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    in S&W (M&P, etc)

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    Could not find them either. Ended up ordering from Springer Precision. I liked the option of having the numbers anodized. A little more money but CNC aluminum instead of plastic plus IDPA and USPSA legal.

    Bayou Bullets

    in 9mm/38 Caliber

    Posted

    I have Bayou orders shipped to my work. My mailman hates me when I order Bayou. :-) I keep telling her to come in first and get me but she tells me I'm not allowed to touch anything inside PO truck. So now I have her come in first and grab one of our carts. We're friends again.

    WHERE IS ALL THE POWDER

    in 9mm/38 Caliber

    Posted

    I'm getting totally discussed with this. Heck, this is America. Once you make up your mind that your going to do something, like I did about 6 months ago with reloading, you do it. This issue of powder is ridiculous.

    I bought 1 pound of Accurate 5 when I first got my re loader back in November. It was a lot of fun to reload and shoot, but I haven't seen anymore. I did by some IMR PB a few times, and have enough to last for a couple of months. It feeds great and seems to work well, but if you use the published loads in 9mm it won't even cycle my XDM 5.25. I've worked up to about 3.7gr, which is way over max, and it still wont quite make minimum power factor. I love the powder, but that max load thing has me a little worried.

    I've placed back orders for Accurate No 5 and Solo 1000, but I have no idea if these will ever come in. When I placed the order they said they had back orders that had been on the books for almost a year.

    I would really appreciate any insight on how to get the stuff. I assume someone is getting it, and I'm just not doing it right. If not, then I guess there are a lot of guys out there that ordered big back when when it was available, and they're going to be disappointed when they start shopping around.

    I have read some explanations about supply chain, and how some shortages far up the chain can hold things up. I work in manufacturing, and understand how companies wouldn't want to spend a bunch of cash to set up production that will last a while and then fade away when everything settles down. I get all that, but I would still like some independent verification on what's going on, because nobody ive read seems to have any facts. I can tell you when my company doesn't supply our customers with good quality product on time, the customers will be crawling all over our facility demanding to know what's going on, and exactly what we are going to do to fix it. And let me tell you, changes are made real fast.

    Who's getting the powder? Why don't I ever see pistol powder for sale on line? How long does this have to go on until the manufacturers do something about it. Perhaps the management of USPSA could look into this. I would assume they carry some weight, and could get answers. USPSA is an association, and association represent their members. I work in an ISO rated manufacturing facility, and there are lot's of consultants you can hire that will figure out exactly where the problem is. Just take them to the manufacturers and ask them what's going on? What's their plan to fix the problem? And whether or not they are dedicated to providing supplies to our sport? If they start dancing around the questions, let the consultants push them a little. At some point there should be enough information to write an in depth report on the subject.

    I don't think its some big conspiracy. It's just that there is a demand, and the customers should know what the manufacturers are doing to meet the demand. Yes it may be a few nuts out there buying everything up, but they're building awesome ranges where I live, and more and more people are taking classes and shooting in matches in large numbers. I would think that the sport is growing.. And we need supplies.

    If a vendor would commit themselves to meeting the needs of competitive shooters they would have many loyal customers.

    Sorry for the rant. I've been wanting to get that one off my chest for a long time. Tell me where I'm wrong. I usually am. :)

    This components thing is nuts. It's hard enough to work all day, have time with the family, reload and practice enough to have fun and improve. Then throw in having to scrounge for powder. It's pretty frustrating.

    There must be a way to have a steady supply, but I just haven't found it. I really don't hear that much about it in these forums. I would appreciate any help. Thanks.

    Myself I found a local gunbuilder that sells reloading supplies. He's got a good relationship with his distributors. At first it was you couldn't get primers, but now primers are available everywhere.

    Now the problem is powder. My guy told me he was talking to his distributor the other day. He's been in the business for over 40yrs and has never seen it so bad. He says it looks like it's going to get worse.

    Just4FunLP - do you ever make it down to the Tampa Bay area? I can ask what he's got. I don't think he has any Titegroup any more cuz last time I saw him about 3 weeks ago a buddy and me bought his last 2 8lb jugs of TG. I do have a couple of 1lb jars of TG. To help a fellow floridian, I can let you have one of them if you ever are in the area.

    Coated bullet options

    in General Reloading

    Posted

    Love the Bayou's. I've been set with the 135's. You get best of both the 125 and the 147 as it's in the middle. I have 6k of he 125's that I'll be posting up for sale soon.

    I tried the BBI's in 45 when Donnie had a backlog and I needed some quick for a match. At the time the coating was not as good as the one's Donnie from Bayou uses. I would get the gray coating on my fingers as I loaded. Recently though BBI has changed the coating and I think it's the same as what Donnie uses but I'm not sure.

    Another one that has recently hit the scene is Blue Bullets. I just received some samples in 9 and 40 but haven't had a chance to shoot them yet. Nice coating. Looks a little thicker than Donnie's but I believe they use a different brand of coating. Hope to shoot some this weekend.

    Springer Precision trigger users

    in Springfield (XD)

    Posted

    My gun is usually a filth pit and I've never had that issue. With that being said I'm gonna change to Springers bar so I can still run in production class, gotta get rid of the external trigger.

    I'm not the expert on this, but I've been told that the PRP trigger is legal in production because Springfield's shop has sold enough of them with it to make it an OEM part as far as USPSA is concerned. I bet there's info about this all over the forum, but I doubt you'd have to change it out. Both systems are pretty cool, and though I lean towards the springer setup, I wouldn't go to the trouble of switching if I didn't have to.

    I've been told that PRP's trigger is not legal in Production for USPSA. I had to swap it out with stock trigger before our recent state match in FL.

    147's and Titegroup out of a 5.25?

    in Springfield (XD)

    Posted

    My current load:

    Bullet: 135gr Bayou 9mm RN

    Powder: 3.3g Titegroup

    Primer: Federal Match Small Pistol

    OAL - 1.14"

    This gives me 130PF. I've heard of people having striker issues with the lighter spring. As soon as they put the stock back in no issues. I left the stock striker spring.

    I put in a 16lb Wolf spring and had FTE issues in 2 different matches. I put the stock back in and have had no issues so far. I really can't tell the difference between the stock 18lb and 16lb spring.

    9mm reloading problem tonight

    in 9mm/38 Caliber

    Posted

    Your OAL is too long for the XDm. I was shooting a match with an XDm 5.25 9mm. I was using a good friends load using 124 MG with OAL of 1.150. He primarily shoots M&P. I was using his loads as I had not started loading 9 and was still waiting on dies from Dillon.

    My XDm would go into battery and I had no issues firing but when it came to 'unload and show clear', racking the slide to unload the chambered round took a good pull to unload. The SO at the chrono stage also asked if I was having issues as he thought it was too long also.

    After getting home, I took my M&P and these loads. In the M&P it racked and unloaded fine. Took the round in my XDm and it was too tight but still chambered.

    I did what Cocobolo suggested, "Size a case, don't bell it, now partial seat a bullet, in short longer than you expect to load, take the barrel out of the gun, now push that dummy round all the way in, the will push the bullet all the way in as it will hit the rifiling. Now take it out and use caliper to measure it. If it is 1.160 then try 1.150 for your round, or shorter if it won't fit in the mag." I measured my XDm and it was 1.146.

    After my 9mm dies came from Dillon, I load all mine at 1.140 and it's been perfect.

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