Canuck223

Ever watch a train wreck in slow motion? Take two married (not to each other) teachers. Have thier kids play together. Watch them think they are fooling anyone as they sneak around.... Idiots. I don't know who's husband/wife/kid spilled the beans, but the only thing funny about the end is the mock drama.

I use an empty shotgun shell box to load the case and bullet feeders.

Have a look at your shellplate. Is every station hole cut with a bevel at the mouth? Are you allowing the toolhead spring to drive the toolhead up, or do you control it?

OK, so after a marathon reloading session I figured the 1050 was due for a detailed cleaning. I clean it regularly, and lube it appropriately. After 25K+ rounds, I figured it was time for a tear down. I was shocked to find out how little wear the linkage showed. Once the old grease was wiped clear, the bearing seats looked perfect. The linkage between the shaft and the crank looked like brand new. I was surprised at how light they were. I'm actually thinking they might not be steel. The limit of any noticable wear was a small 6mm round area of pitting on the crankshaft in the bearing area right beside the cut out for the crankarm indexing nub.

Tom Cruise... If nothing else, he's a steady source of gently used smokin hot ex-wives. Whomever Katie finds herself with next will seem like the porn star Dalai Lama by comparison. Unless it's John Travolta. I know he's got a big plane collection, but the spaceship must still be in the closet.

I'm surprised you didn't add "store" to that list! First thing I thought of was Hudson Bay Company Actually, that actually makes some sense. A girl from a family where nobody pays, named after a store where nobody shops. OK, I'm at peace.

I suppose I shouldn't expect better... One of the dark corners of my family tree married into a family that to be kind, come from the shallow and brackish end of the gene pool. To be less kind, if lightning had killed thier grandparents on thier wedding night, the taxpayers and legal system of my province would be ahead of the game. The latest news from zoos is the youngest breeder is having a girl. The name choosen. Hudson. Really? She wants to saddle the poor bitch through school with the name of a river and old car?

In a perfect world, sorting your brass would be best. However, you can usually compromise and find a setting for the swager back up rod and swager that works well.

You ain't slow... Your theory is perfectly sound. It's the main reason why I don't suggest the practice. Still, from the number of people apparently doing this, I'd expect to hear about more broken guns. I'm not taking the absence of these broken gun reports to be a verification that the practice is safe, but it makes you think. If my reason for fearing this approach is the longer chamber and perhaps more generous tolerences between the case and chamber dimentions, and it isn't proving to be a problem, then what does that suggest about our standard chambers? I know in theory our guns are supposed to headspace off the case mouth. In practice, many are probably achieving that result from a combination of the extractor, chamber taper, and barrel throat as well as the case mouth. All most makes me want to pull the firing pin on a few guns and check how much fore/aft play exists with a loaded round.

Left handed update... The air seems to be getting thin in the corporate offices these days. Ever watch a train wreck? Imagine you're on the track crew and spot the danger before the wreck, and nobody cares enough to listen. I caught wind of a lease extention for part of our building that's part of our shared use agreement. My employer leased out a part of the building during a time when it's not ours to lease. I spent the last week on the phone or on the computer trying to get the two individuals responsible to unscrew themselves. Part of the process included getting the manager of our building partner up to speed. It's a sad feeling when I want to Darth Vader the clerk I work with and buy the other companys manager flowers.

One importer up here brought them in, but I doubt they will sell well. His list price is actually higher than the comparable Tanfoglio product.

I had both wrists done one winter. If you have a physical job, you'll need a few weeks to recover enough to return. If you are more of a desk jockey, you can be back the end of the same week. As for just dealing with it, in my experience the splints/braces, etc were not terribly effective.

Seems understandable since you are swaging each case on the loader. Still, you should occasionally check for steel cases. They look identical to brass. I employ the firm of Copping and Copping to QC and sort each case. They do good work, and take Pokemon cards in lieu of cash.

I've not had any problems with the 1050 and S&B.

I figured I can get away with dressing him down in ways his boss can't.

