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my buddy had to go way over hogdon's data to make major w/ 200 gr. .45 in his revolver. had a really nasty sound to it, no way i was gonna shoot it in my new caspian. YMMV........... clay's w/ 230 gr. round nose' is the best recipe i know, and have experimented with everything i could think of to try to get a softer load.
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some of the best deals, at least on stuff i want, on ebay are micrometers. they got em' all, seems to good condition. got one lemon, and the guy did refund me. check it out!
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no-shoots are supposed to be good guys. splatter that didn't knock down the popper and left a big hole in the no-shoot came from a improperly aimed shot which did not have enough concern for my favorite uncle(the no-shoot!), and consequently he didn't walk away, so........... i think vladimir should get dinged!
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i gotta rcbs one. it works great. you have to have a single stage press though. with a discount at midway, it was pretty cheap.....
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yo, steve...enjoyed your post! especially the musical parallel. i got into this sport a couple of years ago, and found/fell a definite similarity to musical pursuits. technique, practice, style, different horns, etc..... some of my musical friends think it's kinda strange, but so are they! that moment in time that the gun goes off in is very musical, at least to me. and it's good to hear guitar players listening to louis..... coltrane was a single stack kinda guy, i bet....and if mike brecker picks up an open gun..........
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and 10 squat-thrusts w/a push-up before every course of fire..........
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no optics, pump 12 gauge, single stack .45 w/ 7-8rd. mags. you can run the optics and auto shotguns in other classes. everyone wants to water down the challenge..... hell, as long as i'm puttin' in my $.02 worth, i think everybody should have to shoot garands!!
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i read on some industrial plating website that the stuff had more lubricity than titanium nitride or hard chrome, so that it would be even slicker. the way the gun is now in the white, the slide really feels slick, really smooth. i just don't wanna lose that. i'm really leaning towards leaving well enough alone.....
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built a caspian longslide a few months ago for L-10. shoots great, runs like a scalded dog! still in the white, can't decide whether to have it finished or just leave it as is. i've been sweating on it, and no problem with any corrosion, i clean it regularly, keep it pretty greasy. have a contact with a guy that does aluminum nitride plating, and i'm thinking of it. anybody done it? sounds like the shizzit from what i've heard. or should i just save my money and leave a good thing be.......
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i've been screwin' around with .45 loads, trying to get the softest major load possible. there's so many parameters involved with every change of components...i've been bogarting my friends chrono, and have learned that it's really a necessary piece to get a load together. you really learn alot when you start watching the velocities. my 5" gun is totally different from the 6" gun, and who knows why? powders, bullet styles, barrel lengths all make signifigant differences. you gotta get a chrono, or bogart a buddies..........
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is this the tony h that helped load me on the truck last year? if so....thanks!!! had a blast, but for that!!! hope to be chasin' ya' again this year.......
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is the North American 3-Gun Tactical Championship gonna go on this year? haven't seen/heard anything..... had a blast(!, literally) last year. anybody know???
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great picture! why is it that it's always been the old, fat bas#$^ds with the ties on that make the decisions that get the 20 yr. olds heads and rear ends shot off??????
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this is a great thread! i wonder if using something just a little slower than 1680 would be the ticket for the 150 gr. bullets? was arguing this with a pro reloader, cause' i thought that 7.62x39 was a low pressure round(>40,000psi), but he brought out a book of saami specs, and had all the loads at about 50,000. so much for the 7.62x39 being a low pressure(ala 30-30)round! it's just that the big bolt carrier right in front of my nose makes me a bit more aware........
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i've been dreaming about the same kinda project with the the para "gunsmith" frame kit. where/how did you get yours? don't list them in brownells, and nobody i ask seems to know. looks like a great limited gun, and you sure can beat the $$$$ from STI and get more quality when you sweat over it yourself! i was dreaming about a .45 myself, but .40's supposed to be the way to go. this is bad.....i should have never seen this..........
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i'm with overkill...."he-man" rules! was thinking of trying to make major with my AK_47, but you gotta push it a little.....that wolf 150 gr. load goes a little over 2100 in my Vepr K, so it seems like it could be done. been talking about it with some guys for a while....mostly "i'll load some and we'll try it in your gun, OK?".......can't seem to get any farther than that though.
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i have to reply, can't help it........too much whining about equipment!!! i know some real good L-10 shooters(i'm trying to be one). they beat limited guys all the time. my buddy beats open guys, good ones, with a 6(!)shot revolver. it's the indian, not the arrow.... i bet leatham and all the big dogs beat all these whiners with makarovs....... it's about the shooting, not what your shooting.
