UW Mitch

So it turns out my new dentist is also a FFL holding gun dealer! And when I went into his office he had a copy of Shooting Times with the Stag 3G on the cover. So I asked him if he'd get me pricing availability on a 3G for me - all of his distributors are out of stock I hope that Stag ramps production on these. I'm sure they're all out of stock because of how great a value these guns appear to be. ~Mitch

I was wondering the same thing! I bet Discovery Channel did a LOT of legal research to determine what they could or couldn't show. I'm don't pretend to understand the legal implications, but when I think about home brewers for beer - this is very similar only with hard alcohol and in large volume. Maybe the loophole is that unless they show someone selling it AND not paying taxes on the income they're okay? Or maybe has to do with the volume that they show on the program? Interested in hearing LEO or lawyer input on this ~Mitch

That is sick!

Brutal...I always show my wife the new toys when they come in the house, 'cause I figure she'll see them eventually - she just never asks about price. ~Mitch

What about federal match primers? That's what I use in my 2 bolt guns.

I'm doing powder in 3 and seating in 4. On the upstroke powder is dropped in the case, on the downstroke before the shellplate is indexed to the next location I visually verify powder, place the bullet with the left hand, and continue the downstroke holding the bullet in place. This has eliminated the spilling for me, loading Major9 with Sil. It's no slower once in a rhythm, I just have to be attentive to what I'm doing (as we all should be while reloading). With 5 primer tubes loaded up I can do about 500 rounds in an hour.

But why can't I just solve my deficiencies in training by spending money on hardware???

I used to say this all the freaking time, then 2 matches in a row (one in Puyallup WA and one at Sherwood, OR) had 11 paper targets and no obvious place to reload. It's still relatively rare to have stages like these... FYI, I have STI bodies, SNL basepads and Grams followers and only get 20 in. Must be variablity in the mag bodies and the "sometimes" on the SNL pads. ~Mitch

The G20 and G21 are large frames. The G34/G24/17/22 are a different frame size. You can't slap a 24 slide onto a G20 frame. If you want a 24 buy a 24 slide and put it on your 34 frame. ~Mitch

I've taken to just adding things to my wishlist then dumping the wishlist into a cart before I order Order submitted yesterday and got a shipping notification this morning. So not the ultralightspeed same day before 2pm, but still really fast! ~Mitch

I prefer whatever JPL has tuned for my gun Really, I think it comes down to the gunsmiths tuning and adjusting any of the high quality parts on the market for your gun more than dropping in 'the right brand' and having it run. ~Mitch

Holy smokes! That's more than my company spends on me a year!

Probably 'cause one person has to walk across a gigantic warehouse to ask another person to go pull the order and the other person might be out to lunch or whatever. Still...good to know that if I'm in a rush, I shouldn't cross combine.

I hadn't ordered anything from Brownells since their consolation with Sinclair and Police Store (I know, I've already been shamed by Chuck Anderson for not having the need for an FFL in over a year). I was super happy to see that I could order things for multiple places and they go in one cart and I pay one shipping. Awesome! Thank you Brownell's! ~Mitch

I totally disagree. The guy had severe problems with his pistol fundamentals not related at all to the gun's trigger. Also, if anything the whole point of a competition trigger is that it's easier to shoot well than a stock trigger. Sadly it seems more like the guy choked. It looked like the same kind of thing in the shotgun challenge - folks just weren't in a competition mindset or weren't used to being under pressure. Not really sure. Seems like the blue team's approach with Iron Mike Hughes was a winning approach. Maybe next go around they can have copies of Brian's book in the house. ~Mitch

It's always sad to see a new shooter chrono sub-minor and not get to be scored at a match. And the matches with chrono are usually the "bigger" ones, so its' doubly sucky. Find out of any of the folks in your club have a chrono they'd set-up to let you use - or piggy back on a friends chrono session. I did that for many years - I finally bought my own. ~Mitch

If someone has too much money and wants a glock like that, I've got a milling machine - send me your 34 and I'd be happy to fu@k it up like the one they shot last night ~Mitch

If they were 10rd mags, then why did they have extended base pads on them? Was fun to watch "the revolver guy" school the "glock guy". ~Mitch

I just did a loaded table start this weekend...

I should chrono my open gun loads, which have at Area matches consistently come in at 172. If it reads 172 on my chrono than I can be confident. If it comes out under or over I know there's some adjustment factor. Fascinating that at a big match with double screens in a box they give different readings. I'm guessing not different by "that much". Do they take the higher of the two? ~Mitch

Ants, Here's the data. Same gun, same ammo, 15 minutes apart. MG 165 CMJ, 1.18" COL, Wolff primer, 5.2gr Ramshot Competition. My screens: String 4 995.7 965.9 952.3 994 975.2 967.3 965.2 972.8 961.8 962.3 High: Low: E.S.: Ave.: S.D.: 95%: 995.7 952.3 43.4 971.2 13.2 10.5 Richard's IR screens: String 5 994.9 1028 1007 1000 1002 1003 1046 1024 1009 High: Low: E.S.: Ave.: S.D.: 95%: 1046 994.9 51.1 1012.7 15.6 13.5 Seems like slightly more variance in ES and SD with the IR screens, but within a few fps. So it doesn't look totally like the difference is just random statistical error. Ultimately the only velocity that matters is the velocity that the chrono reads at a match, so it has me wondering...which would be most like the chrono at a match? ~Mitch

I recently bought a CED M2. I didn't spring for the IR screens because I mostly would be testing outdoors in nice weather. I've been working up a load for my JPL 6" gun with MG 165gr CMJ's. Today a couple friends (also with a CED M2) were wanting to chrono with their equipment when I finished with the bay. Just for interest, they had me plug my M2 into their IR screens. Same ammo and to my surprise on a 10 shot string the average was about 40fps different (1013fps versus 971fps...higher with the IR screens). The "good news" is that my screens were reading slower not faster - therefore if I work up a load on my screens averaging 1020fps I should be more than safe at a bug match. Anyone have experience with side by side, same day testing IR versus non-IR? ~Mitch

The dryer sheet is about picking up the dust, not eliminating static cling

I'll echo the bell as little as possible to get the bullet to sit and seat and crrmp as little as possible to get the loaded round to case gauge and feed. I used to use used dryer sheets because I was cheap and figured they acted like a screen filter. Then I tried a new dryer sheet and found whatever the "stuff" on it was, really helped to attract the fine dust. Additionally, a friend who uses walnut media for tumbling other materials would take his tumbler out in the driveway, with a fan behind him, and a long nozzle on his air compressor and just blow all the dust out of his tumbler. Works well, but you might not want to do it if you've got animals or kids around as tumbled brass dust is pretty nasty. ~Mitch

I like the Bladetech DOH as well. And if you don't want the dropped offset piece, you can always take it out and just have a OWB on the Stingray loops.