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Most excellent. My son is 5 and he gets his 1st BB gun this Christmas. I already have a Henry 22 in the safe for when he turns 7.
I am thinking about bringing him to one of the outdoor matches real soon to just watch.
Kudos to you for sharing quality time with your son and instilling in him a sense of pride and discipline.
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Awesome project. I just ordered the Hornady 9mm and 40 cal feeder dies from Midway and the tubes from Linen n things. Going to give this a shot after the holidays when everything gets here.
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Add Chris Tilley to the list of top shooters that use clays for their 40 cal competitive loads. The load data I posted above is just about identical to what he shoots with his SVI limited gun..
He shoots about 1000 rounds a day for practice. Granted most of that is with his 38 super comp open gun but he also has shot tens of thousands of 40 cal rounds with clays. It is spikey so I to would be very careful with short OAL's
I want to emphasize that I also am new to reloading and would not even have attempted the above clay data without the guidance and assistance of Chris. Everyone I talked to before I did it said it was way out of what hodges says is max and also cautioned about the use of clays. As per chris's suggestion I started at 4.5 behind a montana gold 180 JHP with a 1.240 OAL and worked up to 4.9 shooting 15 rounds of each at 4.5, 4.6, 4.7, 4.8 and finally 4.9. He sensed my reluctance and offered to chrono the loads for me at his range. He took the time to explain how critical the longer OAL was and to make sure i didn't try this with a shorter SAMMI OAL for my regular production 40 cal Vertec Beretta
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Maybe they will let you keep what they sent you and send you a new shell plate and complete tool head with dies and powder measure in 40 cal?
Just got off the phone ... That's exactly what they are going to do .. Send out a .40 conversion kit, plus Gary was nice enough to throw in some spare parts that I asked about, due to the inconvenience. And it is going out FedEx today so I should have it early next week.
Still sucks, but hey, they are working to fix it right away. I got a chuckle when he said "well I wish I could say this was the first time it ever happened, but ..."
What a deal, That is awesome CS. I am very happy I decided to also stick with Dillon for my reloading equipment.
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Maybe they will let you keep what they sent you and send you a new shell plate and complete tool head with dies and powder measure in 40 cal?
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I have been loading 180 gr montana gold JHP, 4.9 gr of clays with a 1.240 OAL for my 40 cal SVI w/5 inch barrel and it cronos around 990 give or take a little. No feed issues, the 1.240 OAL round stays in the mag a pinch longer. I have been told that I can probably even push it out to 1.260 with the SVI sight tracker barrel but I am liking it all right where it is. I am using the standard Dillon resizing die that came with my 1050 and the headstamps on the brass are mixed but mostly win, federal, starline, and blazer. I crimp only to remove the bell. After the crimp I look down at the nose and look for no space around the rim and a very slight shiny ring around the outside of the case.
I would hate to have a rear blowout on a case. This thread reminds me not to be lax checking for even the slightest abnormality around the base of the round when sorting, cleaning, loading and gauging.
Thanks for posting your experience and for all the additional commentary.
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Very nice. If you wanted to add 38 supercomp it's 63.8 grains per case. I added the line to my copy.
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As a new shooter to the sport I want to echo the above comment about advice. I want and encourage all advice. Do not baby me. Life is for the most part very uncompromising.......firearms in public even more so.
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Good leadership, financial incentive to excell. Absent either the worker won't give a crap and the job is just a placeholder in the book of life.
To many companies want more than they are willing to pay for. Old adage is true, "you get what you pay for".
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I have purchased several pistols from them and all transactions went very well. Just be aware of what your FFL will charge for the transfer ($15 here ) and be certain of the item. Generally speaking if the total difference is not that great from a LGS I will purchase from my LGS.
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Softest I've felt is 4.7 grain of Clays, under a 180 grain JHP, loaded to 1.21.
I am doing Clays also as above but with a 4.9 grain load in my 40 cal SVI w/5" barrel. Bullet is a Montana Gold 180 JHP. OAL is 1.240. Clean and soft
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I have been taking the powder measure off the 1050 and putting it in the gun safe where the golden rod heater keeps it nice and temp controlled. I also make it a habit of always keeping the powder jugs capped and sealed unless I am pouring out of them. Being from a fireworks making background I have found that the humidity and hygroscopic properties of powders have a big effect. For instance we never made red stars on humid or cloudy days. They would loose color and be pinkish instead. The strontium nitrate used in that formula was very hygroscopic.
The nitrocellulose used in modern smokeless powders is not very hygroscopic but the stabilizers ( mostly calcium carbonate which is a salt )and other additives like potassium chlorate and nitrate as flash suppressors are. Best bet as the old saying goes is to keep your powder dry. In fireworks making and the production of other explosive powders we tried to keep an environment of about 35 to 40% humidity. much drier and static charges become an issue, much wetter and hygroscopic problems begin to arise.
