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. . . is there any hope for someone older to get to international competition level? Never too old. I recently won the title "Old-blind-shaky-guy-with-a-bad-attitude," at the international level. That sounds like an award I could compete for. I've got the Old-blind-shaky part down pat, bu...

Don Nygord shot on the US Olympic team in his 50's, and won a gold medal in the Pan Am Games at 55.

https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/44729

I'm slowly getting a bunch of shooting related 3D print files posted on Thingiverse. A while back, I printed up a bunch of ECI/dry-fire plugs for Benelli and Pardini .22 pistols used by college team I help coach. The students have a knack for breaking them, losing them, or dropping them over the fir...

I have my 3D printed MG2 slide cover bench block up on Thingiverse now: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:6662216 The Summary includes notes on how to use it. It's labeled so you drive the pins in the right direction, and it will accommodate pistols that have one of Jon Eulette's optics rails instal...

Interesting. Sounds like they cut the slot too deep. If you dry fire a lot, the back end of the notch is what prevents the firing pin from going too far forward. That shouldn't be an issue in a centerfire pistol, but it's important in the .22's to prevent damage to the breech face.

To echo what William said, the Morini came out in 1992, the Steyr LP10 in 2000, and the Pardini K12 in 2012. The Morini & the Steyr have a very well established track record at the highest levels, and the design changes have been pretty minimal over time. Shooters at that level took a while to g...

Working on the slide cover is a challenge. I've had to do it three times on my first MG2, which now has over 20,000 rounds through it. My second MG2 has only about 8,000 rounds through it. So far I haven't had to replace anything up top. I do have a 3D printed bench block design for working on the s...

Sounds like you had an early pistol. All the firing pins I've seen have the bevel.

Out of curiosity, where did it break? The weakest points would be the cut in the middle for the retaining pin, and the thin section at the front that strikes the rim.

Step 1: forget about scores for now. Most beginners will develop the ability to shoot a group (of sorts) fairly quickly, but patterns will begin to emerge, where you have a bunch of shots clustered in one area, but the group is elongated, or has shots outside of the main cluster. People don't tend t...

Have you checked the length of the firing pin? This is exactly the problem we had until I found out about the length problem with the newer pins. They should be very close to 31.1 mm from the tip to the front of the head, assuming you have an older pistol. The other thing to check is that the broken...

In my experience, both buffer designs tend to deteriorate in a way where chunks break off before the tube ever gets that far back. I've been using the LGI buffers for a long time without any particular issues. I've only recently obtained some new factory ones, and I'm curious to see how they hold up...

I've had to replace quite a few parts over the years, either because they wore prematurely, or broke. They've made a lot of design changes in the MG2 to address those issues, but only time will tell how successful they were. I have had to replace the following parts due to wear or breakage: Bullet i...

I like the OEM ones because they are WAY easier to install, but they are very expensive (if you can get them). I've never noticed any difference in how the pistols shot between the two buffer types. I just sold my old car, and the keys came with the rubber fob material that is supposed to work well ...

I've been promising this one for a while. I originally created it as a 3 video playlist, only I wanted to park it under my overall MG2 playlist. Apparently you can't nest playlists in YouTube without 3rd party software (at least I couldn't find a way to do it). As result, the 3 videos on maintaining...

The bullet height fixture is a lot more complicated. You need to machine a metal bar that fits into the magazine catch slot, or you won't have a consistent reference point for the height measurements. That fixture does have the button accessible for the reason you stated. I would tip the magazine wi...

It never occurred to me that anyone would need to access the follower button when the magazine is in the fixture. I don't think you can get the follower button down far enough to remove it while the magazine is in the fixture, and if you could, it would likely damage the follower when it shot up to ...

My understanding is that they are undergoing some high level ownership reorganization. It is likely that support staffing may be sporadic until the dust settles.

If you want to try different recoil springs (and they are available), it helps if you can figure out what you've got. You need the length (which is easy), the outside diameter (easy), the number of turns and the wire diameter. The number of turns can be a little tricky. I made up a template to make ...

It sounds like you may be able to fix it with the right ammo. If you can find some... The MG2 manual also only list the recoil springs with the one part number (2014). There is no indication in the manual I have that there are different strengths avaiIable. I would contact the factory and ask them w...

Now that I've had my morning caffeine and thinking some more about it, I'm not convinced it's a trigger adjustment issue. The only time I've had doubling in my MG2's is when I've had light recoiling ammo, or my recoil springs were too stiff. If the slide doesn't come back far enough to cock the hamm...