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Sorry to report, but it is perfectly possible to do a double-charge and a squib on a progressive machine.
It is pretty much impossible as long as things are going right. But strange things do happen, and to clear some jams, etc. you have to sometimes move things
Read: create a room for errors.
With good discipline it is safe, but you have to REALLY concentrate on what you are doing.
In my many years of loading on progressive presses I had one or two double charges, and also made about 100 squibs.
AVOID DISRUPTIONS LIKE SYPHILIS!
Although I load on a 650 with a powder check, I'm still extremely paranoid about double charges and squibs. After all, the powder check rod and powder fail safe rod only work if they're installed, and I've forgotten to install each of those at least once. So, for every pull of the handle, I do a quick visual check that the powder check rod and fail safe rod are installed and moving as they should be.
Also, any time there's a stoppage, I pull everything off of the shell plate and finish them up on my Lee Classic Turret.
No squibs or double charges yet, and I'd like to keep it that way.
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Give them a quick bath in very hot citric acid. Doesnt need to be a super high concentrate, a couple teaspoons in a quart of water. Only need to be in there a couple minutes, then a quick rinse in fresh water should keep them shiney for a long time. Citric acid passivates or protects the brass, so if you store them for a real long time that is good.
You can get citric acid from a number of places, I get mine at Walmart in the canning section.
I used to do the same thing, except I didn't do the final rinse. I took them straight from the hot citric acid bath, did a quick towel dry, and put them into the food dehydrator.
It definitely helps maintain the shine for a long time.
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Yes. That's why one of my pet peeves is when I hear someone telling someone else to "slow down and get your hits."
Don't slow down. Pay more attention! Paying more attention might lead to slowing down, but slowing down in and of itself won't help.
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Nice job! It's crazy how much better you can get in a year with just regular dry fire practice.
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I shot IDPA for a year and just came over to USPSA. This whole "classifier reshoot at will" thing puzzles me. Everyone say USPSA classification system is more accurate than IDPA. Maybe so, but IDPA does not allow you to reshoot any stages in a classifier. Sure you can go to classifier matches over and over again, but still most clubs host classifiers only once or twice a year. And once you are there, you get only 1 chance, even if your gun malfunctioned.
Actually, the rulebook allows you to reshoot one stage:
9.8.3 The Classifier must be shot as a single ninety (90) round match, shot all in one day to the best of one’s ability. It is permissible to allow reshoots of a whole stage due to equipment problems and/or shooter mental errors for the purpose of accurate Classification as long as the reshoot occurs on the same day as the rest of the Classifier. However, no reshoots of individual strings of fire are permitted. If the Classifier is part of a scored match with other IDPA stages or the shooter is trying to attain a six firearm award, no reshoots are permitted.But your point still stands. It's a lot harder to grandbag with one 90-round classifier vs. six 12-round classifiers.
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Guys, guys, guys - I think we're all saying the same thing.
Every time you don't chamber check, God kills a puppy.
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so why only press check before the string, and not before each shot, like waktasz suggests?
if i wasn't confident that my gun would strip rounds reliably from the magazine, I would get it fixed instead of checking it every time I rack the slide.
Either you guys are both retarded or are trolling if you don't understand that time is free before the buzzer goes off.
Waktasz is trolling. That is how the Waktasz do.
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so why only press check before the string, and not before each shot, like waktasz suggests?
if i wasn't confident that my gun would strip rounds reliably from the magazine, I would get it fixed instead of checking it every time I rack the slide.
Because a failure to chamber during LAMR is usually caused by not seating the mag properly. Are you seating mags before every shot?
If you've been fortunate enough to never have this happen, then that's great. However, some poor bastards like me who are stuck in restricted states have to use blocked 10 round mags that are sometimes nigh impossible to fully seat on a closed slide, and a chamber check is cheap insurance.
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MONDAY 11/9/2015
Dry fire plan for this week
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Daily maintenance (10-15 mins)
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Trigger control drill
- 10/15 yard partials
- 8/10 yard sideways targets
- Add some leans as well.
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Burkett reloads
- Work on new technique (angle of gun)
- Slow, controlled, 100% perfect reps for now. Speed and movement later.
