Nolan

This has worked for me for around 25+ years. Color coded stripes tells me pressure level, and bullet weight, colored case head tells me how many times loaded. Yes, I'm a manufacturing engineer in real life. Nolan

I think it has more to do with the shape of the bottom edge of the Dillon die. If the case starts a little bit crooked like when the case rim is not fully seated in the shell plate, the Dillon die is less forgiving about straightening the case until the rim is fully seated in the shell plate. It would be interesting to mark 10 rounds, then fire them is the suspect cylinders and then resize 5 of them with the Dillon die being very careful of their position in the shell plate and see what the results were. Then switch to the RCBS die and repeat. Or just switch to the RCBS die and carry on. Nolan

It helps to mark the magazine with a turn of tape just below where the bottom edge of the mag well lines up on a seated magazine. Then practice grabbing the magazine just below the tape, so when you slam the magazine into place, your hand is as high on the magazine as possible and the mgazine as close to vertical as possible while not slamming your thumb knuckle into the edge of the mag well. Ask me how I know how painful that is on the first stage of a match in cold weather! Once it becomes automatic, you can take the tape off, or not. Nolan

Yup, self-correcting problem......shooter doesn't knock down popper and stops shooting. RM comes over, shoots popper and it falls, stage is scored as shot.....12 failures to engage, etc.... Nolan

If that is only happening on one side of the case and only part of the time, the case isn't always going all the way into the shell plate. Either the shell plate is too tight, is dirty, the spring retainer is mis-adjusted or you're just not pushing the case fully into the shell plate. The RCBS die may have more taper to the bottom of the die that allows the case to center in the shell plate, where the Dillon die has a pretty sharp bottom edge. Nolan

Welcome to 2020, sadly I think this has happened to a lot of businesses, it doesn't matter how busy you were or how good your products were, when you can't open your business for 6 months. Nolan

How is the undersize die too tight? If it is just hard to operate the press, use case lube. Any brand of case lube will work for pistol brass and will make the press sooo much easier to operate. What bullet are you loading? Have you measured the diameter of a large sample of the bullets? Nolan

Yes, I put the ELF trigger in, but haven't had much range time with it. The break is much crisper than the Hiperfire, but the reset feels a bit longer than the Hiperfire. Nolan

Go to Midwest Gun Works https://www.midwestgunworks.com/beretta-a-400/parts.html Select a part from the A400 schematic such as #68 (left hammer strut). When you click on #68 the left hammer struts page will open and on the left hand side there is a filter by model box. Select Beretta 1301 (NOT just 1301 which is the Tactical version) and if the part fits the 1301 Comp it will open. Nolan

Yup, they suck so much that they are the most commonly used sight in Open division and have won more matches than all the other red dots combined. Nolan

LOL! Do they leave the package laying on the ground where the delivery driver dropped it? Nice excuse, but 15 minutes in a 150 degree oven and the package and contents are Covid safe, not that it was actually dangerous to start with. I wonder if they do the same thing with their Grub Hub/Door Dash deliveries? Nolan

That is some very nice handwork! Nolan

I think the best course (excuse the pun) would be to do both a video series AND the book. I'm a manufacturing engineer for an Automated Semiconductor Test Equipment manufacturing company and part of my job is to create assembly, calibration, test, and troubleshooting documents on electro-mechanical equipment that have thousands of parts and tolerances down to 12 microns (0.0005"). My last set of documents for a Wafer Probe interface unit was over 2,000 pages, and 4,000 images. It would have been much easier to create about 200-300 pages of reference material, ie. part numbers, torque specifications, measurements, tool requirements with overview images and process descriptions, then created a video series showing the nitty gritty details of each step of the assembly process, rather than having to write a third grade level description of each step of the process. Unfortunately the requirement for my job is for strictly hardcopy process documents. As far as the writing process, there are a lot of books on the subject of technical writing, but primarily the process is outline, outline, outline. Create an overview outline of the major building steps in the proper order, then create an outline for each minor step in the major build order, then create an outline for each detail in each minor step, then fill in each outline and the document has pretty much written itself. (Yeah, right!) As I said above write it for a third grade level of reading comprehension in the most straight forward manner possible. You're not writing a script for an action movie, boring is fine, condescending ain't! Keep a chart of your progress with notes in case for some reason you have to work in a non-linear fashion. Trust me, it is just grinding away, one word, one sentence, one photo at a time. As some famous guy once said "Perfection is the enemy of good!", as Charlie said above, it will never be perfect, but you can make it pretty damn good! If you do a video series, please get a good camera operator who can keep the camera centered and focused on the subject. Use multiple cameras, fixed and mobile. Good luck, and I will be inline/online to buy a copy. Nolan

