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I was shooting a CZ TS at the time and I am sure I would run the .401. I run .356 in 9mm, I’m not sure on my.45 but I usually get coated bullets that .001 bigger than jacketed because I was told to years back when I used to shoot lubed lead. Prevents, I was told, excessive leading as a result of incomplete gas sealing. Kind of what I’ve been doing since I started. You might have a different experience , but I’ve been very happy with the accuracy my reloads attain, and their quality.

I have stated on this forum before that I have been reloading Black Bullet International brand since 2007-2008? Anyway, .40S&W, 9mm, now 45acp. I don’t shoot open and have no reason to shoot jacketed or plated. I’ve run thousands upon thousands through all types of platforms. See no reason to change. I think they’re very accurate too.

I wasn’t even thinking about open guns when I was writing. Yeah, would stay with jacketed with comped pistols for sure.

I went from Montana Gold to Black Bullet International years ago. I have been very happy with the accuracy. I don’t see any reason to shoot jacketed bullets for uspsa really at all. Feeding hasn’t been a problem across many platforms. No problems with residues in the barrel. Just accurate and on time and inexpensive. .

Welcome back! I gave up Facebook and Instagram and realized how much I like this forum. Bought a bit of brass an a new pistol over the last year. PCC is intriguing!

I have refused to return to a match that I saw was unsafe. The culture of safety in different clubs becomes obvious when you start shooting outside of your home club. Just another thing to think about. If I see people being unsafe without being called, frankly I get nervous. Ask my friends, I’m not the nervous type.

I was sick a year and a half ago and I was just getting geared up to start shooting again. Then we had the shutdown, and I started dry-firing and reloading again. Made up some excellent targets/stands so that I can start shooting again. Got some friends doing it with me and we have been getting better. Reading through this I have nothing to add about getting faster. I do have a comment though about the help getting better shooting has been for me and my bunch during the pandemic. We are able to concentrate on something positive and fun. Regardless of our politics, age, relationship, when we’re at our “range”, we just shoot and have fun and learn. It’s been great.

Yeah, I’m still burning through the SOLO I bought 32lbs of years back. Running 4.3 for BBI 135 at 1.125 oal.

Definitely. I can still get bullets, brass and some powders. Primers will come back.

Wow, I am very sorry you lost your wife. I too would be devastated to lose mine. Please accept my condolences. Our spouses mean so much to us. Sounds like yours is a great one

I told him to match the stock sights as far as difference between heights front to rear. Out of the box, running factory ball, I can make a 4” group at 25 with the pistol, but those gi sights at speed will cause me issues and I want to run this chunky boy in L10. My eyes are old and tired, but I don’t seem to have glaring trigger control issues. I do shoot sa triggers better than glocks, but for some reason I am faster on the clock with the glocks than any sa platform I have competed with. Maybe it comes from revo beginnings, idk. I sent him the link for a Trijicon set that has a thinner front blade that were on the G17 I got here and am very happy with. Eager to see the new sights. Just got another rig, a caliber change/tool head/powder dispenser set up. Going to wear it out and get another. For some reason I really liked it in drills. Chunky

So... Took a budget RIA 1911A2 to a local gunsmith for a set of sights. Showed him the sights on my production guns. Sevigny and Trijicon. I tell him that either type is acceptable. Then he asked me what distance I wanted my zero to be. I shoot poa-poi for the most part inside of 25yds. I don’t start to compensate for drop until I get out to past this distance and I practice on a-zone size steel from 7-25 yards almost daily and aim center mass out to that distance and get easy center hits. Mind you that’s with a G17 and G34 with reloads 135grBBI over 4.3gr SOLO 1000 that seem pretty accurate and soft shooting. So I’m curious. I used to shoot a CZ TS in .40 S&W and before that a Browning HiPower. Now I run Glocks and I’ve never had accuracy issues with 9mm or 40S&W. When I was younger I started IPSC with a revolver and even then I had no accuracy issues and holding over inside 25 yards. I have had numerous pistols resighted and have never been unhappy with the work done installing a sight on my pistols. I also have never been asked at what distance I would like my pistol zeroed. Is this something I should be noting? Is this different from shooter to shooter?

