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I just wet tumbled some of it in a small batch. No lemishine, car wash soap only, no steel media on 2 hour tumble. Came out clean without the purple color. Going to chalk it up as expensive lesson.

I didn't check it with a magnet because it seem like the general consensus it was brass. I just checked it right now with a magnet and it's not a steel.

I have like 2 5 gallon buckets.

So I got a bunch of purple wincheter casing from the range. From my google search it's basically nickel plated so I figured I could use it for reloading. Usually I wet tumble my brass with steel pins and car wash soap with some lemishine so I figured I could follow the same process here with this purple stuff. I wanted to do a ton of brass so instead of using my frankford tumbler I went to my local gun club used their cement mixer. The first pic, I think it's obvious and I think I forgot to do a rinse after dumping the water. The second picture, I tumbled it again for about 45 minutes and it still came out kind of tarnished. Does anybody know what the issue is? Do I just need to do it longer? Was it the lemishine that gave it this dull look? Trying to get an idea of what I should do differently or if I can fix it. I know the brass doesn't matter as long as it's clean but I want it at least some what shiny.

Thanks, I'm wondering if my eyes are messed up or something. My friends and the target test show it's on target but I cant seem to hit center. I'm going to do a bench test to see if this is true.

Sorry I didn't explain it correctly. I didn't move my sights. I moved the sights over the target two inches to the left. I was hitting center when I held the sights two inches over to the left.

I'm trying to figure out what the issue is. When I dry fire see minimum sight movement but when I go to the range i'm always off by two inches of my sights. I was shooting 7 yards and made a big hole but it was 2 inches off the center. Just for fun I decided to move my sights 2 inches to the left and I was hitting the center. I know my gun is sighted in correctly because I recently had new sights installed with a test target paper and a friend shoot it. I've tried different pads of my trigger finger and it only increases how far right it goes. I know where I press the trigger in right now is the sweet spot for me. I also press into the frame with my support thumb to mininize any kind of drift to the right my gun is shooting. I'm wondering if it's just my eye sight and I should adjust the sights or I should just work on figuring out the trigger press. The trigger press seems like a harder issue to fix as it would take a lot of practice to consistly memorize how to press the trigger correctly. What are your takes on this?

I just bought them from GunBroker. Came from Oak hill guns also. I just don't understand their customer service, call them and ask them if I could save on shipping and all I get is "That's the price for shipping". I got what I wanted from them so /rant over

10k min. I ordered back a month ago. Shipping wasn't too bad but that's because I lived within 500 miles of their center. Shoot them an email.

No it's $5 per mag. I went to the online shop and when I go to check out it's $25 for shipping. Check it out yourself on their site.

I'm wondering if anybody knows a good source for some 8 rounders. I just want 3 of them. There doesn't seem to be much of a good deal on them. I found some at Oak Hill Gun for $32 but the shipping is $5 per magazine!

Pistol loads. I know that once I set the dial to something I like I won't have to move it again till I use a new powder.

I don't load 135gr...but the ramshot data said 3.0 grains is max for my 147 load. I had to go 3.6 grains for it to cycle and the primers still look great. i can probably go down to 3.4 or 3.5 and do 1.125 to make around 135PF. what is your COAL? and what is your barrel length? COAL is 1.10 i'm thinking of increasing it to 1.12. I've loaded some more test loads from 3.3 to 3.5. I make minimum PF at 3.3 but my numbers seem to be off since I chrono late in the day. So i'm going have to test again. This is shooting out an CZ SP01 Shadow

So, i'm getting tired of turning the knob and adjusting and then adjusting it some more when i'm trying to develop a load for handguns. I'm trying to figure if it's worth it to get 2 Micrometer bars for the two calibers I have or just get an Auto Dispenser like the Hornady Auto Charger or the RCBS Chargemaster. Right now i'm leaning towards the auto dispensers because I like the fact that it will give me exactly how much I need each time. I only need to do 10 rounds or so i'm not really worried about doing huge volume on it. Also having a nicer digital scale is always a plus. I would like to know which one is worth the money? I might end up getting both later on but I want to know if I should get the bars first or the dispensers.

So who has loads for 135gr? I went up to 3.1g and it still under minor PF by a lot. I won't be able to chrono for a few weeks, so I want a good starting point so I can just focus on reloading.