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Welcome to the forums! Ah yes, the 40 S&W. My favorite semi auto caliber

Congrats on your purchase! Great buy!! The priming system on both the Pro 1000, and the Loadmaster , can be made to run 100% reliable. I am living proof! Having said that, I set my Pro 1000's up for just one caliber. These presses are not that good at caliber changes . . . honestly, takes too long to get the changeover running right. If I were you, I would set one press up for 9mm and the other for 40 S&W. Of course, I would be more than happy to take one off your hands . . . seriously. If you are a Facebook user I recommend you join the Lee Reloading & Bullet Casting group. All the help and advise you'll ever need. Unlike here, you don't get people chiming in on how bad the equipment is, when they fail to make them run good.

In addition, I like to pull a bullet and visually inspect the crimp effect on said bullet.

Sorry about your luck, with cable and all. Direct TV here. Welcome to the forums anyhow!

I know what you mean, Tony! I don't mind the 40 yards back to the basement door but, having to pull off my muddy boots really ticks me off.

I found a 3 wheel jogging stroller (free), that my son-in-law converted into a 3 gun cart. He did a great job, and it works perfect. However, it does not fold up all that compact. It will fit in his trunk but, no room for any gun cases. I always offer to take my truck, so I don't have to carry my range bag

My vision forced me into open division 4 years ago. Now I enjoy shooting again! I suppose carry optics is a real alternative now but, I truly enjoy open . . . and all those bullets in the bottom of my gun

That is the way my son-in-law grips. I tried it, and it did not work for me at all.

Welcome to the forums, from the GREAT state of Ohio!

Welcome to the forums, Brian, from one old fart to another! What type of action pistol shooting you doing? I got started in uspsa at the age of 59. Not much good at it but, I have a hell of a lot of fun!

It is damn well my business!

^^^ That is exactly the way I took mine off

Fiance? Yeah, that will probably work out okay, until the title changes to wife. Them . . . I shoot 2 matches per month. It gets too expensive, and too much travel time, to maintain a 3 match month. Fortunately, I have an awesome wife that does not complain about my shooting and bike riding. 49th anniversary this year . . . woot, woot!

If you are not married, Cody, find yourself a suburbanite wife. That will reduce your level of addiction in short order. Welcome to the forums!

Burris does indeed take care of customers. They replaced a Fast Fire II four different times, for me. They even replaced my backup FF II that was out of warranty. But, that was not the issue for me . . . not what made me give them up. When you are half way through a 5 stage match and the dot goes out in the middle of stage 3, your match is over. No amount of warranty can make that right!

I was always pleased with Scott Springer's dovetail mount. Although I never did find a Burris Fast Fire II that would last more than 6 months. Finally bought a Carver mount and Delta Point, for open, and never looked back.

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I wish Yoda had tried to improve that saying. Before you can pull a lot of things off, you first must have tried. In some cases, you still might never do. Trying and not getting there is better than never trying. I crossed a time/accuracy threshold on a certain drill a few weeks ago. Before I got there, I had to first try. My overall skill level is helped only a little by how I can do on this drill but at least I have experienced something I wouldn't have if I hadn't tried, and now I have more confidence that I'll be able to increase my skills in other ways -- through trying. On a classifier, I don't want to try shooting at a new personal best skill level. I want to be within my skill level but definitely not messing around and not taking it easy. If I've never gone out and tried hard to stretch my skill level, and am not willing to execute classifiers at or very near the edge of my current ability, I have no hope of raising the bar in my classifier scores. It cracks me up every time I see someone use that line! The statement is not valid in any way, shape or form. All it is . . . is a fictional line, spoken by a fictional character, in a fictional movie. Nothing can be accomplished without first trying. We attempt (try) to improve on our past performance in every dry fire session, live fire session and especially during a match. Thank gawd we don't see the statement as much as we used to!

Welcome to the forums, Jeff! You are off to a good start already, and don't even realize it. You see, beer is a very important post-match element.

I don't think it is so much the material composition of the gun, but the type of action. You see, "plastic" guns are, for the most part, striker fired. You will never make a striker fired gun run like a hammer fired gun. I have never heard of anyone getting a striker fired trigger below 2 pounds. Then there is that striker spring, always working against the recoil spring. You can only go so light with that recoil spring before the striker spring keeps the gun from going into full battery. If the striker spring holds the slide back even just a few thousands of an inch, you will get light primer strikes. It is just plain maddening trying to make a striker fired open gun run 100%. I have been shooting a 40 caliber Springfield XDm open gun for 5 years now (2.25# trigger pull). Oh, I shoot matches where the gun runs 100%, for the entire match. Then there is last Sunday's match, where the slide did not fully cycle and I had to clear a round on stage 1. The remaining stages, no issues. I never know from one match to the next! That dot always leaves the window for a fraction of a second, with every trigger pull. For a 67 year old C shooter that is not an issue, but for a fast trigger finger a good shooter would be waiting for the dot to return. A gun like mine will never take you to a master level.

Okay, you lost me there somewhere. How does a bullet feeder problem lead to uncharged cases? Unless, you are manually advancing the shell plate, bypassing the charging station. When something goes wrong, in my progressive press, (which is very rare) the FIRST thing I do is rotate the shell plate, removing all cases. I do this just to avoid the risk of an uncharged round.

And, are sandbaggers welcome?

Some of us questioned a gentleman's performance, after last years shooting. Performing as if an A shooter, beating a B shooter and classified a C. So, a couple of us squaded with him in January's match, and yesterdays match. Sure enough . . . a solid A shooter . . . until we get to the qualifier. He shot yesterdays qualifier in s l o w motion. January's qualifier? Well, he stopped shooting, ejected a round and continued. Said he had a malfunction. The man makes me want to puke.

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Welcome to the forums, from southeastern Ohio!