MemphisMechanic

They will make a mess out of your comp with a clean burning powder, given enough time. After 2,000 blues loaded with Prima V, I had to get the dremel out and grind the concrete out of my comp. The ports were roughly half the size they should have been. I switched to 115gr plated from RMR and the gun stays nice and clean. Well worth an extra dollar or two per range session. I also like shooting 115s because the gun is super flat at 140ish PF when the bullet is supersonic. That crack makes it much easier to pick up your shots with a timer. My PCC is the only gun that I’m trying to keep louder, not quieter.

The SRO breaks a little bit less often than everything else, but it’s like all the other large slide ride dots out there: unlike their other optics... you do need a spare. It’s not bulletproof. It’s just another dot. Source: at least half a dozen guys who run one hard that I’ve talked to have broken one.

@matto6 I can think of at least three repeat national champions who aren’t at all mindful of locking their wrists, their focus is on gripping the gun with sufficent pressure. If it works for you, great. A lot of guys find success with similar methodologies... but a lot of people also shoot at world class levels with other techniques. Use what works for you.

It’s always been Production legal.

You can’t buy gasoline or perishable food well in advance of a hurricane. If you didn’t see the current shortage coming several years ago - they tend to follow a set 4 or 8 year cycle - then you didn’t learn from the events of 2008 very well. We both know that Covid isn’t the *main* reason for the sudden dire urgency behind everyone trying to buy ammo and every kind firearm.

10k is what I’m willing to part with, which is... substantially less than my total supply.

If I could legally ship hazmat, I’d be unloading 10k primers onto panic buyers as we speak, for every penny possible. My foresight in purchasing a large inventory should absolutely be rewarded by paying off the remainder of my auto loan. (Yes, I know you were talking about companies and not individuals. Just cracking a joke somewhat tangential to what you were saying.)

I have racers and would not buy anything with their troublesome spring mechanism again. Occasionally looking for magpouch parts which jettisoned during a reload gets old. Doing it over again, I’d go back to CRspeed or Ghosts, both of which I’ve liked more.

@blsfan50 the “wasp waist” or “coke bottle” shape to your rounds is not your problem, and is normal for ammunition produced with many brands of 9mm dies due to the tapered case meeting a straight-walled die. (Search those two terms for previous topics covering this.) Your case gauging problems lie elsewhere? Again, how many of your gauge-failing round plunk into a fieldstripped handgun’s barrel, spin freely, and fall out when inverted?

Football players were getting hurt by taking a blow to the leg, and the foot refusing to break free from artificial turf. Something’s gotta give.

IDPA means no cleats allowed, and old guys. Add in some slick terrian and I can see that happening. Obviously, I prefer cleats for really slick, muddy, or loose terrain. I’m glad USPSA permits them, even though I understand why IDPA doesn’t.

You’re going to need to give us every bit of information you can think of regarding dies used, bullet, brass, OAL, case gauge type, and the like. Do the failed rounds cause a problem when you drop them into your gun’s barrel and attempt to plunk and spin them? Or do they fail that as well?

If the rest of you haven’t seen the Grams stuff in person... his Glock/Sig/Walther stuff attaches the spring to the follwer in the same style most 2011 mags use. So neither his spring nor his follower will work with factory stuff in any production or CO gun. You have to use both.

My money is on “I didn’t know that it mattered when the gun is unloaded.”

Not going to lie, that one is pretty damn spectacular. Wow. My favorite is from roughly 2012. We had that “hungry C-class who was eager to get into B-class” guy in SingleStack. The type who runs at GM speed and tries to keep up with their splits, resulting in a whole lot of mikes. Missed his his cue to reload, and the gun locked open as he was pushing the 180 shooting a target on the move at a full sprint. He to track the target, begin the reload, AND turn the gun back downrange. All at once. His brain freaked out, he tripped over his own confusion, fell, and did a tactical barrel roll combined with a drunken cartwheel. I’ve never been more happy to see a gun at slide-lock than I was while our entire squad was looking down that 45 caliber muzzle.

Several people who started with or run a 550 in this thread wish they’d begun with a 650, like Chewy here. I loaded for 10 years on a 650, it was the press I learned to reload on. I’ve had a 1050 for two years now. I wish I’d bought a 1050 to begin with, and skipped the 650.

@cslafrain over at black bullets international will probably be your fastest option without paying a premium price.

I don’t prescribe to the hyper-cautious group who are afraid to leave their homes. My wife and I regularly hit the gym (masks required...) and I am at work in a repair shop daily, just like normal. A good friend of mine died from Covid at 35 leaving a highschool aged son behind. He was the textbook “flu. nope, I can’t breathe. ICU. Induced coma on a respirator. Never recovered” type of case we saw on the news nonstop. He passed away very very early on, one of the countries first casualties. My wife’s good friend over in Virignia was a 46 year old mother of two. Same thing. Sick. Ventilator. Dead. Just because you don’t know any of the fraction of a percent who catch it badly, doesn’t mean it’s purely fake news. On the other hand I know at least eight people who’ve gotten the ‘minor cold’ version of it, and got better in a few days. Probably more like twenty minor cases among my friends and family. I think most of us can say that much, these days.

“Para 1911” it says, in the tiniest font possible.

CCI 550 (magnum SP) are about all I’ve ever loaded for production use. Easier to find in bulk quantities back in the day, and run great. I never saw a change in Chrono data versus a CCI 500 or winchester. Just don’t try to crank them through a CZ or Tanfo with a light hammer spring. My walthers run the stock striker spring and do not notice them at all.

The thing you say before bellowing “RANGE IS SAFE!” That thing.

”not going to shove the timer up my gun’s ass and pick up the hammer drop.” That’s pretty self explanatory. Many ‘timer holder guys’ at your local matches who aren’t experienced will have the timer close enough to your weapon to pick up the slide snapping closed or the click of the hammer falling. (If you’ve ever wondered why a veteran RO might hold the timer behind his back, now you know. ) He’s saying he deliberately speeds through a safe unload and show clear in order to get the hammer dropped before Mr Clueless Timer Guy adds three seconds to his time by walking up with the timer held too close. @Ontos @Sarge I’ve seen it happen at a local twice, and my friend @deerslayer had 3.5 seconds added to his time this way at Arkansas State this year. It cost him either 2nd or 3rd place Overall in Limited, if I recall correctly.

Both presses use a standard 7/8” threaded die, and yours will work. Many of us prefer Lee or Redding or a hodgepodge of brands to the Dillon dies, also. Run what you like. (In 9mm I prefer a Lee undersized sizing die, MrBulletFeeder powder funnel, Redding micrometer seating die, and whatever crimp die you have lying around. The next guy to post will like something else, and make ammo just as good as mine.) You absolutely want the strong mount, a roller handle... and the bullet tray if you aren’t going to be installing a bulletfeeder anytime soon. The casefeeder should be a built-in part of a 650/750, I don’t see the point of purchasing one without it. Running without it is like loading an AK-47 with pebbles. Also, I hope you’re stocked up on primers. Otherwise you might as well leave it sitting in the box until you sell your soul for some.

This time next year, I might be able to pay my house off by selling 20k primers and a brand new AR-15...

This. It’s the easiest modification that is sure to remedy the situation. The ultra-bulky SRO is overrated in my opinion.