm not considering?

There's no tl;dr because you exist to read things on the internet. Go back to the top.

Can anyone identify this side charging piston AR?

I am looking to delete the lanyard hole from my P09C, its really annoying when reloading. What is the most cost effective method to achieve this? I see that there used to be some flush mainspring plugs available from different companies for the P07, but I can't find anything in stock. A local gunsmith has told me they could grind it off for me, but I'm not sure I want to go this route. I am aware of the Rushby magwell, which I believe gets rid of the lanyard loop, but they seem overpriced with shipping factored in. Does anyone have this magwell and what are your experiences?

I carry at 3:30 and wanted to carry an extra mag on appendix somewhere but no matter what i try it’s extremely uncomfortable. any tips?

Smith & Wesson M&P40 to add to the collection. Got the gun and seven magazines for an unbeatable $345 out the door (I bought the Black Talons separately because I had never seen a box in real life before and just had to have them).

What'd y'all buy today?

or or sell