Bear23

Not really. I like the feel of more weight up front.

I have added exactly what you want to your edge to mine.. I have a tungsten guide rod with 12# spring, and i had Ed Brown ambi safety installed. I had the gun chromed after about 10K rounds. STI mags with Dawson base pads (+1) and grams springs. The gun has been 100% reliable. I'd buy another for backup if i could.

Our club bought the MGM star. Very durable, easy to assemble and transport. The legs are the only shortcoming, squared tubing that once it gets shot up, doesn't do a good job of holding the thing up. Replace it with black pipe.. about 550 shipped to your door.

I have used it for my .40 loads. Tighter than the dillon gauge. However, after throwing about 2000 rounds through it it has started to foible a few rounds. Since its aluminum the edges get a little beat up, and rounds that did case gauge through it earlier, wouldn't....when i rechecked.... I had to lightly file the edge to sharpen it up.

I had tried a couple of different guns. I went with the Edge, I wouldn't look back...Its been flawless.

The enire case rim pulled off...I'll look into the collet..i've got a few buddies that shoot rifle and see what they have.

Friday night would be good for me. I'm leaving Thursday...11 hour drive from Las Cruces to Wichita Falls. Isn't there a link on the DTC site with things to do?

I have an undersized lee die from EGW....Works great for that once fired glock brass i buy. I had a case separate...I had to pull the toolhead off the 650, remove die and proceeded to grind the case out with my dremel... It was severely corroded at the base.. but the case was clean on the outside (nickel plated) Any better way to remove a stuck broken case.???? BTW...I recently purchased a case gauge (not dillon) that has 4 calibers marked on it....These tend to loose their tolerance over a few thousand rounds...I don't want to name the manufacturer. I had to go back to the dillon case gauge. just .02$

1. Lose 20 pounds. 2. Make Master in Limited (just got A in December) 3. Start shooting open. 4. Shoot every weekend and dryfire at least 4x per week.

I would have to agree with Flex. burnout is solved by having attainable goals..... recently i was burned out on life....marriage ended etc. etc. Shooting was one of the only things that i really looked forward to. If i feel my concentration or focus slipping...I think about shooting and my next practice session. If i get tired of the same routine, i pull out a different gun, AR, 6 shooter and have gun with it. A shotgun and a bunch of steel is always therapeutic as well.

No yard, just cactus and rocks....pretty easy to maintain.. As far as the Reef tank...I've tried to get my Yellow Tang to reload, but he is too small to grab the roller handle on the 650. Dillon parts should be coming soon. The primer tubes did contain the explosion, and my lights are not directly above the press. But the primer plunger had to be doing at least 650 fps upon exiting the priming system.

Should be getting my new parts this week. I spoke with Dillon early saturday and they were to ship an new assembly. Gentleman remarked that this 'happens'. It was winchester primers i was using this time, i usually use federals. I'm pretty sure it was just after the upstroke of the ram, that's when the disc apparently moves...I can't say i felt any resistance...it all just happened too fast. I had just done about 400 rounds, and was moving 'in the groove', as we say.

So there i was Friday evening. Loading some .40's for my upcoming matches, WSSC...local matches, etc. Had about 50 primers left in the tube, wasn't even seating a primer....Whenever the primer disk rotates...upstroke or downstroke?? BOOM.. Ok, can't really hear well...Thoughts of Saving private Ryan came to my head when Tom Hanks had a tank round go off near his head... Oh, crap a primer went off.... Felt the primer tube....mucho hotto...Crap..ALL my primers went off... Disassembled everything. Primer buzzer landed in my 90 gallon reef tank. primer stick in 43 pieces over the room. primers melted in tube, disk bent and warped, thick tube bulged.. Apparently a primer didn't get dropped out of the disk on a case i had pulled because it was defective after going through station one. Primer sheared setting off remaining primers. Thank god these things are built like tanks. If it was another press, i'd be pulling bits of brass out of my chest.

At last count i have at least 5 XD's...All are good runners. For production, i'd go with the 9mm tactical, uncle mikes or a bladetech holster. Change the sites, at least the front, black out the rears and you are good to go. Get a trigger job at a later date if need be. Mags are very durable made of stainless steel, 23$ for the high caps. www.xd-hs2000.com Try that link, I think he sells spare parts. The weak points in the gun are the recoil spring assembly and the locking block. Recoil assembly tends to break, crappy weld. And the locking block cracks where the slide hits it, they didn't radius a couple of sharp corners leading to stress risers.

Reminds me of the Johnny Carson skit......What's the name of the guy with the towel on his head again???

Thanks Craig, got it.

Tripp research by far. They can hold longer ammo...They easily accomodate and feed my 1.20" OAL in my Trojan .40. mags are single stack and IDPA compliant as well.

I tend to clean my 1911/2011's after every match, but usually on a weekly basis, consisting of practice and then a match weekend... So the guns have around 500-1000 rounds through them before they get really cleaned. I don't clean the barrels, i just run an oiled patch through them. The topends come off and everything gets wiped down. On my 1911 on which i shoot moly bullets, i do have to clean the bore now and them and it does get leaded up and accuracy suffers. Not really sure if it is just Moly residue that builds up quickly with a little bit of lead, or just lead..

Scorch, Got my pin in the e-mail.. But it seems i'm already squadded up in group 17. Do i need to do anything else or am i good to go? I'd like to be squadded up with K. Speer as long as T. O'neil and i are in the same squad. Robert M.

I always thought the benefit of the doubt went to the shooter in question? I would be hard pressed to call round dumping, unless someone puts 5 extra shots on a target....which i have seen.

In my .45's i run a 12# Sprinco with one EGW gray buff, tungsten guide rod, steel for IDPA. My loads are 168-173 PF. I do not have any problems with slide cycling.

Didn't you know tactical mall ninja's can see glimpses of the future? Well shoot, I didn't notice they were last years. It sounds like everyone had a good time there, tha;'s why i wanted to come. think I'll shoot Limited any way. looking forward to meeting you fellows. Robert M.

Steve, I've got a couple of other shooters from New Mexico that want to come, any more openings? Robert M L2683

application sent today for 2 from New Mexico. Looking forward to the match. I saw the stages........Think i'll shoot Limited just to avoid reloading.

I like having two more matches a month that i can shoot besides USPSA. Nearly every weeekend i have a match. I like the people, i like the simplicity of the stages.