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Holy Toledo, thank you very much for posting this. I am new to the reloading field but very experienced working with and mixing explosive powders. I worked many years for the Grucci fireworks family and as a facilities manager at a fireworks factory in the Adirondacks. I have just set up my new Dillon 1050 and was wondering why I didn't really read or hear of anyone worrying about static. At the facilities I worked in I always had a routine when making flash compositions, part of that routine was the liberal use of Spray Static Guard. Even though the tables were grounded i would spray everything with it. Me, my tools, the mixing screens, clothes, buckets, table tops, table legs, everything. I am also obsessive with touching everything multiple times to prevent static build up. After reading this I plan on grounding the press, getting a static guard mat, spraying everything with static guard, touching the pickup tube, primer tray and me to to the press before any operation involving the primers and pickup tube. I think leather gloves for that part of the operation is a good idea also. Chris Tilley tells me that he had an entire tube of primers in the magazine go off on him while operating the 1050 and it sent the magazine into the ceiling and also left him temporarily deaf. That was probably a mechanical initiation but it impressed upon me the need to respect primers.
The other thing that makes me very uncomfortable is pouring powder from a plastic jug into that plastic filler tub on the powder measure. I DO NOT just pour powder from a 4 or 8 pound plastic jug into that. I have a small metal soup can that I pour from the jug into first, then I seal the jug before transferring the cans worth into the powder measure tub. Takes me about 3-4 can dumps to fill the powder measure tub. If that powder goes up I don't want it taking the whole jug with it. I am also going to make a conscious effort to not handle equipment in low humidity conditions when the risk for a static discharge is greatly increased.
Big rule of thumb is to minimize exposure all the time. Next rule of thumb is not IF an accident will happen but WHEN an accident happens be prepared so that if you followed all the rules your exposure will be limited and injuries minimized. Handling explosives demands extreme respect and is no place for a cavalier attitude.
I don't know if the cause for your incident was static but it sounds plausible and i will do my darndest to eliminate that probability from the number of things that can go wrong.
Thank again for posting this. It is extremely appreciated.
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Hello newbie. i'm a newbie from Raleigh. You plan on going to any shoots around here?
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I've been hanging around for a few weeks now and there is great advice on the forum. I'm currently waiting on a RL550B so I'll join all the reloaders soon. I'm in upstate, SC so drop a note if you are ever in the area.
Thanks for the welcome and invite Gadgetech. Me and my brother-inlaw just went in on a Dillon 1050...can't wait to get started.
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Ditto on the kudos for such an informative initial post and subsequent replies. I too just read through all 5 pages. Thanks again.
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Been shooting for many years ( 30+ ) but it was really only an occasional thing mostly for fun and only about 4-6 times a year. I am a pretty serious Beretta collector with about 16+ Beretta handguns. In the past year or two I got a serious shooting bug and have been having fun at the range 2-3 times a week shooting mostly at PDHSC in Raleigh, ( Chris Tilles place ). I have taken some one on one training classes with him and after shooting his SVI fell in freaking love with it. I have an SVI 38 super-comp sighttracker with a c-more sight and thumb rest and a plain Jane SVI 40 for limited.
Been messing around on my own because I was just too chicken/embarrassed to try a real match but I was recently in Naples FL and decided that since no one knew me and I probably won't be back for a year that I would go to an informal match at the Louland Range down there and not worry about making a fool out of myself. Well I did horribly with my 1st time jitters but I had an absolutely great time and everyone there made me feel very welcome. I used my 40 cal in limited and out of 16 shooters I came in 13 overall for all divisions and last in my division. I made the classic nervous blunders. Forgot to release safety twice, engaged the wrong target from the wrong spot, dropped my mag in the middle of a stage, grabbed it up, reinserted and racked the slide forgetting that there was already one in there and somehow jammed the gun up real nice. But at least I had no procedurals.....
In any case I had such a hoot that I am determined to keep trying and will do my first match here in Raleigh on Nov 5th at the Sir Walter Raleigh Gun Club. Hopefully I will have settled out those 1st time jitters and do a little better or at least finish without blunders.
Looking forward to lurk and learn especially since I am going to start reloading my own 38 super-comp and 40 cal ammo
Thanks in advance for being kind to a noob.
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Same here, got the feed die yesterday and set it up today. It holds 9 180gr 40 S&W Montana Gold JHP bullets. Works like a charm. Tubes come in on Tuesday.
I already see that I am going to have an issue with the case feeder on the 1050 being in the way. It blocks a long straight tube run.
I am thinking of ways to put an "S" in the tube by either heating it or using long sweep EMT conduit. I have had success filling a plastic tube with sand to help it hold it's diameter, heating it and then making bends that way. Or I suppose some sort of flexible coiled spring of the right diameter. I would like something that holds 200 - 300 40 cal bullets at a time.
Thanks for the tips, what a great forum.
Next projects have to be some sort of brass sorter and very large cleaning system for said brass. I have access to a full 55 gal drum of indoor range brass about every 10 days.
Whoo Hoo!