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went to subic alot from '79 to '81. i left enough brain cells there as it was, terrified to think of what would've happened if i'd been actually stationed there! met this Pinoy shooter at a match, area 6 i think,(can't remember his name, fast little open dude), and he said, "you should go back, your kids are probably grown by now....." what can i say.....
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how long a barrel? h322 is awful fast for that big a bullet. it'll go bang, but to get the accurate sweet spot w/ a 20" barrel, it's gonna be real small, twitchy. maybe w/a 16"....so many shooters think that their one pet load is the total shizzit, and that ain't necessarily so... slower powders are usually the thing w/ bigger bullets, though. 322 and 55 hornadys worked real good in my 20" 1 in 9. not as accurate as 69's. varget or 4895 w/ 69's. just put on a new 1-8 20" sabre barrel, gonna try some 77's. experimenting is how you learn...and those that don't......don't.....
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alright, my tagalog sux, so what's "walangkatapat"? i remember walang pera(sp?), and a few others i can't say here.......
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i might be talkin' about the wrong die too....is this the one where the crimp function is a sliding sleeve that's stopped by the screw top gizmo? i think mine had a carbide insert in the bottom of the die and really beat the whole round up pretty good. was using 230gr zero soft lead, so....i think i might be talking about another die. i know lee's got a million styles.....
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i had one, yeah it works. it works by squeezzing(speled wrong, looks cool!) the bullet/neck back to @.470. it also deforms the bullet pretty good by doing this. trashed my accuracy, and lemme tell ya', i can do that just fine all by myself, thank you! flare your cases more, and the bullets will seat better/straighter. lee stuff is junk, the only good thing i've seen is the decapper die. never did the redding seating die for pistol, though i know alot of open guys do. the rifle one is the shizzit....
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Thanks, When I wrote that last night I was a little tired I am actually seeing 2.248 to 2.257...so it's a .007 variation...using mixed brass...still ok?
that's .009......(i'm a jerk...)one of the problems with any press is that the actual stop part of the press stroke is only controlled by the shellplate contacting something. this is why sizing rifle brass on these things doesn't work very well. even dillon doesn't recommend it. i've seen kabooms..... even if the 650 shellplate hits some kind of die in your set-up, the toolhead moves a little. i've been using my redding comp seater die in my 550, and it works ok, but i have hard contact in station 1 w/ a lee decapper die, and hard contact in station 4 w/a redding taper crimp die(this die i like, just barely touches the neck), and that seems to lock the thing up pretty good, but the toolhead moves till it locks up, you dig? the .009 is something wrong, but i still have maybe .004- variance w/ 69 match bullets, unless i uniform the ogive. i still like doing everything on a single stage for better control, loading on a 650 on down has problems. now a 1050 would be another story, it's designed for rifle reloading....you got an extra $2000 you could lend me? i promise to reload your shizzit.....
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i know i'm a little late, but i been busy........
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ME, too. Same problem. I joined but cannot post. Been going on for over a year. Very frustrating!!!
Larry
well, no wonder! you'd probably make some kinda dumb post about what kinda glock Django carried......
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uspsa 3-gun rules w/o transitions are very weak(notice i didn't use the s%*k word)! 3-Gun is about transitions, and those favoring matches w/o transitions......(i can't say that here..) i actually like the uspsa major/minor scoring thing, can't get w/ the scoring .223 as major thing, that's weak too. takes points away from all the hosers, makes 'em aim, and they hate that. the problem w/ the major/minor thing is getting good RO's/match directors to get the whole thing right. if " the powers that be" would only invest some of our match/membership dues into a better EZ winscore program, that would be taken care of! kinda like what linda chico said. (oh, i forgot how much i wanted them to buy the "steel challenge". how much was that again???????). don't get me wrong, i really like uspsa pistol matches, but some range lawyers coming out of NROI 3-Gun class......(i can't say that here, either....). nobody's really got a good soulution. and i find this strange when Michael Voigt(sp?) is such a dominant 3-gunner. the biggest problem here is the lack of an efficient scoring system, which would be solved by an updated 3-Gun EZ Winscore w/ power factors. as it is now, the divisions are pretty good. the only question is low capacity handguns having a competitive place in limited/tactical.