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slick 50/90 wt. gear oil, thinned up a bit with something thinner. really makes the gun feel slick, mine doesn't really have any metal to metal feel with it on. YMMV..... gotta try some of that slide glide stuff though.......hey, les.......
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i got this russian one a little while ago. "lomo astele", from this optics planet website. they're not $150, and pretty high qualilty. comes with a variable power eyepiece, and it ain't too good. sent it back for 20mm fixed eyepiece(@60 power), and it's pretty sharp. seen a $600 valdada that really didn't have much on this one. i betcha i can see my 6mm holes at 300 on white paper, maybe more......
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nobody's mentioned the C.S. Forester series about "Horatio Hornblower", or the Patrick O'Brien series about "Jack Aubrey" (the new "Master and Commander" movie). historical fiction about the british navy at the turn of the 19th century. iron men and wooden ships, cannons at pistol shot, etc.......... you can't put em' down....
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just read it.......great book! been doing this sport a couple of years now, really summed it all up pretty good. really gives you something to think about, explains the progression pretty well. now i got no excuses........maybe that's not so good a thing? thanks alot, brian.......
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whatta youse guys use for 200 gr. jacketed? been loading clays for 230 gr. lead, works great and max load just makes power factor+.published max is under power factor for 200, and i chrono'd it in my 6" caspian last nite, and it was right, 4.3 making high 700's. just built this gun, it's kinda mushy feeling, and i bet the 200 grainers would make it a little more snappy. how about some recommendations for what kind of powder? titegroup looks pretty good to me, just wonder what everybody else uses? trying to get a load that doesn't smoke so much. do a match in some wood-roof bunkers, with the sun behind you, shooting into shadows w/ black vis-queen barriers, after the first cast bullet shot, the haze is really bad, second shot is pretty much guessing. gotta beat these bastards.......
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there's nothing wrong with the atkins maintenance diet, it's really the proper thing. lean meat, alot of low glycemic carbs. the glycemic value of food is the key. it's just that we associate carbohydrates with white flour, sugar,and snickers bars, and that's not really right. try staying away from processed food, and do at least 1/2 hour of aerobic excercise, 65%+ or so of your VO2 max every day. that's the correct lifestyle. just cause' you read some factoids in somebodys book shouldn't convince you so. atkins was a pudgy bastard. his dietary ideas were based on changing the habits of sedentary, morbidly obese people. no bypass from the need to MOVE YER' ASS every day. serious aerobic atheletes eat a tremendous amount of carbohydrates every day. check out the diets of tour de france riders. they are seriously skinny going into it, eat @ 10,000 calories a day(yeah, that's right!), and still lose 5-10lbs in 3+weeks. not that we have that kinda metabolism, but the idea is to get the body to burn the stuff, not eat weird combinations to circumvent that idea. check it out.........i'm done with the rant.......i have some personal trainer buddies, they have to fight these ideas all the time, and these guys are really good, very educated in modern training styles. eat all the bacon and cheese that you want, just show up at your local sat. morning ride and see how you fare.........
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always laugh at all the atkins diet talk. there's no such thing as a diet, just calories in, calories out. of course, all your calories have to be good ones, not just twinkies and mountain dew. we've all been led by all the advertising that carbohydrates are bad! ask any tri-athelete or serious aerobic person if they can do it without carbohydrates.....ask lance armstrong about carbohydrates......it's not good for you to eat eggs, cheese, and meat always. we're not cats, we're people. at first, all the protein and fat shocks your system, and acts like a diuretic, and you piss out a bunch of weight. the maintenance diet of the adkins is a good thing, but that's just a good diet, with alot of low glycemic carbohydrates........i know this is falling on deaf ears, though, always does with the adkins diet......
45 ACP - 200gr RN/Clays Data
in 44/45 Caliber
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clay's is real fast. fast stuff builds pressure quick when you get over the specified max loads. i use it for 230gr. .45 loads, and if you check the data, i think it's just listed from about 3.6 to 4.0 max, which is a pretty small window, so that should tell you something. check out the data for some other fast powders......... looking for pressure signs with primers is gonna vary by what kinda primers you use. CCI are pretty hard, winchester a bit less, and federals really soft, so it's misleading. my soft .357 loads flatten federal primers pretty good, so i don't think thats that great of an indication. real hard extraction and flattened primers might make one think some. all the powders work better when you load them to their high values, they burn better with pressure. i just choose the ones that give the closest to major velocities with their max data, which is what clay's does w/ 230gr. bullets. titegroup is closer for 200gr., and HP-38 for 185gr. the 230gr. clays loads feel the softest for me, though. might have more muzzle flip, i dunno. pretty hard to argue with........