Reinholt

Thank you for all the input.

Saltzman Gun Works in Tipton, IN for me. Ray has built me great race guns back on the 80's and recently took my Bianchi Cup gun and made it a standard 5" 9mm but nothing is standard, tack driver like all the rest. For a while he has been making long range rifles and the guys shooting them have racked up a bunch of trophies. I've known him since the early 80's and can get him to build or work on any of my stuff.

Blue Bullet 125gr 2.5gr TiteGroup 1.152" OLA Odin Works 5.5" Barrel PCC Average 96.3 PF Works so far shoots like at .22 LR

Bit of a stretch but seeing if anyone knows. I have the Oakley Radar Range Repl g26 lenses and have really liked them for moderate to bright light conditions. These lenses appear to brighten and block sun very well for me. They work great for red dot shooting and all clay target shooting. It's time to upgrade my shooting glasses and wondering what lenses from Ranger Falcon Pro line might be similar to the G26 lenses?

Same here as Dr Phil. Our plate racks we had 1/4" steel plates that could easily be replaced with the NRA Action Pistol (Bianchi) racks. The .22 plates did have a bolt in to adjust and lock. We also made a specific plate rack with 3" plates for .22's but they were the same steel thickness of the regular plate racks. My brother and I practiced on these for the week before the Bianchi Cup just to be dialed in a little better. All our competition rack could mix and match falling plates, Bowling Pins and Tombstones as well. It was nice having 7 competition racks and 2 additional for magnum pistoles and the 3" .22 rack. Had some amazing rattle battle matches shooting a ton of steel.

I'm in the older demographic but I like red. Tried the green and it was fine for shooting steel but the green washed out to much for me on brown targets. My son-in-law just loves the green. As others have said, try before you buy. Best to shoot on different colored targets if you can.

Has this ever happened to anyone? Had an unopened keg of IMR 3031 crumble. Was in my dad shop (HVAC) for 30+ years, traveled to my shop (HVAC) last year and sat on top of my safe since then. I would assume it is all bad and cannot be separated from the insulation. Here's the crazy part, I have another unopened keg of IMR 3031 that was purchased at the same time and stored right next to it un-affected. I might need to transfer it to another empty keg of a different material ASAP. Thoughts?

CO I run a Glock 34 with brass plug and heavy full guide rod that was within weight limits for Steel Challenge and USPSA. The weight helps with recoil and transitioning to the next target. You do need to test what ammo works best for you. Heavy bullet and slow velocity or mouse fart load that still cycles. It's all about what works for you to transition as fast as you can on target.

I loaded Star 148 gr HBWC with 2.7 gr Bullseye and HC 148 gr WC with mine and had great success. Used the same load for my PPC revolvers.

I know that pain. On my old single stack 38 Super race gun, I decided to take off the old 30mm Aimpoint 5000 frame mount and do a slide mount dot. All the light steel challenge loads I had would not run. Thought it might be interesting to run but with 5k rounds loaded, I went back to the old trusted set up. At lunch I am going to go see if my 3.6gr HP38 and 115gr blue bullets work in the 9mm race gun. I have some 125gr blue bullets and at 3.6gr HP38, would that be a better load?

Thanks Doug. I did run the 4.0gr load through my open gun and no issues but the kid got a PCCO and he is tap dancing with GM times with 22 rifle, so he has some skills . Just trying to keep him fast. I'll take the load down a little and try.

First I have many 8# jugs of HP38 and am trying to be economical before buying more powder. I am looking to make very light loads for Steel Challenge PCC, 115gr FMJ / 115gr Blue Bullet or 125gr Blue Bullet. All the reloading manuals I have, start with 115gr bullet and 4.5gr HP38. I dialed it down to 4.0gr of HP38 with both 115gr bullets. Is there any risk of going lower on powder weight other than it not cycle or stuck bullet? For primers I am using Fiocchi and CCI SPP. Next steps are 100gr HB Berry bullets but would like to find a load that is soft but does going slower cause other issues for Shooting Fast?

My son-in-law always calls me when he finds primers, I have never said "no don't buy them". Got lucky, a local reloader had 4K of Fiocchi SPP that was too small of a batch for him to load and track so he offloaded them to me at cost. It was a good day! As a kid Dad would send us to pick up 200K primers at a time.

Another question, are you just using your brass or all range pick ups? Ammo shot as Major could be bulged and your dies can't touch it.

Tumble before to clean up dirty range brass, tumble after due to lube (if used or needed). JHP and reverse hollow based wadcutter (don't ask) sucks and time to get the dental pick out. Sucks when you need to inspect thousands of rounds for them buggers. Dad owned a shop and we commercially reloaded, my round count is in the millions and no issues so far.