Off the wall handguns...

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benewton

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... After a few years of use, and four mags, two loaded and carried, and two "resting" and used for practice, rotated once monthly or so, my H&K USPC now runs with one up the spout and 11 x 2.

Time for new mag springs, I'm sure, not to mention the main recoil spring, but it runs just fine, given a cleaning every three or four hundred rounds or so.

Don't be critical: I can, and do, blast off whenever on the back yard range!

... The winter weapon is an old CDS, loaded with 110 JHPs while carried, but practiced with, using 168 cast SWC's twice a week or so during the snow season. These slugs normally ride above 3.5 of Bullseye.

I've gotta plow the driveway, and the "lumps" all end up in a pile about 17 ***** away: just about right for can shooting, I think.

Anyway, at the end of the year, I get to pick up a large mumber of slugs, for remelt and recast, just under the old drifts. Now, old and refrozen snow is one thing, but soft snow killing 168's?

... I'm going to have to move to an insulin pump for a large number of reasons (users, please feel free to comment: I need something other than the organizational comments). That seems to imply a belly band type of deal, since the pump's gotta stay on all the time.

And, if I gotta have a belly band on, I can't think of a better way to CCW!

Please comment, if you've experience.
 
About changing magazine springs: A couple of years back, my father gave me a bunch of his old WW II souvenirs. He always kept the magazines loaded in all of his guns--rifle, pistol, shotgun.

The pistols had been loaded and not fired since the late 1940s. I cleaned everything, and tried them all for function. No failures of any sort. This includes 1920s varieties of Lilliput, Mauser and Walther, as well as a Radom and a 1911 and a Woodsman and others.

Separately: When I got into IPSC shooting in 1981, I was told of a way to modify a Colt mag to hold eight rounds. Part of the deal is to cut a "Z" out of the spring. This softens the spring considerably. However, I have yet to have a failure to feed after several hundred loading/shooting cycles.


FWIW, Art
 
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