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yo doug....it's dave moss, cliff's friend from the iowa match.....don't know about .308, but i do alot of .223 with my redding dies. i use a .244 bushing with one of their free float carbide neck expanders. kinda looks like a football..... but.....the problem is if you size the stuff w/ the .244 bushing first, it knocks it down too far for the first step, the mouth comes out kinda belled. .245 works good too. .246 is too loose w/ LC brass, might work w/ winchester. i use mine after the dillon trimmer, and they come out great. just kind of a problem if you size them to .244 first. it seems most of the brass i find measures about .256, and i've been told that you can only go about .005 per step. good luck, and see you next year......
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when i bought my dillon trimmer, the guy recommended tumbling in walnut. kinda works, pretty much takes off or loosens any flash left. definitely not as good as chamfering with a reamer....
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this is gettin' good!!!! you definitely got me on the "schrodinger's cat" thing, had to look that one up. never really worried much about whether there was a sound if a tree fell in the forest when there was no one there to hear..... quantum physics ain't really my bag. now ask me about lydian dominants and how John Coltrane might approach them, i could probably go on a bit...... but lemme tell ya', the "happy ending" i was talkin' about ain't got nothin' to do with all that. it does have a chinese root though.......
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great thread! the "zen-ness" and the concept of the essence of things is really universal, translatable into everything we do. it's really what life's all about......but lemme tell ya', Ghost Dog, after reading this all, if you play your cards right, you might be able to get a "happy ending" outta all this......
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what kinda wrong powder?........
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i've used boiling water. just not too much! just enough to get it to change-mold to the shape that you want. too much(hot) and the shape turns to goo.......
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i used to really hate tom landry's f#&king hat........
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i do the trimmer on a single stage first, with redding variable shell plates. this way you get really accurate headspace. i talked to somebody at dillon a while back, and that's what the gizmo was designed to do, trim and set headspace at one time. there's not really any more sizing necessary. it might work on a 1050, but i gotta wonder about a 650. i don't know if everybody gets the headspace issue here......it ain't a staight-wall pistol cartridge....
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i like the 185hbrn's in my .45's. bullseye works real good, crazy accurate. titegroup is good too. they're kinda twitchy about what kind of powder, accuracy goes all to hell....got a bunch this summer at @$72 at my door, now they're alot more, so i'm looking for something cheaper, but haven't been real succesful......
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yo, hopalong.....don't go! all the stages i've seen you run were great....i don't even care what cliff sez!! there definitely needs to be more good RO's. just did the ft. benning 3-gun(i know it's not uspsa, but...). in the long tunnel pistol stage(6 ports to shoot thru), after i get thru 4 of the ports, reload and turn to go to the last 2 ports, guess who's directly in front of me, standing in the corner of the tunnel, not even behind the 180 line? had to pull the gun back so as not to stick the muzzle of my hot glock in this dork's nose!! i could have pointed it directly at him and not broken the 180. totally thru off my mojo(of which there's not much of anyway), and pretty much blew the stage. then when i tell him, all the ro's at the stage don't pay any attention, and get generally hissy. the whole stage was in the tunnel, so nobody really saw what happened except him and me. pretty pathetic...... this whole shooting sport thing definitely needs more RO's with brains. if you split, it's just one less good one.....
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i think it's pretty hard to get just one type of powder to do everything with every gun. the fun part about reloading for me is in the experimentation. american select works great in my (actually it's borrowed) 9mm single stack with both 124gr remingtons and zero 147's. for my .45, bullseye w/185 berry's hollow bases, and clay's for 230 grainers(any kind!). it's really pretty hard to beat 230's and clays in a .45, i think anybody will tell you that. powder speed is very important, and it's relation to case volume and bullet weight is some serious voodoo! i am not giving any exact load data, and it bothers me when others do, cause' if you are not going to do the homework and find good data from published reloading manuals and the powder manufacturers themselves,..... i'm not even gonna go there! this forum(and others) is great, but if your not sure about your data, this ain't the place to find it. i watch guys at my club blow the heads off cases regularly, and they just can't seem to figure out why????
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had a great time! the shootin' part wasn't so great on my part, but i guess that's why there's next year!! all the staff and RO's were excellent, for me the match ran very smooth. and i gotta say, the sunday afternoon room service at the Wingate Inn couldn't have been better timed...... see you next year!
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excellent thread! uspsa scoring isn't so bad if the courses are designed with some shots that make you slow down, it's just the trend that has only 3 or 4 hard shots in a whole 10 stage match that's bad. in general, uspsa seems to like fast, fairly easy shooting problems that test how fast and smooth you can run the @20+ round gun. don't get me wrong, it's definitely fun, but don't say that the actual shooting is all that difficult. but when all the average shooters get alot of mikes, the indians ain't all that happy, so..... and i'm not saying this in totality either, cause' i've been to some really great, balanced matches. it's just all in the design. read the enos rant at the beginning of this forum on the "Denigration of American Sport", or something like that. i'm personally kinda torqued that they're gonna weight all the stages at "Ft. Benning's School for Boys", (an army friend's quote), at 100 points each, and then let somebody take the mike and time penalty on the long(400yd.) stage. on that long stuff, you shoot till' you get em', or you get the 300, you dig? life's tough, and you should have to shoot them all. there just seems to be alot of questions to the 3-gun scoring that i have seen, and alot of the answers seem to go to the fast, easy shot side. just my 2 cents.......