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i've been looking to do this too. what a deal!! haven't looked on craigs list, thanx for the idea. you can find good deals on ebay, but the shipping of the 2000lb+ machine is the problem. man, i'm jealous.....
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i wonder if GM's get postulated more than others???? or at least more often???
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And, you really can't read much into a small sample. (though I like the idea)
You lose the 8 vs 10 aspect, but if you want to compare Major to Minor...pick a Nationals where they had Production and L-10. Should be a good amount of top shooters in each.
one of the problems w/ this postulation(can i say that?), is comparing 10 rd single stack w/ L-10 and production. i've been shooting a long slide SS in L-10 for a while, and if you think that reloading a wide body is the same as a SS, then your name must be Rob Leatham. this is one of the main reasons that the new SS division is the best thing USPSA has done, in my book!
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been doing the 9mm SS thing for a while, even shot Mr. Carmoney's revo/SS match with it. borrowed gun, gotta give it back soon. i'm a bogart, what can i say? anyway........1st thing is, you gotta have 10rd mags, and i just have the 9rd mec-gar's. 2nd thing is minor scoring sux! 3rd is the guns are real soft, 147gr zeros and 3.7 american select is .22like, makes you aim more, however you want to define the aiming process. you gotta shoot alot of a's, or it ain't good! didn't know about 10rd tripp's, that sounds interesting, but i had some .45 tripps that i returned twice, refunded, and then he sent me more free(thanx, virgil!), but they still wouldn't work custom .45's w/ 1000's of rounds of wilsons, so....YMMV. if i was gonna get totally single stack serious, .40 is the shizzit. major and better recoil than .45. .45's and 185 berry's ain't bad, though.....
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What's the difference between an orchestra and a bull?
On a bull the horns are in front and the a$$hole is in the rear.
oh, yeah.....that's a good one!!!
just did an pops orchestra hit a week ago, kinda apropos.....know about the felon thing too....."when there's no honor among thieves, you know there's something rotten in the state of Denmark"......or something like that! 
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OAL : http://kwk.us/powley.html very cool link, thanx.........
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took a Bill Rogers class a couple of years ago. if you don't know, check out his target system.....his thing was to stay on the front sight, but every thing was pretty close together, so you could do it without looking where you were going, like a plate rack. i always argue this point with everybody.....
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great thread! saw the palmetto park solution on "blindhogg's" website a long time ago, was always curious. your work looks great! read something else a long time ago about bluing over the park' finish. you ever do this? how durable do you find this "palmetto park'" finish? you ever do the bake on epoxy over the stuff? starting to build some guns, can't decide on the best finish, and i got alot of questions.......
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was shootin' at a match yesterday w/a guy who had a can. darn thing didn't even run the timer! pretty cool....just RO'ing the guy, i could see that the whole thing was alot less violent to me, which means you could be more controlled, you dig? this was a 200yd. stage too, so....i know that the big, nasty, miculek comp bang thing gets on my nerves, so i wonder about the can thing? probably make a 20" gun awfully big.....does it just screw on to 1/2"-28 threads? how do you mount the gizmo?.....
