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Bring it on Of course you had to take a transfer and move.

Start shooting lots of matches again. Shoot like a Master again. Top 15 at Ft. Benning 3-G. Beat G-man

Have to give it a try. 4 matches in 8 months, time to start practicing as I am registered for Benning.

Given who is showing up for this match, we could just about call it the Florida State 3-gun Championship.

I have use a bunch of it in FAL's, AR10's ext. However you may want to e-mail John Paul for his input as the LRP07 is no chrome lined bore ammo burner.

Yes, it shows you have good neck tension.

Really don't like anything but a plain black rear sight teamed with a small diameter front fiber, preferably serrated. The fiber optic rear sights drive my eyes nuts.

Solo 1000 - Easy to load, cheap, works with moly's, accurate, available. VV N320 - Same as Solo but expensive. VV N310 - Pushing the pressure envelope, but the sweetest shooting there is with jacketed 147's.

Playing with Solo 1000 now. Like what I have seen so far. Feels like 320 at 1/2 the cost. Not as nice as 310 but thats a whole other animal.

Seen that quite a few times on production items, but generally it has a name like Norinco or keltech. That one snuck by QC. Exchange it, we buy a Storm Lake barrel to be nicer than the production one.

Your case neck should be smaller than your bullet after sizing approx..001"-.003". May have to polish down your expander ball. After seating you should not be able to push the bullet into a properly sized case with hand pressure. If you apply a very heavy crimp you can actually crimp the bullet down, the case will spring back more than the bullet and it will be loose. Looking at the photo it looks like you have WAY over-crimped the case. Think of the crimp as a belling/chamfer removal tool or secondary safety not as the primary means of holding the bullet, thats case tension. Many of us don't use any crimp at all on rifle ammo.

It is fun to step up to the line with 23 rounds in the gun shooting 9mm minor Limited vs throwing magazines all over like Production. Makes stage planning a whole lot easer. That said points are both your friend and enemy shooting minor in limited class.

When I was shooting NRA High Power I had great consistency and groups from 24.6gr. VV 140 and a 69gr. SMK, also 24.4gr. RE-15. I love VV powders but the availability forced me to change and I never went back. For 3-gun I have transitioned to 52&55 grain Hornady pills inside 300 yards with 24.35gr X-Terminator. The X-Terminator is a semi fast powder that proved ultra clean is soft shooting and meters fabulous in my 650, giving great 300 yard groups using a full progressive setup. In seeking every 10th I found the lighter bullets give a lower recoil impulse, work the comp better and allow faster accurate shooting. Long range I have gone to the 77gr. SMK and 24.0gr. RE-15. They hit flash targets ie Larues like a brick and shoot fabulous.

Pistol bag and 3-gun bag.

Moly "will" build up in a can, how fast is the question? Give AAC or whoever built your can a call. The best bet is JHP as no lead is exposed to the gas. Note: A suppressor is just a big compensator with an outer sheath. Lead and moly are no no's

I have completely given up on 69's. Really don't see a need for them anymore as 52-55 gr. pills work great inside 300 yards, and for beyond the 77's fly better for me and hit much harder. Varget is a great heavy bullet powder, but has had some lot variations in the past couple of years, still use it for heavy 308's though. I fell in love with Ramshot X-Terminator for 55gr. bullets, meters like water and is clean. Look at powder volume and neck tension, many dies squeeze the snot out of necks in both directions and have way to much neck tension for great accuracy. Also polish your seating die neck.

Re read your original post. For limited I wouldn't do anything that would make your 34 illegal for production with a few minor changes. A beaver-tail would be a bad idea on a 34 as it would kill your resale value. A 34 is a fun gun for Limited not a serious player. For a serious Limited gun there really is no other player in my book than a S-I 2011. That said, I just built up a Limited minor/ 3-gun 34 and it is a kick in the tail to shoot. Vanek SGM trigger kit, Wolf guide rod and spring, ICE mag-well, Dawson/Heinie sights, grip tape. By the way yanked the extended mag release and put a standard one on there as I was hitting the extended one.

I do love my 650 for pistol and semi long range 223-308. I really don't think it matters, any good single stage press will work for the small volume high precision you are talking. As long as it takes standard dies. The most accurate 300-1000 yard loads I have ever assembled are on a 30+ year old RCBS single arm press. Dies and prep. & precision are the tricks, I love the Redding type S match dies with neck bushings, as well as the Redding bench rest seater. Lapua brass is the way to go.

This should be interesting as I have an 8 pound Solo 1000 jug on the way. Plan on working up loads with Zero and Precision 147's to compare with my favorite Zero 147 and N310. With 310 such a PITA to get I had to try Solo.

Just the first target? Yes on the first, sometimes the second, third, ext.......

Welcome to the forum. Temperature, where are you located? Good info shows the extreme spread between the bullet that takes the most powder to make PF MTG, and the least. Was there a noticeable feel between the two? Next some accuracy testing. How much smoke did you get off the Precision's with 320? I want to try some Solo with the Precision 147.

Yep: I thought one was you. My mistake, pneumatic / hydraulic just one more thing to fail.

Dillon lube for rifle cases. I have one 650 head for sizing, and another for reloading. One big thing to check is many die setups over size the neck in both directions, makes sizing a bear. I really like the Redding dies where you can Tailor your neck constriction and expansion.

I actually mix slide glide and Brownell's lube for the slickerystickyness. Plane old white lithium in the stock tube.

They do soften recoil as advertized... HOWEVER--I have personally seen 2 fail. One of them cost a really good 3-gunner a bunch of places at Ft. Benning.