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Thanks for all the nice words about the IPSC Loads Lists! They started out as references for my own information. Soon some friends found them useful, so I put them on my web site and kept up the process of collecting more proven loads.
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Never Under Estimate the Value of a Case Guage
jmaass replied to Wild Gene's topic in Miscellaneous BEginners
While I agree I prefer to use a gauge because it is much easier and faster to check the ammo right off the assy line. I initially use the barrel to check verify good oal. I make sure that ammo that passes the gauge will always pass the barrel test. My 9mm Dillon gauge is plenty tight enough that anything passing it will work in my gun. Once you have that level of confidence in the gauge it is the way to go. Yes, IFF you have confirmed that your case guage accurately represents your barrel's chamber, then the guage is almost as good as the barrel for drop-testing. I've heard of cases of a gunsmith building (or re-barreling) a custom gun providing a case guage bored with the same tool used to chamber the barrel. Deep in my fading recollection is that I have one of those (somewhere) for my 9x21 McLearn guns from when I had the second one built and the first re-barreled at the same time. When I was actively shooting/reloading, I was anal about using only my own brass. I used only one 2000 piece lot of brass at a time (Win or TF), rotating them until each case was used six times, and then discarding (or selling to someone less anal). In the olde dayes, there were usually two or three 9x21 shooters at a match, even a local match, so I marked my brass. All this contributed to increased reliability. As part of my contribution to enjoying 100% reliability at a match, I *always* removed the barrel and drop-tested *every* round that was carried to any match, local or larger. -
Never Under Estimate the Value of a Case Guage
jmaass replied to Wild Gene's topic in Miscellaneous BEginners
The best case guage is the barrel of the gun you will be shooting the load in! Remove the barrel from the gun, and drop in each of your match loads. They make a satisfying "ploop" when they drop in properly, and then fall freely back out. -
Need a Chrono, Which is Best?
jmaass replied to dblaelliott's topic in Chronograph Equipment & Techniques
I had a PACT MkIV timer/chrono before I bought the Oehler 35P, and it worked well too. The third sensor/sunscreen on the Oehler made readings more consistant under varying conditions, and the printer was a great benefit! The option of using a 4-foot rail rather than the included 2-foot rail for more accuracy is nice, too. As I haven't done any reloading or load development for many yeas, my 35P is still for sale in the Classified Forum, after the final of a few price drops. -
I have a few of those templates hidden away somewhere... I started using Powerpoint pretty early on in my course design "career", though.
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It is amazing how much stuff one can accumulate in ten years of active shooting! As I am single, my house is in "man cave configuration" with stuff stored in every room. The one closet I've started cleaning is just bedroom closet sized, but the notebooks were stacked two deep and two high on the top shelf! The lower shelves are stacked high with boxes of supplies and parts. At least three other closets have some of the shooting stuff in them as well! With the cleanup, I'll inventory and consolidate all the shooting stuff. Even with my ten year "layoff", I've managed to inherit some new guns, and purchase a couple for daily carry. With them came even more new "stuff"!
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Chris: May is not likely, but I may pop up sometime soon thereafter. I'll probably be packing cameras rather than my guns though. I've managed to develop two bad knees and a trick ankle that remind me not to run as I walk around in my daily life! A steel match or NRA AP are probably more advisable for me.
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My old 'Maass IPSC Loads Lists' for 9x21, .38 Super, and .40 S&W are still online, but I haven't added to them for almost ten years. My old 'USPSA Courses of Fire Collection', with over 250 stages with score sheets, is also still online, although many will require re-work to conform with changed rules. Several of these have been used for USPSA Nationals and Area matches over the years. I think that there are some interesting ideas there that could be incorporated into new course designs or used as-is with some changes to the course briefing text. One volume that I had forgotten was there is 'USPSA Nationals Courses 1985-1990 (PDF)', which transcribed 25 courses of fire from USPSA Nationals in those years. Former USPSA RM Andy Hollar loaned me his collection of books to allow me to transcribe those courses which seemed worthwhile. My reloading notebooks are not going to be discarded, although I may finally clean out the bookcase and get rid of my many reloading manuals. I'm trying to "downsize" so I can move around my house and someday move out!
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SP 2 in my opinion but as no one mentioned it I guess its not available in the US. Have tried several different powders but nothing comes close to SP 2. Its the flattest and softest shooting major powder I know and also the safest one in case of gas pressure. I used it first with my glock and now with my 2011. SP2 is no longer avaliable in the US... much to the irritation of many of us. Nyah Nyah! I have about 24 pounds of SP2 squirreled away! ;-) Truly the best powder I ever tested or used in my 9x21 Open guns.
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I was starting the process of cleaning out my "shooting closet", which has not been opened much in the past ten years. Among the old match results and newsletters, order/repair records of my custom guns, reloading notebooks, and Match Director records for many years at my local club was my USPSA Life Member card and Certificate (L-1192), and my last Annual Membership card (A-19733). In June, I'll have been a Life Member for 20 years! I may need to evict the rodents from their nest in the compensators of my Open guns, blow the dust out of the magazine wells, and drop down to the local club (PCSI, Circleville OH) for the June match! I pitched out seventeen notebooks of old records, retained about the same number. It's amazing how much paperwork I generated int he ten years I was actively shooting! Forgive the nostalgia: lots of dust and memories this evening!
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It was unchallenged for a long time! I just went out a bought a copy and downloaded to my Kindle, even though I still have my ancient much-marked-up paper copy.
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Brian: The confusion is due to the typo in your sentence: "Exciting news! Practical Shooting, Beyond Fundamentals is not available on Kindle." I thought it was sarcastic reply, but now see it's a typo!
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In my 'Spring Cleaning', I found another 'Blast From The Past': a box full of Table Top Target pieces. These were thick cardboard scale cut-outs of IPSC targets, Poppers, US Poppers, and steel plates with bases to support them, intended to allow someone to set up a stage during design. Before computer-based modeling software was widely available, this would allow the designer to study the stage before construction to eliminate problems with vision lines and shoot-throughs. They were sold by Tom Walck in Carlisle PA in the early to mid-90s. I think my box has at least three full sets, although I cannot recall: may be four or more. I tried them out 'in the day', but didn't use them much, as it was quicker for me to design challenging courses in my head and on paper, and (later) using the software tools available to me. I still have several of the IPSC target cut-outs stuck to my walls around my house for old dry-fire practice sessions! Anyone else remember these?
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More images of "Brit Babes" from the four 1995 issues of the UKPSA magazine 'DVC'. Elaine Berwick Lesley Senn Jilly Howell Wendy Wilson