I don't know if that may have been done to convert GSG 1911 top ends to standard 1911/2011 frames, but this is a photo from CWA Accessories of their conversion kit which is sort of based on the GSG 1911. I have one of the CWA conversions and it used the standard slide stop and slide stop hole. Nolan

Because by the time you made all the changes necessary to copy the 1911/2011 trigger it would be a 1911/2011. Nolan

Like ZZT posted Axiom Blackhawk stock $45-70 on ebay Whistlepig Lightweight threaded 16.5" barrel $185 Allchin 10/22 Muzzle brake $49 Kidd drop-in trigger kit $105 Use the TRS 25 if it's the right height on the Axiom stock. A tube sight works fine on a rifle and it won't wash out in bright sunlight. The light barrel and muzzle brake aren't strictly necessary, since your son is only 5'2" tall if the RO holds the timer higher than your son's head, it will pick up the shots fine. However, shooting a custom rifle with fancy parts.....that's priceless to your son. Nolan

Well, judging by the wait times, prices, and number of Gunsmiths building new Open guns, I suspect never. Nolan

DOH! Too late, I've already ordered the Elftmann trigger to try. Thanks for the information. I'll give Hiperfire a call today. Nolan

I haven't had a chance to try it with anything other than the .22lr conversion and GSG 1911 magazines. Now I'm curious to see if it will run on my 9mm and .40 guns. Unfortunately, it's going to be awhile before I have time to try. Nolan

Thanks.....for spending more of my money! LOL! I'll have to try one. Nolan

After looking at the Rush USA web page, I think those pages haven't been updated for a long time and from the prices those grips aren't available any more.

Chet Whistle at CWA is making a really nice aluminum one. I put one on an older STI frame and it was a perfect drop on fit. It's machined to use the 2011 wide body trigger, and sear spring. All of my wide body parts dropped into the new grip. It also deactivates the grip safety. Nolan https://www.cwaccessories.com/product-page/cwa-wide-body-single-stack-grip

Do you mean failure to eject? Stovepipes and empties caught in the receiver or is it leaving spent cases stuck in the chamber. If it's failing to eject spent cases out of the receiver, it is may need the ejector tuned. Gently bend it upwards until it just almost, but not quite drags on the bottom of the bolt and then then bend it in sideways towards the center until it again, almost, but not quite drags on the bolt. Some people have fixed ejection problems with an aftermarket extractor, but both of mine run fine with the original extractor. (Just make sure you still have one, I had one go missing after a Remington Thunderbolt case blew out.) If it's leaving spent cases in the chamber, and is not resetting the hammer, it is short stroking from the weaker ammo. The bolt is not moving far enough to the rear to hit the ejector and is stuffing the spent case back in the chamber. There is a lot of good information on the 15-22 over on Rimfire Central. Nolan

Those look like the firing pin is too short (but obviously long enough to set off the primer) letting the primer flow back into the firing pin hole and/or the firing pin hole looks like it might be oversized or excessively chamfered. The other marks on the primer look like imprints from debris left on the breachface by the sheared primer flow. Nolan

Thanks for the info. Please report back after 3 or 4 thousand rounds. The Hiperfire 24C spring lasts about 2500 rounds before it fails. Nolan