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To Bart's point thoughif you can get three times the reloads out of SC brass aren't you money ahead with the SC using your formula? I think the other thing to factor in is that there will be a significant amount of 9mm brass at a normal club match from the production shooters, and in my experience you can easily pick up more than you shot at the end of the match. While you may be able to pick up all the super you shot, you are probably are going to have too look really hard in multiple bays.

I was thinking about limited guns last night and have a hypothetical question. If limited division was changed from a magazine length limited to a capacity limited (15 rounds for example), what platform/cartridge would be the choice? For the sake of this question, 9mm major would be allowed because it wouldn’t create any capacity difference. (I don’t care about the “this rule shouldn’t change” type of comments. I’m more interested in how everyone thinks removing the variable of magazine capacity would change the “equipment race” related to pistol designs.) A couple questions: Would 40 still be the caliber of choice? (What about 9mm major or 45 [heavy bullets?]?) Would the capacity limits make other platforms more viable/popular (as this would remove the factor of giving up 1-4 rounds of capacity to STI/SVI’s 40’s used by the majority of limited shooters)? (For example: glock, xd, m&p, cz-75(clones), Berettas, caspians, sigs, etc.) My opinion is that it wouldn’t change much because the doublestack STI&SVI have nice trigger pulls and tons of customizing choices, but I wonder if single action sigs and cz-75 copies would pick up popularity. Also the capacity disadvantage of the striker-fired guns would be removed. I’m curious what everyone else thinks would be the best shooting platform/cartridge in this hypothetical case.

The apex sears are back in stock. It looks like there are 18 left. http://www.apextactical.com/hp_zencart/

Thanks for the info, I'll have to try out the rooster lube to avoid the stickiness of the alox tumble lube. In the way of cost, I have found casting to be a significant savings, I'm able to buy wheel weight lead ingots for right around $1.00 per pound delivered. I cast 9mm 125gr round nose bullets and tumble lube them with liquid xlox (bulk lee alox). My costs assuming ~90% yield of purchased lead is $20/k vs. $45/k to $50/k for purchased lead bullets.

I haven't had a chance to try them out yet, but I loaded up some test rounds of .223, 69 gr nosler comp, and various weights of tac. From what I can tell from a few threads on here, tac seems to be popular with heavier bullets 69 gr and up in .223. It is talked about a little bit here. http://www.brianenos.com/forums/index.php?...&hl=tac+223

I've had one for a month now and I really like it. A couple of negatives would be the slider key board is too small to use (for me), but the touchscreen keyboard is very easy to use. Battery drains quick if you web browse and watch videos (video in HQ are great on this phone), but has always lasted the whole day.

I run solo 1000 with lead bullets and xlox tumble lube and the smoke doesn't bother me much. Powders do seem to effect the amount of smoke with lead bullets, tightgroup created alot of smoke with lead bullets when i tried it out.

Where is there a restriction other than "maximum of 6 rounds fired before reload"? If I shoot 8 and then UASC, what rule did I violate? Rule 6.2.5.1 Failure to satisfy the equipment or "other" requirement ( Maximum of 6 shots fired before reload) of declared Division during a course of fire. But, he didn't violate the rule because he didn't reload right?

