MemphisMechanic

Thank you for any additional information you can dole out - I'm planning to try a Hornady powder measure on a 650 and want to see how I like it. How does this shopping list look if I want to load 9mm on an XL650. Missing anything? (I'd buy elsewhere. Midway was cheaper. But Amazon was fast to search and find a list of the parts.)

So... what I'm gleaning from this is that the ultimate reloading press is a 1050 with a Hornady powder measure on it? How hard would it be to make their measure work on a 650 or 1050 anyway...

...Except that Glock has superb customer service when it comes to warranty. I've known several competitive shooters who had slides crack or frame lugs shear (at well over 50k rounds) and others who blew a gun up due to reloading negligence and sent them in. All of them were returned fully repaired in under two weeks - no questions asked. And factory parts are always in stock at literally dozens of online retailers. Including extractors.

Plunk... and spin. If the round won't spin freely in the chamber, the bullet is usually being gripped by the rifling and you know it was loaded too long for that gun. Plunk. Spin. Tap the case on the back to seat it in the chamber fully and to feel the primer to make sure it's below flush. Flip the barrel over and see if it still falls out effortlessly on it's own, or sticks. That's your full function test when chamber checking.

Side note: picked up a new pair of trail shoes (since real men don't wear rainbow Salomon's that fall apart in 7 months) for $40 at Academy. In case you need a pair. My last pair of Adidas survived seven Tough Mudder races and a full season of USPSA without much wear, so I snapped these up as soon as I saw them in mature colors!

Threw more dollars at the new money pit object of my affection. Henning's grips are pure sexiness. Not cheap. Totally worth it. I miss about 50% of the palm swell the wood ones had, but at least now I can drop a magazine faster than Tiger Woods lost endorsement deals. I can reach the button again! (Verified with 200rds of life fire) I'll need to add the missing "lefty" thumb groove on the right panel, but that can wait. I have plans. Also? Splurged on some Henning basepads to go with. The machining on his parts is just plain excellent. I can't believe how much better the mags feel in my plam now. It sounds ridiculous - it's just a basepad! - but is true.

But a different VP9.

13-14 SD isn't stellar nor horrible. Pretty typical for a new progressive user with Titegroup

Then you should be fine loading up to 3.4 behind a bullet of that weight. Im expecting you to hit 130PF with 3.2 or so grains of powder. Likely no more than 3.3gr. But I like having those data points for the whole ladder from 115-135 or so, so I can extrapolate from it about how much of a charge I'd need to load for a specific velocity later on.

And as we discussed in the previous threads, slightly hotter ammo is pretty much always more accurate with heavy bullets like those. That's the main advantage. (I'm amazed how many people can tell you exactly what PF their reloads run, but haven't tested it for group size at 25 yds) Other advantages? It cycles the gun harder & more consistently so you don't run into feeding issues shooting one handed... and it taps steel a bit harder. You cannot feel the difference between 125.001 power factor and 132 or so when a timer is running. It won't affect your score. Novice reloaders always think loading to just over PF is the best thing since sliced bread. I did. I was doing it for a solid year. Go to your range and ask the local Ms and GMs what the load their minor ammo at. I doubt you'll find a single one who is at less than 130PF So let us all tell it to you again: LOAD TO AT LEAST 130 PF

How exactly are you going to call something that isn't visible in any fashion (without field-stripping) an external modification? Its also the same thing that would happen if you were to manually drop the slide about eleven thousand times. Somewhat difficult to call it a modification. Maybe it happened that way.

You're at 114 PF right now. So... Load 20 rounds at 3.0gr Another 20rnd batch at 3.2gr A third set of 20 at 3.4gr ... and go back and clock them. I expect 3.0 to possibly make power factor or be a pinch below it. 3.2 will hopefully hit what you need. (Follow my advice as long as 3.4grains isn't over the book max. Pretty sure it isn't. But don't go over published loads just because some jerk on the web told you to.)

We've already been joking about that. Hoping (evil grin) that the local C-shooters will be stuck in A class in Limited or Production after making M inadvertently in 9mm Battle Rifle division. (And I think the ease with which B shooters are raking in M classifications in PCC means they need to rethink the classifier thing. The HHF for classifiers with distance and tight partials needs to be even higher than Open... but more in line with Production if it's several strings on close open targets with mag changes on the clock.)

Here's the advantages of the BOSS / Ghost setup. Unlike a DOH (drop & offset) from Blade tech or Comptac, the BOSS hanger is all steel, much more adjustable, and literally bolts to your belt instead of sliding over it. The metal drop bracket resting against your leg keeps it quite solid on the draw and while moving. I like the Ghost pouches because they are rather cheap, tough, and they fit nearly every magazine under the sun without and changes - CZ, Tanfoglio, M&P, and Glock mags all glide right into mine. At most you'll change a leaf spring (pops out with flathead screwdriver and snap a new one in) when going to a much larger or thinner mag.

Okay. Here's an image of the slide stop sitting upright, just as it would be in the gun. Round the corner with perhaps a dozen passes of a file and then polish it mirror smooth: (My gun, as always, is dirty. So you can't see the rounded-off profile superbly well.) On the slide, get rid of any "undercut" that is present and make it slope toward the rear of the gun or at least shoot for dead vertical. Ruthlessly polish this spot as well after every time it's reshaped with a metal file: Give them both a half-dozen passes of a file, then assemble the gun and test it by feeding it a magazine with ten dummy rounds in it. It needs to weigh the same amount as the ones you'll feed the gun during a stage. F = m * a and you need an accurate test 'blow' to see how easily it drops. A lighter recoil spring is also a huge help. After all, the recoil spring is what applies the pressure between these two parts.

Well yeah. That's the same thing I said back when my reload was consistently a 1.2 - 1.5 second affair. Now that I'm on an unfamiliar platform coming off of 3 years away from the sport, my load feels closer to 5 seconds and has got to actually be well over 2. Suddenly I care about having a fast reload again. (Yours aren't as fast on a Tanfo as Gutt's, but you're no B-class slacker, either.)

I did. And it's one that pretty much just highlights the fact that I can reload this damn gun yet.

Ahh! Like El Mateo, it took me to the entire video on my iThingy Six as well. (Plus I'm subscribed, and had already watched it)

Can you get me a discount on a USP Compact? I'll stop carpet bombing your diary now. Please let us know what you do regarding drills or training to get better at focusing on the A of open targets. I know exactly what you mean. You spend the extra energy (not time) to bring the perforations of the A-zone into focus and hit it when there's a noshoot overlapping your target. But just... kinda try to get indexed in the center of the big brown thing when shooting open ones.

Drop us a line in here when you do. I'll order one instantly. Very impressed with your service and parts thus far.

I'm on a website dedicated to a pair of sports in which you're perforating 1/8" cardboard at the highest possible speed. That does indeed include IDPA completely and totally. I think you're lost, sir. Also, the correct answer is "shotgun"

Just like you're required to do in 3-gun, USPSA Multigun, and USPSA PCC? A righty shooting around the left side of a wall of his left shoulder is a very common weapons-handling skill. That's why there are 327 videos on YouTube dedicated to it.

The idea behind a handgun is to win matches. IDPA is a sport pretending to be defensive shooting. Remember?

Some models come factory with a one piece sear, some with a two piece. Although all Xtreme guns have a 1-piece sear.

The answer I expected. Thanks, HK