I tend to believe that. I like the articles on old firearms and reloading. Everything else is junk to me

Sometimes I wear flip flops and my beach sombrero which has a stretch brim that I pull down over my muffs. Long sleeved t-shirt in a green or blue to minimize light bounce, and cargo shorts by carhart because I can stuff about eight Glock mags in each. Sometimes I run mandals/chonklas made by Keen. When it’s cooler I run a pocketless, or standard rip stop lightweight trouser with hiking or trail running minimalist lace-ups and a brown boogie/fishing cap crammed up under my muffs. Wrap-around polarized sunglasses. In the cooler season I run a rosin bag in the rear for extra mag storage. No fashion. Just utility. I’m stuck in 2007 Had to add I live where it’s dry and hot, 110 common in the summer with single digit humidity. I don’t really like sunscreen products so I m pretty much dressing like you would to be in intense sunlight and dry heat. The places I shoot will be milder but very sunny as well. If it’s breezy I just pull my sombrero strap tight.

Pink passive old school peltors over the foam plugs from the big box from 3M that you get from Grainger. No batteries. Always works Avoid squads with open guns. I always know which are mine. I used to wear hearing protection when I worked in manufacturing and I had a set of active cans given to me by my boss. I felt fatigued a bit more sonically at the end of 12 hours. I pitched them. I used to double muff-plug then and when I grind/cut steel I still double up. I have crappy ears from guns/guitars/obnoxious exhaust systems. Im a brute with any equipment. Simple is good.

Strange, got a gun shipped ffl to ffl to my dad in WA for shipping and transfer less than $100 by far. I live here in CA and got a gun shipped into the state in February and it was the same. Not saying that this state doesn’t suck, but you might get a better deal than that for sue.

I don’t know how you wear out a barrel. However I was in the plastics industry for over a decade and I can attest to not wanting a plastic barrel off of a range for recycling. Especially if they have any lead at all in them like shot. It creates an extra step most recycling processes are not equipped to handle. Plastic grinders don’t like lead and even if they did (and believe me they don’t) now I gotta get the shot and fragments out of the regroup game HDPE? Yeah, ain’t gonna happen. They make a decent root barrier though when cut into 10” tall rings if you’re planting shrubs in a planter and like to put flowers around them, just bury the top just 1” below grade.

I now just say it this way lol. I’ve sent my SDB in for rebuilding twice since 2009 and I still haven’t had any problems with BBI and either my G34 or G17 . I’ve run 135s over SOLO 1000 and I am getting ready to switch to Sport Pistol after my SOLO is gone. I like coated lead. They actually have been more accurate than the Montana Gold I used to run, but there are variables to my early reloading and firearms that could account for that.

I’ve been happy with BBI and Bayou. Been shooting coated billets since 2009. These are the two I have settled on over the years. Came from Montana Gold. Started shooting Glocks in 2010 and switched to poly from then on.

I have noticed that I’ve built a tactile memory spot on my trigger fingers left and right that ensure Im pulling that trigger straight back on a Glock. It’s where I remember how the safety hits the same place on my pad tip. Glocks, more than any other pistol I shoot, seem less forgiving of inconsistent trigger stroke. I say stroke because Glock triggers remind me of revolvers more than anything else I have competed with. If I start getting a push left, that usually means I need my finger further on the trigger and the safety is where it belongs. At this point, after taping a stage I can remind myself and just thinking about it, I will adjust. I consider this the price of doing business with the Glock platform. I consistently shoot them faster than other pistols, and they do go bang with wonderful reliability. I find them easy to fix, get parts for, and they’re built for my hands.They were the first pistols besides revos that felt good in my hands. I think it’s the reason I put in the time to learn the platform. That push though, I find it more of a problem if I don’t practice.

Really interested to know who will be making extensions for this shotgun as well as if any of you guys have had a chance to shoot one?

I usually take a large amount of any overtime I get paid for or tax return and buy two cases of primers and 16# of powder. I then buy Everglades brass 3500 every three months and the same for bullets overlapping a pay period. Only way I can afford to shoot is buying components in bulk but staggered so that m not buying all the components simultaneously. Spreading the cost out is better for me

Thanks we will look at this.

I’m thinking that the thing that improved my shooting skills the most was a timer. Regardless of firearm, the timer will give you metrics to show improvement. A timer will make you a better shooter.

You might consider a wheel gun. Nothing teaches trigger control and stage planning like a revolver. It was my first game gun and all triggers have been easy for me as a result.