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Any thoughts as to when primers might be in stock again? I was unaware that small pistol primers are useful against the coronavirus but here we are....

Post #3 wasn't helpful; the swollen base of the casing is what's preventing it from chambering. The die at station 3 (seating die) was spotless. Absolutely spotless.

I will try that. Is there anything occurring at: Station 2-Belling the case mouth OR Station 3-Seating the bullet OR Station 4-Crimping That could be undoing what's been done at Station one? The only thing I do know, for sure, is that Station One is doing it's job. Opening the crimp up to .380 did not help the situation.

@124gr9mm Dillon 550. Same bullets, same dies. Crimp die is clean and without obstructions. NO changes. I just got off the phone with Dillon after a nice 50 minute hold. Station one creates a properly sized casing. That, per Dillon, indicates that it's being sized properly. Dillon thought that the problem was still too much crimp, that too much crimp was squishing/flattening the case. Changing the crimp from .3755 (where I was before, with a 10% failure rate) to .380 only made things worse. Even removing the crimp entirely only seems to have.....made things worse.

No; a loaded round with a coated bullet. Bullets are .355

Been doing some loading. 9mm coated bullet. Mixed once fired brass/nickel. No problems for about 5000+ rounds but now..... Rounds will not pass chamber check. I use the actual barrel of the gun I shoot. Crimp is .374. 1. Fired and unsized case fits in the chamber perfectly. 2. Fired, sized, and primed case ditto. 3. Coated bullets will NOT fully chamber. 4. Tried a couple of jacketed bullets and they WILL fully chamber. Not new to reloading, but am fully aware that most of the time the issue is pilot error.

Awesome! Thanks I'll ping him

Bump. If you know of anyone, even second hand, who's department is issuing or might be issuing these please PM me

There's more value to this forum than just the classifieds. Hard to put a precise dollar value on the ability to post an obscure equipment related "This keep happening....how do I fix it? questions that typically get multiple helpful answers in hours if not minutes. Instead of $15/mo to sell the occasional random thing, make it...…….$100/year for access to the forum. You can sell the occasional thing AND have access to what is essentially the Dead Sea Scrolls of USPSA. Probably already been tried but maybe contact USPSA and see if they'll contribute. This has become the de facto forum for USPSA; maybe they'd chip in.

Not sure that steel plates are effective at transmitting viruses. There are solutions to most of the other items as well. If an individual didn't feel comfortable attending a match they wouldn't be required to.

Not trying to split hairs, but "groups" arguably, are squads. A squad of 10 is certainly a group of 10. 60 shooters spread across 6 stages and 100 yards +/- does not, to me, equal a "group" of 60. Maybe curtail the ever so important shooter's meeting at the beginning of the match.

Thanks to both of you for responding

George how many rounds per month/year are you actually shooting?

Anybody burnt this one to the ground? Like over 90%? If so....are you leaving AND entering on the partials? If so....is that always successful or is it hit or miss?

He got 8 charlies. PM forthcoming re: doctrine

Mike Seeklander has a good drill for getting/keeping the gun mounted. He's got a website and probably all over youtube. Shooting on the move is not ALWAYS the answer; it's like a tool in your tool box that you use SOMETIMES, when appropriate. I'm not sure that those port targets called for shooting on the move. When I first started I created a standardized doctrine; I got a little dogmatic about it but it really helped when I was first starting out and trying to break down a stage

I'd try lighter; changing slide weights can be like dropping a stone in a pond....lots of little ripple effects.

A big one is mounting the gun sooner; at around :22-ish that thing should have been mounted already as you entered that far right position. If you are concerned about your draw time on a tough target, make sure your dryfire includes...…...drawing to a tough target. Probably not a marksmanship problem, so live fire not indicated. How were your hits?

If you are a police officer and your agency ISSUES duty guns with RDS on them please PM me.

Bruce Gray used to modify STI magazines to run in the USP. Don't know if he does it anymore but he had it figured out.

Moto mentioned "practice." You described a drill you are doing and added a great word at the end of it...……."repeat." Good quality repetitions in dryfire, livefire, and matches are the only way to get gooder at this sport. All the books and apps and go-pros people rely on and fiddle with will not and cannot take the place of training.

This is multi faceted. I shot at an indoor range for years that had hosted USPSA matches for a long time, and had been a "hot" range for matches and training. The manager had been a long time RO and shooter. They had gunsmiths there that were "known" gunsmiths in the A1 USPSA community. And they never ONCE mentioned USPSA. Not once. I found out about USPSA on my own, and only later found out this was place was vortex of USPSA. I handed out USPSA flyers at gunshows for about a year. I'm in the firearms/LE world and I've dragged 8-10 new people to matches over the past 20 years. Of that group exactly two guys stuck with it. You can let people know about us....that is the first step. But at some point if they don't want to come...……..they're not going to come. I'd say we need more CLUBS more than we need shooters; club matches seem to be very full and get that way very quickly nowadays

Agreed on above post; there are local/regional gunsmiths everywhere that build fantastic guns. Wait times are shorter too. Plus if there's an issue they are down the street, or (in some cases) shooting on your squad.

I'd love to hear back from someone who's put some rounds through these. Curious about durability

Cannot be a serious suggestion/idea. You'd be practicing poor trigger presses, and that "flip the gun and slam the mag release" does not sound like quality reload practice. Gotta be a troll post