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Last month I finished my latest gun…finally, this one is for me. Been a long time since I did anything for me…felt good, hehe. It is built off of a Caspian ‘factory 2nd’ frame and Caspian slide. The rest of the guts are as follows: KKM Precision Barrel, NM Bushing, Clark full length guide rod, Cylinder & Slide fire-control (re-cut to 3.5 lb “long roll” trigger), Videki-type trigger, STI grip safety (really cool, it’s design allows removal without disengaging the MS housing) and just a mil-spec mainspring housing. Everything was fit, of course, and all the checkering was done by hand in 20 LPI as in the MS housing and the ‘pad’ of the grip safety as well as the front strap. The only glitch I have right now, that I need to tweak, is the spent brass whacking into the optic – nothing a little cut of the ejector won’t fix (yes, the tension on the extractor is perfect ). Unfortunately – it’s been raining cats and dogs here in SATX, so the range has been a bit less than desirable, hehe. Apart from fitting, I used reduced power Wolfe springs throughout – and also snipped an additional 3 coils from the recoil spring as well as the magazines (which are Chip McCormick, by the way). The gun eats 185gr SWC lead (both Zero’s and Minnesota), with 3.7 Vihtavuori and Federal cases and primers. Additionally, I serrated the rear of the slide – a theory says that it cuts down on glare, but I just think it looks cool, ha! I finished it off with a 320 grit polishing of the frame and slide flats and a light blasting of the radius-es for that nice ‘matte-gloss’, old skool national match type finish…with a nice deep blue, of course. Topped it with a Match Dot (30mm) and some standard grips. It shoots like a dream from the line, pulled off a 98-3x (25yd TF) with the first ten shots the thing ever saw…should have time to ransom rest it soon and get the ‘true’ ability of it. Although…if it shoots like a champ right now, you may wonder ‘what’s the point of resting it?’. Well, it’s one thing to tell someone that the gun is accurate, or even for the shooter to ‘believe’ it is…or ‘hope’ it is – but it’s definitely another to prove it with a target from the test-tunnel. The potential of shooters varies, but the ransom rest (with all things considered) doesn’t lie…and positively ‘knowing’ the gun’s capability definitely reduces the mental stress of the shooting game.