Shadowrider

Hmmm. Tagged. I'm about to be coming due for another case pretty shortly. Last case I bought didn't have a single bullet that looked like that, at least not that I noticed. No complaints at all with my past purchases.

Weird. My Trojan has been 100% on Dawson mags and the Brownells black coated mags, both of which are Metalforms with the spacer I believe. It didn't like the Wilson ETM/Vickers mags at all and one other it refused to run on, Tripp I think (can't remember), mine just seems to demand the metalform design.

I don't think you have anything to worry about especially loading that short. I'm loading 3.1 of E3 and it's 140+ PF in my 16" JP Barrel. I'm just living with that, I don't want different piles of ammo for my different 9mm game guns. I'm running the 135 TC NLG blue bullet at 1.135".

Eh... I shoot my Python on occasion. I think it's sacrilege NOT to shoot them. But I don't beat it up shooting matches. O/P: Light bullets and fast powder. Load lightly and you'll get a load to shoot almost like a rimfire.

3rd or 4th on the adjustment pawls being sensitive. I had one and had to tweak them out of the box. Never an issue after that. How are consistent are your powder throws? I'll second that WST throws dead nuts from my experience. I never...ever have to fiddle with my powder measure after it's set. I always run mixed brass which contributes to the ES but WST isn't the most consistent in the velocity department anyway. Never seems to bother how it shoots though. I still have about 10lbs as my "emergency reserve" supply. Works great with coated and plated bullets just don't run too close to the PF line and it's reverse temp sensitive, it slows down in the heat. Run your loads at 7 to 8 PF over for cushion.

I've loaded the PD 124 JHP in .357 Sig. Worked great but I don't carry with them, I have a case of Speer Gold Dot for carry. But the PD seems to be a well suited profile for .357 Sig. I prefer the PD bullets in general because the base is not exposed lead and is formed consisently.

I think it's kind of gun dependent. I know guys that get better groups with Long Colt length brass than Short Colt and another runs his brass right between them. Also plated bullets are a crap shoot in my experience and finicky to load properly. My 686 will shoot 147RN Extreme's (.357dia) somewhat okay but my 625 throws 230RN Extremes like a shotgun pattern at 20 yards no matter the load. I literally use all scoring zones and can't call my shots if my life depended on it. In general I've had far better luck with plain lead and coated lead (Bayou, ACME, etc.) than with anyone's plated bullets. If they only shot as clean as plated, though the coated are a drastic improvement over plain.

Shhhhhh.....

From when I was shooting revo. Fed SPP Starline 38 SColt Brass 3.3 grs E3 160 Bayou 1.155 132 PF (6" 686) FYI. Starline .38 Short Colt brass is identical to their .38 Special brass except for trim length and head stamp.

I think it's an evil plot to stop us reloaders from having our fun. First it was small primer .45 brass, now this crap. I hate to see what's next...

I also just picked up an M die in 9mm. Also running it in a 650 with the Dillon expander set to just barely give a bell, not enough to even consider. I run my M die in station 3 with a big caveat. I had to grind off the end of the expander plug a good long ways because there is no room for the expander in the case if there is powder in it. I'm pretty sure it would also tell you real quick if you missed a Ammoland or FM stepped case in your sorting because I think it would bottom out in it. The webs are considerably thicker on those and the expander plug looked to basically fill the case at depth, or very close to it. I just ground it until it's a few thousandths shorter than the Dillon in station 2, then re-ground a nice sized radius and polished it up with a cotton fob and jewelers rouge on a Dremel. Good to go now. They have a couple of different ones, I have the "AP" part numbered die. I'm wondering now if the other is longer and would work better in the 650. The "AP" die is just barely long enough to work but it will. It would be nice if they made the die body a bit longer. I'm a firm believer in M dies for lead bullets. I haven't shaved a single bullet in .45 since going to them. I didn't have to grind the .45 die either. Hmmm....

What little I've used it, tells me what others have said. It's not a light target powder. It seems to excel when you hot rod it. It's scary accurate at a max load in .45 with 230 XTPs in a couple of my guns.

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I'll 2nd what louu said. I run Exodus, Phoenix, and SALTS. I need to look into an updated build and get some more as my build is quite dated. I'd like to find the OAN network, but there is some live cable TV on there, I watch Fox News pretty regularly. Like louu said practically EVERYTHING is in there if you can dig it up. If you have Amazon Prime get on the FIRE platform, whether it be the stick or their box. I'd recommend their box. The stick works just fine but the box is much more responsive, the sticks are kind of irritating with the slowness of your inputs, but they do work pretty well.

172. It cleaned up around 160. I'm running the Hi-Tech coated bullets.

I had this problem until I got up into the proper pressure range. I was very conservative and backed way off when I first started with it. Dirty barrel just like you mention. Then it just went away, it may be the cleanest powder I've ever loaded.

The 340 has the best sight of the bunch. But honestly the LCR is a better gun if you can get past the ugly. Better more modern design and materials, smoother lighter trigger, and you can replace the front sight if you wish. I had 2 of them in .38SP. Don't know that it would be worth the extra weight to go 9mm or .357 so if .357 is what you want I'd go 340PD.

Don't feel too bad. Geissele doesn't work either. JP Bolt here...

My Geissele Rapid Fire Trigger (B-GRF) isn't exactly rapid fire. More like single shot. No resetty. QC10 lower with all JP stuff in the upper. I guess a JP trigger is called for.

Good to hear on the Safariland pouches as I have 4 of them. Merry Christmas all!

Do you guys get any different times with 30+ round mags? Got any numbers? I need to pick up some G17 mags, all I have are 33 rounders.

That's just pretty salty right there...

Just ordered 2 of the Dawson pads. I like the idea of not having to round up odd ball springs, they are tool less take-down, and the price was reasonable. Hopefully they work as advertised.

Running a 27" Mid-2011 iMac. Quad core processor, 1TB drive, magic drive and 12GB of RAM with the OSX 10.11.6. I bought new and have had no hardware issues to date. Bottom line is that it still suits my needs after all this time. I'm wanting to go to Sierra but I'm thinking that a fresh install is in order. Safari occasionally will grab the processor and not let go as will the new MS Office 360 version of Excel requiring me to power down until it happens again. I know...I know. But I have to use MS Excel for work. It's just not an option to use Open Office or Numbers. I've upgraded OSX ever since Lion, so however many upgrade installs that is. Should I go fresh or upgrade again? I am running Time Machine to an external USB drive so I can move all of my work files, pics, etc. back. I also have an upgraded iCloud account so that's an option. This pegging out the processor problem has been going on for 2 or 3 months now and seems to have started with a Safari upgrade, but I'm not positive on that. I thought I had the problem pinned to Safari as if I quit the program it very rarely does it and if I caught it in time I could force quit Safari and get the CPU back sometimes. Then I caught Excel taking it over when Safari was quit a couple of times. I never had these issues at all before this and I'm going to transition to Sierra, so it sounds like maybe something that could be "cleaned up" by a fresh install. What say the Enosphere experts? Is there a hard and fast rule to go fresh after a certain number of upgrades?

Well with 3 freakin TONS of brass to do, ya gotta be resourceful! Wish I had a problem like 3 TONS of brass. lol Good luck and don't knock it off the table!