News about me and my hobbies
Today, I´ve checked a new programm for my Nokia Symbian Mobile Phone. www.racechrono.com Cool little app to measure speed and acceleration of your car easily with your mobile. Here are some screenshots with my measures:
On Sunday, I´ve shot the AREA 7 match for rifle in pistol
caliber. Summary of the day: It was a lot of fun shooting this match
with a rifle and I´ve learned a lot about my Sabre Defence XR15 in
9mm…
But more about the history and the details: After shooting this match
last year with a HERA Glock Conversion Unit and seeing ARs shooting
this match, it was clear immediately, that I also “need” such a rifle!
Ok, following german gun law, I first had to get a permit from my
sports association, than get the legal permission for buying such a
rifle from the official department. That was not the problem. I´m
shooting regularly and fullfill all the legal needs for such a
permission. The bigger problem was to find a proper rifle. The
background – in Germany rifles like the ARs needs to have a approval by
the “Bundeskriminalamt” (comparable agency to the “FBI” etc.) to be
legal for sports shooting. The only 9mm AR having this approval is the
Sabre Defence XR15 16,75″. Unfortunately, they are now longer available
new here. So I had to look for a used one. Luckily, early this year, I
found one at least. Due to handgun matches and not enough spare time, I
could only manage to practice two or three times with this rifle. It was
very funny shooting this rifle although it had a lot of malfunctions
(feeding / ejection jams). I then got a hint, that I had to modify my
mags by bending the lips down and to build up the feeder a little bit to
get the rounds more horizontally. Done that (finished Friday before the
match…), I was able to fire 150rds without a single jam. Fine!
The first stages of the match also went fine. Gun worked and I was
able to shoot some nice stages. OK, made some small mistakes due to not
enough practice, but that doesn´t matter because could easily fixed by
practicing more…
But then came the sobering. Suddenly, the gun
jammed every single shot. On this stage, I had a single action gun.
After finishing this nightmare, I disassembled the whole thing and
finally, I found the prob. The extractor pin had moved in the bold and
released the extractor. No proper extraction possible. Cleaned it and
pushed the pin back into his right position (don´t know if it was broken
or really that short, that it has space enough to move?). After that –
everything was fine again and the gun went fine. OK. Result could have
been better, but as written on top: had fun, learned a lot!
Today, I´ve had a test with my Mini on a Dyno. I wanted to know exactly, what the engine’s output would be! Also, I wanted to see, if there’s a difference between a original air filter housing and a ITG “performance” air filter – this was the result:
56kW / 120Nm not bad for an old Mini!
Here’s also a small vid of the 4th gear run with the ITG
Yesterday evening, I´ve got a nice email from Robin Taylor of the Front Sight Magazine – Robin was taking pictures at the Steelchallenge in Winterswijk to write a article for the Front Sight Magazine . Thes pics were part of the result:
Great Pictures! Thanks a lot, Robin!
Just found out, why the cylinder of my 586 sometimes didn´t close as smooth as usual while shooting the Infinity Euro Open. 
The reason was a broken firing pin! Luckily, the breakage was at a point, where the rest of the pin was a little bit thicker than the firing pin hole so it stayed in position and ignition was possible!
But now the best: I´ve written a mail to Randy Lee of Apex Tactical (www.apextactical.com) immediately, telling the problem. I´ve just wanted to order some new pins. And guess what wrote Randy to me? New Pins will be on their way to me right on tuesday as a replacement!! This is what I call a perfect customer service!