TwoGun
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When I moved here to South Dakota ten years ago I started shooting with the local gun club in USPSA style matches. I started out shooting single stack 1911. Obviously it was nearly impossible to be competitive with guns holding nearly three times as many rounds. Eventually I purchased a used EAA Witness Silver Team in 9X21 and while I shot it reasonably well, I never could get used to the very long takeup on the trigger.
Later my daughter got that gun and she still shoots it. It was during the hi cap magazine ban so my choices were a bit limited, but I built up a new gun. I started with a Para P-16 standard model and put in a match grade bull barrel that was threaded for a large nine port comp. I put in a titanium coated trigger group and hammer, an oversized mag release, ambi safety, lightweight trigger and a C-More sight. The gun was so tight that I had the lightest recoil spring in it could find and was shooting 180 grain bullets at 1150 just to get the thing to shoot. After five or six hundred rounds it lossened up and I eased back on the load to about 950, much easier to shoot and control.
I'm still shooting this gun but considering building a .38 Super top end for it for less recoil and higher capacity. I have Dawson base pads on that up my mag capacity to 20 rounds and that certainly helps but guys with 170MM mags in .38 Super have a definate advantage. Any number of times we've had courses of fire with less than 25 rounds that those guys get to run through without a reload. I find that I simply cannot reload fast enough to stay with them.
So what do you shoot? Do you have semi custom pistols or did you take the build it yourself approach? What caliber and what accessories?
Later my daughter got that gun and she still shoots it. It was during the hi cap magazine ban so my choices were a bit limited, but I built up a new gun. I started with a Para P-16 standard model and put in a match grade bull barrel that was threaded for a large nine port comp. I put in a titanium coated trigger group and hammer, an oversized mag release, ambi safety, lightweight trigger and a C-More sight. The gun was so tight that I had the lightest recoil spring in it could find and was shooting 180 grain bullets at 1150 just to get the thing to shoot. After five or six hundred rounds it lossened up and I eased back on the load to about 950, much easier to shoot and control.
I'm still shooting this gun but considering building a .38 Super top end for it for less recoil and higher capacity. I have Dawson base pads on that up my mag capacity to 20 rounds and that certainly helps but guys with 170MM mags in .38 Super have a definate advantage. Any number of times we've had courses of fire with less than 25 rounds that those guys get to run through without a reload. I find that I simply cannot reload fast enough to stay with them.
So what do you shoot? Do you have semi custom pistols or did you take the build it yourself approach? What caliber and what accessories?