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I wet tumble without pins.
I put a 5 gallon of caliber sorted brass in a cement mixer. Fill with water, put a squirt of dish soap, and some lemishine. Run for 30 minutes. Dump water, add more water put some lemishine, and armor all wash & wax, run for another hour. Dump water, rinse brass until there is no bubbles. Air dry in the sun for a couple of hours, and then put it in a 5 gallon bucket with an eva dry. While it is air drying I pick out stuff like wrong caliber and non-reloadable brass.
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On 1/17/2018 at 4:05 PM, brisix said:
In general the Lee pin seems more robust, no more breaking the retaining clip on the Dillon. Not a big deal just a PIA, especially when you realized you have no more backups.
There are some really robust aftermarket Lee decapping pins.
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I've used the TF +10s they work well. They required no modification to the magazines I use them in. They are enough for the average USPSA field course.
Though I am thinking about trying the MBX Minis, since they appear to be easier to take apart for cleaning.
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On 7/6/2017 at 3:05 PM, practical_man said:
Also, if you have thoughts on a decent practice timer for use on a public range that would help too. Adjustable sensitivity is necessary to filter out adjacent firing points. AA or recharable batteries is a bonus.
I use the Shotmaxx. It is in a wrist watch format, and uses micro USB for recharging. It has an accelerometer that can detect when you fire a gun, so it can be used even on indoor ranges. But it is a pain to set par times with it.
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I think a lot of the Friday only people would be more likely to be able to swing the 17th than the 13th.
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Nordic really should make ones with huge mag wells built in. And a Colt SMG magwell.
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I just got one of these in. It is slightly smaller than the Taccom mag well, but it is much more secure as I've had the Taccom mag well come off a couple of times. No issues reloading at all, in fact since it is more secure I can push the reloads harder.
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On 8/2/2015 at 7:20 PM, yellowfin said:
6. Clean your guns before flying each way, and wash your hands! (Powder residue...need I say more?)
Disassembling long guns to make them fit in shorter cases is very, very handy.
Speaking from experience I can tell you this doesn't matter. I rarely clean my guns, and more than once I've gone straight from the range to the airport. Since I am opt-out/alarm I get my hands swabbed every single time. I've never once set off one of their ETD machines.
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On 10/19/2017 at 8:02 PM, JakeMartens said:
Polk County has 6000 hotel rooms, and 6000 rentals
The Polk County Board of Tourism is working the us and USA range to host offset awards
We picked a calendar period that provided the best rates on hotels before the "snow bird" tourism season started and away from hurricane season
Most school systems that follow the year round calendar have a fall break during this time period for families wanting to shoot and visit a place near by that has a few million visitors a year.
My usual suggestion is to stay in Winter Haven. It isn't much further than Lake Wales (about 10 minutes further IME), but it has more options for food and drink. For the kids there is Legoland in town, and Orlando isn't too faraway.
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On 10/3/2017 at 11:11 PM, Southpaw said:
If it's classified as a rifle or SBR according to the ATF then it's legal for PCC; if it's classified as a pistol then it's not. At least that's my understanding of what that rule means.
Machine guns are allowed too, you just can't switch it to hoser mode.
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On 9/23/2017 at 5:37 PM, OPENB said:
9mm burns it's powder charge in 5-8" of barrel, so a 16" barrel could actually make the bullet slower as it leaves the muzzle, depending on the powder used.
You would have to really download the round to a slower round out of a 16" barrel. IME every pistol round I shot out of a PCC chronos faster than out of a 5.25"ish 2011. And ballistics by the inch shows every round they tested didn't get slower until 17".
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On 5/30/2017 at 4:23 PM, DWFAN said:
offered in .575x40?
EGW makes a comp in that thread pattern, in fact they seem to be the only one that makes a Ti comp in that thread pattern. I have one arriving Monday.
