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I have a belt from Dragon Leatherworks http://www.dlwtn.com . Dennis does very good work. I have a belt and a couple of holsters. I have been wearing the belt almost daily for just over two years and expect to get many more years out of it.

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I'm looking into finally getting a good gunbelt. Any recommendations? Only requirements are that it be 1.5 inches wide, black, and for it not to look like I just pulled it off the shelf at a local store (IE, doesn't scream 'tactical'.)
So we won't find you in the "Tacti-cool" section at 5.11 is what your saying? lololol

Who and what if you're using any type of metal targets out there? What are you using? resetting type, a metal plate hanging, your old Lodge pans?

I've found a spot I seem to believe offers a premium spot to go shoot at in the desert as far as handguns would be concerned for some plinking and i'm thinking of buying an/some inexpensive target(s) and setting them up on the opposite side of the gully for the shear factor of hitting some real targets.

I dont care if other people even find them and use them so much so long as they STAY there or maybe someone catches on and maybe they add one. I cant say the area has never seen other shooters but the spot was pretty clean. WHAT I DONT want to create is a place for everyone to come and just leave all their shot up trash at and or even their brass/shells. I laid out a cloth tarp and caught every single casing on it. Picked it up with all the brass on it and left the area as I found it... Packed in/Packed out.

But I am hoping that at some point, some additional and responsible others would see some efforts being applied to make a safer but a decent target setup and not just ruin it. Of course I know that may be some weird fantasy but.. hey. If I stick a $20-30 Birchwood Casey metal target out there and it stays there for a few months without loss, I'd get another one or two out there too for some diversity in distances.

Something like these: BW Casey Double Mag .44 Action Spinner

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No, you likely won't find me there, lol. "Tactical" (Or tacti-cool, if you prefer) has become a bit of a joke in my eyes. Everything now has the word 'tactical' slapped on it. Flashlights/weapon lights, magazines, furniture/grips, laser sights, optics and iron sights, etc.

When I'm in public I like to fly way low under the radar. One could argue that my camouflage heavy shirts / jackets would be a bit of a giveaway, but considering how prevalent camouflage is, I disagree. In the women's section you can buy T-Shirts with a very similar pattern to what my surplus shirt / jacket has. If walmart sells it, it must be prevalent.

It's also convienent if I happen to dress up and go somewhere where firearms are allowed but not necessarily appropriate to have hanging out in the open, kind of how there's nobody stopping you from wearing slippers and a sports jersey to outback steak house, but you really shouldn't, if any of that makes sense.

I'll definitely give those belts a look. Mine has just about had it.

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Another thing to consider is printing. I carry a full size Glock. I also wear Hawaiian shirts and the patterns will help hide a gun from printing.

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I typically don't have a problem with that. I wear black 90% of the time and when I'm not wearing that, I'm wearing either plaid or camouflage. Maybe I'm just lucky, lol.

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My new shotgun's capacity finally bugged me to the point of doing something about it. I kept reading that the model 12 held 7 shells, six in the tube and one in the chamber. However, I couldn't get more than five in the tube. While not a big deal, it bothered me because that wasn't correct. I suppose now it should have been obvious what the problem was.

That dent was impeding the follower from moving back far enough, thus eliminating the sixth round from it's capacity.

I took it apart (took photos, too) and luckily we had a broom handle that was just the right size. Unfortunately the wood was not hard enough (stop laughing) to push the dent out. We dug around and found an 11/16 socket whose overall diameter was a perfect push fit into the tube. Driving that through took a lot of it out, but still not enough to allow the follower to move freely.

Lucky for me, my dad used to be involved in bodywork before I came around. We shoved the socket behind the dent and with a few wraps of black tape and some creative tapping, we got it 95% fixed. It'll never be 100%, but that's okay. It isn't grade A and never will be. Also, take a look at the tightening adjustment. If I'm looking at it right, I scored big time.

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Nicely done, and yes, gotta be done, just because it should, and because gunsmithing is fun :)

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Thank you, I find it quite therapeutic myself. I get a lot of satisfaction out of fixing something myself or changing a feature, like from safety/decocker to decock only on my 92A1.

Speaking of them, I've been gaining quite the appreciation for the Inox beretta 92s. I wish there was a 92a1 or M9a1 in the inox version, but it seems like my only choices are the Brigadier or 92FS. I think I like the former more, if only for it's replaceable front sight.

Of course one can't mention the 92 without thinking of John Woo. That inevitably brings up the image of 92s akimbo / dual wield. I've always wondered if the whole 'dual wield' idea was strictly Hollywood fantasy or if it's actually doable in real life. Dangerous as all hell I'm sure, too.

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I've dual wielded the 92's in real life several times just for giggles and it's very doable. Fun? Absolutely. Accurate? Not so much...

Still, at average home defense ranges, all rounds can be placed on a torso-sized target quite easily.

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That's something I have to try at least once. I'd really like to have a matching pair of something. I can hardly justify one Desert Eagle, let alone two. Maybe I'll grab a pair of stainless Remington 1911s to modify. Aluminum hogue grips, new stainless humped mainspring housing, maybe some black colorfill. Maybe toss in a few .45 1911 happy sticks, if I can ever find any. Can't seem to find more than 10 round capacity for them. Bummer.

I did find a 15 round magazine, but it's from Promag. Please Remember Our Magazines Are Garbage.

