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46 minutes ago, RangerTrace said:
I hate memory stages. Probably the best thing about IDPA is they don't allow them. I can handle a memory stage at a major when I have a chance to memorize it the day before. In a 4-5 minute walkthrough with 15 other shooters, I have a hard time.
+1
Worst case I have seen was at a major. To get the match in (weather delays, sometimes the md doesn't have many options. ) walk throughs were reduced to 3 minutes, there is no fun in banging elbows with 12 people for three minutes & hoping that you will be able to remember your plan well.
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18 minutes ago, HesedTech said:
The only thing a really "challenging" stage will do is discourage the new shooter find somewhere else to spend their free time.
I would agree if you had said match instead of stage. I have never known people to be unhappy because a match had one stage that was very challenging, unless it was a memory stage. A lot of folks (I'm one) feel like the very challenging memory stages are more work than play.
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On 7/20/2023 at 8:25 AM, Don_B said:
So I learned the hard way that 9 major and random range pick up brass do not play well together. I
Can anyone expand on that? I shoot production at about 130pf with range pick up brass, much of it shot through open guns at USPSA matches.
I have found several split cases after shooting and tossed them in the scrap pile but have never detected any indication that the case splitting made any difference to accuracy or reliability. Now I load till they spilt and just don't worry about it.
What happens bad when a brass case splits in an open gun?
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2 minutes ago, Racinready300ex said:
I think that type of thinking is a minority.
It seems like you may very well be right based on forums & such. I don't know how well the forums tend to represent the average shooter though.
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On 7/17/2023 at 11:58 PM, HighSpeedFocusedFailure said:
I signed up for this elusive “Production” division and was alone. Oh and I got my ass handed to me by 4/6 stages that had 6 targets available from each “view”. Yeah.
literally. One man match. It sucked. And I still lost.
I never understood this way of thinking. I actually have more fun because I routinely squad with a revolver GM & an open GM and a good pcc shooter and a good ss shooter. It is interesting to see how different guns/shooters run the stages.
Myself & the wheel gunner & the ss shooter never think of ourselves as having a bad match because we can't keep up with rifles or guns that have all of the special needs gadgets or greater round capacity. We also don't have an issue knowing whether or not we shot a good match. I would see the standing reload as a good opportunity to use a practiced skill.
My way of thinking is no better than anyone else's, no umbrage intended, perhaps it is an age related thing.
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My Ruger as delivered had a timing issue that scarred the slot on one or two cylinders and would occasionally cause the cylinder to bind up. Ruger fixed that by replacing the pawl, the gun would no longer lock up but whatever caused the two cylinders to be engaged differently (star or cylinder slot geometry tolerance?) was not fixed.
After running the Ruger against my 929 my thought process ended with.
1. The smith is more fragile.
2. I can shoot the smith better (trigger).
3. No one anywhere seems able to get the Ruger trigger close to a well tuned 9294. I still prefer a gun I can buy parts for or my revolver smith can buy parts for, advantage 929.
5. I prefer working with Ruger on warranty issues, much more responsive than s and w.
6. My personal opinion is that Ruger may be pushing the limits of their design and manufacturing tolerances by chasing that 8th shot.
I kept the smith. The deciding factor was just that I end up with a better match score due to the trigger.
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12 hours ago, sharko said:
On the stock shellplate I just used a round over bit on my router table and it improved it allot. Still not as good at the AA though.
Thank you! My AA plate arrived yesterday but I wanted to share your modification with a couple friends. Seems like a valuable tweek for anyone with the oem Dillon plate.
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16 hours ago, 99mpower said:
the AA plate is 150% worth every penny.
Ordered one yesterday
If you didn't mind sometime it would be interesting to see a picture of the beveled Dillon plate that worked out well.
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3 hours ago, Toolguy said:
I haven't checked to see how much longer because I don't like digging the lead out of the comp.
I'm surprised to see folks leaving the comps on. I could not detect any benefit but perhaps that has to do with me shooting heavier bullets at around 130 pf.
