So I have an upcoming match that has 5-6 stages with ammo on barrel starts. Unless they change the wording before the match I was planning on picking up the second mag and stick on a magnet. Is this recommended ? Has anyone done this? what should I be careful of? Anything else I am missing?
I watched a guy at a match this weekend cleaning his mags. As he did this he would stretch out the spring. I have never seen this before. Is this helpful? Does it add extra wear to the spring? Curious what everyone thinks.
The guy I spoke to about this and showed me his and let me shoot a couple of his has this info. At this point I don't have the contact info for him and he did not come to this months match (It rained hard for the match, that is hard to imagine isn't it) I will get this info and get back with you when I hook up with him again. I wish I had gotten it but I blew it off at first thought but then got thinking about it. I will let you know when I do.
I am not really planning on reloading any of them. I think just using them for match ammo which is a lost brass deal anyway.
This save me the processing time I spend on brass and if the bullet hits the same spot on target I should be good.
Has anyone ever tested a Brass casing and an Aluminum casing with the same load in them? Any differences?
1. I have seen them and seen him shoot them. They are new cases with no scratches.
2. This is a question that I asked him and he is finding out. So what if they are Seller and Beloit. They go bang every time. He 10000 rounds on them.
3. Unknown but does it matter?
4. They are new so no Rollsizing or pass through dies to use. This is the big advantage in my opinion. He does run them through the sizing die with no decapping pin or primers for obvious reasons.
5. New so no cracks.
6. What higher expenditures are you speaking of? Aluminum is softer than Brass so no extra wear? ??????
Not trying to sell anyone on them. Just looking at options here.
Local guy has new Aluminum cases for 40S&W with primers in them. .03 each. This is what I pay for brass and primers not counting processing time. Since I have to leave them at the matches I thought I might look into this.
Anyone loading new Aluminum?
Would these effect my load data?
Any down sides?
Well any thoughts on this?
After shooting Single Stack USPSA for a few years and one year of Limited now. I decided to move a magazine to the center belly area from the side where I was use to finding it from the single stack division.
I have spent the winter dry firing and doing the mag swap. It was going real well and I was liking the switch.
First match this last weekend and we had 5 stages and a classifier. I could not mentally draw that magazine for the whole match. Even on the classifier when I only took the mag in the front with me, I went for the side and there was nothing there. Then I grabbed the middle and well that pretty much screwed the classifier up.
So how do I break this habit? After a winter of dry fire you would think it would be. Nope not even close.
Suggestions? Do I just keep on the side pouch and go with it?
What does everyone think ?