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ya' gotta experiment.... i think alot of us uspsa'ers think we just reload to the "magic" power factor, and then the rainbow comes out!!!.....ugh, no....bullet construction, powder weight, case capacity, primer type, all has a bearing on the recipe. and one of the constants is that less powder will give less recoil, which is a good thing, but only if the load works. i did this for a long time, before i could shoot for accuracy. once i realized how to hit the spot, then i started to realize that the loads weren't very accurate, even though they were very soft. fast powders are alot more twitchy, and make it harder to find that "sweet spot", and the "sweet spot" changes w/ different bullet styles, and w/ clay's, we're talking about .1 of a grain, which is hard to throw in a dillon.......and all this ain't in the reloading manuals. case capacity has alot to do w/ it, and mixed cases don't help. the big problem is that .45's were designed to run a 230gr. bullet at @ 850fps, not low 700's, and there's really too much case capacity to make it work smoothly. this is one of the reasons, i think, that uspsa is dominated by the .40 S&W. it's just more effecient at the 165+ pf. i've gotten real good results w/ the zero 230 gr. lead round nose and clay's. zero's machine was busted for a while, don't know if you can even find them now. you gotta do the soft, swaged lead though, hard cast sux! and along with all the other opinions here, just my $.02, YMMV
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thanx for the "gans" link! always had alot of questions on how to lighten slides. this guy looks like he knows.....
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bought 8rnd and 10 cobra mags,.45 cal. didn't work, sent them back. this is in a 6" caspian i built and my 5" old frankengun. tripp forgot, finally got another pair. they didn't work. sent them back, gimme my $$$. couple of months later, after the refund, 2 more mags arrive, worked over by virgil. thanx alot, but they still don't work. and this is in custom guns that have run wilson mags, worn out springs and followers, bent mag bodies, etc. for 50k+ rds. the tripp mags have strong springs, maybe w/ an 18 recoil spring they might work, but not w'165 pf. wilson mags rule, gotta buy some of the new ones. plus bill rogers is the man.....just my $.02........
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that's what you'll find when you use the bushing dies, is that all types of brass has different neck thickness'. LC is thin, winchester and RP is about the same, i forget about that british radway green stuff.....i use a .244 bushing, and i also use a redding elliptical expander ball all the time. But i do this after the dillon sizer/trimmer, so they are already pretty sized when they go in the redding die...you just gotta try all the ideas, but get some tools that will measure everything.
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OK, Hypotheticaly I run a State Level Match. I draw up 8 really sweet stages.I send them in to USPSA, They are approved.
Now, I build the stages. A few walls are not quite in the same place, a few targets are placed differently and due the height of a couple berms, I have a problem letting shooters just shoot a particluar target array from just anywhere. I have to make you shoot a this array ONLY from a specific point.
What happens is I now have a Level 1 exemption situation that cannot be applied in a Level 2 match. HQ will only know if I or one of the many shooters tells them, The match has been run, the props put away. Everyone had fun. All but the two people that decided that my telling them that three pieces of steel had to be engaged from a particular point. They create a firestorm.
What do we do?
Jim
Jim's right. When is the last time you looked at a matchbook and the stages were the same? Everything looks good on paper, but is not the same in practice for a number of reasons. We have to be flexable to an extent. You have to balance one thing with another. If we try to make everything absolute there would be very few COfs that would pass muster. If you make a level one so much of a pain in the ass for the few that are doing it.... you will likely see less and less club willing to run them. I know some people who take a day off to set a COF only to have some people who rarely, if ever, help; bitch up a storm about this or that. Shoot the damn thing and have fun... If you don't like the stage design... get off your ass and help make them better, but don't bitch about it when it's to late to do anything about it. If it's about safety then go ahead and say somthing, but if it's about the COF in general, shut up and shoot!
exactly the problem and the correct solution!!!
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i think the 4.3 is pushing it a bit, but if you're barrel's loose, who knows. usually about 4.0 will get you major(716 fps). clays is pretty fast, and fast powders build pressure real quick!! .1 of a grain in clays w/230's definitely means something! experimenting w/ your chrono is the only way to tell. and anything over major is just experimenting with accuracy. clay's is definitely the shizzit w/230's in .45's though. i think most people here will agree......
I may get a second tool head/dies/powedr funnel/powder measure for 45A
in Dillon Precision Reloading Equipment
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i think arrendondo or somebody makes some kind of indexed gizmo that replaces the powder adustment screw, so you can dial the loads back exactly. i've been meaning to get one of these, cause' i experiment shamelessly! i've got a micrometer head on my rcbs powder measure that works great, wonder if this does too?? would make changing powders real easy.....