Vlad

My buddy has a new method for dealing with them. He just presses 0 a lot. Turns out they don't like it when the phone goes beep beep beep.

Why would I make fun of you? That huge damn button really should do what we all want it to do. Guess how I found out what it does?

How are you dropping a round on the lifter? If you use the bolt release that will happen. If you use the shell release above the trigger (or press the trigger) it shouldn't.

I have a pretty old M&P 40. No springs ever broke. At some point the sear spring got lazy and had a couple of failures to reset, put in a Apex one problem went away. This is the old small diameter sear spring. I don't have accurate round count for it, but I'll guess well over 20k. Obviously at some point you might want to replace the recoil spring, but thats now what was asked.

Heheh.

Get a dog. Mine just barks whenever a delivery person drops something off, so he is like the doorbell they never pressed. Which to be fair would be hard to do anyway, as I don't have one, they'd have to use the knocker.

Local man fixes UPS delivery using this one weird trick! UPS delivery man hate him! Seriously, sign up for UPS mychoice or whatever they call their portal thing. Then when you get a package notification, log in and click on "Provide delivery instructions" and one of the options is a "Leave at" menu which includes options such as "Door Person, Concierge, Management Office, Superintendent". You can even make that your default. Then makes yourself a paper hat labeled "Concierge" or whatever and see if they bother to actually ring the bell and do as requested. If they don't, then you can have a real complaint for not following your directions Fight the system, using the system. Power to the people!!

There are like a million options I use 24.5gr of Tac, under 68gr Hornady BTHP, at 2.260, using Remington 7 1/2 primers in LC brass. It makes 2840fps out of 18" Nordic barrel. It matches the Razor HD's II's Miculek reticule out 500 yards or so. Or at least it does for me. edited to fix the primers to one that actually exists. Also note this load is in 5.56 land, .223 load maxes out at 24.4

As far as I can tell the Briley website could use a flowchart. Once you determine what fits your gun you seem to have the following options: Ported or unported (unported for 3gun I'm guessing) Flush or extended (extended for me) Black or stainless (who cares really, or titanium but that's a tad pricey.) Color coded tip or not (why the hell not?) figure out what you want for those questions, then eliminate anything that doesn't look like that. What remains, is what you want to buy, I think.

I find long loading sessions all sorts of annoying for many reasons. I mostly load 100-200 rounds a time. When I need a lot of ammo made, I just do 100-200 rd every morning after I had my coffee but before I work out, and I'll do that for a couple of weeks until I've made all the ammo I wanted to make.

Keep in mind that the manual says it is intended for 3dram loads, and this forum generally advises that for all inertia guns. You may get it to work that way, mind works with 2 3/4's dram as well, but it probably pushing it and I wouldn't use that in a match.

I've done it, because I load on a 550 so life complicated enough already. Assuming you are using the same type of brass, you can do it, but you won't end up with the most precise brass length. It fine most ammo.

What did you break? And how?

Brian, you paint the picture of a man worth knowing. Sorry for your loss.

So .. if you replace it with a Benelli extractor, do you reuse the Stoeger pin, or use a Benelli roll pin? I'm asking because if you ever need to replace it again, how do you get the roll pin out?

Locally we do random'ish chrono at the local matches, maybe once a year or so, unannounced. Come to think of it, we haven't done it a while. Also it isn't USPSA job (locally or otherwise) to make sure a shooter had the chance to chrono their ammo. That's the shooter's problem.

Dude, you a reaching. I get that you are annoyed by something that doesn't actually affect you and you be can as snide as you wish. Alternatively why don't you propose a method that is better. You are ok with me finding the LIGHTEST "factory" ammo and using that? What if say Remington starts selling a "Steel Challenge" load that makes 100pf and I can buy that at my local store and use it in USPSA? Are you ok with that? If it bothers you so much, stop shooting production or talk to your Area Director. Oh wait, you don't shoot production.

The chrono man is there to keep folks honest. If everyone was always good about making sure their ammo and guns were legit we would never even need a chrono man so lets not pretend everyone in our game is always honest. Can you still fool him? Maybe, but at that point you are into double douchebaggery territory and I'd hope there are a bit fewer of those folks around. But they are around, no doubt. The point of match ammo is to make sure you can have SOME ammo at matches that involve travel and odd shipping requirements. Its not as if you are going to somehow cheat on the match ammo. What is the fear here, that somehow you'll sneak into the factory and modify a batch? Even if the match ammo is sub-minor in your gun, odds are you won't have an advantage over anyone else shooting the same ammo (cause same ammo) or shooting their own ammo making powerfactor as the match ammo is likely to feel odd to you anyway.

How does the chronoman KNOW that the ammo in that white box is really factory ammo not something you downloaded and repacked? How does the chrono man know that your barrel is the factory barrel not an aftermarket one that for whatever reason is slower then the factory ammo? Should a 2" barrel gun using the lightest possible "factory" ammo automatically meet power factor?

Can you try some good quality shells and see if the problem still happens? With two different guns having the same issue, the likely culprit is the ammo.

What ammo is that? It almost looks like the powder is very slow and done burning before the gun unlocks.

Thing is they had to change. They have to compete with Midway and other places that basically sell the same stuff cheaper. I doubt the would have been able to stay in business with the "we are for gunsmiths" mentality. Sure, in this day and age they need to figure out how shipping really works before Amazon decided to get into the gun part racket, but I find they still have one of the best parts and tools selections.

Its mostly a mental thing. It basically places both the shooter and the RO in a heightened alertnesses mindset. The shooter is unlikely to be tempted to do his pre-beeper routine or cold grip the gun or whatever.

You can certainly do that, but it is probably unnecessary. Holstered guns should be fine with two people watching them. I've never seen it done that way, the 'pretend you are statue while I watch you as a hawk' approach is what I'm noticed everyone use.

Oh I can do it, its just that sometimes I have software issues and I was wondering if I could make it a hardware issue. If the answer is "you'll break stuff if you do that" then thats fine, I was curious if anyone tried it. I may pick up a spare spring and experiment.