- Match mode drill on various target arrays.
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Trigger control drill
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Monday
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Position exit / entry drills
- Short distance.
- Focus on keeping stance wide and low and knees bent, and gun up.
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Position exit / entry drills
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Tuesday
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Shot difficulty change ups
- Practice using some USPSA classifiers with partials / no-shoots mixed with open targets.
- Prioritize arrays with required headshots.
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Shot difficulty change ups
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Wednesday
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Transitions
- SHO / WHO, open targets, 10 yards
- FS, open targets, 10 yards, wide.
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Transitions
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Thursday
- None (live fire)
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Friday
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Transitions
- FS, from cover. Near- and mid-range targets.
- Mix leaning and stepping in same array.
- Open targets for now, to focus just on stance and transitions speed. Partials / change-ups will come later.
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Transitions
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Daily maintenance (10-15 mins)
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AAR, IDPA MATCH, 11/7/15
Stats
- Placement: 2nd of 72 Overall, 2nd of 43 SSP
- Accuracy: 41 PD (5.2 PD / stage), (3) mikes, (1) -3, a shit ton of close -1s
The Bad
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Accuracy
- Pretty bad this match. I shot around 5 PD per stage, but my usual is 2 PD.
- 3 mikes. Very close mikes, but still mikes.
- Way too many close -1. Still had a lot of low mikes on sideways targets. I need to practice on sideways (and upside-down) targets more in dry fire.
- I think my accuracy was off partially because I was consciously focused on other things during the match (see below).
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Stage rehearsal / mental game
- Spotty. Didn't rehearse nearly enough. Didn't use my mental program much, either.
- I was focusing a little too much on speed and keeping up with my GM buddy instead of calling my shots.
The Good
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Position entry / movement
- This is what I wanted to work on most this match, since it was highlighted as a big hole in my game in the Ben Stoeger class. Entering positions with a wide stance, gun up, ready to shoot. Keeping both hands on gun and gun up when moving to a nearby position.
- All in all, it looked MUCH better this match than in previous matches. There were a couple of positions where I was definitely .5 to 1s faster than how I would have shot it in the past.
Takeaways
- I shouldn't work on new techniques at the match! I should work on these things in practice until I can do them subconsciously, and then focus on shot calling 100% at the match. (Exception - it's okay to practice at a club match occasionally, if I go into the match ahead of time knowing that it's just practice and I adjust my expectations accordingly).
- Even though my accuracy was way off, I was happy with my gains in raw speed.
- I will work on the position entry / exit and movement stuff more in dry fire at the house.
- Although I lost the match, I won high overall at picking up free brass.
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I'm glad I'm not the only one that gets a log jam like that.
For some reason I'm starting to see more log jams like that. I just listen for it. When I hear the motor running and don't hear cases dropping down the tube then I look up and see what's going on.
When I called Dillon about it, they sent me a powder funnel to stick inside the case feed funnel. It fixed the problem almost completely. Log jams can still happen with the powder funnel inside, but now it's extremely rare.
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That happened with my 650 too. The punch had backed out.
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I see a LOT of shooters 'make ready' by inserting a mag, racking the slide, and then pulling the slide back enough to make sure that a round is in the chamber. Has any one ever NOT seen a bullet in the chamber?
It's happened to me a few times, especially in multi-string stages. That's why I press check now.
To me, it's no different than checking that a gun is clear even though you "know" it is.
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Deleted... misread the OP.
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WEDNESDAY 11/4/15
Dry Fire
- 1 hour
- Tonight I worked on shot difficulty change ups by practicing CM03-08 (Madness).
- Started off at 12.0s, and worked down to 8.6s. This is the fastest time where I can successfully call all A's 50% of the time, which I think is the sweet spot for practicing.
- In the future, when I've hit the point where I can no longer call all A's, then I'll open up my hits to A's and C's and keep dropping the par time further to work on just raw speed.
- A couple things I noticed during practice:
- I need to be better about calling the last shot before a reload. I caught myself rushing the last shot or two and throwing some D's.
- I want to break the habit of immediately UASC after each rep. It's not a big deal in terms of competition, but my inner Timmy thinks it's a horrible habit.
