Archive for the ‘Range Reports’ Category
Saturday, December 3rd, 2011
50,150 rounds
8 stoppages
(+1 w/non-LCI extractor)
0 malfunctions
1 parts breakages
After eight and a half months, fifty thousand rounds is history. The fourth shot in this video is #50,000:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPpFi98H_lk[/youtube]
(as you can see, I took the recent pistol-forum.com discussion about high video production values to heart)
It took 418 hours over the course of ...
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Friday, November 18th, 2011
48,457 rounds
8 stoppages
(+1 w/non-LCI extractor)
0 malfunctions
1 parts breakages
It was a busy week. First, Jack Leuba of F2S Consulting & I taught the Free Veterans Day Shooting Clinic, sponsored by SKD Tactical and Ready Tactical. That was followed by two full days of practice with friends at the range. It was ...
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Thursday, November 10th, 2011
46,474 rounds
8 stoppages
(+1 w/non-LCI extractor)
0 malfunctions
1 parts breakages
OK, everyone wants to hear about the sights.
Dave Spaulding (2010 Law Officer Trainer of the Year) is the mastermind behind the new Combative Applications Pistol (CAP) sight from Ameriglo. It combines a high-visibility day/night front sight with a rear that has a ...
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Saturday, November 5th, 2011
45,484 rounds
8 stoppages
(+1 w/non-LCI extractor)
0 malfunctions
1 parts breakages
While the test gun saw only two short range sessions this week, they further solidified my man-crush for the Lone Wolf 3.5 connector. Between live and dry fire over the course of a week, it's smoothed into a very nice rolling trigger. ...
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Friday, October 28th, 2011
44,461 rounds
8 stoppages
(+1 w/non-LCI extractor)
0 malfunctions
1 parts breakages
As mentioned in the comments of last week's update, I decided to give in and install a Lone Wolf 3.5# connector in the test gun this week. Photo at left is courtesy of Dillon Precision.
I'd hit a serious plateau and was struggling ...
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Saturday, October 22nd, 2011
43,693 rounds
8 stoppages
(+1 w/non-LCI extractor)
0 malfunctions
1 parts breakages
Quite a few rounds went downrange over the past week with four separate trips to the range.
Before the last range session, I swapped out my Trijicon HD sights for a set of Warren/Sevigny 2-dot. I repainted the white ring around the front ...
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Saturday, October 15th, 2011
40,936 rounds
8 stoppages
(+1 w/non-LCI extractor)
0 malfunctions
1 parts breakages
Proving once again that cleaning guns is bad, Friday night I stripped my G17 and discovered that the extractor was chipped. While the pistol continued to function normally, a chipped extractor is an official Bad Thing and it was replaced. As you ...
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Thursday, October 6th, 2011
39,572 rounds
8 stoppages
(+1 w/non-LCI extractor)
0 malfunctions
0 parts breakages
Update on the magazine problem: During my first range session after discovering the initial problem with three new magazines, one of my previously dependable magazines (the one I'd been carrying on my belt as a spare since the beginning of the test, ...
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Saturday, October 1st, 2011
38,676 rounds
8 stoppages
(+1 w/non-LCI extractor)
0 malfunctions
0 parts breakages
The reason you don't see serious high round count tests in gun magazines is because over the course of many months and tens of thousands of rounds, stuff happens that can be hard to quantify.
This week, I received five new magazines to ...
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Thursday, September 22nd, 2011
36,525 rounds
8 stoppages
(+1 w/non-LCI extractor)
0 malfunctions
0 parts breakages
Perhaps the most interesting thing this week for pistol-training.com readers is that I blew away my personal F.A.S.T. record with this run Wednesday:
4.02 (clean): 1.36, .38 / 1.71 / .21, .17, .19
It was my third try at the end of the day, ...
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