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Mr Bullet Feeder will change your life! Early in my reloading days I had lots of calibers and changed over a lot and got sick of it quick. I wound up selling everything but the 9mms; now I load 9 minor and 9 major on two different die heads so I don't have to change anything. Powder checks are a waste of a station, just get used to looking into the cases as you index the shell plate. When I first heard about shooters with multiple presses for different calibers I thought they were crazy, now I understand

Keep your pants on Matt, no one is challenging your manhood

nicely done!

There's a reason CZs, Tanfoglios, and G34s dominate the field in Production; if you don't like Glock, try one of the other two, you won't be disappointed. If you want someone to validate your desire to buy another gun, I'm your huckleberry! I have dozens of guns, buy 'em, trade 'em, sell 'em, do what puts a smile on your face

Whenever I try to shoot faster than I can see, my finger and arms get out of sync and I start transitioning before the second shot breaks. Close targets are too easy not to score two As.

I've never found it to be an issue, I look down the barrel while punching through so I stop short of the other side.

I have one in Ti if anyone is looking.

CZs are closer to parallel than Tanfos, but I like to tri top the slide and comp together

Just a regular carbide bit will go through the barrel and slide no problem, they're not very hard, the trick is getting them lined up perfectly. With patience you could do it with a drill press.

Scott Springer also came up with a 170 base for the standard mag: http://shop.springerprecision.com/product.sc?productId=349&categoryId=42

Hey Mike, depending on your OAL, ~3.8gr should be about right with Solo1000 under a JHP, here's what I have out of my CZ: 3.6gr under 125gr SNS @ 1.080" - 129pf 4.0gr under 124gr Xtreme @1.140" - 135pf

If you prefer thin safeties, you can easily trade your extended safeties for stock SP01 safeties, that's the most economical way to do it. I'd trade in a heartbeat if I had any thin to trade.

Maybe I'm not remembering that conversation the same way you are, but if I remember correctly you were getting erratic results and poor accuracy with fast powder and heavy bullets, right? In my experience, at a given power factor, with a given powder, the heavier the bullet, the greater the pressure, just ask the Limited guys shooting 200gr pills over Clays

That sounds like a rational assumption, but I haven't bought any CCI primers in years.

Maybe Titewad or E3

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Look at that, it's still going! It doesn't look like they're selling Tanfos though.

Did you chrono your short loads vs long loads? Typically you make more velocity with a shorter load and the same charge.

To the OPs question: I don't know how much a G35 slide weighs, but 10oz seems to be the magic number for a complete slide, under which not many people go, weigh yours and let us know. Since the G35 already has the coffin cut up front, I would focus on the rear of the slide when cutting.

There are a lot of moving parts when a semi-automtic pistol fires: bullet, barrel, slide, hammer, the entire pistol and the shooter's hand and mass in not the only thing effecting the subjective "feel", there are also spring constants, coefficients of friction, heat, light, sound, and plenty others I'm not thinking of, so I don't think you can simply plug two numbers into an equation and call the problem solved. CHA-LEE put a lot of time and energy into a very informative thread of slide lightening: I've done lots of testing of my own and found results consistent with Charlie's. My first lightened slide had all the weight (1.8oz) taken from the front and I felt it increased the muzzle flip, I now take equal weight from the front and rear which gives much better results, I'm also a big fan of increasing stroke.

Here's the story as I understand it: the owner of EAA, Vince Berkarat, started a second company, IFG. IFG was located in the same building, with the same phone number (perhaps it was an attempt to shed the bad reputation of EAA). The IFG catalog offered slightly different models than EAA including the 6" Bullseye; a few IFG branded guns were imported, but the company quickly disappeared. It looks like you're holding the second IFG branded pistol imported to the US (I have the 17th), the X at the end means it was a demo/trade show gun.