Clay1

The Glock vs. the XD is one that is often discussed. Given that you already have a G17 the G34 would be the logical extension. The grip angles are the same and you could more easily change between the G17 and G34 without a different grip angle. If you shot a 45 in competition already and put thousands of rounds through it the XD grip angle would be more appropriate. The XD trigger is nicer by Rich at Canyon Creek. My brother-in-law has two that Rich has done the triggers on and they are fantastic (he is also a big 45 auto shooter). The sights on both guns will need to be replaced. Glock parts are so much easier to get and the gun is much easier to do your own work on. Like the General the muzzle flip seems more pronounced on the XD. Bottom line is that they both are nice - get what you want and be happy. Rick

John the range you described where you were hit in the eye with a piece of jacketed material sounds exactly like Pine Tree in Rockford. I was shooting there today and will be there again tomorrow. Are you shooting the WIIT? I'll be working the shoot. If you are there say hello. How about Area 5 and the sectional in Holmen (LaCrosse, WI)? Rick Ingle Clay1 on the boards

I've donated blood a couple of times this past year, but nothing that looked as bad as James does in your photo. Once on the forearm and once on the shin. This is a good reminder Chet - thanks. On a similar vein, those of you that reload without your glasses on are also at risk. I'm trying to reload with my glasses on all of the time too. Rick

Dale, I'm with you all the way on S&B until someone can tell me how to say it without embarrassing myself too badly. I was in a gun store yesterday and a customer was asking about the Leo pold scopes. I'm thinking: IT IS LEU POLD! There is no Leo in the house! So when I refer to S & B I want to make it somewhat accurate. I don't know if this American can ever say it the way a Czech would, but am interested in getting it as close as I can. Thanks for making me smile though, Rick

I feel like my kid. I tell him something that is good advice and he does it his way anyhow. I was told not to tumble my hollow points but didn't like the results I was getting wipping them off so I threw them in the tumbler. My media was absolutely stuck in the hollow point (Zero 9mm, 147 grain jhp). I took them out into the garage with a compressor and still couldn't get that stuff out of the hollow points with 140 psi. I shot 200 rounds the other day with media in the hollow point. I think that it was Eric that said to take an old bath towel, put Iso Alcohol on it and rub the rounds between two layers of the towel. If you have FMJ or TMJ I think tumbling would be the way to go. I put Hornady One shot on very lightly but still want it off before I shoot it. Rick

Patrick, if you shoot in Limited 10 or Limited it doesn't matter. If you want to shoot it in Production it has to come off of the Production line like that. They don't make a G35 with a 9mm barrel or a G22 with a 9mm barrel. They do make a G34 with a 9mm barrel and a G17 in 9mm that are fine in Production. Either it is a Production gun or it is modified. Is it a competitive advantage? - I don't think so; would a modified gun be a Production piece? - I don't think so either. Then whether right or wrong you come back to "Rules are rules". Rick

Sellier and Bellot sponsored the current World IPSC Production champion Adam Tyc. He is a Czech shooter and Sellier and Bellot is a Czech company. I want your oppinion on how to pronounce this one. If it were French it would be Sell e ehh and Bel low. If you give it the American twist is would be Bel lot and Sell ier. It's Czech and I don't have a clue. Any help in the right direction would be appreciated. My experience with the brass from this company in 9mm is that the primer pockets are so tight that my Fed primers don't seat in these cases very well. If I ever have a case not take the primer on the first time, it is 95% S&B brass. Thanks, Rick

David, here is a link for you: http://www.cpwsa.com/ Chris was one of the first BE advertisers. Check out the link. Rick

Have the same problem with my MKIV. I put ear plugs on the unit per the advice that I received from Pact. Take a foam ear plug and slice off a small sliver of it. On the MKIV the mic is recessed in a series of 1/16th to 1/8" slots. Stick the foam in the slot. If you put too much foam in, it won't pick up anything not enough and you get echos. Outdoors I just pull the foam out. On the MKIV there is an internal adjustment but the foam is easier than opening the case every time you change from indoors to outdoors. Rick

If you are talking about the Nationals, the reason they have the divisions seperated is so those so inclined can shoot both divisions on different dates. If they were all together you would have to pick just one.

Doesn't sound like Glocked brass to me at this point. First thing that comes to mind is the shell plate holder on the 550. The holding bolt (the one that goes through the hole in the middle of the shell plate) should be snugged up and then backed off an 1/8th turn. Sometimes if you leave this too loose the dies touch the shell plate but the shell plate isn't down far enough so that you are not really sizing all the way down on the case. Remember before you snug the holding bolt to loosen the set screw in the ram itself. If that still doesn't do it Dillon has a great customer service department - let them earn their money and call those guys. They are seriously on top of their equipment and it is their job to make your life easier as far as the reloader goes. They will be more than happy to help. Rick

Billy, I take it that your problem is with loading 9mm and not with the 357? With your Dillon dies make sure you set up the press with ammo in progress in each stage of the press. The sizing / decapping die should just touch the shellplate and then I back it off 1/4 turn and lock it down. If you have the sizing die so adjusted and are still having problems the Lee FCD (factory crimp die) is an inexpensive option that should get your 9mm brass back to specs. What exact caliber are you having problems with and what gun is it going into? Is this once fired brass that you originally shot in the gun that you are loading for or is it range brass?

