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Agree as well! Neat observations. Must be an engineer! Chuck

Dave, Fly Southwest if you can. 2 checked bags fly free! I ship my ammo, though. Dave, Fly Southwest if you can. 2 checked bags fly free! I ship my ammo, though. Tell me a little more about shipping your ammo. Thanks, Chuck

Pat Agree. I am getting more Midway alerts of incoming wish list items each day. Things are still hot and miss but I sense improving some. Now all we need is another political event to mess things up again and spook everyone Chuck

Hermna Throw over effect. A sense that most don't trust the Government and hence we must stock up(get some now)before THEY tax it or forbid it. A typical "shortage" mentality I suppose but real none the less. Once the scare goes away the supply channels should return to normal bet for now everything i scarce. Lots of views on how long all this will take. 22LR in particular is the best example. None to be found anywhere in shops or online and then only at inflated prices(some) or just limited supplies when "alerted" that there is a limited delivery available. Go figure! Cheers, Chuck

A real example of what the Media does not report or even cover-it has to be sensational to get space. Surely the USA Gun Control excitement of late 2012 and this Spring have been read and heard in South Africa? Chuck

I second that as well. Camille and I spent several hours a couple of Saturday's ago with Paul Forgey, 4G Tactical (http://www.4gtactical.com/) and in discussions about good shooting techniques etc.., he really emphasized getting a firm-solid grip on the weapon with the dominant hand. For me it makes a world of difference in the dry fire muscle memory that carries over to live fire which is the only end point that makes any difference. Each week I get a little better being more athletically poised and balanced, alert, intentioned, deliberate and focused. For me pace is very important as for all "A" type personalities. A day at a time! Chuck

Sorry but what are BBI's ??-shorthand for a bullet I do not yet recognize. Thanks, Chuck

I bought as Lyman 1200 Tumbler and loaded it with Walnut media. I put some pretty grungy brass through it at first and noticed a lot of big particles of gritty dust deposited on the lid and just around the workbench top where it sits. I had used Dillon Polishing additive. I changed he media and went to a NuFinish car polish as an additive which is quite liquid compared to the Dillon product. The brass got cleaned faster and with NO NO NO dust or dirty grit anywhere. I conclude the trick is to keep the media moist while tumbling but not so moist that you are tumbling lumps rather than fluidly moving media. Hope this helps as it solved my concerns. Chuck

Since you have not put powder or bullet on that case I would put a some water in a baggie, add the brass case and dispose of it. I have had experience simply running the case in mention through resize and deprime, wearing all the safety stuff as you say. DO NOT follow through by lifting the handle and pressing it into the reprime position. Pull the case off the shell plate and make sure it is deprimed. You can recycle the brass or try again to prime it directly back on the #1 shell plate for Dillon 550. Check also and make sure your deprime pin is not bent. I bent one and got your no deprime situation Chuck

bigedp51Hey, I really appreciate those photos. I now know exactly what those two items look like when mentioned by others in the future. A thoughtful move on your part and one I appreciate. Chuck

razorfishThanks. I am on back order for that item at this moment @ Midway. Link you sent clarifying. I had it pinned to that. Chuck PS Last night at near midnight EST I grabbed 5000 Win SPPrimers on Midway.. The availability lasted just a short while. Just happened to be at the desk when a message beeped in - MidWay alert. LUCK!!!

Sarge: Looked for the tool on MidWay USA. Found "Hornady Primer Pocket Reamer": tool has knurled handle; can't tell if it is detachable from handle for chucking in a drill(or the diameter of the handle to chuck direct) -out-of-stock for $ $10.99. Is this the one to which you refer ? Thanks, Chuck PS Also looked for Reamer on Lee but could not find one

Thanks to both responders. Much appreciate the replies Chuck

9 mm Military Brass(MB) is a pain-in-the-neck matter to some of us that have no swagging capabilities in our reload equipment. I have a Dillon 550. I first ran into MB in a mixed lot of 9mm face stamps from range pickup. Out of the blue I had failures in the priming using Federal SPP's. I had primers that would not fit the primer pocket well enough to allow for proper seating. I set those cases aside to recover the powder and bullets and went on with reloading. Reading the Forums taught me a little about the issue. The last encounter I had with priming issues for 9mm I had a good look at the face plates of the brass and was able to note that some MB were not an issue while other face plates needed the "primer crimp" removed. Depending on your circumstances, time available and the amount of MB you find in your range pickup of 9mm brass here is what I determined: Not all Military Brass seem to have the same primer crimps. I learned that you can use the face plate data to target those that will require "primer crimp" attention and those that don't. The bad guys are WIN 07, 08 and 10. The good guys are WIN 03, 04, 06, 09, 11, and 12. I am sure there are other Win#'s out there but not in the lot of brass that was in my shop. I also found that a heavy MB lot that I had bought was 2/3rds BAD guy and 1/3rd GOOD guy. Random data mind you. Outside of the WIN #'s mentioned, I found that FCC and others with just Manufacturer names or Luger or some such were readily sized, deprimed and reprimed on the #1 Die-Dillon 550 using Fed SPP's.. I simply noted and tested each new face ID I ran into to build my Good/Bad lists. I will probably trade the BAD guys to someone with swag capabilities. The right tool makes them into GOOD guys but I doubt that Fed SPP's will be large enough for the enlarged primer pockets. Hope this info is useful in some small way to a few folks out there. Chuck

