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Not what it is designed for but this should well. How about laying down a tarp? I've used one before and it gets most of the brass.

That sounds like fun Butch. What was the winning time in open? Gary

I've been loading 4.5 grs. of WSF with a 125 gr. Bear Creek lead TC for a couple years. Works just fine.

Without doing any welding just get some number 3 or 4 rebar and pound it in the ground at an angle. Then hang the clays on them. That would be the easiest thing to do. Gary

A few years back I chrono'd some out of my G17 that made a 127.6 power factor. It was for calibrating steel. They'd probably still be pretty close to that but YMMV. G

I think White is too soft to do any harm to Ortiz. After all Ortiz is the "Bad Boy" and he's pretty good at grounding and pounding. Just my two cents though. Gary

Yep, I believe that'd be the one because I got them both from Brownells too. Gary

That's the same barrel I used for this build. 20" cut down to 16" with a Cooley comp. Groups pretty well with a Holosight at a hundred yards too. You can't go wrong with it. Gary

Yep. http://www.brownells.com/aspx/NS/store/Pro...MAGAZINE+SPRING scroll down to; COLT 1911 AUTO - 9mm and .38 Super G

I used this load at the 1999 Limited Nationals. Bear Creek 250 grain long colt lead flat point bullets. These had to be run through a sizer though. They were listed as .452 but a mic proved them to be .453 and I didn't want to take any chances with too much pressure. 3.5 grains of Clays, WLP primers, mixed headstamp brass, 1.185 OAL and a heavy taper crimp shooting out of a P14-45 with a 5 inch barrel. Average velocity was 720 for a 180 power factor. These were great soft shooting loads. They would only chamber in my Para and not my single stack though. Course the single stack doesn't have a supported chamber so I'm not sure I want to shoot them through it anyway. G

I'd have to say you can't go wrong with it. I have the older 1050's and have no problems with them except once when the primers were hanging up. Turns out it was just a smashed rubber grommet. I've used other brand progressive reloaders and a RL450 which all gave me more problems than my 1050's. Go for it... you won't be sorry. Gary

I've had the same problem in the past. What I found out was they were out-of-round. Try checking the concentricity of the bullets. If you can, use a knife blade micrometer and measuer *all* the way around the bullet. If they're not perfectly round that may be the problem. Also check to make sure they're sized correctly. Good luck, Gary

Wouldn't the .40 be different from the 9mm? Straight wall case as opposed to the tapered case. The original post only talked about the 9mm. I've never had to use an undersize die on anything except the 9mm. Gary

I don't know if they'd be redundant but one is a sizer and one is a crimper, right? When I started loading for my stock Springfield Armory 9mm 1911 last year I was using a Dillon sizer and mixed brass. I got a lot of fat brass that wouldn't chamber so I switched to an EGW-U die. I don't have any problems anymore. Only thing is, with the U die it was harder on the downstroke. Now I shoot some lube on the cases and it's like a hot knife through butter. I should've done that long ago. Gary

I load 5.4 gr. of W231 with a Montana Gold 200 gr. JFP. Maybe not the softest load but I had a lot of 231. Gary

If the barrel isn't choked tight enough you just might not get enough pattern on it anyway. All I use are 8 shot trap loads with a full or modified choke and I've never had a problem. Gary

I don't think there's an expander die with the Dillon dies because they were designed for progressive loaders not single stage presses. Dillon uses the powder measure funnel as the expander. You'll need to get an expander die in addition to the dies you have now or get a sizing die that has an expander ball on the decapper pin. Gary

No. But I did this with a mig welder. It was pretty easy to do although time consuming. http://img249.imageshack.us/img249/3883/arleftistuff2rh.jpg Gary

I would imagine it's mostly accidental because the designers don't think about it. Years ago when we used to use a lot of ports we didn't think too much about the height of them. Then my 11 year old son started shooting. We had to make changes. If you want to really see stages that are right handed based go to a 3-gun nationals some time. The long gun stages are almost always designed for righties. It makes it tough but I look at it like, if I can beat certain people then I'm that much better than them even though they've handicapped me. If you run into a lot of this, just suck it up and show em what you can do. Gary

I think you can find free copies of it on the internet. Try Googling Windows 98SE and see what happens. Good luck.

Well, it's pretty obvious... number 2... G

I don't think you'd have any problems with it. I've run this setup for about six years. The mount is made out of delrin and absorbs most of the shock. Pretty much like the c-more would. This mount however, has cracked but not at the mounting holes. It cracked at the area where it squeezes on the front of the tube. If I were to switch to a c-more I wouldn't worry about the dust cover at all. Gary

This is an EAA with an original Springfield P9 FACTORY Comp upper. I'm assuming it was originally properly fitted because of that. Its also been shot a few years just as a 9mm. I had my gunsmith make a slide stop out of drill rod when I was shooting 9x21. It's still hangin in there. Thanks, Gary

If you don't have to worry too much about wind, then what we did was attach a 3 foot long 2x4 to one end of a 4x8 sheet of plywood. Then we attached an 8 foot long 2x4 to the short one with a hinge to make a Tee. The walls would be leaning but they'd still be over 7 feet tall. It made for really fast setup. Don't know if you can see it very well in the picture but it'll give you some kind of idea. Gary

I thought he was using the 38 super. I don't know if that's the same as the shorter 9mm frame though. If I can run this gun safely then I'll give it a try. Otherwise I'll just stick to production or single stack until the other one is fixed. Thanks, Gary