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Something else strange I think the crown was cut befor the barrel was rifled. If I can find the wife's camera I will take a pic this evening.

So I decided to step up into modern times and get a 627 gun came in yesterday evening and was extremely happy with it untill I got home with it and started looking closer. I am not sure if Ray Charles was the machinest for the chamfer/moonclip cut on this gun but geezus it was rough! There was lips on ever single surface was was sharp enough that I cut several layers of skin off just feeling it. The chamfer job was so rough that I am to embarrased to talk about it on here. Lucky for me I have a 45degree chamfer cutter and a dremil. After two hours of cutting and buffing I got all the burrs and lips off the metal, rechamfered the cylinder, and lightned the 20lb trigger pull. My moon clips are still not wanting to feed right about 20% of the time but its getting better. From the factory it took me almost five minutes to get one moon clip in there. Im still getting catchs with the cylinder. I am thinking about getting some 1200 grit wet sandpaper and smooth the first inch inside of each cylinder. I was even shocked with the ammount of metal shavings I found in the gun. I am guessing I got one off the bottom of the stack or it just skipped the last step in quality control? O well I will make the best of it

It's a tough pitch in my state(ms) uspsa and icore rule the roost here. I am a moderator for www.msgunowners.com with 3000 members. We constantly makes plugs an I will personally pay match fee's for new shooters and still get 6-8 shooters each match. I'm also the assistant match director so im gonna be watching this topic closely for ideas.

.47 group is freaking sweet! this is my baby, kinda crappy cell phone pic but she gets the job done.

i switched to trailboss last year and havent looked back. clays and titegroup use 3.5gr.. bullseye aint my favorite.. tried 2.5gr with 148gr hbwc and it was so so. 231 did better

i cast my own bullets for 38spl and use 4.2gr trailboss (5pounder) with fed GM primers. Total cost is about 4-5cents a pop. 1000 rounds of factory Cheap junk is $300... so my $40 1k vs their $300 1k.. thats big savings specialy at 10k rounds per year

man i wish they would lift the LEO restriction

Who in here shoots PPC ?

nice looking group

bayou bullets or billy bullets

you can shoot lead bullets with no lube... its just not something i would wanna do alot of. you need a lubesizer and if your gonna reload say 500+ a month i would go with a star/magma... easy mode. your alloy depends on the speed limits of your bullet.. soft "virgin" lead you need to keep under 1000fps and certian powders are prown to leading. wheel weights can be pushed a little faster because they are harder. Lyman #2 can be pushed to aout 1400fps. Straight linotype can approach 1700.. after that you REALLY need gas checked bullets.. I put about 6000 rounds of lead down the barrel of my 38 each year and only need to clean lead out maybe once or twice a year. Rule of thumb is that the lower the operating pressure of the load, the softer they alloy you want to use. Truthfully, forget about velocity because it doesn't mean squat because you can effectively develop high velocities with low-pressure loads thus if you look only at the resultant velocity, chances are you're going to be using a bullet that is far too-hard for the loading. Another thing is running cast bullets at 0.001-0.003" larger than the groove diameter, this is kind of a rule-of-thumb however, the higher the operating pressure of the load and the harder the alloy of the bullet you're using, the closer the bullet diameter must be to the actual groove diameter or you run the risk of creating serious pressure spikes that can cause a catastrophic failure of the gun. If you dont want to by a lubesizer you can buy a lee alox kit.. P.S all the speed demons use round nose bullets

a full wad cutter might slow you down on reloads. i am more of a fan of swc's personally. start at 3.0gr of TG and work your way up. Bullseye and 231 are good powders to look at

usually i shoot action pistol

1 7/8 barrel?? lol how accurate is that load?

bottom set of molds is his hollow points.. The cavity on those HP's are large enough to hide small animals in lol and he gives you five sided pins that will make the bullet mushroom out somewhat like a black talon. also you can turn the pins over and make FN solids.. so its like having three molds in one = )

Mihec...why can't you buy from him?

There is a guy on another forum I go to that makes molds from brass that I think are equal to h&g an half the price

Figures

I would like to shoot this at 130pf but i dont know if the skirt will start blowing apart.. i know most hb bullets are ment to be slow bullseye rounds. just wondering what their limit would be

i bet someone will buy all that soon as it hits the dock...

an i thought i was the only one that used dykem!!

oops that's a 73 not a 63

Who here cast for their comp guns???? tell us about your pet bullet/load! H&G 63 swc & H&G 50 wc both 147gr with 3.8gr of 231

DQ's always suck.. First time i got DQ'ed I was heart broken untill one of the GM's that was shooting that day came up to me an said there are two types of shooters.. those that have been DQ'ed and those that will be DQ'ed.. Made me feel better =)

thats my lil open revo.. its a AP rig and not really set up for icore/uspsa... @50 yards it will shoot .9 three shot groups