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As already posted, N320 is a no-go for 9mm major. All those posted just above will work fine and HS-6 just happens to be available at Powder Valley right now.

Is it possible you have too much crimp? A friend shoots 4.1 WST behind a 124 BBI and gets really good results out of his XDM 5.25

I don't think it'll buy you anything if you just stick a 9" barrel in the 6" slide - your sight radius will be the same. The increased sight radius is the main benefit in the 6" guns IMO. Too much length/weight out front and the transitions will suffer. Recoil is already negligible in a 24 with the right powder combo.

IMO a squib is not the fault of a machine or powder drop or powder check.

I'm sure he knows more than most about it but it seems a long round would overcome that. I guess I'll get my hands on a mag or two and try it out. I didn't for me. It's the case length not the OAL that is the issue. They would start jamming side by side instead of stacking if the case mouth didn't reach the second rib in my case. The full width rib like SVI or MBX alleviates that issue - at a cost.

Powder Valley had 8lb jugs of H335 earlier this week. Maybe stuff is slowly coming back online.

This has been the remedy for the two occurrences I've had with doubling.

I've had good experiences with both, but I prefer the coated bullets. Cheaper and as mentioned above a little more tolerant on crimping - keep it light still. I've found the coated 180gr bullets with no lube groove give me just a bit tighter groups in my gun - I haven't seen them on the BBI page yet, but SNS & Bayou have them now and I imagine BBI will have some soon as well.

What's the trigger pull weight on that? DAO?

Buying in quantity for online purchases is the way to go to offset shipping & hazmat. Ex. Just bought 16lbs of HS6 (not really a big order) from Powder Valley and it came to around $20.80/lb with shipping/hazmat.

Welcome aboard. I'll hopefully be making some of the Volusia matches this year.

Straight Clays or universal & international?

OP asks opinion of product, if anyone saw it first hand.. You say they are junk, without any actual reason or evidence.. Real helpful. I don't think he said anything about them being junk. That's your word. FWIW, I like the look of the checkering on the new CK grips. Anybody know how grippy it is compared to the others? So why did he have to emphasize "GOOD reputations" in the reply if not to infer something??? Also, that post had zero to do with the OP's question.

Wish I was closer to NC, I'd swap you some N320 or E3 - both great in 40.

It irritates me that nearly all .40 S&W Chamber checkers are useless for most lead loads and loads that are a hair longer than Saami spec. The only lead loads that will work are the 155g LSWC and smaller. Since I started to load for Major, I used a Mansor reamer to ream my Glock KKM barrel to load them longer and I reamed the EGW Chamber checker to match it. I doubt I would do that to the 50 round chamber checker since that is 100 doll hairs. The shockbottle 40L 100rd checker will do those.

You mean flippers? Hoarders/preppers don't sell.

They had some 3n38 today, I was hoping for 3n37 tho. Was able to get an 8lber of HS-6 to try for 9mm major - would have grabbed more if I had any previous experience with it.

I am having issues with the 100 40L in that the SNS 200 grain .401 coated bullets will not fit. I can check by pulling them in backwards, but it is a pain. Any ideas. Jay I'm using the 100 40L with SNS 180gr and not seeing any issues - .401 as well and loading to 1.185 OAL. There is the occasional round that won't seat easily in the gauge and those go in the practice/range bucket. Possible your gauge is out of spec or maybe you're crimping too much or too little?

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That's what we do ;-) Found it doesn't really matter what dressing/stuffing recipe you use - just throw some good ground sausage in there (preferably spicy) and it will get gone quick.

Recoil is only half of the equation, the slide returning to battery is the other half. A lighter recoil spring and a lighter slide will generally speed up acquiring the front sight for follow-up shots, IMO.

Colorado seems like a bad fit for a shooter. They ran Magpul off already and I expect it'll get worse for gun owners there before it gets better.

Strange that you are getting so much variance in the OAL with the LCT? There's no shell plate deflection or multiple processes/cases going on at once to affect that like on a progressive press. Maybe there's an issue with the bullet profile and the seating stem? I get less than half that variance with a loadmaster and on my LCT it is even better.

mine used to... then things just started going down hill... no amount of messing with it seemed to improve anything, I admit I am not the best tinkerer. But at the end of the day it was inevitable that a Dillon would be on the horizon sooner or later, Put about 10k rounds thru mine this year so far - not a huge number, but hopefully it'll keep chugging along.

It actually works great if you're willing to tinker with it a bit and are mechanically inclined or just get mikes reloading bench upgrades. I was lucky and mine primes like a champ out of the box.