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I'm interested in driving to GA for that weekend but my teammates for the series won't be able to make it due to their distance.
I'm down to be a ringer (a 3rd person) for some good practice.
-Cameron
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Has your ammunition been exposed to moisture? Sounds like you've got contaminated powder.
Are you familiar with proper headspacing?
Do you own a headspace gage of some sort?
If no, let me know and I'll advise you further.
Ya, I'm familiar with headspace. I dont have a case gauge. The rounds never had a problem chambering. This is the first time I've had any problems and I havent changed my die setup except for the seating depth. I really wish I could get the photos I took to attach.
If you don't have a way to measure headspace - how do you know that the shoulder of your brass hasn't been pushed far enough back or too far?
The headspace of your brass can change even if your die remains at the same setting.
Changing the viscosity of your lubricant or even your headstamp can push you over the edge if you're already on the verge of no-go.
You're loading blind without a headspace gage.
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Are you familiar with proper headspacing?
Do you own a headspace gage of some sort?
If no, let me know and I'll advise you further.
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I've never needed more than a click of the scope to get it back to zero after re-mounting.
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Try it while moveing fast about 30 feet across your yard, one time, cold. That is about what you will do in a match.
With two cans of Red Bull to simulate match pressures.
With that being said - I'm sure it can be practiced enough to be repeatable on demand.
(At least as repeatable as weakhand loading which even the best pros bobble from time to time)
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Sell the 21" & 26" barrel.
Buy a complete 24" Benelli M1 with the money.
You now have two guns.
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Yup - and 846 works in .223/5.56 as well.
They are NOT interchangable but both work in both cartridges.
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I'm not a Marine but I might be in a spot to help.
Shot off an email this morning.
-Cameron
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It can sometimes take time for bullets to stabilize.
I have a load that'll shoot 1 MOA (average dispersion) at 200 yards and .8 MOA average at 300 yards. It's about 2" MAX deviation at 100 yards though.
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After I went to Federal Small Pistol Primers, my problems went away.
I kept the same load and the same brass.
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Nevermind, got it:
Ammunition isn't usually packed loose from the factory for a number of reasons but many of us pour our reloads into ammo cans back and fourth "as if it were corn or something."
There have been documented cases of cartridges falling from a few feet and detonating or, objects as small as casings setting off live ammunition.
Here's my question - how prone is a cartridge to cook off if it is at room temperature and another cartridge detonates near it?
My scenario is this - you have a .30 cal can of 5.56 that is loosely packed. You drop it from waist level (or even down a flight of stairs
) and one of those pointy bullets gets in line with a primer and goes off.Is there a significant risk of a mass cook-off?
I am confident that a .30 cal can can contain many 5.56 rounds cooking off one at a time but should we really be packing our ammo loosely like many of us do?
If not - most of us have a bomb that's a few drops away from being a huge chunk of flying frag.
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Depends on a lot of things.
Your grip, the weight of various parts of the gun, your weight, your preferences, etc.
I shoot 125ish PF with a 8-9lb spring. 17lb Mainspring. Nothing is lightened but I have a short dust cover and a classic slide.
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Yup - I only rapid fire in matches.
You can get good practice without dumping ammo.
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I shot about 10k in an Elite I had for years.
I could never do better than "B" class with one but Ben Stoger shoots one as a "GM" and I think there is one other.
It's certianly a candidate for competition. About their durability - they'll last for many rounds after you've cracked and replaced a locking block and trigger return spring.
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4.0 of Titegroup behind a 124gr bullet was enough to show erosion in my experience with Federal SPM primers.
I'd pull them.
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I accidentally found this - here's the video of the experiment.
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Can we get a tack?
The reason many of us used SP Mag primers was because of the shortage.
We will likely be headed into another shortage during this election cycle and keeping this thread visible will make this problem well known and completely avoidable.
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I also disagree that when sighting you don't need a small group..
My opinion is that you don't need a small group - however, it must be repeatable and you must be able to find the center.
If the group you are shooting is any bigger than the size of your front sight at the distance you are engaging, then how the heck do you ever call a shot at that distance?Easy - to me, calling the shot involves only the sights and not actual ballistics.
As a multigun shooter that spent time shooting in limited - I'll say that a number of targets were smaller than my sighting mechanism.
Let's suppose that my rifle, sighting mechanism, and ammunition are exactly 4 MOA capable 100% of the time. Let's also suppose that my front sight was a size that could match the width of a 4MOA target at a given distance.
Heck, lets say that the target was half the width of the front sight.
My preference to zero is in theory - to have the tip of the front sight bisect the diameter of the bullet.
That's why I only sight in on "V" shaped targets since no other target allows you to precisely "eyeball" a point.
Not many folks can precisely align circles within circles and squares within squares. Nearly everyone knows what the tip of a sharp edge looks like.
A shot can be properly called many miles away but the shooter is unlikely to hit it if it is beyond the effective range of the firearm.
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What I consider a "decent" group for what we do is fist sized (unsupported metric headshot @ 25).
Circles are my match load - triangles aren't. POA is the brown arrow on the tip of the front sight. From a rest, my POI changes by a few inches depending on where I put pressure on the frame/slide. Pistol is a 2011 shooting 4.2gr S1000 w/ 115gr bullets:
You'll get to a point where your sights aren't precise enough to get POA/POI. One click will move you too much but in the case above - that's acceptable.
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My favorite part is the laughing girl who KNOWS good and well who her table mates are and what they are capable of.
SA
Here's what my table mates are capable of:
"I'm not gonna hurt him."
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My 2011 has a different POI when I shoot from a rest.
I always zero offhand.
YMMV
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Also - no amount of looking at the target for holes will help you if you're shooting at small steel suspended in the air with a distant backstop.
Incorporate small targets into your drills if you need to break yourself of the habit.
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Not using patches surprised me also as it would have kept the ball in the barrel and kept them from performing an unsafe act.
I was cringing when they were putting a ball back in and tamping it down with the rod while it was loaded/cocked and there was 4F in the flashpan?
I can't believe the expert/producers/safety people let that happen?
Neal in AZ
Maybe they (expert/producers/safety people) didn't trust them with both a pistol and a knife....
You know I actually thought of that. Trying to cut the patch on the clock would be dangerous with these inexperienced shooters.
Power Factor for Rifle rounds?
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Not many people shoot multigun under the umbrella of USPSA anymore.
Outlaw multigun doesn't involve a power factor.