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Bear23

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  1. 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$

  2. 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.

  3. Reef Tanks!,, in the loading room!?

    Reef tank? a shooter should not have time for a reef tank. I can't get a reef tank cause of the traveling to matches and I don't have time to mow the yard. Tell me you don't have a yard and I wont feel so ,, left out.

    Alamo :(

    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.

  4. 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.

  5. 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.. :blink::blink::blink:

    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.

  6. 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.

  7. 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..

  8. Bear23 What do you mean you saw the stages? we have not posted them yet. the ones on our web sight now are last years.

    Didn't you know tactical mall ninja's can see glimpses of the future? :ph34r:

    Well shoot, :D

    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.

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