Peter M. Eick
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I got the Baer's out and went blasting this weekend. I had the 38 Supers out today and the 10 and 45 yesterday. It was a lot of fun to spend some quality time with my Baer 1911's.
I find it interesting to compare the push of the 45 to the rap of the 10mm while the 38 Supers just pop and snap at you. All but one of my guns (the 45) are Baer 1.5" guns, but alas, not shooting for 4 months has set back my skills immensely. I started the day to day with these guys.
Colt Super Stallion then 2 Baer's (PII in the middle and Heavyweight Monolith).
The Colt is giving me grief still. The pivot pin for the rear sight broke yesterday so I brought it out to try the fix (1/16" drill rod and locktite). It made it 100 rounds until it started walking. I guess I need to go buy some more bigger drills as it was a loose fit.
I then switched over the two Baer's. I was really shotgunning at 15 yrds but at least they were mostly in the scoring rings early on. I then buckled down and just worked on front sight then press and front sight then press. I found that by the end of the day I was getting 50 rounds mostly in the black and my last two targets were my best.
These are my two Heavyweight Monoliths both are 1.5" guns
These are my two PII's the 38 Super is a 1.5" gun while the 45 is a 3" gun.
I wanted to comment about the Heavyweight Monolith vs. the PII's. The monoliths are definitely different to shoot. The same loads in them vs. the classic 1911 PII you can really feel the difference in the rise of the gun during the firing cycle. This is really noticeable in the 38 Super as I was shooting it and the 38 Super Monolith back to back. The extra metal in the slide (note no ball cuts in the front) slows down the slide enough you can feel it cycling differently.
I should also comment that I had only one hiccup due to an incompletely seated primer (I guess) that the Super Stallion did would not fire. The PII fired the same round easily.
Final tally. 1983 rounds fired in 2 days. Lots of fun, but the Baer checkering is starting to wear on my hand so I am going to take a break for a bit.