3 posts tagged “springfield”

The CCW class was great.  Our instructor (Jeff Tueller) was awesome.  Me and my brother knew Jeff from when he used to work at the gun shop we go to.  He left Dougs Sootn' Sports to do instrucing.  So, when I was able to get a permit, I e-mailed him and asked if he was able to schedule a class.

The class was very informative.  As it turns out there are a lot of little known laws regarding permits and lethal force.  If anyone in the Salt Lake City, UT general area is ever looking to get their permit... I highly recommend Jeff Tueller.  His site is down and under redesign presently, but I will post a link when it comes back.

Now I just need to get my paperwork done, get my permit, and figure out what to carry.  I hesitate to carry my Springfield, since it is not properly broken in and prone to jamming.  On the other hand, my USP is likely too big to conceal.  I'm not really sure what to do, but i'll figure it out.

In ending...

Happy Halloween Everybody

CCW:

For the people involved in the CCW class.  It's fairly well ironed out at this point.  It will be on the 28th, starting at 10am.  It is $65 per person, except for people who already have a permit, where it is instead $30.  Whether or not to do the range time that day is about the only thing still left unanswered.  Cash or check is fine...

T-Shell:

Practically no one knows about T-Shell (except PoE 2), but it is a program I have been working on for awhile.  Yesterday, after deciding to do some updating to it, I decided it was a mess.  So I have decided to re-write the whole thing from scratch.  In the process I am also making a huge amount of updates to it, so I am going to jump straight from version 1.5 (current one), to version 2.0.  I expect this to take at least a few weeks.

Monocle:

Monocle is the tentative name given to my newest project.  It is an information gathering tool, writen in C++.  It is very early on, and will take a long time before I have anything I feel comfortable releasing.

Oh, one more thing, I received a call today that my Springfield 1911 is back in at Dougs.  Apparently it was indeed a bad extractor (which they replaced).  The invoice also says they did some work on the chamber, although i'm not real clear on what happened there.  Hopefully it is all better.

I went shooting with my brother and his wife and my friend this past weekend.  I own two handguns, a Heckler and Koch USP Expert (in .45 ACP) and a Springfield Black Stainless 1911-A1 Micro Compact (also in .45 ACP).  I decided not to bring the HK since it is in need of cleaning.  In all fairness, so was the Springfield, but it was quite a bit cleaner.

Once we got down on the range, I loaded it up.  I haven't been shooting in a really long time.  On the first shot, it jammed.  The spent case only made it halfway out of the barrel on the ejection cycle.  Well, jams happen, so I dropped the magazine, and cleared the case.  I put back the mag, re-chambered the gun, took another shot, and the exact same thing happened.

I tried twice more after that with the same results everytime. 

I haven't owned that gun very long, and I take good care of it.  My brother took it up to one of the guys to see if they knew what was going on.  The consensus seems to be a faulty extractor.  It makes sence, I just can't figure out how that would happen so soon.  Luckily, Springfield Armory has a lifetime warranty on every gun they make.  So, my gun is presently on it's way to Illinois.

There is a pretty interesting aspect of this though.  You see, I am not far off from getting my concealed carry permit, and this would have been the gun I carried.  In the event that it had to be used this would have been very bad to say the least.  This kinda stuff seems to happen to my family though.  There have been several instances where someone was planning on driving out somewhere far away, only to have a serious car problem manifest itself a couple days ahead.  On one hand, your mad that something is broken, but on the other, your really happy it occured under safe circumstances.  Makes you think doesn't it.

Well, hopefully I get it back soon, and in nice working order.  I really like all my guns.  This particular one isn't even made anymore.  They only made it for a few months.