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On 5/18/2017 at 7:32 PM, NMBOpen said:
Just before the STI/Handgunner (2006-2007?) ceased operation they imposed a 1200fps speed limit on ammo due to frag issues. That's when I switched to 147g @ 1150fps instead of 124's to make major.
Action Targets says that is the wrong solution to prevent frag. Faster bullets fragment into smaller parts.
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Besides which, if you are talking about Steel Challenge the order of finish prize table they use has a huge inequity due to it being open vs irons. The same shooter will be 5-10% faster with an open gun than with iron sights. You can see it in the results with Max, Dave, and others shooting limited/production vs their open times.
So as a long time iron sight only shooter cry me a freaking river. This was my first year shooting open, it was nice to get up there before all the nice prizes were gone.
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On 4/11/2017 at 2:55 PM, RippinSVT said:
Traditional USPSA aside, they have an astronomical advantage in Steel...What if there's money/prizes on the line for HOA? Then yes, I think it's silly that you can bring a rifle to a pistol match. Maybe add an automatic .5 seconds to PCC? I dunno.
Many steel challenge matches that do order of finish prize tables either have a separate prize table for PCC, or the PCC dude simply doesn't walk the prize table for their PCC finish. At the Florida State Steel Challenge I had to shoot a pistol division to walk the prize table. At the Steel Nationals and the SE Pro Am there was a separate prize table for PCC.
Heck this year was the first time there was a rimfire prize table at the Steel Nationals. They sometimes had prizes that were only for people who shot rimfire, but they only had a chance at it when they walked based on their centerfire order of finish.
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Well I finally got around to calling EGW, the description on that part is wrong so it won't fit because that sku is meant for bull barrels, but they do make a .575 x 40 Ti Comp.
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I want to replace the aluminum comp on my Steel Challenge gun with a titanium comp. But it doesn't look like there is anyone offering any, most seem to either be cone, or bull barrel comps.
Anyone have any suggestions?
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I was planning to and even signed up but, after shooting the Optics Nationals and the Steel Nationals back to back I am tapped out.
I need to make some money.
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6 hours ago, Dutchman195 said:
I was surprised that you could put up a 30 second (ish) stage time and still come away from it with a hit factor. Saw some big names zero this so slow and steady won this race. I think every match needs this type of standards. Much like the really far standards targets that I have always seen a Production and SS nationals.
I shoot NRA AP/Bianchi, so I just went up taking my time and shot as many alphas as I could. TBH I probably could've gone a bit faster, but I was playing it a bit safe.
12 hours ago, rowdyb said:So you were the dude I saw with what looked like a ductaped foot?
Also, I do not think this stage was too hard to be included in this match.
No, thankfully a lot of the rocks were gone by the time I got down there. But I did have to take it much slower than I would've have on grass or sand.
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1 minute ago, bret said:
you had a 3.79 hf
Hmm higher than I remember. I guess my mind was on stage 20, the rocks on that stage terrified me more than stage 18.
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1 minute ago, bret said:
shooting pcc is easier on this stage.
You didn't need to tell them that, I wanted to look awesome.
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I had zero mikes on stage 18 I even got a 3.5HF, in fact I didn't have a single mike during the match... for targets I actually shot at.
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10 hours ago, eric4069 said:
At sunrise the sun was directly behind the shooter for this stage. At sunset would have been in shooters eyes but don't know how low the sun was for the last squad of the day.
It was pretty high up in the sky when we finished, most squads finished.
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4 hours ago, Schutzenmeister said:
It is VERY common for clubs at local matches to post mixed scores as folks frequently like to know how they did, head-to-head against their friends despite the fact they may have been shooting different Division. If you go far enough back in the history of the sport, this was actually the rule and not the exception. It changed to "by Division" something like 15-20 years ago.
Aren't the divisions themselves from the mid-90s?
De-priming upside down primers
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I've done it a few times. I do the same thing I do for depriming any live primers of questionable origin (mostly range pick up live rounds). I wear eye & ear pro, do it very slowly, on a single stage press using a universal decapping die.