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6 hours ago, Joe4d said:
Think alot of people moved over from 627's and were getting round nose 357/358's and kept them due to the suppossed 357 sized barrel on the 929.
I went to coated 358's because coated 356's would lead the barrel up. If your 929 starts shooting knuckle balls after 100 rounds or so into a clean barrel that is a strong clue.
6 hours ago, MikeyScuba said:Keep in mind the 929 POI is likely to change depending on load. Very finicky.
+1
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13 minutes ago, Dr. Phil said:
Factory loads in the 929 often show a lot of bullet creep and misfires.
I was able to get the ammo he would like to use "Factory 115 grain federal ammunition." to fire reliably with the right moon clip, but bullet creep was really bad - as in shoot 7 and the last bullet may have walked all the way out of the brass.
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2 hours ago, IVC said:
Those are beefy guns and it shouldn't happen. If something loosens in a 929, it should do the same in most semi-autos. I have two 929s and they are much softer shooting than most lighter semi-autos. I understand target loads will have very light crimp, but this seems excessive.
I only have one friend that shoots a 929 so I can't provide a lot of data, he had the same issue. Federal target ammo 115 grain. Do not know how much the lack of a slide/recoil spring changes things.
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1 hour ago, -JCN- said:
I think they should allow optics on Revolvers in Revo division.
Do they hold up with wheel guns? My S&W 929 can't shoot some factory target ammo (federal for example) because the recoil impulse shakes the bullets out of the brass.
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23 hours ago, Racinready300ex said:
So the handful of diehard 10 round guys
I wonder if that effectively translates into, the majority of people who would be effected by the rule change? Don't know, not implying, just wondering.
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8 hours ago, JWBaldree said:
As a former Production shooter, I'm not really seeing a huge advantage to 15rds, except for maybe some short and medium COFs. At best it is saving one reload per stage. 15 rounds means 2 reloads for a 32rd COF, instead of 3 reloads for 10 rounds.
That is not the way things work out. The fewer rounds you have the more rounds you leave in the magazines so that you do not have to risk a standing reload for a make up shot or run a plan that avoids the standing reload but costs time. Now and then it is only 2 or 4 shots & then swap mags so you are ready for that next group of targets when you get there.
9 hours ago, Boomstick303 said:I really do not understand the organizations aversion to switching Mag Capacity of various divisions.
It makes the game entirely different. If you enjoy the challenge of more intricate stage planning, hitting reloads slick, and not going to war with that challenging shot because you can't spare the make up shots, then you prefer low capacity. If you want to make things as easy as is possible then you prefer high capacity.
I don't think there is a right way and a wrong way to enjoy the sport, but folks do definitely have their preferences. When I last shot limited instead of production I felt like I was cheating myself out of half of the fun of the game.
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11 hours ago, sharko said:
Picture?
I know you figured it out but I figured I'd throw in a pic for anybody else interested, should have from the start. On this one it looks like they got the bend right and the slot width is right for the screw and washer. Mine has a large slot which will be ok after I run to the hardware store and grab a large thick washer, and doesn't eyeball as a true 90 degrees and is painted differently.
10 hours ago, 67isb said:I ended up using a small cut piece of silicone cooking sheet to keep it from moving around. This was my temporary workaound until I can fix it myself.
Good info. Will Rube Goldberg with the thing if I have to but for what it cost I am going to see if the manufacturer will make it right (it is only a week or 10 days old).
Thanks all.
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Best I can tell the drop tube bracket for my roll sizer was redesigned at some point. The original version I think was this one.
My bracket, just received, is a bent piece with a fat slot rather than what appears to be a welded piece with a slot that fits the bolt well.
Not fussing about the redesign, but right now the only issue I have with my machine is that I can't get the bracket to stay in place for long even with the screw tightened as much as I dare so I'm wondering if that is part of the problem.
Any advice appreciated, 9mm is what I run.