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I was looking at the Auto Ordnance website and found a beautiful custom 1911, in my opinion. If you like case hardening, you'll love this. I'd love to have one of these. There's several 1911s I'd like to have actually. Aesthetically speaking, they're my favorite handgun.

https://www.auto-ordnance.com/case-hardened-1911/

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Dual wielding? Yeah, it's fun, totally pointless, but fun, worth thinking about and doing at least once.

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At some point I'll have a pair of something. Probably a set of stainless R1s. I still love my R1 1911, especially now after I've replaced the trigger and the grips. At the time I wasn't aware these shipped out with ultra thin grip panels. My hand fits it much better with the normal 1/4" thick grips and arched mainspring housing.

Here's something I'll pitch out there. Does anyone have any opinions on 10mm and .38 super, specifically in 1911 platforms? I'd really like to have a longslide stainless 10mm 1911 and a normal GI style .38 super 1911, but I don't know much about how the cartridges perform today. I know the 10mm used to be a hot round, but I don't know if the FBI's toying with it leeched out onto the market and turned most of the 10mms out there into oversized .40 S&Ws.

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10mm is a solid cartridge, .38 super is an oddball cartridge.

Why are you asking? some people can only answer re self defence.

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I'm not looking to use either of these cartridges or guns for self defense. I just want to add some cartridge variety to my collection at some point and these peaked my interest.

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Piqued* ;)

Anyway, personally, i wouldn't bother with .38 super, that's just me, getting some variety into it is good, but i would start with stuff that is used by guns you're interested in getting.

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Learned something new today about the English language. Figures they would use a word far less common in that saying that sounds exactly like another one.

One thing I don't like at all about the .38 is how few companies seem to be making .38 super ammo, compared to 10mm and other popular-but-less-mainstream calibers. Seems to be more of a reloader's caliber than a buy-n-shoot guy like me.

Looks like if I want an off-the-shelf 1911 longslide stainless in 10mm I have only one option. The Kimber Target 10mm. The others are all black or the wrong length.

Jeez, I've got 5 different 1911s on my list to get. I think for my 21st I'll reward myself with a nice blued Colt 1911.

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Don't get too hung up on all the same model, and you're probably right on the reloaders calibre stuff.

Lots of things in 10mm, doesn't have to be the same platform, variety is the spice of life etc.

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Does anyone have any opinions on 10mm and .38 super, specifically in 1911 platforms?
Take a look at the ballistics on both. The .38 Super is about 10% more than a +P 9mm and the 10mm has numbers that are similar to a 41 magnum but it is on a semi-auto platform. I don't care for the 10mm in a 1911 platform but the 38Super is tolerable. They have a lot of kick so they have quite a bit of grip bite when they are fired.

My first experience with 10mm was a Delta Elite Colt 1911 that my dad had back in the late 80's. It was a painful gun to shoot. The grip bite was bad enough that one shot was enough. I shoot another 10mm in the 1911 platform a few year latter and decided 10mm was not a caliber that I was interested in. Fast forward to the late 90's I was at the range with a buddy and he handed me a large framed glock. It was a 10mm and it had heavy recoil but did not have the grip bite. I ended up buying one and shot about 1k rounds through it until I traded it for something else.

The .38 super is a reloaders dream caliber. Cheap 9mm projectiles with just a little more powder getting impressive velocities. It can be loaded down to mouse fart loads up to 115gr bullets that are spit out at 1600fps. It is about half way between 9mm +p and 357mag. I have been thinking about getting one of these again.

For either of these calibers I would want at least a 5" barrel but would prefer something in the 7" range.

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A lot of the same thing can be boring, yeah, but out of the 10mms I can find, the 1911 is the only thing I'm really interested in out of those offerings.

Found a ruger revolver for both 10mm and 40 S&W, which seems odd to me, having a revolver that can only shoot auto calibers, but whatever. Then there's Glock pistols of a few different sizes, which do exactly nothing for me.

Then there's the Sig P220 Elite. I wanted one of these until I got a chance to actually hold one. The grip felt fine, but the whole thing felt.... cheap. The thing costs twice what my 92A1 did and felt like it only took 1/4 of that to produce. Seriously unimpressive.

There's a few off-brand pistols out there, and then there's the 1911. No contest for me, lol.

I've never gotten any hammer bite from my 1911, actually. Maybe I'm lucky.

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I don't think Tsquare is referring to hammer bite, but grip bite, shape/angle etc with the type of impulse recoil that calibre exhibits.

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Ah, I see. Well, that's nothing a pair of gloves can't remedy.

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Have you ever fired a compact framed magnum? I think that's what he's talking about.

It's unpleasant.

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No, I haven't. I generally don't get into compact guns or smaller in powerful calibers because I know right off the bat that it's going to not be a fun time to shoot it. A snubnose .44 magnum with a short grip comes to mind. Not to mention I tend to dislike small guns in general, particurally those that I can't get my entire hand around. My charter arms .38 undercover is an exception to that, however.

I must admit I find it a little odd how a Glock was more pleasurable to shoot than a 1911 in the same caliber. I would think that with the lighter frame you'd have more muzzle flip and more recoil, vs the steel frame a 1911 has. Although a 1911 has more edges and corners on it's frame than a Glock does. If I find myself holding the same opinion later I can always trade it for something else.

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I don't think Tsquare is referring to hammer bite, but grip bite, shape/angle etc with the type of impulse recoil that calibre exhibits.
You got it right.

An no, gloves do not help. The 10mm is a very hard hitting caliber and you will need hands of steel to shoot a 1911 in 10mm on a regular basis.

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