Perry Thanks for heads up there. Gotta keep it safe and reproducible and those comments are all great advices. !!!. Glad for your reminders as I had not thought through some factors. Chuck

Interesting! Here is an update that leads me to believe that the paper " tears" with the RN bullet configuration for 40 S&W 180 grain plated Berry Bullet is not tied to powder but to the RN config. I can't comment on bullet speed yet as you will note in closing comments. An Example: Bought Xtreme bullet 40 S&W 180 gr in FN(flat nose) configuration!! Plated Ran out of Win 231 powder so I switched 40 cal production to Tight Group(TG) Made test with Xtreme FP's and 4.6 gr TG. OAL and crimp maintained from all prior 40S&W productions maintained , respectively @1.125-28" and 0.422-23", Neat holes but maybe overkill on powder load. SOOO... Cut TG to 4.3gr and got continued good results with Xtreme FP's. Neat holes! Switched production to use up stock of Berry plated stock of RN used in all prior discussions w/ same 4.3 gr TG just mentioned. Got the paper tears I had seen all along. Conclusion: Not the powder but the bullet nose configuration is a factor I have since brought in some 165 and 180 gr FN and HP's from Xtreme and we will reload and test these, The Chrony is in hand and we will be testing our archived 40 S&W rounds so we can put some bullet velocity data into this discussion (I hope). Looking forward to learn IF the "tear" characteristics on paper targets(less than "heavy card stock") are a function of bullet nose or velocity or BOTH. Meanwhile, we have no plans to buy any more RN bullets for 40 S&W 180 gr. plated or clad until we settle the ???instability in ballistics??? Will keep all apprised..

Poppa Bear has hit a home run!

Does Montana Gold charge for shipping?

Thanks. Got some 40's Chuck

Agree shorter OAL is the answer.

Steve RA put me onto Nu Finish Car Polish. I had been using Dillon Polish on 2# media and 3 # Brass. With the Dillon I got a lot of dust and I had to keep vacuuming the table top and tumbler to get rid of it after every batch. WITH the SWITCH TO NU FINISH as the polishing agent I now have no more dust problems. I can't get the inside of all the cases shiny like RA does with his stainless needles and then media but the insides are clean enough for reloading as I view it.

Shucks! With reports like this I AM starting to feel that maybe we will see "normal" by early Fall. WalMart's here in Metro Atlanta are not showing broad improvement though one of the better stores in Alpharetta a few days ago had a pretty broad stock of most items. NO ONE has 22 LR except ranges at $5 per 50 in a coffee cup.

Thanks. Great formula.

AND SO, THE RELOADING EXPERIENCE MOVES ALONG.. I am having a tough time getting consistent OAL reading with my digital calipers. I can measure one round several times and get variances out side of 0.002" precision. I think its my technique in using calipers. SO>>> I center the primer end of the round on the lower fork and try to set the nose of the round nose bullet centered on the top fork. (easy with a FN ). Trying to find the center of that nose square on the opposing fork is like nutsville!! BUT I find that I need something to nose the bullet into to get a consistent seat-obviously it also must have a flat side to rest on the opposing fork. Does someone make such a part? OR is there a trick I need to learn? Help is appreciated. A comment about achieving consistent OAL's with my Dillon 550: Also, I agree that if the Dillon is set properly I will get consistent OAL's but ONLY if I make a complete and full(consistent) down stoke with the operating handle AFTER EACH plate index move. I found some rounds(seated and crimped) after a production run that strayed "long" from the consistent OAL's and ran those back through the #3 die with a normal stroke and the same for #4 die and the OAL was brought back into spec for my rounds.

I ran into some really dirty, cruddy Military Range 9mm so I cleaned and deprimed it and found it OK on the looks inside and out side but many half the primer pockets ( were pretty dirty at the primer set surface. I used a screwdriver tip that was slightly undersized to the pocket and on a Porter Cable hand power driver just a quick light insert of the driver nose, touch the trigger for a split second and voila-beautifully clean primer pockets. In retrospect I ask was it worth the effort? I suppose for rifle ammo but this was 9mm hand gun brass. Anyway, its a possible way to easily and quickly clean primer pockets. With a light touch and a power screw driver it seems an easy task. Once I got the rhythm it was ~20 pockets a minute. Chuck