MemphisMechanic

I just started loading these. I'm a huge fan now - I'd been shooting various 135s and 147s before. My Tanfo will take long ammo since the chamber's been throated, but I also carry an M&P SHIELD and sometimes lend my M&P Production buddy some ammo. M&Ps and CZs have similarly short chambers. Turns out that the short guns really like the BBI 125. This plunks and spins! Blue bullets and others have a similar mold and should also load as long, but I'm a big fan of the guys who run BBI - they're local and they're active USPSA shooters.

Coated will pick up some velocity over plated in most cases, so you'll be able to drop your powder charge .1 to .2 ... but you aren't magically loading unsafely, and you will certainly continue to make power factor. If your load was 4.0gr of some powder before, I'd load up some 3.8 and 3.9 gr rounds next time I had a chance to chronograph them.

Run 'em. @Steve RA that's why you run a Lee die with the Squirrel Daddy hardened decapping pin installed. They send you several, but I haven't been able to break one yet.

With the FCD here's how you begin to check this: run the center of die down all the way, then back the body of the die out of the toolhead. Lift a round that has a properly seated bullet up into station 5, and screw the die in until you feel contact being made. Now slowly thread it in, until you get the crimp you want - just barely removing the flare - and see what you wind up with. This will turn the FCD into a traditional crimping die. Which is good for diagnostic purposes in this case. Once you verify it's the problem, you can slowly return it to resizing-duties if you wish. Or leave it there.

I found an AR-15 stripped lower in my attic last year that I didn't know I owned. There's now an 'extra' rifle in my safe. Until I found it, I had absolutely no recollection of picking two up for $60 ea because W was still in the Oval Office and gun parts were incredibly cheap, and only building one rifle.

Would that be an EAA Witness Stock II Extreme II Optimized?

Obviously as stated, reduced case volume means higher pressures and less room for error with some of the really fast powders we like. Additionally, the walls on 9mm brass begin to get thicker about .300" down into the case. Oftentimes, loading long 147gr projectiles really short requires so much bullet to be pushed down into the case... that it can cause a lot more failures to case gauge than you were seeing before. I use a lot of BBIs since Chandler, the CEO, delivers to our local match - they're close by. Their 147 profile requires a short OAL like this in M&Ps, XDs, CZ, and Tanfos. It's a very chubby bullet profile. If you have any interest in lighter bullets, their 124 TC is at the other end of the spectrum. I had my Tanfo reamed so I can't use that, but an M&P barrel that needed 1.080"-1.080" on the 147 RN will spin the 124 TC at 1.150". I shot 2,500 147s through my Stock 3 and then switched to 124s. I actually prefer the way the lighter bullets shoot and feel, plus I wouldn't have had to get my Tanfo reamed to feed them. The increase in slide speed is actually a good thing in this platform, IMO.

As has already been covered, that's the only choice which makes sense in USPSA Limited. A 9mm gun is only competitive in 3-gun where there is no distinction made between major & minor power factor.

Here's a video of them spinning around in 3 dimensions on a Tanfoglio Stock 3. Since it is literally impossible to capture a photo which shows the contour in two dimensions. https://youtu.be/gTygci4YHYI

If you read carefully, either High Junior or High C-class or a combination thereof. Not saying that to diminish his achievement - I hope someday to have a kid whose that good at 12!

I guess I'll let you know soon enough. I'm a 650 user who has a flawless press when loading 9mm with CCI & Win & Federal... and I just ordered 500 S&B primers based on this thread.

http://eaacorp.com/index.php/guns/handguns/witness-p-match-tanfoglio-404 That is what he's asking about.

You'd get a lot more attention if you posted this in the CZ subforum, I believe.

We use flat steel plate with three round tubes welded to it at MSSA (Memphis Sport Shooting Association) The wall's legs simply slide down into them, and it lets us create T intersections and the like quite easily. Most of the time we don't even need to stake them down.

Production guy who actually enjoys having PCC in the game over here. I'm very comfortable handling a handgun but put an AR in my hands and the weapon that's supposed to be a better choice when your life is on the line ... has me feeling like I'm all thumbs. I'll be building a PCC soon and working with it until I can run and gun pretty well with an AR, too. Or at least load, shoulder, and unload it without having to remember where all the fancy buttons and levers are located on this tactical fighting ninja weapon system platform.

Because of how it actually feels and what charge weights are required, I would guess.

The first time you leave a spring like that for two years in the garage's heat then try to remove it, you stop doing that. Scraping that hardened tape crud off isn't fun. They go in small ziplock baggies inside a tackle box type clear plastic tray, now.

I always stuff my used mags back into my pouches. When I return to the back, every single mag comes off my belt and gets loaded to 10, or checked to make sure it's got that many in it. Even the ones I'm certain I didn't use.

Plated and jacketed are less sensitive to overcrimping than lead or coated. The softer the bullet, the easier it is to deform as you crimp.

How does a 50/50 mix of V and SV feel in 9mm minor? Do you run two powder measures then tumble the loaded rounds, or toss it all in a blender before feeding it to your Dillon? <smartass, yeah I know>

Send it in. Sell it when you get it back. Buy a JP for which you can get parts. Realize you wasted your money on purchase #1.

For the record, a 147 is going to result in the slowest slide speed and the weakest ejection. Switching to a 135 or 124gr load might help prevent this from happening, with only a subtle shift in felt recoil.

EXACTLY. I've been using PCC as an opportunity to get people to see there's a silver lining here. If your locals consist of four boring ports with four boring targets in each of them, especially with distance in there? PCC is going to smoke your Open & Limited guys. However, propose some technical challenges in your stages: Hard leans... Situations that call for one-handed shooting... Partial targets through a low port... Tight close-quarters walls/barricades... ..and PCC falls behind open. Just like they have done at nationals and every single Area match so far. If the handgun guys want to win they need to stop building boring straightforward hoser stages. In my opinion, that's a win-win! My interest in PCC is in learning to operate a rifle in those awkward tight situations as opposed to just plinking at a square range, and we should all get to enjoy a physically and mentally challenging stage more often. Whether we shoot a handgun or a rifle.

The longer one is the 13. Correct. You're also right in that a good polishing job is responsible for at least 50% of a light, smooth DA trigger pull.

That's... less than ideal to spin freely in a 9mm. If your goal is to load as long as possible, look for pointier profiles like a 124 round nose similar to Blue Bullets, which has a very slender profile. Or better yet, a TC profile like my photo above. A fat 147 or 135 RN is generally the worst case for loading long. Ahh. That makes sense now.