So one of the more boring aspects of my job is monitoring and updating the building automation. To save power, we set the fans, pumps, boilers, lights to serve the needs of the building users. If there's nobody here, we don't waste utilities. As the schedule changes, I need to adjust the times in the computer. As the seasons change, I have to adjust to try and cool the place down and minimize heat build up as we don't have AC. Hand in fist with this, I also have to act as the liason with an outside org that are a minority partner in the building. They use the place in our off hours. I am supposed to get updated schedules from thier employee. The most recent guy in that job is all sizzle and no sirloin. He's got all the right words when he e-mails, just so long as he's not expected to follow through. The biggest part of his job as it related to my work is the schedule. It's his job to send me thier schedule, and keep me up to speed with updates. Last week we had a staff request to set up for a performance a day earlier than planned. This was on the 5th of the month. As normal, I hadn't gotten the current schedule. Based on the previous months schedule, there was no conflict. An hour after I leave work for the day, the guy e-mails the schedule. By chance I check and discover we have a permit coming in. I e-mailed and advised of the conflict, and he in turn advised his flunky. Then he decided to run his "issue" up to his bosses. His boss knows me. He used to perform the guys job years ago. I get an e-mail, copied to my boss and his own, asking what "we" can do to prevent this from happening again. What he got in reply was probably not what he was expecting. The short version was, " You need to own this one. I need an up to date schedule to do my job. In your six months on the job, I've gotten the schedule late five of those months. This recent incident you'll note came five days into the current month, and I got the schedule that day, after business hours. If you want to avoid incidents like this, start by doing your job."

My guess is you may need to adjust the lever. There are two screws that hold a block to the primer magazine. Lossen and adjust.

I appreciate all the responses, and I'm relieved to know I don't have to ship the 1050 to AZ, Canuck nailed it: the case feed plunger bolt is bent. Usual cause is an incomplete downstroke (ringed or missed primer at the swager station) and too much pressure on the upstroke right after. You torque the bolt by trying to return a case while one has already dropped down. BTDT.

Well looks like plans have changed. Instead of spending a year on base in Leavenworth, he's been offered another post at Ft Stewart. It's great news for them as they now don't have to move. Bad news for me, as it's not as easy to sell the 2013 Bianchi Cup as a family vacation.....

From what you describe, I'd look at the primer slide as mentioned above, and the case feeder plunger. In particular, check the shoulder bolt and see if it might be bent.

Agreed. I do use Berrys and Frontier, but primarily in calibers or weights where I don't have as many options locally.

Maybe I'm reading something nasty into your post, like joy over someones difficulty, I hope not. My point is unless you've stood out there at the Cup with everyone watching and all the pressure, you have no idea how difficult the plates are. In recent history the plates seem to be a given which is indicates how much higher the skill level has risen, but they have been the downfall of many great shooters at one time or another. Edit to add: Congratulations to Doug and everyone who competed in what a noted shooter calls the Bermuda Triangle of shooting. No nastyness intended at all. Simply awe. And yes, I have been on the line at the Cup. 1999 shooting a Caspian single stack in .40 S&W. I'd been practicing every chance I had, right up until a few weeks prior to the Cup. My barrel cracked in a line from the link pin straight back. I had barely enough time to get a replacment barrel and have it fitted. I managed to get 1500 rounds through the gun before we loaded the truck for the drive. A welcome practice match with the fine folks in southern Illinois on the weekend, then to the practice range. I managed only 410 on the plates that year, but still considered it a victory.

One factor to consider can come off as an insult to many reloaders. Plated bullets are not the equal of jacketed, but in a lot of cases, the big difference in performance has to do with the reloading, and not the bullet. There is no question that a plated bullet will come apart faster and with more variability than a jacketed bullet when subjected to higher pressures. Add in a multi chamber comp and some added transitions, and you're giving that plated bullet plenty of opportunity to misbehave. Where the reloader adds to the fun is with crimp. Every one of us have our own secret formula, and know more than the other guy how our technique is our secret to the winners circle. And virtually every one of us is wrong. Modesty forbids me from telling you who the mystery guru is. Plated bullets can't take a crimp. If you start pressing the case mouth into the plating, you are creating the stress point where the jacket will fracture and tear. If you adjust your crimp die to simply remove the belling, and nothing more, many (not all) of the plated bullet woes will disappear.

To be honest, if I placed 15th at Bianchi, I'd parade in a freaking thong.

That's what I was commenting on before. Luca cleaned the plates on the first pass. On the tie breakers, with 2 seconds removed from the stop clock, he cleaned another 48 plates. On his third time standing at the 10 yard line he missed or failed to shoot one of six plates in the reduced time. Awesome!! AFAIK, the additional X's do not count for total score for the match, but do determine the winner of the plate stage. My guess is a print out just of the plate stage would show Luca as #1. I'm assuming your list is based on Match X order and scores by stage.