MemphisMechanic

Leave the press set up when you finish. Just stop pulling the handle in the ‘’middle” of a session, and make that the end. Come back the next day, quickly check your component levels, be very diligent in seeing proper powder charge in those first few rounds, and load 30 to 50 rounds. Shoot for 3 to 5 minutes of handle pulling. Every day, load a couple dozen rounds. You’ll have a healthy stash of loaded ammo onhand at all times. Just load often. Hell, I’ve done 40 rounds between brushing my teeth and going to bed a few times. I moved my press inside for this reason. It was much harder to make myself load when I had to go out in the garage. It’s in the guest room closet now.

My gun is short stroked so that you can BARELY drive the charging handle back hard and get it to lock open. Barely. You need a hard running start. It comes in handy for easily loading a mag that isn’t downloaded at ‘make ready’ and more importantly? It’s handy when you have a really hideous malfunction.

Unless you are running a CMMG Guard, my setup will be weird to you. First, the slower motion of my much lighter BCG means I wound up with a lighter “ideal” buffer mass for a flat-shooting gun. Second, my BCG is longer. The Guard bolt & carrier look nearly identical to a 5.56 gun’s parts. For those reasons, I’m running the 5oz kytech hydraulic buffer intended for a .308 carbine. In a carbine tube, with a wave spring behind it. If I were to start over, I’d build with an A5 tube. Better to have the extra length to play with and add spacers, than start short and hope you have enough for whatever combination of parts you wind up using.

@billthemarine2862 are you referring to the factory Tanfoglio magwell? I’m 95% sure you’re talking about Henning’s aftermaket one.

It won’t get bent over. This is how all magazine extensions work upon removal. It’ll be just fine!

Correct. There are brakes like the one on a Barrett .50BMG rifle which specifically exhaust gasses backwards at a 45* angle. We’re not talking about that style in this case because he wasn’t asking about them, but they certainly exist.

The rearmost top ports are easy to understand: They vent gas directly upward - push the barrel down with a small jet of high pressure gas. The side ports aren’t really ‘ports’ at all: what happens is that the gas expands to fill that chamber as it follows the bullet forward at several hundred MPH... and disperses it’s force against the large flat surface which is the front of that chamber. Effectively pushing the gun *forward* as it hits the far wall of the chamber. Because you’re now working with higher volume and lower pressure, the sides of this chamber have been milled away to allow the gas to escape. The sides don’t do anything anyway.

Yes, 124s cycle the slide a litter harder. Stop loading to 130, too. You will not be able to tell the difference between 130-132pf ammo and 135-136 pf anmo if you shoot them together. But steel, and your ejection pattern just might. I load around 135 and never ever worry about chrono or dropping steel that’s anywhere near calibrated.

It’s a Tanfo dude. The Italians drill the holes in exciting new places on every gun. That’s what gives them character.

I’ve never had an enounter with mister “are you ready... standybyBEEP” but I guess now I’m prepared for when I do. I typically wait 2 to 4 seconds, which seems to mess up those who are used to a certain ready/standby/beep cadence from their buddies, but works great for those used to the ROs adhering to the actual rules.

Pretty much what they said. Twist at the hips to get your torso downrange, load, rotate back.

Take a roll of quarters to the range and see what makes the gun shoot flattest. See how many allow you to lock the bolt back, or your LRBHO to function if equipped. This will probably be a diffent number from the first stack of quarters. Take those things, and decide how much of a stack you want to run behind the wave spring. A single quarter still stays on top of the wave spring for the buffer to run into, of course. Once you’ve run it that way for a few matches, consider making a spacer out of some delrin if you feel like doing so. But quarters are impossible to beat for calibration purposes.

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You might want to read my entire post. (Which I just edited for clarity.) It was a headshake at those who skirt PF. I shoot a lot of matches. At 135-137. With ammo that gives up nothing to the guys who skirt 126.25pf with their 147s.

Whatever gives good accuracy and impeccable reliabilty. Super super soft ammo is overrated. I stagger-loaded a magazine with titegroup/147/130pf ammo and 124/primaV/138pf ammo. You could not feel the difference in recoil. Load accurate bullets well above PF for steel and the like, shoot them, and enjoy being worry free.

He was asking if you’re loading these for a specific purpose. Hornady bullets are very very expensive for tossing downrange; no one runs them in USPSA for this reason. Places like PrecisionDelta do quality FMJs much more cheaply.

Paging @kneelingatlas. How’s the comp project for the Tanfos coming along?

I run a DPP on my CO gun. It’s a great optic. I have the 510c on my PCC. It’s absolutely outstanding.

If you’re being so restrictive you almost have no excuse to even ask, at this point. Eight seconds with a search will net you multiple threads of “DPP vs RTS2” which went on for pages and pages of really good information. That’s why guys are tossing out other options. They’re bored with your topic.

I actually did not know the picatinny mount comes off of these. Most excellent! It’s an amazing optic so far, with fantastic battery life.

If building a PCC, yes. A fantastic one. A bit bulky and tall for an Open gun, however.

I’m going to do Silicon Carbide on a PPQ shortly, which is truly my *preferred* grip. Sandpaper that never really wears out. I’ll post a step by step.

Good starting point.

Install an actual aftermarket add-on funnel and you’ll get REALLY agressive with the reload. My QC10 lower had a really generously flared magwell. Adding Miller’s magwell still made a world of difference.

What buffer, @Startingover? Does your carrier have the weight in it?