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Good ball joint design is tough . You can try rosin as well to get more grip vs tape and the possibility to adjust.

oil and water don't mix, but they'll try to occupy the same space with not-great results.

Dang. I met him years ago in Frostproof when we were both staying in the same tiny hotel. Had some good chats. RIP

We had a long discussion with Troy years ago about going into shooter bags for ammo. TLDR: they can't grab any old round rattling around your bag. After all it could be a major load that'll blow up your Minor pistol. That said, if you handed the mag to the chrono guy, that's on you.

it should move to the top of travel (sometimes with a bit of a clunk) during calibration. If it's clunking partway down, usually the problem is the primer slide is out of position and it's index pin can't get through the hole it needs to.

Need, no. Prefer, yes. YMMV

What you do if you want prone shots at a major is build a raised table or bed to shoot from, with a small port in front of it at table height. The PCC whiners can shoot through the port from a shooting box 20 yards back . It'll still suck in the rain, but much less so.

Most chambers are way bigger than the gauges (assuming a gauge made properly at minimum spec... I've seen a several bad ones) so take the 'almost fits' and test them in a chamber and see.

It's as if you put on a match that was friendly towards locaps and iron sights those shooters would come to it, who knew?

If you randomly post gear or equipment or technique questions, it's likely the mods will think you're a spammer or too lazy to look through the dozens of more-appropriate forums we have for that sort of thing that are way better places. Welcome!

Doubles Drill vs "Double taps (hammers, whatever)" seems to be confusing everyone. I'm going to close this and people can start separate threads about them to keep it straight.

I was talking to an old-time commercial caster a few years ago and he said even tiny variations in the alloy and temperatures can cause size changes... usually in the tenths range, but they're there. Also as bullets age they can grow a few tenths too depending on the alloy. Doesn't matter for what we do. I've beat and drilled and scraped blue bullets and they shot just fine at 25 yards.

Completely agree. These days I use a spare hundo carbide chamering reamer that cuts a SAAMI leade.

That's pretty much what half the posts in this subforum are-- tweaks and mods and tuning.

I used one on a CZ last year. Worked but took a beating.

Stacatto Ranch had some openings posted, but you'd probably need to be legally able to work here to get on there.

Don't push stuck or sticky primers out of a pickup tube into the press. Nothing good will come of it. BTDT.

lots of good cutting oil and use the right feeds and speeds and it'll probably make it... probably.

Buffs behind alumabuffs in my 38SC Dawson Open guns. 7 or 8 lb springs, 125gr bullets. Solid reliable for me, buffs last a long time and won a lot of matches and got a G card with that same setup.

Yes they are.

Stop trying to muscle the gun around in recoil. Let it do it's thing and as long as your hands aren't sliding around, they're good. Ben Stoeger has some videos on Youtube about how little force is actually required to return a pistol to point of aim.

Clubs shot "Steel Challenge" matches a long time before USPSA ever thought of buying it. They have no trademark on the words as the trademark application-- including the old logo (nobody thinks it's worth trying to get just the words) is dead and abandoned. https://tsdr.uspto.gov/#caseNumber=77540442&caseSearchType=US_APPLICATION&caseType=DEFAULT&searchType=statusSearch Clubs are legally free to call their matches "Steel Challenge" whenever they want with whatever rules they want, they just can't call them SCSA or USPSA matches...

At the big match, sure. At locals? Not so much. I started shooting local steel matches on the same plates Chip McCormick used to practice for his wins in 1986 and 1988... Seen a lot of local steel matches in the intervening 30+ years and went to the big match many times. There wasn't even a rulebook or any way for local clubs to affiliate with SC for a lot of that time, so painting at locals was and still is mostly "eh, ... if you want" and often only for the .22s in the squad. Centerfire shooters and ROs rarely have difficulty scoring hits.

Had a kid come wandering over a berm years ago in Colombia.. The range was on the side of a hill and he was up top and wanted to see what all the noise was about.

Radar cruise control is great to have but also makes people lazy.