Boggus Deal

Listen to Happy Jack.

It’s not legal but that’s a heck of a price on one if it’s in good shape.

If the sights have white dots, you can paint them. I know several people who shoot 1991A1s.

It’s two main purposes is to keep tension in the mag tube to keep it from rattling and to keep it turned tightly into the receiver extension.

I recommend 16# recoil and mainsprings. Their is more to recoil spring weight that determines how far they come out of the gun. Extractor shape and tension. Ejector shape and length. Besides, as long as they clear the gun, does it matter if it’s an inch or twenty yards?

Just remember, Marshall Flint, while so far the information posted here has been correct, for the most part they’re just opinions. The rule book is the final answer.

 

Your pistol is is legal in Modern with that grip safety but with a switch to a Traditional style grip safety and blackening the sights, it should be legal in Traditional as well. Your Rossi in .45 Colt should be legal as long as the rest of the rifle requirements are met. The shooter’s handbook gives all the rules in one place and is quite clear.

Bang and Clang!

Yikes! Glad no one was hurt. Like to have that for demo purposes!

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How is the ammo illegally acquired?  Carried properly in a magazine.    It's not illegal to load eight rounds in a magazine now.

 

As Boggus Deal also stated, the shooter only earns a penalty if they shoot more than 7 rounds from a magazine. 

 

Shooter would only have shot 7 rounds that were in the magazine.

There must be something else we need to know about why anyone would ever want to load 8 rounds in a magazine.

 

Good luck, GJ

 

Very simple, Garrison Joe. The Wild Bunch Rules Committee has said so. If a stage calls for 4 shotgun rounds, you load 6, jack a live one out and shoot the next round loaded, it’s illegally acquired ammo.

 

People would only ever want to load eight in a magazine because others keep perniciously,  ignorantly or arrogantly telling them it’s perfectly fine to do so.

Now, GJ, the question has been asked and answered.

8 in one of my kimber mags, fire the first 3, 4th round FTF, so i clear it and fire the remaining 4 rounds

 

Perfectly fine!

 

The only difficulty with that is to predict is when you are going to have a FTF.  ;D    Let's say you have a failure one time every 10 mags.  Nine times you will have to clear a live round from chamber somehow, maybe costing you 2 seconds.  One time it saves you a second because you don't have to load a "Barney" magazine with one round.  Now you have cost yourself 17 seconds by loading every mag with 8.

 

Your time is MUCH better spent making your gun and ammo perform perfectly with no failures.  The value of that is PRICELESS!

 

Good luck, GJ

 

That would be perfectly fine to earn you a miss and a “P”. That eighth round would be illegally acquired ammo.

 

We are continually struggling to make the handbooks easier to understand and more precise!

Like with the rifle and shotgun, there is no penalty for overloading magazines. The penalties come with the use of the extra ammo or by leaving the ammo in the gun.

Only one, really. Wild Bodie Tom’s is available from his wife, Vaya Con Dios.

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The 1911 worked well on Friday with two 28 round pistol stages and one 42 round pistol stage.  No failure to eject with my new 15 pound Wolff recoil spring and a cleaned-out extractor channel. 

 

And my Model 12 worked well on all three stages!

 

I'm making progress.

 

 

Good to hear!

Okay, so a nearby pawn shop has a Model 12, s/n makes it 1959, 2 3/4", Mod choke.  From what I'm reading this might be one to get.  It has the more modern forend wood, which I don't care for.  Will a '97 forend fit?  Priced at $399 but I know it has been there over a month so maybe they will come down some.

 

I’m pretty certain that ‘97 wood won’t fit but there is plenty of wood available. I keep quite a selection handy.

Nickel is fine. So is stainless. Pretty much any finish is legal as long as it doesn’t offer grip enhancement.

Screws are legal to attach the pads. However, the 1/4” total still applies.

What weight recoil spring is recommended for a Colt 1911 .45 ACP pistol shooting a 200 gr bullet going 830-845 fps (PF 166-169)?

 

That may be the issue as I have the original recoil spring in it that is probably designed for full power 230 gr loads.  I have no idea what weight it is.

 

Traditionally, 16# is the factory spring for a .45 Auto and unless you have a MUCH heavier than that in it, you should not have the issue you're having because of the spring. I run 15-16# with my light loads and never have the issue.

As Tully mentioned check your extractor tunnel. I see a lot of issues from that being dirty.

Now is the Model 12 running?

At a cursory glance, it looks legal in Modern.

Look right at the top of this forum. Happy Jack posted about it on the top of the rules forum.

Can anyone tell me why these three guide rods are illegal?

 

does the one in the middle and the one on the right go all the way through the plug? im not seeing how they work...

The short one doesn’t extend through the spring plug. It’s spring loaded which makes it illegal. The middle one is full length and difficult to detect without disassembling the gun.

We have a winner! I did not realize just how heavy these were until I found one in a gun...

Tungsten weighs about twice as much as same size in steel.

PITA to machine too.

 

I bet!

We have a winner! I did not realize just how heavy these were until I found one in a gun...