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  1. Awesome! Good for you! When I had mt 1st eye done I turned on a baseball game that night. I called my wife in and said, "Look how green the field is!" She said, "They are always that green..." My right eye ended up a bit better than 20.20 and the left is 2-/40 uncorrected. Like hiker88 said, I wish I had it done sooner!
  2. I use the same powder for all of my loads. Win 231. I vary the charge a bit for different weight bullets to stay around 130PF. I shoot 3.5 gr with 125 and 135 and 3.2 with 147 although I rarely use 147 anymore. My 6" 1911 using 4 gr of 231 was getting 135 PF out of the 6" barrel. 147s don't shoot well in shorter chambers from what I have found. 135 shoot much like 125. I use 10 or 11 lb recoil springs which lessen the muzzle flip a bit.
  3. My experience with the 147s is similar. I experimented in my 6" 1911 and to go down in PF I can actually feel the slide cycle at the low point. I shoot almost all 135 gr Bayou now. The recoil impulse is a bit quicker which brings the sight back on more quickly. I really like the 135 for the 9mm. I feel that it is the perfect bullet for me! YMMV. There is a combo somewhere that will work for you. Keep testing and you will find it.
  4. I have a 6" 1911 with a tight chamber. I have to run my reloads at 1.060 or so. I have tested up to 1.100 and down to 1.020 and the shorter always work. At 1.100 they will sometimes not feed correctly depending on how hot the gun is, dirty, and I guess other factors. Try shorter (maybe 1.100) just for grins. BTW I shoot the same OAL in all of my 9mms now, including revolvers.
  5. My LnL shows a split case as it rides on the feed rail into the 1st stage. I keep a half dozen good cases on the bench and replace as necessary. I don't case check except to (about once a year or so) separate the FC (revolver)from the range brass (auto) that gets mixed in. Moon clips negate most of that. I check about 5 or 6 in a case gauge every hundred reloads. Haven't been casing anal since the old varmint/benchrest days.
  6. I have a rimfire rack. 6" plates. It sits behind the 8" centerfire rack. Lighter plates are easier! 1/4 inch is perfect. They all can be knocked over with rimfire. You can drill and tap a hole centered with the bottom of the plates to lift the front and make the plate easier to drop. It really only takes about 1/2 to 1 turn. I used 3/8 course thread bolts. Too much adjustment and the vibration will "volunteer" the other plates. Fine line there. I have seen a couple that have a small piece if flat steel welded to the bottom front for this adjustment. On my bowling pin rack (8 steel plates/pin shape) I put a 2x4 under the front legs of the sawhorses to tip them back for rimfire. That works too. You can engineer about anything you want. The problem comes when you want to use it for a large number of shooters (match, etc.) because you don't want re-set issues while paid people are waiting.
  7. Well, yeah but, consider this. Fill that tub with cookies or brownies (not hash!) and say help yourselves! Oh, could you help me find my brass???? My poor tub is empty... With, of course, that helpless lost look we all get every flat tire! I know I would help!
  8. Speaking weight from a revolver perspective, I tried both. My TRR8 was really light. I left the rails on for the weight. I found that I was swinging past a lot of targets. Too light for that! USPSA and plate matches it was great but I was opting for 1 gun for all. I got a 929 and that was the ticket for me. Heavier swings smoother (for me) and settles faster. The rimfire rifle guys are Dremeling weight away all the time! My RFRO gun is 4 1/2 lbs. Some are lighter. A good friend bought his wife a Ruger MKIV lightweight thing. She hated it! Made him sell it and buy a full weight model. Of course test because YMMV.
  9. Yeah, they have been down a little on shooters since Covid. Last year I think I read 500 something rather than the high 6oos some years back. The registration used to fill up in less than a week. Now they have open slots as did last couple years. I love my moons. Usually find them by my feet and sometimes 1 in front of the table. The plastic tub is probably good, although I would be afraid of my reloads slowing down just thinking about it! Wish we could have Jeff make a whole squad of revo shooters! Fun times!
  10. The guns is not cut for moon clips yet. She will be cylinder dumping loose cases. Might as well use 38 Special. Will be cheaper that SC.
