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http://www.mathis.com/photoads/photos/1760 For sale: Beautiful, quality black-powder reproduction, virtually like-new in box, made in Italy by Pietta. Contact at e-mail below for very recent (today) photo. This is a steel-framed shooter; the only brass on it is the trigger guard, so it will shoot f...

I have a Ruger P89T Special Edition 9mm that has had fewer than 500 rounds through it and is complete with the black-plastic factory case, manual, etc. The condition of the finish is 99+% (arc lightly scribed by safety). I am thinking of selling this; my wife needs a carry gun and this one is both t...

Please don't take my post as a criticism of my club's range. It is not. I have shot at a number of indoor ranges, including 50-yard, state-of-the-art ranges that accept high-caliber rifles and have filtration systems that cycle the room volume so rapidly there's almost a breeze. And I come away with...

Indoor season has started here in Michigan (although I will continue to shoot outdoors in my pasture until it's too cold for the bolt/slide to cycle -- for a bullseye shooter, there is just no substitute for 50-yard shooting outside, in the wind). A number of the folks I shoot with indoors are weari...

I'll be counting the minutes. Here's how it was grouping in timed fire before it left (but this is from the 25-yard line -- 50 would be a much different story): http://www.tommorrisey.com/mediac/400_0/media/MorriseyMilSpec.jpg This was two three-shot strings with the conventional one-handed bullseye...

Thanks for the advice, all. I have purchased a Springfield Armory Mil-Spec 1911-A1 45 ACP. AFter putting four range-visits worth of rounds through it (per my smith's advice), I am shipping it off this week for conversion to a 50-yard wad gun. I'll post pix in a few months when the pistol comes back ...

The sights were not a consideration in my case, as my smith will mill the slide out for a Bo-Mar dovetail, anyhow. I am literally taking this pistol from the gun store to UPS and shipping it off to be smithed. I am not the world's greatest bullseye shooter, and probably not in the top 10,000 of the ...

Answering at least part of my own question here: The GI-45 has a "military" (i.e., stock M1911-A1) ejection port, while the MilSpec's is lowered. A lowered port is necessary for reliable ejection with a scope. Having the GI's port lowered and then having the gun refinished to cover the milled work w...

Can you describe for me what the difference is between Springfield Armory's Parkerized GI-45 1911-A1 (SA Model #PW9108L) and their Parkerized Mil-Spec 1911-A1 (SA Model #PB9108L)? Are the two guns absolutely identical internally? No differences whatsoever? I am purchasing a pistol for conversion to ...

Now all I have to do is keep a straight face as I tell my wife, "Yes, Honey. I took all those old grocery bags to the recycling center."

Tom

Stork -- many thanks for the reply, and I appreciate the candor. I have many friends who bought "target" .22s that are so light/loose that they can't group on a coffee-can lid at 50 yards. I'm glad I bought a Ruger that can shoot tight enough to put 'em all in the X from the bench (even before the t...

If you want to buy over the counter I would look at either Les Baer or Rock River

How about Colt Gold Cup Trophy? Colt claims it is a "take-it-to-the-firing-line" gun. Is that the truth, or hyperbole?

Tom

Let me know if I am straying too far off-topic, and I will start a new thread, but... How much should I spend for a competitive hardball .45? I want a gun that I can use for the centerfire and .45 parts of the Bullseye matches, as well as straight hardball matches. I never plan on carrying this gun;...