Thanks Rob, I am smelling the coffee now and it is starting to click. Thanks for being patient.

I must be easily confused or 5 hours of sleep didn't quite cut it. You can shoot them where you see them from and any target that you see, can be engaged from that shooting position. So what if anything changed? How about one more run at this section: "Competitors will never have to memorize which targets are to be shot from the various positions or views." Sorry if I'm overly thick this morning, I haven't had my coffee yet. Rick

I have two G34's and love them. They are in a word "reliable". I have shot a Vanek, Dale Rhea and Ralph's triggers on the Glocks. None of them come close to the work that comes out of Canyon Creek by Rich Dettlehouser (sp?). For me the simplicity of the Glock design and the wide availability make it a logical choice for me. My brother-in-law who has shot 1911's liked that the grip angle stayed the same for him and the XD is about $100 less expensive. At nationals this year 54 Glocks were entered and 6 XDs. Those numbers will change over time I am sure, but there is no denying that Glock owns production. Rick

Do you have a link to the complete form? Thanks, Rick

For shooting bullseye type target many competitors use a 6 oclock hold to get away from the black on black issue. Think of the 6 oclock hold as a pumpkin on a fence post type of sight picture where the front site just touches or even leaves the smallest of a thin line of white target below the bull and between the front post. The eye can discern very small increments in elevation changes with this type of hold on bullseye targets. For IPSC I use a center hold.

Yeah, Glock would love to know the serial number on that thing so they wouldn't have to cover it ever under warranty. Grusome is a very appropriate word for a description of this one. As a Glock owner who frequents the local matches, I often see other non Glock owners with feeding, failure to fire, etc issues. It makes me glad that my gun is made with supurb reliabilty by design but this is just shocking. Again, glad that I don't own that thing but it's nice to know that my gun is "blood related". Rick

That guy is not right. I shuddered just looking through that post. I don't have $500 to throw out the window like he did with that gun. It was interesting to see someone else do that to their Glock, but not for me.

George has much more technical knowledge than I, but I find that when I burn DVDs on my RCA burner that they won't play on many other players. At least you have sound. I burned some DVDs for a friend and none of them played on his home player but played fine on the unit that I burned them with. Rick

Welcome to the board. Sounds like a nice set up that you have. I did a simple search under 9mm major and found a bunch of threads. This one might give you some insight into your question. You might find this thread helpful: http://www.brianenos.com/forums/index.php?...48&hl=9mm+major If you hit the search button you can search all forums or you can search a specific forum like the 9mm/38 reloading board that will have some good threads for you to consider. Have fun with your project and again, welcome. Rick

It needs to be bigger to fit me. "one-size bib fit newborns to 36 months" I forget who had this, a popular instructor (maybe Matt Burkett but it could have been someone else) had a huge baby pacifier. And when someone was complain it would be handed to them with the comment "suck on this". Someone tell me who that was again. Rick

Congrats on your decision, you can't go wrong with a G17. Let me share a story with you from this weekend and you will feel even better about your decision. I enrolled in a NRA basic pistol class that is a prerequisite to the Instructor's course. I'm at our local club. There is a wide variety of skill levels in the class from those that just began shooting a pistol to those with 35+ years shooting handguns. Two of the newer people show up with sub compact 40's. One is a sub compact XD and the other is a Glock 27. We take a 50' slow fire target and put it 5 yards away from the shooting positions and fire 10 rounds at the back side of the target (you couldn't see the bull - the idea was to just hit the paper). We were all seated and shooting off of sandbags no less. The two with sub compact 40s must have hit the paper between 3 and 4 times out of 10 rounds. The 40 in a sub compact is not a beginners gun period. One of them commented to me that he had a friend that was in law enforcement that suggested the 40 over the 9 because the 9 wasn't up to the job. I looked straight at the guy and said if you have a howitzer and can't hit anything it isn't going to be more effective. Maybe with time these guys will develop enough skill to master their compacts, but they would have been drastically better served with a G17. Have fun with your new addition to the family. Rick

A couple of friends bought them originally and they did improve accuracy, but not as drastically as mentioned above. Maybe 1/4 to 3/8 inch at 100 yards. The drastic noise increase more than cancelled the small accuracy improvement for them. They are utterly miserable to shoot next to. Maybe if you were a long range dog town visitor and did not shoot with friends they might be worth it to you. Instead of tuning the barrel to the load, most of us reloaders tune the load to the barrel the old fashioned way. It's an individual choice, but you won't be a popular guy on the line at the range. Rick

Hello and welcome to the board Terry. In Saul Kirsch's latest book: Thinking Practicial Shooting he has a nice section on how to shoot swingers. The book is more detailed of course, but he starts out with a stop watch and times the amount of time it takes for different parts of the process to engage. For instance many times an activator that is used is a steel popper. He will time from the popper being hit to when the swinger is first seen. Then from when it is first seen to when it reaches the bottom of it's travel arch and even how long it takes before it dissappears. With this info you can determine from your practice session par times (how long it usually takes you to do a certain tasks) what is your best course of fire. Do you have time to shoot the popper and then engage a paper target then engage the swinger etc. If it is a standard swinger, many times the shot is taken at the bottom of the travel arch. Some people fire one shot just before the bottom and one on the way back up. Your stop watch and your practice par times will let you know if this is within your skill level. Have fun and if you have a chance to practice with a swinger go for it. Rick