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On 4/27/2022 at 5:17 PM, BritinUSA said:
All depends on what types of stages people generally shoot. If the clubs that a person attends are mostly high round-count stages then having to reload 2-3 times on every stage can start to get a little tiresome. It's not just the reload itself, its having to clean out the magazines each time to get the dirt out.
If your club favors a good mix of short, medium and long - or just the latter two - then 1-2 reloads per stage is not that big a deal and a change to magazine capacity would have little difference.
Personally, I think that 15 would have been ideal for both Production divisions (like in IPSC), I think that hits the sweet spot, but again a lot depends on stage design.
For me it's the "eyes getting old" factor. I don't care about stage design, reloads, 15 rounds in production, etc. At this point I'm shooting for fun - it ain't fun choosing between seeing the sights or seeing the target. No fun at all! Open is the way
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I've got 2K ready to try, just waiting for the new gun
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I only burned up about 7000 rounds this year to date, at that rate I'm good for several years.
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I just got a case of 9mm 124 JHP's takes a lot of patience and a little luck
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I have one of the Carbon Arms belts, nice setup but the inner velcro is glued on a little wobbly and the belt is just a tad oversized top-to-bottom. Depending on what type of pouches you run it may not work at all.
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I'm back to old school, Ruger LCR in .38.
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I was bummed that I didn't get off the wait list, but this weekend has sucked. Maybe dodged a bullet ...
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3 hours ago, Glock17open said:
If I were going to load major, will power Pistol. I would load for my 2011 ck arms open gun. I have a case of 124, montana gold bullets.
If I were load for minor load's it would be for my glock 34 or my pcc. I have about 3000, 125 blue bullets.
Can't comment on major loads, but for minor I am running 5.2gr under Bayou 124's for 136PF.
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Interested to see if this works out, I've got a pile of 9x21 laying around.
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7 minutes ago, Intheshaw1 said:
Discord is like this chat app and there is a reloading channel that people post in stock alerts to. So you'll get a notification and then have like 10 seconds to order before it's sold out.
Pretty much bass pro drops primers most night around midnight and Natchez drops around noon cst.
Thanks, when searching on Discord nothing shows up for reloading. Shocker. Does anyone have a link to the channel?
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33 minutes ago, Intheshaw1 said:
I've been fine with bullets, just can't be picky.
The discord channel has been on point, was able to score 10k primers this week alone.
Now it's just a matter of fedex not losing another one of my packages....
Discord channel?
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2500 (1 case) SNS 180gr. .40's - shipped same day, I'll have them by Monday. Pretty snappy ...
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Hey Nate, I was finishing off the spikes for him. First battery lasted I think 4 stages and the second battery finished them off.
On 9/17/2020 at 7:44 PM, Nathanb said:We didn’t seem to have any issues with it for five stages. I don’t know how many batteries he had for it though. He’s a plumber and everything is dewalt. I can ask him on Saturday if I see him
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I've experienced the same issue, stripped the slide and cleaned everything up and the problem disappeared. I probably had about 12K rounds without fully stripping the slide down ...
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1 hour ago, OleGreyGhost said:
From your statement, I'm assuming that the shell holder didn't sustain any damage. Is that correct?
Was anything damaged?? Did the case get stuck in the die??
Knowledge is in the details.....
No damage to the shell holder, the case did get stuck in the die. Was easy enough to tap out.
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2 hours ago, ck1 said:
Lol I don’t think any of the 3 SRO’s I bought came with a cleaning cloth... you’d figure at ~$500 they wouldn’t forget to throw them in the box
Too funny, I just received one from Optics Planet and my first thought when I opened the box was "really?". The sight is just sitting in the box unwrapped, no goodies at all
Vortex has them beat on cleaning cloths, that's for sure!
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19 hours ago, Superkaratemonkeyfighter said:
I would say the 180 was between the closest beam to the RO left shoulder and his left shoulder from that shooters position.
No mate, way off. The 180 line to those targets was actually inside the beam closest to the targets. There wasn't much room to shoot those targets from inside the shooting box at all. In addition, there was some kind of barricade the width of the stage behind the shooter so the scorekeeper and not-beeper wielding RO's were off to the sides.
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CTD is dead to me after this, they would ocassionlay have some oddball thing I'd need, but after this I won't be back to their site.
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8 hours ago, Farmer said:
It isn’t the downstroke during sizing that’s the problem. It’s when you pull it back up that can cause grief. On rifle rounds if you’re using a standard expander ball type die it can pull hard enough to rip the case out of the pass through shell holder. If you use the Lee collet sizer die that shouldn’t be a problem.
I had one of these happen last night. Major PITA. I think I may have had some brass in my bin that didn't get One-Shot. Won't do that again ;->
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Camera right is downrange on the stage. Not a great place to stand, but he is technically up range. There were quite a few 180 traps at Area 8, this stage had two of them ;->
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6 hours ago, OleGreyGhost said:
I stand corrected.
In reading Lee's advertising:
This is is what I took the press to be designed for.
In reviewing that same advertising, following your post, I found a part of the description that I missed:
I tried to find the post I read where the user complained about having a problem with the express shell holder and switched to a regular shell holder slowing the whole process down. Was unable to locate same.
Thanks for pointing this out, now I might be able to use this for other projects if i can get past my swaging problem....
FWIW, I resized/deprimed 500 9mm last night (in less than an hour) without any issues. Not exactly a belted magnum LOL but works for me. I'm using the Lee bench plate, pretty robust mounting system.
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8 hours ago, OleGreyGhost said:
According to Lee the press was not designed to handle that much stress. Some of the posts I read relate that the x-press shell holder is the weak point, being thinner as compared to a regular shell holder. Haven't come across any posts to date, relating to a successful sizing session....
There is a video showing Lee sizing .308 and a note that it requires proper case lubrication. I haven't found any note from Lee that it can't be used for sizing, where did you see that?
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Bayou - 124gr. just received an order placed 7/1, about six weeks from order to shipment
SNS - 147gr. shipped and received in less than a week.
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6 hours ago, shred said:
There's not much point changing an existing subforum around, but the process we go through to make or split off a new one is to create the new one then a mod (or mods) moves topical threads to it to try and keep things in one spot so reading and searching works better. If it's a multi-topic thread, either it gets split into two threads or a link is made so it can be seen both places, but we try to minimize links for the most part.
(Btw, people stepping up to help move threads is worth a million "+1" posts. In a case like this it's mostly not difficult, just tedious)
Is there an API interface? In any case, I'd be happy to help out.
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I've been shooting the Eley all year since moving to Open. 38SC only, makes major in my gun (no popple holes).
The price has increased of late but when I stocked up it was $410, then $450 per case delivered. At the time not really that much more than factory 9mm.