[Which one?]

Irons while my eyes will still play the game.

Pumpkin, apple, cherry?

[Which one?]

Green definitely, smoked or grilled

[Which one?]

At one time it was Jack, from the bottle, passed between friends.

Smoked or grilled?

[What happens if bullet is touching the rifling?]

I am loading a valient 180gr lrnfp bullet at 1.131 oal length and the finished rounds wont drop in and out of the chamber of my kkm glock barrel, it acts like it is getting stuck in the rifling. My crimp is good which leads me to my question, what could be causeing this? Do i need to throte my barrel for the larger lead bullet diameter?

Thanks

Sorry, meant 1.131 oal

Probably

Many of the aftermarket, replacement barrels come with very short chambers. I just put a Kart barrel (9mm) in and it had no "throat", just a square joint where the chamber ended and the rifling started. Sent a dummy round and the barrel to a gunsmith I know and had the barrel throated.

One way to do it is to load a dummy round so it fits in the magazines with a reasonable amount of clearance and throat the barrel to match the dummy round. Then you can probably load most bullet shapes that you may want to use.

This would be your answer right here.

[Terrible Match Performance]

Went and shot my first match in over a year and a half. My job and traveling for it have kept me out of the dryfire dojo or the range for nearly that long. Just getting back. Everything felt awkward. Gun felt foreign to me. Just a real wake up call to what I have to do to get back in the game this year. Not to mention it was an all-classifier match to boot. My draw, reloads, accuracy, everything was in the toilet compared to the past.

It was awesome! Even though the pistol and the action felt foreign, deep down I felt in me heart that I was home shooting with my best of friends, making plans to shoot more matches, making deals on components, and practice sessions for an upcoming match.

Just Amazing. I love this sport!

[Just Watched Nils Video, Cheap Limited Gear?]

I used to run a TS in Limited. Blade tech holster was indeed great for it. I used the versa pouches and besides their position, I think it was all production legal gear.

[Which one?]

Sorry, Chuck, but Bruce Lee.

Cake or Pie?

[Lets talk Classic Division]

The point I tried to make in the beginning is, if you go 40 you can use the same gun and mags for either major or minor- it just depends on your load. You could try both quite easily.

that's a valid point, but imho its a good reason to go 45.... so you "have to buy a 9mm too to compete in minor, honey".

I thought the whole point was to buy more guns. Perhaps I'm doing it wrong...

Seems logical to me

[How do Berry's Bullets compare to Rainier and other plated bullets]

Very well. MG is a fine bullet mfg co. If they were as cheap as moly or the price I get Raniers for, then I would stick with them. For 9mm or 9Major, the 121IFP is just a great bullet in any handgun I have.

[Reload Epiphany: Where to Look]

Smitty79, Thank You for that information/link. I stopped shooting not long before that thread/discussion/ruling took place. It made for very interesting reading, all ten pages, but I am headed to the safe to pull that dot of tape off!

Thanks again for keeping me straight!

I used the dot method when I was getting my reloads dialed in a few years back and eventually rubbed the dot off. Good thing I haven't re applied it! Glad I read this!

[Should I buy this Glock 34?]

Please buy, you will be happy with that.

[Face Plant on Stage 4]

Your recovery was awesome! No sympathy from the peanut gallery though! LOL!!

Good stuff!

[Finding out you have some stuff you forgot!]

Early onset dementia for sure. I'm sure I won't mind anyway.

[Colt Anaconda]

Pin Gun!

[How do clubs deal with brass pick-up at local matches?]

If you and your wife are shooting together, then use the brass mower for each other and leave a shooter between the two of you for just that reason. If you mark your brass as well, and leave anything that is not yours, nobody has reason to gripe.

[Cost of hardwoods]

Used to do high-end interior fabrication. Think anything from wood, clay, metal, stone in homes of people like Bill and Melinda. I was constantly blown away by the costs of materials, namely wood and fabrics/leathers. I have a sapele entertainment center, and the small ebony accents costs almost as much as the rest of the hardstock sapele. Yeah, and the stuff grows on trees too lol!

[20 Degree Weather]

Good luck up there Youngeyes. Even as they complain around here about the "cold", I remind them of those of you who live in the north/east/northwet/Dakotas/central plain states or the mountain states who know what that word really means. Alaska? Well they are waaaay up there where you can expect this kind of weather annually.

[Glock Zev tech Dragonfly]

That looks like an awesome 3Gun pistola right there! Sweet! That picture took me to your gun porn sight too. Oh man I still have goosebumps! Following this thread closely.

[Bullet Weights-Practice vs. Match Ammo]

There is a BBI 130, or 135 is there not? That should give you a great impulse recoil wise and be a great one size fits all. I used to shoot that size from them for a long time IIRC. Think I bought two big boxes that lasted me for a year. (7k?) Use to run them over Solo 1000. That was a really accurate round out of my g17.

[Bullet Weights-Practice vs. Match Ammo]

Aw man, just go with one size fits all approach if you can. One die setting, one charge setting, one flare setting, etc., etc. Probably not worth the overall hassle.

[Finding out you have some stuff you forgot!]

Was under the impression I was out of brass, 9mm anyway. Called up a buddy and he brought me over about 1100 in a big baggie. Went out to the garage to tumble them tonight, and the tumbler was full of tumbled 9mm brass already run through the u die. Hmm, well I guess I'll have to separate that I thought and went to run them through the sieve and into my one of two catch 5gal buckets.... It's full of media (1/2 full) that is full of more 9mm brass run through the tumbler and the u die. Looks like I have about 5k and only have to de-prime/resize about 1100 that I tumbled today.

Went and discovered I have more than enough powder, and primers to cover that, and need only get another 3.5k projectiles for that. Just awesome!!!

Less mental stress looking at the upcoming year.

[Lightning strikes twice; life sucks and is NOT fair!]

I am humbled. Viva Vera! Wow!

[Optimum Loads: When am I there?]

Auto-loading pistol rounds?

First find the OAL for the given projectile that allows it to feed and chamber well in your pistol. There may be a max and min, that's good to know. Then see what it takes to get that thing up to your PF with your powder. After that, you can see if adding powder is beneficial to your accuracy, or if adjusting your OAL without causing feeding issues makes an improvement. You will find that the best possible combo for each projectile and powder, and that is pretty much optimal. Best feeding, best accuracy for the given components and given firearm.

Have fun! I love reloading to this day.

[20 Degree Weather]

Wow, just took the dogs out, and 32F! That is cold for Bermuda Dunes CA. Took the dogs out to the snow last night about this time early AM. The chain station was unoccupied or staffed so I took the Subaru on up to Pinyon. 25mph behind the plow from Vista Point to the village. The dogs live in CA still and were running around like kids in the snow. Never had dogs so happy to see snow. Thought I wold get a break from the cold in NM. I guess not for a while. Taking the kids sledding tomorrow though so that's a plus!

[24" barrel AR]

If your running in tac irons a quality red dot is quicker for most people than actual iron sights. If your running a scope it's just to play in tac optics, which always has the largest competitor field, not because you really need one at those ranges.

Thanks!