- I noticed that I shoot a LOT better if I amp myself up more before a run. I'm pretty laid back, so right now it's hard for me to do that on demand. I'll work on figuring out a way to do that consistently and then incorporate that into my mental program.
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TUESDAY 11/3/15
DRY FIRE
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Trigger control drill
- Freestyle, strong-hand, and weak-hand
- Mostly looking good. I still pull left occasionally.
- Whenever doing this drill, I'm also working on a couple of other things at the same time:
- Wide stance, knees bent: Feels weird, but also more stable. Looking over my match videos from the last year, I'm shooting too much on my toes and upright.
- Hard grip: I'm trying to be more conscious of using the same grip pressure in dry fire as I do in live fire.
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Reloads
- Burkett reloads
- Practiced w/o the timer. Mostly experimenting with the angle of the gun when inserting the mag. Super slow reps for now.
- I'm going to abandon the "look at the inside of the magwell" technique. It tends to cause the mag to bind in the well.
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Trigger control drill
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That happens occasionally on my 650 too. It prevents the platform from being raised all the way, and I have to fish the case out of Station 1. The primer is deformed into a cone shape, but it doesn't pop out of the case.
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TUESDAY 11/3/15
Before I forget during my off-season, this is a list of all the stuff I want to work on, in rough priority order:- Trigger control at speed (currently pulling shots low)
- Visual patience (having enough patience in ALL situations, giving each target its due respect, not dropping easy points on open / near targets)
- Stage visualization / mental program (currently not applying consistently to all stages)
- Reload technique (find better angle for gun when inserting mag)
- Position entry (low, knees bent, sights steady, ready to shoot)
- Running faster between positions
- Transitions (wide, mixed narrow and wide, mixed target difficulty / risk)
- Accuray on partials, 10-15 yards (ingrain what acceptable sight picture looks like for any type of partial, at any distance)
- Shot difficulty change ups (related to visual patience)
- Keeping gun up and extended during short transitons / movements
- SHO / WHO accuracy with multiple shots, Bill Drills, etc. (related to visual patience)
- Experiment with target focus at <10 yards (currently using hard front sight focus for everything but movers)
- Reloading when exiting positions / moving at full speed
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SUNDAY 11/3/15
Went to the indoor range for a little trigger control practice. I've been practicing slapping the trigger in dry fire for a couple of weeks, so I wanted to see how I'd do in live fire.
I ran a modified dot drill: 3" splatter targets at 5 yards, no time pressure (this range has a 1 shot/second rule). First run was 32/26, second was 35/36. I'll keep running it at 5 yards until I can pass it consistently, and then I'll step it back to 7 yards.
Overall, I think my trigger press technique is coming along. I'll keep working on it daily during my break.
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For club matches and the indoor range, I use a small range bag from Midway.
For live fire practice sessions when I need 1000+ rounds and a bunch of extra equipment for practice setups, I use one of these:
Plenty of inside and outside pockets for all my gear, and the wheels make lugging around a ton of ammo a non-issue. Plus, I live in the middle of the city and have to park in a public parking structure across the street, and this bag is a lot more discreet than an ammo can.
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"Class" is for skill level (GM, M, A, etc.) and "division" is for equipment type (Production, Limited, etc.)
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talon grips
in Glock
I'm not a fan of Talon grips. The patterns are nice, but the adhesive is too weak and they fall off in the heat.
I make my own granulate grips from 3M anti-slip tape. The grip is more aggressive than the Talons, and the adhesive is way stronger.
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Move your eyes to the target ahead of moving the gun and sights there and you'll get faster transitions just with that effort.
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One thing that helps me a lot is leaning far enough so that I can see both the current target and at least part of the next target, if it's possible to do so while still having 50% of my torso behind cover. It helps a ton with transitions, especially when shooting around a vision barrier.
I used to just barely peek out from cover so that I could only see the -0 zone of the current target, but that made transitioning to the next target really slow (although that's probably closer to what how you'd use cover in the real world).
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I shot Worlds this year, and the SOs would answer questions about cover during the walkthrough.
Apex Parts Needed for new Pro?
in S&W (M&P, etc)
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The AEK internals are good for SSP. The aluminum AEK trigger is not.