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yeah, but the third gun was sub-minor caliber, so no score....... hadda great time, definitely will be back, kind of the yearly throw down! just don't know now if i even wanna win it though.... pretty rough crowd! hope to see y'all soon...
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that'll be cool........and i promise not to call you dan anymore.....
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i'll have to check with my corporate sponsorship and confirm that i can accept an award from your corporate sponsorship...... my people will call your people.....not soon, though....
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tried to make the 158gr. minor loads work w/ bullseye and vv310. way too fast!! by the time you consistently over 800fps, gets really squirrelley(is that a word?). cases get stuck, terrible accuracy. american select works pretty good at @ 3.2 grains, seating really deep and heavily crimped, but the velocities are still not very consistent. the small capacity case makes the whole affair really twitchy! i really think that there is way too much jump for the bullet in a 686/.357 cylinder for a round this short. i got it working ok, but i bet there's something that could be mechanically improved to make the thing more efficient. with a better chamber, i bet the faster powders/heavy bullet thing would really work. then again, i may not know my %&* from my elbow, either...... anyways, they're on their way to Iowa, see if they work. cliff's ammo is in there too, i put alot of stoopid on it(don't tell him!), so it's gotta help everybody involved! if dan cardon is reading, maybe you could bring your short colt gun and we could learn something. see y'all there......
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158gr zero lead round nose, 3.0 american select, .38 short colt starline brass= 830-840fps in a 6" 686. ridicously soft, seems accurate, and the moon clips are so easy to load, "even a cave man can do it"! haven't tried it on the big poppers yet, but i think i'm gonna run with this for a while(cause' i got 2 lbs of american select, and i'm cheap!). still want to work up the bullseye load, though..... this short colt thing definitely has possibilities, recoils like a .22. thanx for the help........
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yee-haw...lots of interest....cool! tried 2.6 bullseye/158 zero swaged lead in the home chronograph high tech testing laboratory(don't ask!). got 690, but it had that nasty crack to it(no jokes!), so tried 3.1 american select, got 819, so gonna try that. american select and red dot i've been using in my 147gr 9mm loads, works great, so kinda goin' with that. major with that stuff is pretty crazy. wonder if the brass would hold up. did 5.7 power pistol/147 zero's in my glock 17, 175(!) pf, 1200fps, but it was nasty!!! trying to do this and get something minor w/ no recoil, maybe keep up w/cliffy. maybe try some clay's too. i'm not really into the revolver thing, been trying to do it with a 6" mod 19, and you just can't load it. load these short colts in this 686 cut for moon clips, clips kinda loose, and even i can load them......anyways, will keep up the reports...
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hey y'all.....cliff gave me some short colt brass and a 686 cut for moon clips to try for the iowa single stack/revo match, so i'm trying to find some load data. i realize YMMV, but..... just trying to start someplace and he told me about this thread, so here i am.... found some old lyman manual data for 9mm 158gr. lead and bullseye, will try it and work up slow, post some results here. got some data for the .38 S&W, looks pretty close. plus, it's cliff's gun, so what the heck!!!
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Linda Chico for prez......
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(in my best Kelly's Heros "Oddball" voice), "Wow man, so many positive waves about the M-1, i can't miss.........." Heavy Metal it is!!! I love 200 yd. shots. i just wish it was this weekend......
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now we're talkin'!!!! the 26 round stages might not to advantageous for an M-1, but i've done dumber things
....... gotta think about this? one of the reasons i've wanted to do this match is to also go to the CMP store and get some stuff. anyway around it, this is gonna be a fun weekend!!! see ya' there. -
thinking of doing "heavy metal". i got the single stack, pump 12 gauge part, but not clear on the rifle part. the option of optics doesn't seem to be mentioned, so.... yes or no? i'm personally a M-1 kinda guy, so i don't really dig optics in "heavy metal", but to each his own... how 'bout a ruling? thanx, dave moss
....... gotta think about this? one of the reasons i've wanted to do this match is to also go to the CMP store and get some stuff. anyway around it, this is gonna be a fun weekend!!! see ya' there.
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i've been on a .223 reloading mission for about 2 yrs., mainly because the price of ANY .223 ammo is just CRAZY! the vendors gotta be smokin' crack, or the buyers .......but.......federal brass is my least favorite. always short, for some reason, and the primer pocket crimp is real erratic. still goes bang though, and federal must know a thing or two, cause' they sure make alot of the stuff. LC is definitely the shizzit, though. have tried accuracy comparisons w/ others, and LC is by far the best. and lemme tell ya', i ain't the only one that sez this! don't know if it's the quality of the brass, or the annealing process, or the case volume, or what......one thing i have found is that there's alot of voodoo in the case volume of the different kinds of brass, and that's important in a case that will hold only @25 grs. of powder. check it out yourself, weigh batches of 5 of all the different brands.....