MemphisMechanic

Second on the hundo. I load 9mm long (1.150+) and they don’t make an XL for this caliber. They all stand proud, but as soon as you pick it up all 100 rounds drop in completely flush, you look for defects, and then you add them to your Match Ammo supply. Buy a hundo. Now that I am used to gauging 1,000 rounds in under 15 minutes? I could never go back to a smaller unit.

The standard Q5, is with similar cuts. @random_guy7531 you weren’t thinking globally. No one was willing to produce metal striker competition guns because they would only sell in USA. The reason you don’f see Glocks in IPSC is (1) the 34 isn’t production legal, only the 17. And (2) you have to have a 5lb trigger for the first shot. That’s why DA/SA always ruled overseas. No one wants to shoot a Walther/Glock/M&P/XD with a 5lb trigger. This year they dropped the pull weight to something like 3.0-3.5 and the striker guns aren’t unmarketable anymore. They can sell steel Q5s worldwide to USPSA and IPSC competitiors. @HoMiE PPQ mags are easy to get 23+1 into for carry optics. Run flawlessly. TTI basepad, and a gram’s spring and basepad meant for the P320.

The answer to this question is to learn how misaligned your sights can be and still hit the target you are aiming at. An experienced shooter can put the front post at maximum misalignment inside the notch (but still visible) and shoot a 6” group at 7 yds because the gun holds that position as he works the trigger. A novice has the gun aligned perfectly the shoots 8” low because he moves the gun as it fires. Flinches, or tightens all other fingers as the index finger pulls. You need two things: 1. Learn to grip the gun hard. Firmly enough to make someone you’re giving a handshake to very uncomfortable. You can’t push it around as much with your trigger pull, and the sights will snap right back after you shoot. Squeeze til it shakes, then back off a little. Dryfiring should make your forearms burn with the effort, at first. 2. Learn to work the trigger FAST without moving the sights much. For a novice, I’d say keeping the front post within the center 50% of the notch is a good goal to start. Pulling it slowly it should stay stationary. Gripping hard with the weak hand will help with this. But in a match and on the street you’re not going to slowly squeeze shots off, you’re going to rip them off. Work on that too.

It’s awesome. 4.6oz makes it insanely light. I’ve got one in the classifieds now.

I think you mean “Classifier Nationals.” Not to be confused with previous year’s Seated Start Nationals and Port Shooting Nationals. Always some sort of theme. Accidentally.

Yes. Definitely money well spent. Dillon released a revised spring and cup, but in 5k it is still back to sagging. What level10 did is kinda obvious. The cup is much much longer. Almost resting on the mounting bracket. This way they can run a longer and stiffer spring... but it isn’t fatigued by being nearly crushed flat on every handle stroke. It has a lot of compression left when the shellplate is fully down. It will hold the toolhead up with effort to spare. If you release the handle to work on things it will happily sit at top of stroke waiting for another pull.

Same here. The Super 1050 is a decades old machine, and a revision of previous models like the RL 1000. It’s been troubleshooted by Dillon and by companies making aftermarket modifications, like Level10’s awesome toolhead spring and cup. In two years the Evo will be equally bug free, and I may consider grabbing one.

If taccom still makes a 3D printed plastic one, avoid it. Gets so soft that it’s like rubber in the summer heat. Watched a buddy knock his clean off the gun with a mag during a reload. If they make something else? Might be good.

Shooter’s Connection sells their own brand of belt that’s pretty great for the cost.

Downloading mags is pretty standard. Even Glock & MPX mags are a pain to seat beneath a closed bolt. With colt mags you may need a hammer. It’s pretty common to extend your mags to 42-47 rounds or so then download by 2 for an unloadedd table start, so that they seat easily. You still have 8 spare rounds for a long USPSA stage, so you don’t have to shoot conservatively.

@nelson1each Ahh. 1. Hadn’t considered selling it. 2. For me, reloading is a chore. If it’s reliable enough to run at nationals and accurate, I’m good. I’m looking for the minimum amount of time required to load it up and get shooting. 3. I walnut tumble for only 30mins then load. You’d hate the way my ammo looks. I’m the opposite of OCD myself.

