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It looks like my old Midway one.
If mine broke, I would replace it that day, and pay overnight shipping. 3 pans take forever (yes I have them also) but the rotary dump gets things empty faster and more consistently. Yes you get the 40 in the 45 problem and actually many more interesting problems but still it works well. Mine is now quite old. Probably 99 vintage and gets used a lot. Midway used to make really good products back in the 90's and my 1292 tumbler and the media separator were a package. Both are still chugging along.
Get one. You will like it.
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Fun gun, shoots well, good trigger and I have found it to be quite accurate. The checkering in the frame is pronounced though. Have tough hands or wear gloves if you want to shoot more than a few hundred rounds per session.
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7.5 grns of 4756 is my standard blasting load with 135 grn MBC LRN's. I get 1300 to 1350 depending on which Super I shoot them out of. Great accuracy!
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With my pro2000, I normally run between 450 and 550 rounds per hour. I am just loafing along at that speed. I can burst it much faster but then I am not enjoying it as much.
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My Elite Match 38 Super tends to get thrown in the Ultrasonic with Mpro7. 15 minutes in Mpro7 with the heater on. I quickly scrub the barrel then 15 minutes in L&R Gunlube in the ultrasonic and I am done. Just pull it out, drip dry it for a few minutes. Oil and pack away.
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The 38/44 S&W Special, 38/44 High Speed or the .38-44 Special were all the same round. It was developed in 1930 and introduced along with the 38/44 Heavy duty in April of 1930. These were big 5" N frames and the stated ballistics was about 1125 FPS with a 158 grn Jacketed or LRN.
In the shot above, both are 38/44 Heavy Duties but the bottom one is a 2nd week production April 1930 gun. The other is a late 1930's target conversion mimicking a McGivern Model.
They came in these three barrel lengths pre-war and are a lot of fun to shoot. There was also 6.5" target sighted guns called the 38/44 Outdoorsman shown below. The same ammo would do about 1150 FPS out of an Outdoorsman.
This is example of the head stamp:
If you want to duplicate the ballistics and are shooting a 38/44 then you can get there with about 7 grns of SR4756 with a 158 grn LSWC, 6 grns of Unique with the same bullet or 11.5 grns of 2400. Note these are for 38/44's or 357 magnums only.
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Well that stinks. I will have to load up on 4756 and PB this year. Glad I just bought 8 lbs of it.
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I have a briley P9 barrel put in my P9 40 and they did it right in their shop (Briley that is) right by beltway 8 here in Houston. Nice barrel, fits well and never really had an issue with it. It is a 6" long slide if I remember right and it sticks out a bit past the normal length of the slide.
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You mean one like this? (in 10mm)
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Having handled both my P9 and Elite Math 38 super yesterday i would agree. The P9 frame is definitely thinner front to back than the current witness frame. I should have measured it.
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The witness is built like a tank. I ran loads through mine that were nuclear range and it never had an issue. Accurate, reliable, and easy to shoot well. I used mine as a truck gun for years in west texas because of the long range accuracy and punch of the gun. My g20 was another good gun. I put a kkm comped barrel and it and it could take some of the abuse but I never felt as safe with hot loads in it as the witness. Just a lot more steel in the witness. In the end I sold them both to a shooting buddy because I had 2 custom 1911's built in 10mm. Today I regret selling the glock but I am fine without the witness. The glock just has less worries about rust in the truck.
So what are you going to do with the gun? Go nuclear with reioads or just standard 10mm fare. If you are going hot, get the witness, if going standard either will do.
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13.0 grns of Lilgun with a 124 jhp works well.
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P9 Ultra IPSC. 9,505 Broke the slide stop in the first month, no problems since then.
Witness Limited 2,194 rounds. No issues
Witness 10mm 4,068 rounds. No issues but I changed the sight a few times.
P9 9mm 858 rounds, rear sight fell off.
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I have 8 different fluorescent lights within a meter of my scale and my bench. If they impact the scale I have not been able to see it over the last 5 years. I have two cantilever lamps with compact fluorescent bulbs not more then 8" from the scale with no problems.
Maybe RCBS just shields theirs better than others?
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I put imr4227 in almost all of my Max loads. It works well, accurate, and plenty of power. Consider trying some 4227 also.
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I ordered a bunch (about 100,000) of cci APS primers this summer and so far they seem the same hardness as the older CCI primers were.
The boxes and labeling is different from the older stuff so unless this is a recent (last 2 to 3 months) change, they seem the same hardness. I base this on particular guns have occasional hard times lighting off cci primers and they were doing the same thing on the new loads.
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The LSP version is the P9 IPSC Ultra Model. I have one.
I was just shooting mine tuesday. Great gun but in 40 it was and is not very accurate.
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Anyone know what the dovetail dimensions are on the newer LPA sighted guns? Not the older supersights but the more recent made ones are.
Thanks
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Zen to me is becoming one with your environment and tools at hand. It is the unconscious synchronization of actions and the environment all at once. It is a state of mind I get in when I can relax. It cannot be forced, it just occurs when things mesh up.
rip IMR4756
in 9mm/38 Caliber
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Before it went away, I picked up 6, 8 lb jugs that are now stashed about. I am starting to realize I have a lifetime supply of 4756 and it will degrade before I shoot it up out of my 38/44's and 38 Supers. Great powder though. Especially with lead.