spencerhut

My 625JM has the golden dot front sight. It's a good sight, I still prefer plain old black on black. I consider the golden sights more nostalgic than anything. But you know the saying, as long as it works for you . . . .

I experimented with smoothing out the follower on the front and rear portions that touch the mag body, seems to have worked . All the mags a now working 100% with 19 rounds.

Have any pictures of this? I don't want to re-invent the wheel if I do not have to. I tested again with WWB and got the exact same results. Nose dives anywhere from first to last round in the magazine, all six magazines. I have another new set of springs for the magazines to replace the month old springs in them. May as well replace the recoil springs too I guess.

I measured three different brands of factory ammo 1.114 to 1.125 for JHP and TC. My ammo is 1.135, light crimp removing bell only. I'll try the factory ammo and if work any better I'll shorten my loads. Funny that the advise I got on another forum (CZ Forum Angus) was to use shorter rounds, 1.1 to 1.120. Cleaned the mags spotless and put some Remington Dry Film Lube in the tubes and reassembled them. Loaded the mags with 20 rounds factory ammo and noticed they would feed the first several rounds okay and then they would start to hang up the case mouth on the front edge of the magazine body, not lifting enough at the front of the round. Acted the same with factory and my reloads. One magazine had the follower sick way down in the mag. Follower came shooting up when I thumped it. I'll order some more springs I guess and try this again. Grrrr

My bone stock Tactical Sports .40S&W had been working great for some time now. I started to get feed problems and diagnosed it to be bad magazine springs, pretty easy since 4 of the 6 magazine the springs were mangled and rounds were sticking down in the tubes. Not one to muck about I ordered 6 new springs and the extended base pads from Angus. Cleaned the tubes (as I always do) inspected followers and put the new springs and base pads in. Loaded up 18 to 20 rounds in all 6 magazines. Unloaded and reloaded by hand a few times until all 6 took 20 rounds. I then let them sit loaded for several days. When I loaded and unloaded them again they were smoother and easier to load. When I used them I was getting many severe nose dives. Basically turned my gun into a single shot. Bang, jam, slap, rack, bang, jam etc. My load is a Montana Gold Bullets 180g JHP @ 1.135OAL Help (Yeah I posted over on the CZ Ask Angus section but someone that does not own a TS keeps trying to give me internet "expert" advise.

Good info, I've got several main springs and did not want to ruin the trigger pull by putting something too stiff in it. I'll go ahead and try a 15 or 16lb and see if it helps. Thank You.

Thanks, but the ammo is not the issue.

My wife's CZ-75B SA was sent to CZ for trigger job and since she got it back we've been getting intermittent lite strikes. She can re-cock the gun and get them to go off on the second or third try, but I'd like to just swap the spring out and be done with it. What weight CZ-75 main/hammer spring will reliably set off CCI primers? 15lb?

I think the press is designed in such a manner that a case feeder would be really hard to do. But when you think about it having a bullet feeder is better than a case feeder. The cases should be handled, I use the case insertion for one last looksey at the case. I never check over the bullets. Don't want or need to touch: primers, powder, or bullets and now RCBS has made that possible. Cases though, there is some minor benefit to one last quick visual.

Cool. And here I thought I had a brilliant idea . . . .

Yes, brass was run through a EGW .40S&W U die prior to gauging it. If the brass is passing the gauge it should be fine.

I have a U die, the brass in the video has been through it already. Yes, it's adjusted properly. This only seems to happen on .40S&W brass. My U dies for 9MM and .38 Super and do not have the same problem of cases failing the gauge in such large volumes as the .40S&W. I gauge everything in a L.E. Wilson case gauge and often times a round that fails the gauge will still chamber in my stock CZ-75TS barrel but not in my Hi-Power. I suspect people using their barrel as a gauge or not using any gauge at all may be having a failure to feed or extract at times once the gun is a little dirty and they get one of these Glocked/bulged cases. Even a u die does not size all the way down, close, but not all the way.

I know several people have come up with different ways to save Glocked 40S&W brass. Here is what I do . . . take a Lee FCD and remove the guts and use a pusher from a Lee .401 lead bullet sizing kit to push the brass through the FCD. Very simple and easy to do.

Here is what the Auto Index does for you . . . video of me loading on my Auto Index Pro 2000. Loading .308WCF with RCBS X-Die and Lube dies I can do 200 rounds an hour. Not fast, but I take my time loading rifle rounds. .223 is faster 250 to 300 an hour. Loading any straight wall pistol rounds I can do 500 an hour fairly easy and never touch a primer tube.

I've been using Roosters Radical Case Forming Lube for a while. Tried Lee, RCBS and Hornady One Shot prior to using Roosters. With Roosters I can get away with lubing half the cases and then sizing every other case a lubed one. No dents from excess lube, no stuck cases. I lube 7 to 10 cases at a time in my hands, yeah it's sort of messy. Roosters is almost a wax so I just get a bit on the end of my finger and wipe it on the middle case in my hand, then roll the cases back a forth a few times until they feel covered. Never a stuck case using this method. I still use the RCBS lube when doing .223 on my Pro2000 with a lube die in station one. Get a stuck case now and then at totally random times. Drives me nuts. I can go 500 rounds perfectly and then get three stuck cases in one session. Go figure. . . . almost forgot. The Roosters seems to last forever. I have two small jars and the first jar is 90% full after loading ~2000 rounds. Mostly .308 with some 7.5x55 & 6.5x55.

The Auto Primer System on my press works very well. I only have problems when I get 4895 or similar powders spilled into it. I did a video of the press in operation. Here you go . . .

Sure. I'll give a shot at making a video of it in operation in the next week or two. Spencer

Do a lot more reading than posting here . . . here are the Pro2000 auto index pictures I took. What's in the box . . . Setup on my press. My new top end part was not entirely tight when I got out of the box and I failed to notice until I loaded on it for a while. I would recommend a check of all the primer system bolts before you assemble the unit on your press. The unit is intolerant of a gentle hand on the first portion of the upstroke. If you run it to slow and gentle the shell plate will index in reverse. No big deal once you use it for a while and are used to the initial speed required, we're talking the first inch or so. It just a different rhythm from indexing by hand. When it does advance the shellplate there is a bit of a jerk as it locks into the next detent, like most other auto progressives I've used. You will get a few flakes of powder on the shellplate at first. I started watching it closely and made sure I was inserting the next case as it indexed into the next detent and this stopped all the spillage I was having, minor though it was. Overall I am pleased. My "burst" speed is faster then ever before. After loading tens of thousands of rounds on this press it was kind of cool to see how much faster this one little automated step made the entire process.

All the APS stuff is in the 2007 catalog they just released. Do you have a link to that press release? Have you ever used the RCBS Automatic Priming System?

I have a Pro2000 and most of the reasoning behind buying it was the strip feed primer system. My uncle taught me how to load ~26 years ago on mostly Lee equipment including the hand priming tool. He's getting up there in age now and I bought him a bench mounted RCBS tool when I noticed he was having a problem fully seating his primers with the ~30 year old lee tool. Problem solved. I know nearly everyone on this site has the "blue flu", but I'm very happy with my RCBS Pro2000. I've never had an upside down primer in many thousands of rounds. Can't say the same for some of my shooting buddies with other primer feed systems. Never had any type of primer feed related failure other than the time I dumped some 4895 all over the press by accident. That kind of messed up everything.