You're missing the point. The fact that you can tune a load to your gun to get better accuracy doesn't make it "better" ammo. You and I can't make ammo as consistently and perfectlyu as they can. The only thing we can do is tune it to our gun. So, our ammo might shoot better in our gun, but it's not "better" ammo. The machines we use simply aren't capable of building ammo as precisely as a factory can. Think about any single operation and they have a machine and system that can do it better, time after time, than what we use. Our dies and presses are toys in comparison. Like I said earlier, send your gun to a factory and tell them to come up with the absolute best combo they can and it's going ot outperform anything you can come up with because they have relatively unlimited time, people, historical data, testing equipment and resources to work on it....you and I don't. R, I understand that...but the point is that, since none of us have the luxury, of having a factory tailor ammunition to the ever changing needs of our guns....we can build better ammunition than ANY available factory load....I even started a poll to see what others think....I mean if you want to get caught up in semantics....then yes "better" is a incorrect word for me to use.....but that's what your basis is, semantics... let me correct my laymen term I can build better ammunition for my gun, than any factory ammunition I can acquire....because I do not have the luxury of having a factory (with precision instrumentation, and measurement methods) build ammunition for my specific needs.... It's not semantics on my part. When I say something is "better" I mean it's of a higher quality, made to tighter specs. You're taking the concept of accuracy and substituting it for quality, which is a false notion. Accuracy results with one versus another says nothing about the overall quality, which we normally call "better" and "worse". The painful fact is that your ammo, in your gun, is of a lower quality than what a factory can produce....it's that way for all of us. It will have more OAL variation, more velocity variation, greater powder charge variation, etc....virtually everything except maybe case and bullet specs (assuming you use what they do, or better) will be to a lower standard than factory ammo. The fact that you can get better accuracy with a lower quality ammo isn't a new concept. .22LR is the best example of that. Frequently people will find a certain ammo that happens to be in the sweet spot for a particular gun and going to ammo that's twice as expensive, and clearly of higher quality, with more rigorous quality control measures won't do anything to help accuracy and is often less accurate. That's what you're experiencing with your guns. A lower quality ammo, that is tuned to the gun more closely provides greater accuracy.....but the quality still is lower any way you cut it. Keep in mind I load a LOT of ammo and rarely shoot factory, so I'm not bagging on handloading, I'm just telling it like it is. We're all hobbyists and we don't have the equipment, time, experience or resources to be able to make ammo to the same quality standard as a manufacturer can. It's like a guy trying to build a race car in his garage. He might build one that's a better match for the local track, but it's not going to be better (from a quality standpoint) than one that comes out of a professional race car shop. R, I guess I shouldn't get involved with this battle of words, but I think about "better" a little differently. In this game what do we care about when related to ammo? 1.) reliability 2.) accuracy 3.) consistency (doesn't matter much unless it starts to effect power factor, accuracy, or reliability) There may be a couple more things to consider, but if my loaded ammo is more accurate, equally reliable, but slightly less consistent dimensionally then my ammo is "better" (i used the "b" word oh no) for me than the factory ammo. Who cares about dimensional and powder variance if they don't significantly effect the things that matter.

It's hard to say. Since you are shooting IDPA and I assume CDP class. I would probably pick 4 mags (only need 3 for IDPA) and run 8 rounds through them 6 times, that would be roughly 200 rounds. I would feel pretty comfortable with the mags and the load at that point.

I haven't had any trouble with 200 swc or 185 swc (lead) with my M&P 45. It seems to eat everything and doesn't seem to care about length. We had loaded up some 200 swc for a 1911 and it didn't like them because they were too short, but the M&P fed them just fine. Just to try it out I put a fired piece of brass in the mag and it even fed that. However, all guns are a little different and if I were you I would just go with the 230rn if you don't have the primers to test it out and make sure.

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Great how does the trigger feel? (Short and crisp, long and smooth, etc.) This is somewhat subjective, but it seems like you can change the feel based on the sear angle between the sear and the triger bar.

Any new news on these sears? How are the preproduction sears? These would make good Christmas gifts and its that time of year.

I like my DA belt. The thickness makes it difficult to put the holster on but once it's on it doesn't move.

I've found the same thing almost every time I find a cracked piece of brass it is nickel plated

I would be interested in this event, I've been looking at getting into limited. I don't have a limited gun to bring but I can bring my M&P's if anyone wants to shoot them. Any of the ranges surrounding Indy work for me. Chris W.

I have never measured group size with the load listed after firing x number of rounds, but 1.5in at 50 feet is not a bad group. I personally wouldn't worry about it, the most difficult target in steel challenge is a 10" plate at 18yds so i think 1.5" at 16.6 yds is acceptable. However, I have read somethings on here about issues with lead in comp. guns, but i believe it was mostly related to making cleaning a pain because the lead built up in the comp.

Overall I thought they were fine. I had 2 dead primers out of 5k. They had very good strikes and I re chambered them and hit them multiple times, but they still wouldn't go. Luckily it didn't happen during a match.

I use 4.2-4.3 grains of solo1000 at 1.135 4.3-4.4 made 137 pf at the Indiana State Match out of a M&P FS 4.4 and up, shows some signs of pressure so work your way up. I get very minimal leading shooting wheel weight lead that is water dropped.

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This is a Great Show, the different events are very interesting. Some are mostly mental, pillars of Hercules and others are mostly strength deadlift/squat, but most are a combination of strength, endurance, and mental toughness.

When looking fo primers I check the following sights daily. Midway Wideners Powder valley Natchez Midsouth reloading supplies If you set up a bookmark folder in firefox with all of the websites you can right click and open all the websites in tabs then work your way through the tabs closing them when you find they are out of primers. Lately Wideners and Natchez have had primers in stock

Dry fire seems to be the problem I got 8k rounds on the origional striker and dry fired one night and though thought something sounded funny and the next dry fire the striker broke

It can still be worth it if you buy lead. I buy lead wheel weight lead for around $1.00 a pound (usually e-bay) and 9mm 125 grain bullets cost me $20/k vs. $50/k if i bought them. I use the xlox with solo 1000 powder and rarely notice the smoke. The only time I have had problems was in the early morning when the sun is low.