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I have the Armanov, not said I bought it, but it does not work quite as groovy with my truncated cone bullets. Still happy I have it, because I will put a couple handfuls on it, shake in what does go, then dump it out and put it back on, because when manually putting the rest of them in they funnel in quite nicely. This reminds me, I do have 6k down there waiting... (do not have that many boxes)

IMO everything revolves around the primers. We have a local place that frequently has Winchester for $0.069, when I get down to 5k I start making plans to swing by there, last time I snagged 10k. Powder might cost a lot more, but I have had less trouble finding it, compared to primers. Blue Bullets never screwed around during the last frenzy, they extended lead times but didn't jack with prices, and I have some loyalty and they are reliable enough that I can wait until I need them to get them on order. Well I am loyal, and the bullet feeder is all set up for them...

Yeah, my breakdown shows powder as 12% of the cost per round, if eight pounds goes up $100 it only bumps to 15%, and that is enough to load 10k-15k. Primers are the thing to track for price, I buy bullets as I need them.

I just backed our new vehicle into a pole and the trick of pouring boiling water on the plastic bumper works. I am glad I boiled two pots full, because the first one didn't budge it, but the second one popped it right into shape!

It does make a racket. We are fortunate to have a house that puts the tumbler at the opposite end of the house and a story and a half down from the bedroom, I set the timer when I go to bed. At first I was reluctant to leave it stagnant for most of the night after it shuts off, thinking it might leave tarnishes. But I let it run for another minute or two in the morning and then dump it out and the cases look great.

I am curious also, but I think it is because of the bullet cup closing the back of the bullet instead of the front.

Sounds like a flawed unit if it only lasted that long? RCBS shows a two year warranty for the current product. That said, I have been completely happy with my FART that I bought in 2017.

If a person only loaded 115gn for 9mm pistols it would indeed be a long payback. If you wanted to load something like 77gn 5.56 you could ROI in a few thousand rounds and the 9mm loading would be done on paid off equipment.

It has also been my understanding that the original 9mm Colt hammer was specific to 9mm, and the bolt was shaped differently where it would be cocking the trigger, and that is part of the reason for not being directly compatible with a 5.56 trigger group. Additionally complicating matters is that some bolts have been revised to work with a 5.56 hammer. I am no expert because mine is an old one (early adopter!) that was purchased as an upper and a lower that were built (from same manufacturer) so I assumed compatibility and didn't alter either, but I studied enough to make my decision not to. Back then not many PCC triggers were available, by now I have shot it enough to be content with it the way it is. If I start doing more Steel Challenge maybe I will consider it again someday.

BTW, I just finished loading 9k recently purchased Winchester SPP on my RL1100 with no issues.

I have always let the rod chase the primers down the tube, just as a means of knowing they all fell. Probably started doing this once after pulling the tube away and spilling some remaining primers.

I am fortunate to live near WPAFB, and the club there has done a great job of supporting trap and skeet. Six of the seven active ranges are configured to shoot either, and for registered shoots they leave one practice range for the other discipline for that weekend (with only a few exceptions). But it is (now, since after 9/11) just a shotgun club.

Maybe swap around the strikers? Or get a few new ones, they are cheap and easy to swap.

Hell, in a lotta cases the Trap guys don't like the Skeet guys and the Skeet guys don't like the Trap guys.

I would have the same speculation... I like trap and skeet, do it almost weekly in the summer, but the membership sure varies.