George Post

targets?

Yes, Don't pull the trigger until the sights are lined up well enough to hit where you want to. Let your sights be your speedometer. Also, until you are seeing what you need to see, put away your timer during dry-fire. Good luck and have fun. George

Today was a great day at a very nice place. What made it so great? It was the very good stages, built by good hard working (or is that playing) shooters who were friendly and know how to put together a challenging match that ran smoothy. Two thumbs up! George That guy shooting iron sights

May he rest in peace.

I know that feeling. You can't feel prouder or more relived at the same time. Best wishes George

Wow, two gentlemen, both "Big" men!

Dean, I was unable to e-mail you at toptonmd@toptonfga.org So I sent it to tapsmd@toptonfga.org is this OK? George Post

Joe, Welcome to forum! Did you check the case length before or after resizeing them? George

Would it help to use a little sandpaper on that bar?

oh, oh, This could be helpful, but only if Ron uses words small enough for me to understand. Thanks George

This looks very cool, but what keeps the primers from flipping as they feed into the tube? Good luck George

Bill, Use the allen wrench on the bolt like thing in the center of the shell plate. Mark where it was when you started eo you can retighten it, if it doesn't help. ONLY move it a SMALL amount at a time! like a 1/16 of a turn counterclockwise at a time, test and repeat. I think if you move it too much, primers won't fully seat. Go slow. Good Luck George

Welcome to the forums Bill, I got a 650 for Christmas too, and I was having a simular problem. I was crushing primers. I noticed my shell plate wasn't centered over the primer pin for 3 of the 5 spots. Called Dillon, thinking my shell plate was out of spec. He had me adjust the shell plate tension. Got off the phone and thought all was well, until I crushed another primer. Then I adjusted the small metal piece that holds the case in and it has been perfect since. So check your shell plate to primer line-up. Good Luck George

Use an allen wrench to slightly loosen the round bolt like thing in the center of the shell plate. Just a very little at a time, like a 1/16 th of a turn Remember where it was before adjustment so that you can reset it if it doesn't help. If that doesn't help call Dillon, they were good about helping me. George

OK, I've heard of sweater puppys, but, but.........

This looks like too much fun not to shoot, I'm in. I may even practice. I hope Jim saves a spot for me on the big bus. George

Try shooting some steel challenge type matchs, and see how you do.

For those of us without a clue, what is a ProAm match? Thanks George

Every week I sit at my bench to load, I see that tray of ammo. I grab another round and push it against the bench. I haven’t done any rifle loading since then. Just a little discouraged. I did measure the case mouth on some cases, before loading inside diameter was .22 and after pushing the head inside the measurement was .23 inches I only have 500 of these bullets ($40) so rather then buy yet an other die I may just go back to boat tail. Thanks for helping George

Don't forget that you lose around 25 to 45 percent of your body heat from your neck and head area. If you are cold, put on a warm hat. George

I got some Remington .224 55gn. FMJ with cannelure on sale. Before this I have only loaded FMJ Boat tails. I had some cases that I had slightly over done the chamfer on and thought it would be a good match. When placing the bullet on the case they could hardly stand up but if I went slow it was OK. Then as I was seating the bullet it started out feeling the same as the boat tail then got real easy. It got easy as the beginning of the cannelure started to pass the case mouth. After a few I stopped and gave them the thumb pressure test against the side of loading bench, they pushed right in. Tried same cases with boat tails and they passed, tried different cases with flat based bullets and they failed. I remeasured the bullets and they were .224 same as the boat tails. I did this all this testing before crimping. But I’m not feeling to good about just crimping and running these through my AR 15. Any help to understand or suggestions welcome. George

The last time I bought a helmet (20 years ago) good helmets were tested and approve by the Snell Foundation. A google search got me this. http://www.smf.org/ Ride safe George

If it's not too late forget about the Lyman case tumbler with the built in sifter. My Lyman case tumbler works great, but the built in sifter part does not work that well and becomes really loud waiting for the last half of the media to sift out. It takes forever to drain out. I spent the extra $30 for seperate sifter and get cleaner brass in way less time. George

Three teenage guys where in my sandwich shop last year and we overheard part of their conversation, and it went like this. "Dude, dude" "like dude" "He's so gay he doesn't even wear girl pants."

I only met Bill a few years ago, and to tell the truth, I didn’t take to well to him at first. But I grew to like him real fast and I’m very saddened by his passing. He helped me with ammo when I switched to .40 cal. Then helped mentor me through reloading. Supplied me with components when I needed them. He mentored me on stage set-up. I never understood why he spent so much time arranging targets but, when you think about it, it’s a lot like arranging bridesmaids for a photograph (he was professional photographer.) I bought a few things from Bill, all great stuff. The last thing I bought from him was his shotgun, he set the price not on what it was worth but on what he needed to get for the shotgun he wanted. I made out like a bandit and Bill was glad for me. I wasn’t even going to try it out, as I know it would be in perfect working order, but Bill insisted. Even from his hospital bed he made arrangements to get me an accessory that came with it. One time I was talking to him and his teenage daughter, Dawn. I asked what he was going to do on his vacation and She answered “spending time with me.” If your teenage daughter want to spend time with you, you know you’re doing sometime right. Bill would stop by my sandwich shop about once a week and we would have some great talks about life, family, business and shooting. I will miss these most of all. Bill was a good man and I’ll miss him.