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2 minutes ago, sharko said:
the one with the metal plate on the side I assume your talking about.
Yep.
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20 hours ago, ltdmstr said:
As for the rollersizer not working if cases are lubed, that makes zero sense because as long as the cases are rotating as they go through the dies, as compared to sliding through, it's doing what it's supposed to do.
I can't explain it. With stuff like this I tend to think of a multi million dollar hydraulic press system my company purchased the rights to. Corporate engineering went through the drawings and eliminated everything that made little sense, after they built it it would not perform as promised, eventually the designers of the press reviewed the improvements and determined that we had taken their revision 3 design and modified it to very closely match their original design.
Long winded way of saying that sometimes experience shows you what you wouldn't think of. Perhaps that thought does not apply in this circumstance, do not know.
Cleaning the oem Dillon shell plate only kept things jam free for about 1,000 cases. Seems like only a very slight amount of the black crud is enough to cause problems. Anyone know if the double alpha shell plate helps with jams on the old two speed Dillon case feeders? The shell flipper that comes with the plate does not work with the older Dillons so I don't know if the AA plate would help with jams.
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14 hours ago, sharko said:
Kevin from Rollsizer gave me some tips on the case feed.
All of which look interesting and may help me down the road. Thanks to all for input.
For what it is worth, I am a dummy sometimes. In the picture above this post you see the black rings on the drop tube that are from transfer of lube and etc off of the cases. My case feeder had that black gunk all over the exposed surfaces that contact brass inside the bowl and on the shell plate, I had not cleaned that area in years. I cleaned everything well with goo-gone, particularly the holes on the outer edge of the shell plate. Since cleaning I've only run about 800 rounds but I have not had one jam, which is a step change, and the plate seems to be dropping shells faster (a higher percentage of the holes in the shell plate are full).
Before buying the roll sizer I would have benefited from cleaning the feeder, but my reloading is so much slower than feeding the rs that cleaning the jams wasn't really enough of a nuisance to fret over.
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45 minutes ago, sharko said:
When I first got mine it was constantly jamming,
9mm only.
Mine drove me nuts for a while until I rotated the drop tube holder farther forward (downstream) than what looked right to me. Now, as you said, the thing that keeps me from being able to walk away from it is my Dillon case feeder (all stock).
Will look into the AA shell plate, but if I wasn't such a fussy fart it all is plenty good as is, I just have to multi task nearby so I can hear it when the shells stop rattling and I need to fiddle with the feeder a moment. Before spending money I am going to clean the Dillon shell plate thoroughly and see if the coating of lube and gunk on it from lubed brass is part of the problem.
Fun so far!
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Got mine yesterday. A couple limitations from reading the manual that I hadn’t noted elsewhere.
1. If your brass is already lubed the manual says it won’t roll size correctly. No biggie, I just happened to have a bunch of lubed brass that I suppose I need to clean again.
2. If you let the roll sizer run empty you have problems with jams. In my case that means I need to slow the roll sizer down below the maximum speed that my Dillon case feeder drops brass and be more attentive to the process than planned.
3. ?
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10 hours ago, HesedTech said:
Obviously you didn’t get the humor.
Correct, it would never have occurred to me that you meant something derogatory about my home. Regardless, you meant it as a lite hearted remark so it is all good.
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11 hours ago, HesedTech said:
If your home or dwelling is still using "fuses" then there are greater things to worry about than the Rollsizer.
Hmmm. I'm an electrical engineer who has spent 30 years working with maintenance electricians if that matters, anyway, we can agree to disagree. Resetting breakers is certainly more convenient and both have a good track record, I will grant that.
Is there a Benelli M2 for dummies intro anywhere?
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Agreed, but that comes naturally after you have learned enough to proceed with a gun purchase & etc.
Regardless, thought this was interesting and didn't know about it until today, apparently the M2's have been recently significantly modified.
https://www.gunsamerica.com/digest/hunt365-benellis-changes-montefeltro-m2-lupo-firearms-shot-show-2023/