@Postal Bob is there an extra thick spot of coating applied by the bulletmaker, or is there a tiny bit of peeled off / shaved coating at that point after the round is seated & crimped?

That last scentence is a good thing. Not bad. Use pins to get the inside of the brass spotless... and it sticks on your expander die. Then you’re dealing with more lube application needed to return to your previous consistency. Leave the inside dirty. It acts like a powdered graphite lube and prevents cases sticking. Why would it possibly matter if the inside isn’t shiny? Your ammo is just as accurate.

Probably gonna standardize on a 124 jhp next year since they shoot lights out in everything I run, compensated or not. If you can think of a place to score 10k or so of them on black friday next year, let me know.

That’s exactly what Everglades did... I bought on Friday, all happy I’d gotten a terrific deal. Then woke up to a 15 percent off deal a couple days later.

A Winchester primer is fully seated in most brands of 9mm at around .008” below flush. More than that and you’re just crushing it to no advantage. CCI primers are physically taller than other brands - just stack 100 in the primer tube and the difference is obvious. That means they can be run at about .006” in hammer-sprung double action guns, as long as you aren’t running a spring below medium weight in strength. A primer isn’t fully seated if it’s flush, the way your Glock-shooting buddies taught you. It’s just seated less than totally high; deeply enough a striker gun will light them consistently. I run CCIs .004” below flush through my 1050 and they’re match-grade consistent. The ability swage then to manually dial in a consistent seating depth was the primary reason I upgraded from my 650. (The tail that sticks out the end of your calipers when you open them wide? That is intended to measure this kind of thing)

Yep. But if you get the accuracy you want out of mixed brass with a .008” OAL variation? Skip sorting by headstamp and run it. I’ve always gotten the accuracy I needed out of such setups - whatever my production guns are capable of. Don’t load for minimum OAL variance. Don’t load for softest possible recoil. Get the ammo tuned to shoot as straight as possible. Grouping well is all that matters.. and sometimes I’ve had pretty large OAL variations, and a large SD, but the gun printed that load 2-2.5” at 25yd. That means I’m done and happy, no matter what my chrono and calipers are telling me.

A steeper incline is key. It really helps to run it closer to 50 or so degrees as opposed to 40-45.

A really good listen: (find this on a podcast app and listen to it on your drive to work.) this

Steven conceeded in a discussion around BF time period that he relies a lot on the mailing list. Mant of us loathe getting emails from people who aren’t our friends and family. We all would much rather see it here, facebook, and instagram. @Ssanders224 is going to do the social media thing next year at in addition to their email list. I have 8k new bullets from Blue and Everglades that likely would have been PD’s instead... if I’d caught their sale on instagram while trolling for deals on black friday.

The tac journal has absolutely the worst content I’ve ever seen. Robert Ray writes at perhaps a 9th grade level, and the articles sent in to review The Des Moines 1st Regional Charity Classic aren’t any more readable.

“Recoil” doesn’t suck nearly as much as the major players. But it’s expensive and comes out less frequently. Have her get you a subscription to https://www.practicalshootingtraininggroup.com/ instead. The content I’ve seen is top notch.

At least around here, when they hear rapid fire you’ll feel them come peek over your shoulder. When they find a solid shooter missing by an inch shooting the dots, and not a novice sending rounds into the ceiling? They keep moving. If they don’t? I’d find a new range.

The metalform mags still suck to seat in a match. I got tired of dealing with it and went to Glock mags. 46 rounds in a 47 round mag click into the gun like you’re loading a Glock handgun with 17 rounds. Absolutely no sweat. A 42 round metalform colt mag downloaded 6 rounds? That still required a palm heel strike to lock in.

Take your final sight picture with a proper cheekweld at “make ready” then flip her on safe and relocate the stock to belt. Don’t move your head. At the beep, snap the stock back where it was. I hit my cheek rather forcefully and then drive it back against my shoulder hard and break the shot. A key component in this is being a guy who braces the rifle below the dominant eye on your chest, body square to target, and then just tucks the chin with a very slight tilting of the head. (If you’re stuck in the 80s and lay your head over 45 degrees onto a stock tucked into the shoulder pocket, standing there with a crick in your neck will be a bit weird.)