  11. You can still pick brass if you hurry LOL. Maybe get a couple friendlies on the squad to quick pick when she's done? If we happen to get the same squad my wife will help!
  12. This is at Palmyra Sportsman's Association in eastern Pennsylvania. The match is called the PSA Shootout. Last weekend of April. BTW the email I got the other day suggests that registration is still open. Usually no slots left this late.
  13. I have noticed the last few years that they are in such a hurry that they don't leave much time for picking up the brass. Main reason I like the moon clips! The RO do try hard to not step on the moons though.
  14. Not there. I did them at my range on the fun shoot nights. I had a bunch of newer or not experienced shooters who came 1 night a week. I set up really simple stages and everybody shot through a few times. They learned a little about competition and a lot about how good they were - or not. Also found out a lot about their guns. A few went on to get way better and compete. I have seen some hinge plates go down so hard that they pop back up!
  15. Droppers are cool. The reset takes awhile if very many. PSA has a whole stage (30ish) with some really quick times! A guy in our squad in 2011 I believe, did it in 11 odd seconds with a stock auto! 10 rounds per mag! Yeesh. For a stop plate when we do man-on-man (a personal fave!) I made a double popper, turned in just a bit. The bottom popper wins!
  16. I use the Lee factory crimp die actually. I also use the Lee U die to decap and resize. The sliders I made for my home range were angle with a bolt welded in the v on the back and a u shaped hanger welded to the plate. The bolt is just long enough to hang the target on. My plates were smaller than Palmyra targets, maybe 9 x 7. I made sets of 10 of the sliders and poppers and have 1 8" 6 plate rack and a 6 plate 6" rack. Some 20 years later, 3 Texas stars, a polish plate rack, a .22 6 plate star and a just finished 8 target star. This practice stuff is sure fun!
  17. I 9mm taper crimp everything up to 357 mag. I think that my crimp was .376 last time I checked it. I use the same setup/ crimp for my .355 9mm loads and my .3575 9mm/929 loads. I don't change the setup, just different bullets. No bullet creep in the revolver at all. I load 96, 105, 125, 135, 147 and some 155gr. Mostly now 125 and 135. This same club used to do a rimfire match in the fall with stages of 70 or 75 targets, scaled to .22 and a par time of 90 seconds. Those were similar targets as the centerfire match but scaled to .22. Some targets about 10 or 12 years ago were around 1 1/2". Later they were a bit bigger, I guess to speed up the hit rates.
  18. One thing that people like about Blue Mt is the Auto class that's unlimited! My buddies shoot that. One of the ROs told me a couple years ago that I could do something he couldn't. I asked what was that? He said, "You can count to 8!" I shot PCC at PSA a couple years ago. Haven't shot open auto in 10 years or so now. Good luck and hope to see you there.
  19. I am shooting Friday afternoon so probably will meet. For my loads with a 38 special I cut down cases to .900. I am shooting 4.3 of Win 231 and a 135 gr bullet. Lots of people do and lots of people sneer at it but I find the loading more efficient at that length. Loading is probably quicker, but I doubt it would prove to be any advantage. I was trying to simulate the 38 Super an easy way. Hope to see you there!! When are you guys there MikeyS?
  20. For PSA Shootout I shoot 135 gr over 3.6 g of Win 231 in my 929. I get right around 130 pf. Their steel is usually not bad to knock down. By the 3rd day quite often sometimes you will see the taller stuff volunteer due to the changing adjustments over something like 500 shooters. Any 130 or thereabouts pf should do it. Most targets seem to run about 6 or 8 inches and the bigger stuff is set so a 38 moderate load will suffice. I know some who take heavier loads for the popper stage but I doubt it's necessary. Too, you can watch a few shooters on a stage and know where there are any tough to knockdown targets. When are you guys shooting?
  21. I have found the on some of my guns a 5 1/2 lb trigger seems to induce short stroking. My TRR8 was always like that and my 929 as well. Guess I am one of those ride the trigger guys. I am much more comfortable at about 6 1/2. That pound less never seemed to win anything much for me anyway.
  22. I do seat and crimp in 1. I left the last station empty. For me it seems easier to place the bullet in station 4. Just seems handier. Funny thing is to me that I bought the LNL to have access to a powder cop and now I don't need/use one.
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