THE GLUE THAT BINDS US
There’s a saying in Formula One that a 15-cent screw can ruin a race just as fast as a blown motor. The little things matter, especially in a 13:1 compression engine spinning at 18,000 rpm. Guns don’t exactly run on gentle unicorn toots either; they’re an instrument of intense heat, pressure, and extreme acceleration in an area no bigger than a Pringles can. If your life depends on your firearm, or a major match is looming on the horizon, you’ll want to prep your gun just like any F1 pit crew would, and that means securing all those 15-cent screws.
I was recently at a pistol match with my Sig XCarry, my slide freshly hacked up to accommodate an old Insight MRDS I had bouncing around the bottom of the parts bin. The fitment of the sight was rock solid. However, in the middle of my second stage — BOOM — no dot. I did my best to salvage the remainder of the stage, but blindly shooting your way through a plate rack and a Texas star is a tricky business. I thought maybe my early GWOT-era dot had sh*t the bed, but after a secondary inspection, it seemed the two screws that kept the battery door shut had simply come loose — a small oversight that cost me a decent stage score. Had it been a defensive shoot, it could’ve cost me my life. I thought to myself, “What a boner move! A dab of blue Loctite would’ve prevented all that.” Any of that sound familiar? Well, then read on — I’ve got some primo nuggets of knowledge for your ass-pack of facts.
