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I got a call from a good friend earlier this week. He told me he recently bought a SDS/Tisas, the 1911 Carry B45. He has owned and shot many 1911s. He told me he put 4 out of 6 shots onto an IDPA target at 100 yards, then put 3 to the body and 2 to the head at 50 yards. I asked him about...

I also took some in-person gunsmith classes at a community college in NC and a State college in OK and they were fantastic. Wish I could take a full program but that's not in the cards. The courses gave me a basic understanding, basic skills and confidence to do a lot of stuff that I would never...

We picked up 500 rds of Fiocchi 9mm 115g the other day from some online retailer - can't remember who - for about .$0.45/rd, I think. Just because Pistol Annie gets nervous even though we still have quite a bit. But the thing is that when it arrived it looked like something dug out of someone's...

I see Bender linked to a source. I really don't remember where I got it but probably Amazon. At one point one of the mfgs - maybe Springfield - was shipping little packets of Amsoil with their new guns so I bought a bottle of each. It seems fine to me. I don't shoot in subzero temps and it...

In answer to @Badabing11's question: I've used both the red and green Amzoil gun oils, Gunfighter, and some synthetic 0w10 motor oil on mine. Probably something else. Primarily Ballistol or mineral oil for cleaning, except inside the barrel. Sometimes Simple Green. I'm not a super "heavy"...

I saw the announcement at the other place the other day, and have had a brief look at the new format. I don't see any advantages to it, but it's not terrible. All these commercial sites have to stay trendy - which I suppose is part of the problem. I don't know if it's bad enough to get many...

I had two - 3" and 4" Carry Contour. Both were miserable out of the box. Barely functioned at all. Both went back to Springfield for major work, including re-cut feed ramps, replace firing pins, pin ejectors, etc. One had the slide replaced. Obviously, this sort of crap shouldn't happen...

My favorite EDC pistol. A DW V-Bob I bought used several years ago, and which has been gradually personalized for me by several very good pistolsmiths since then.

Welcome from Texas. Whereabouts in OK? Are you familiar with the excellent gunsmithing classes at Murray State College? Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

I can also suggest short-term courses at one of several NRA gunsmith schools. I have personally attended classes on various aspects of 1911s (and other things) at Murray State College in Tishomingo, OK and Montgomery Community College in Troy, NC. There is also Lassen College in northern CA and...

Respectfully, there’s no such thing as “always the best plan.” Half of all lawyers graduated in the bottom 50% of their class. Far, far fewer than half have ever defended a legitimately innocent person in a genuine lethal force self-defense case. Only a handful have ever done it more than once...

I’ve never been in a gun fight or dealt with the aftermath. The following is just collected from books and classes I’ve taken. Based on the various reading/studying I’ve done, I believe the relevant decision point is (as @boatdoc points out) whether you are capable at the time of saying a very...

Last year I purchased Andrew Branca’s $39.95 course on self-defense legal assistance plans. It was very informative and I learned a lot. There’s more to it than I will belabor here, but the $$ caps, exclusions/prohibitions, source of the money (whether it’s an insurance plan or not), lawyer...

I pay USCCA for their magazine because I think it’s that good, and I buy some of their training materials, but I am not a member of their plan. I use a different plan. Pistol Annie, OTOH, is a platinum member of USCCA. It’s a good program. IMO you need to get one of the higher-level plans if...

Rick talked a lot about how to run a successful gunsmith business over the two weeks. He seems to like it and was very enthusiastic. He also seems to know how to make money at it. I hope I have the chance to take classes from him again. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk