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  1. Anyone wear out a MBF powder funnel? Loaded thousands and thousands and thousands of coated bullets perfectly without any die or press adjustments, then all the sudden it started shaving the coating in the seating die. Went over the press, dies, cleaned, adjusted the flare a little bit. Still shaving it slightly. Noticed the small step on the funnel is no longer there. Ordered a new one to see if that’s the cause, curious if anyone has seen this with that funnel.

    650 mark7. Dillon size die, Redding comp seater die, Lee FCD.

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  2. I have rheostat setting at the lowest. My problem is once it gets over the hole it spins and spins then it’s a toss up if it went upside down or not.
     
    but, if you guys have another way to lower the setting a little bit more (less vibration I’m pretty sure there might be a big possibility of solving this issue I’m having) I feel the vibration is too strong even on the lowest setting 


    Yes! The problem is that there is too much vibration. Even at the lowest setting. Put primers in it and run it. Push on the lower black spring thing (push in, towards the blue metal base stand) that the tube goes into while it’s running. You will see that the primers slow down. I used zip ties to snug it in little by little, till I was satisfied. Also adjust the stabilizer plate snug against a primer so that the primers barely go through. One primer will not go through the plate, but you get 2 or 3 pushing against it, and they go through. What I see is, the primer that’s just falling down the tube, gets pushed by the line of primers and tips it, while falling in the tube, thus flipping it. If you can get space between each primer after the stabilizer plate the better.


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  3. Pistol braces are already not permitted besides the list of legal modification in appendix D4.
     
    We already have to rules about equipment and it’s up to the RO to check and see and not start if not in compliance.
     
    Just replying to your SBR example, even if shooter slapped a roni into pistol, I guess you’d be shooting for no score as the pistol would weight too much and braces are not allowed. 


    It was a funny comment in regard to Mikes reply about slapping an optic on a pistol after the start signal.

    An SBR is not a braced pistol. It’s a rifle. They are allowed provided its registered.


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  4. This is a big grey area in the rules that could easily be fixed, we have recent discussed it in various topics here.
     
    I think updating the rules to state that the shooter must be equipment/division compliant at the start signal, would be the best solution. I would make it across the board for everything. I would have it replace the rules making picking up a mag and stowing it in the wrong place for Prod, CO, SS. Gear locations and distances, heck I would not even care about mag capacity (if the shooter wants to load up a mag on the clock in production more power to them)  about the only thing I could see being a issue after the beep is if somehow someone figures out how to make a quick attach optical sight, and that would be easy enough to make a no go with some careful wording in the rule. 


    *production shooter*
    Standby>BEEP> slaps his Glock into a Roni SBR. Squirts bullets everywhere.


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  5.  
    Then let’s all assume that it borrows from the 1050’s sliding powder bar system, and not the 550’s.
     
    I loved that upgrade when moving from the 650 to the 1050: it always works, you have actual control over seating depth, and it doesn’t spit out primers when a case is absent.



    While I’ve never used a 1050. I see primer system problems all over the Internet discussions.


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  6. I still get a few flipped primers, haven’t been able to get it 100%. I’ve tried mousepads, angling it all different directions, perfectly straight and plumb, tried all kinds of stuff. What’s worked best for me is, I wrapped a zip tie around the base of the unit around the black spring thing, and kept tightening the zip tie while it’s running to slow the primers down. It has a rheostat but it’s still too fast imo. Also adjust the stabilizer plate to where primers just barely go in. It usually takes a line of primers to push them through the plate, if there’s one or two primers only, they won’t go through. That also slows them down after the stabilizer plate, they have to work a little bit to get through, and it spaces them out a little. I’ve thought about getting a short extension cord and adding another rheostat to that, to slow them down a scoshe more. I feel that’s the problem. They just go too fast after the stabilizer plate, the line of primers pushes the primer that’s trying to go down the hole and it flips it.


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  7. I found out which boring bar that honey badger uses and bought one from somewhere else. Cheapest I found it was 90 bucks. And you have to cut it down to length. I don’t know anything about machining, so I didn’t know how to read or measure inserts, so I bought one of honey badgers for 20$. So all in all it wasn’t a whole lot cheaper. Inserts are like 5$ elsewhere if you know what one you need. The boring bar does make better cut, no real chamfering though. I use an M die to flare the neck, and that will remove the inside burr, and a Lee FCD will remove the outside burr. So not really an issue IMO. My biggest issue was the mass amount of brass shavings clogging up the trimming die, vacuum manifold, and vacuum hose. The boring bar has a chip breaker so the shavings are smaller, I also plumbed in PVC pipe instead of vacuum hose. Seems to work great now. This is on a mark 7 650 so the feed rate is probably higher than manual press, but I would think that the shavings could still be an issue. They would actually clog up the trim die and the router would pull to much juice and trip the 15 amp circuit breaker.


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  8. If I’m flying, they go in the 100 round boxes. Any other time, they’re in ammo cans and buckets. I always have an ammo can full, ready to go, in my conveyance. Local match, I grab a few handfuls and dump em in a pouch, stick it in the range bag. Practice session, straight outta the ammo can. I don’t case gauge ever. Sold the Hundo.

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  9. What’s the call as an RO if a shooters belt partially falls off during a stage? Couldn’t find anything in the rules that specifically states this. Had a few people say he should get a re shoot, including a certified RO, I caught some slack for not stopping the shooter. I don’t see it as grounds for re shoot. Same as if any other piece of a shooters equipment fails, ie; gun or mags.

     

     

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  10. I have not heard of this before,  can I ask why you are doing this?


    I made a simple “sensor” to detect if the primer wheel is not rotating. It beeps every time the wheel indexes. Works well, but could use a little refinement, it blocks the live primer chute partially.

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  11. Thanks for the input.  I've been wanting to try a light bullet for 40 minor but I didn't know if it would feed since the round will be short over all length.  Since you are shooting it out of an SVI, I hope it will also feed out of my STI.


    I loaded these to 1.120” they fed fine also in my STI edge. I’m using the Acme coated 140s. And I think they may still be a little long for the bullet profile as they tend to stick slightly when ejecting the rounds by hand. Next time I’ll go deeper. I was kinda rushed when making these for a steel match.
    My biggest problem is getting them to feed through the mr bulletfeeder. It takes some super fine tuning to get them to flip, and then they like to drop into the output tube sideways and jam the whole thing up. [emoji849]


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