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Do you remember which head stamps had the least/most volume?
In my case, I removed the Blazer cases out of my collection and still do so, if I get some.
That's a shame because Blazer brass is good stuff!
Of course you are right!
They use a lot of material, what shows the quality.
If I could have Blazer only, I would go further on and won´t look back.
But over here, a .40 brass on the ground is like gold.
In fact I buy the most of them from a shooting range in the USA.
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I´m doing almost the same, like truborshooter.
10-round-groups at 25(m).
Every load twice, so I´m making 20 of every load I try.
Those who are promissing, are going to the next step.
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Do you remember which head stamps had the least/most volume?
Yes sir!
I´ve made a list, because I didn´t want to do this twice...
Beginning with the one with the least volume, ending with the most volume:
Blazer (least powder room)
Hornady
Winchester (silver ones)
Remington
Speer
FC12 (?)
HPR (?) (average volume)
S&B
WIN (brass)
PMC
G.F.L.
PPU
Fiocchi USA
When I was ready with weighing them, I thought a little bit about it afterwards and came to the conclusion, that if the outer measurements of the same caliber brass is the same, you don´t need no soap water.
Just weigh the empty brass, and the heaviest of them will have the least powder room and vice versa.
The more you weigh, the more precise will be your results.
In my case, I removed the Blazer cases out of my collection and still do so, if I get some.
P.S.:
I saw, that it has been almost 10% weight difference between the Blazer and the Fiocchi USA, not 15% like I wrote before.
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The 9mm Luger has a very small powder room, if your having a short throat (like CZs do f.e.) it´s even worse.
Every brand has it´s own measurements, some have thicker walls or bottoms and so on.
Me, liking the soft recoil of heavier bullets with faster powders (Attention with this!), I didn´t want to take to much risk with pressure variations.
Because the .40s are very rare over here, I have to use whatever I can get my hands on in this caliber, accepting that this will lead to a suboptimal precision.
But to be on the safe side, I´ve measured 5 of all headstamps I had (were about 12 or so).
I´ve weighted them all empty, then filled ´em up with soap water and weighted them again.
I had differences, from the lightest to the heaviest, from roundabout 15% weight / water volume, what seemed very much to me.
So I´ve sorted out all of the two heaviest brands and didn´t look back.
But with the 9mm having a even smaller powder room I don´t do that.
There I´m using only one brand and that´s it.
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Thank you for the Infos!
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OMG!
Yes, of course, I´ve meant .001".
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Is it just that, what kneelingatlas showed in post #2, some filing at the top?
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Is the CZ Accu Shadow still having the CZ factory barrel?
If so, fwiw, I´ve slugged three Shadow barrels now (mine and from two friends, for which I´m loading for).
All three factory Shadow barrels came out roundabout .3565" with very short chambers (conus).
I´m casting and coating my own and size them to slightly .358" (coming out .3578").
Accuracy of all three has increased.
If you are buying bullets, slug your barrels.
Don´t go under the slugged diameter with jacketed bullets and go .1" or more above, if you are using coated or plated bullets.
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Got 3 local folks here that all just swapped the barrel. No problems at all with the .40 extractor.
And no file work necessary?
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Just prior to seeing daylight.I would really love to do a grip reduction with mine, but am afraid of taking away to much.
So how do you guys know, when it is "enough"?
Seriously if you just take the cast Checkering down you still won't be anywhere near danger.
Well, yeah.
I think it would be a good idea to take that worthless checkering away and do some skateboard tape at the front and back.
Just because I´m not such an artist to do such a nice checkering like some here did.
Go for it Jay...you are Badisch...you can do anything.
Dang!
Well yes, Badisch through the godgiven grace of birth.
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Just prior to seeing daylight.I would really love to do a grip reduction with mine, but am afraid of taking away to much.
So how do you guys know, when it is "enough"?
Seriously if you just take the cast Checkering down you still won't be anywhere near danger.
Well, yeah.
I think it would be a good idea to take that worthless checkering away and do some skateboard tape at the front and back.
Just because I´m not such an artist to do such a nice checkering like some here did.
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I would really love to do a grip reduction with mine, but am afraid of taking away to much.
So how do you guys know, when it is "enough"?
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Thanks for the input guys, but holy-moly, 95 bucks for an underwear shirt seems a lot to me.
Well, I prefer zip shirts for the time "between" (spring and autumn) when it´s sometimes warm and sometimes colder, so you can open the zipper and roll the arms up or go warm, whatever you want.
But wearing plastics is not mine, so.
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Hey guys,
I´m looking for an upper body underwear for matches in spring and autumn.
I want to wear it under my club shirt and it should be not to warm, and want to wear a warm jacket above in my shooting breaks,
Like written above, I prefer cotton above polymer stuff.
To be as flexible as possible I´d like to have a turtle neck-collar with a zipper.
I´ve found some polymer shirts in this combination, but no cotton.
I someone using such shirts or knows where I can get some?
Info would be great.
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Read elsewhere, that the extractor might cause some probs.
Supposedly the extractor of the 40 slide will only grab the 9mm case just a little bit.
Anyone heard of issues about that?
Anyways I´ve ordered a 9mm barrel from CZUB and will see how that goes.
Viele Grüße!
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I see,
thank you guys!
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Hey everybody!
I have a TS in .40 S&W and wanted to ask, if it is possible to use it in 9mm Luger as well?
Do I just have to change the barrel or is doing some metall work needed?
I´m begging for infos,
Jay
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I always wondered what made people live in Buffalo, New York . . .
Well, I wouldn´t have asked, but so.
I always wondered what made people shoot a Sig....
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We have 4°C and an upcoming storm here in South-West-Germany.
But, hm, it´s round about midnight.
On the other hand, it normally should be 10 degrees or more colder than it is the last weeks.
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Thanks for that tip!
I will search something similar over here.
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The rod with the pointy tip that rides on the plastic case feed can also make some noise and wear into the case feeder as well. (the name escapes me)
It seems to me, that the plastics on the machine don´t like oil very much.
I´ve oiled the case inserter and it lost some material on its ramp...
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After 2.500 rounds?
Ok, I will check this.
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Hello everybody!
I have my 650 now since three months and have loaded roundabout 2.500 rounds with it.
Newly there is some noise from the case insert slide (black plastic), when it is in action.
It sounds like a silent grumble and it gets a little louder now.
Oiled everything at the machine with 0-W30, the plastic slide too, but the noise is still there.
What is it and how can I get that fixed?
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Oh-oh,
well, it´s a great thing to bring your wife to shoot, but if she´s going to perform better than you, there is a line in the sand....
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