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uh-oh, that is not good. He's is lucky that Barbara is one of the nicest people around! She will probably only wound him!

Ditto here, thanks for everyone coming out, and thanks for everyone who worked. Can I sign up to RO now for next year or do I have to wait?? Jim - CRO Stage 11 - with the dang swinging plates.

I have used them in the past for supplies and they have been good. I am waiting on some .308 brass from them right now.

This is where the truth lies. What would be interesting is to see what "type" of bullet transfers momentum most efficiently. Would a SWC impart more or would a JHP, or a LRN?

Just a side note, but a single tap of F4 gets you the double dollar signs, another tap gets you a column only and then a triple tap gets you the row only and the forth tap gets you back to normal. Hope that speeds you along in your excel workings.

Joe, Ya'll are lucky! I'll be shooting chemicals through pipes. Darn job keeps getting in the way of all the fun. Who did the trigger work on your chemical shooter?

Good one Scooter! Couldn't have happened to a nicer fella!

This was the stage I RO'd; what is interesting is that with the auto guns, this thing was done 10 different ways; I guess with the 6 shooters, it broke down to a pretty consistent solution. Great shooting with everyone!

Great match everybody; enjoyed shooting with y'all, and it was great to see everyone come through stage 10 safely and without any DQs. I look forward to seeing everyone next year!

Stay safe Hank, my thoughts are with you; eventually it will just be a bad memory.

buddy, I hope you made out alright, I am still in B'ham trying to get back to see how we did . . . god bless. Jim

Sorry to hear it Hank, hope to see you soon at a match . . .sans boot.

Nice shooting with you this weekend, chuck, i am finally able to put a face with the screen name

Great job on the HOA; I went out to Thibodaux this past week and Guy stomped my back side (10% of match) and Jeff also nudged me (2 Match Points). I am a bit rusty, but I attribute the whooping to the excellent progress made by these other folks. . . .come on, I take a couple of months off and when I come back everyone is shooting like GMs! Good on them, no doubt! I have experienced the same thing regarding the 0.1 - 0.2 grain variation in .223. I always thought I was crazy, but I have witnessed that at the range of 200 yards, the variation does not cause much vertical stringing (though I am seeing a 30 fps standard deviation in my loads). I suspect that if we push that range out to 600 yards, we would see more pronounced evidence. I tried to improve the dillon 550 powder measure by adding the micrometer and polishing all the surfaces and I am pretty happy that it is throwing Varget with about .2 grain range on 223. I just started messing around with 308, and the variation there seems to be larger. I am beginning to think that it is an uncertainty in terms of percentage. When reloading 9mm with 4.1 grains of N320, a 1% variation is less that 0.1 grain, not even noticeable on my scales. When messing with 223, 1% is around .2 grains. By the time you get up to 308 and are putting 45 grains in, if you are varying 1%, you are off by nearly half a grain. That is why I am interested in improving my drops some. On your being anal, don't sweat it, I am the same way (engineer); everything on my desk is at right angles all the time!

I would never say that! Your process is exactly the same as mine (with the exception that I do my trimming with the cheap Lee tool and my power drill). One day I will buy the Giraud. Just a bit of drift, back to your high end powder dump comment. What have you been looking at to improve the powder drop on your precision ammunition. I think that all the brass prep that I do is very useful, but in the end, if I don't trickle up my powder drop, the uncertainty involved in the 550 powder drop will be a far greater source of uncertainty than case length, case weight, primer depth, etc. I have been considering upgrading the powder station for this purpose, but have not educated myself sufficiently. Hope to see you at a match soon, I have been missing lately (darn life is getting in the way of shooting!)