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If I miss the first make up shot, I take a deep breath, get a perfect sight picture and squeeze off a shot. At that point I know the run is not very good anyway. It helps reinforce the fact that if I actually look at the sights and press the trigger properly I can hit every target. The first couple matches I shot it occurred to me that I would have probably scored better on a couple of the harder stages if I had just drawn to the stop plate and took the 12 seconds of penalties. Not much fun in that though. I'm still not very good at steel challenge but my scores have improved a lot over the ten monthly matches I've shot. In addition to my timed score I also keep up with round count as a personal measure of performance.

Use plastic backstrap as a mold pattern, cast new one out of linotype. Coat in epoxy to keep the lead off your hands.

You probably already know this but the little clip that holds the back straps together in the box has a clip to hold another pin. Took me a while to figure out that was what it was.

I'm a retired accountant. From looking at the 2007 form 990 it appears to me that USPSA paid about $76,000 for Steel Challenge.

I generally shoot left to right. I'm right handed and shoot with my right eye closed. Have wondered if I should try going right to left more.

Check Widener's.

The measure I use the most has a nalgene bottle for a hopper and powder doesn't seem to effect it at all. I leave powder in if I know I'm going to be using it again fairly soon. An old Lyman measure had a hopper that was highly reactive to powder. Would not leave powder in it.

I wouldn't sell anything that will work in any thing you reload for. Don't know if you have noticed but it's kind of hard to find powder lately.

How many do you have? Do you have a single stage press that you could take outside for long enough to do it? I really think you are no more likely to set one off pushing it out than you are pushing it in.

If it has to be fool proof, throw them in a river somewhere and forget about it.

Don't have a Dillon press but I would just de-prime them in my single stage press. They most likely wont go off and it's no big deal if it does. You might have another die that would work as a deprime only die without any sizing. For example, a .40 or .45 die for 9mm brass.

I haven't understood a word of the last several posts but my iMac continues to keep chugging along. : )

I think this guy has lost his mind. Anybody here want a digital gun? http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-03-31/the-man-bidding-to-buy-the-biggest-u-dot-s-dot-gun-maker-doesnt-own-one?campaign_id=yhoo

I don't see how you could make any sort of reasonable return on your time doing it for $20/1,000. I can see how it would be very price sensitive. A guy would just do it himself, or buy new commercial brass, if the price was too high.

I expect that a lot of it can be accounted for by the fact that many of us are buying components in higher volume, when we find it, that we would if we knew it would be on the shelf anytime. I managed to get an 8 lb jug of n133 this week. Have never bought rifle powder more than a pound at a time in 40 years of reloading. I think it will probably last 3-4 years so that is a good while that I don't have to worry about it.

I was trimming some once fired .223 brass with my Forster trimmer this afternoon and thinking what a hellish job it is. Remembered reading here recently about somebody that did or used to do brass prep for hire. It seems to me that for a fairly low investment a fellow could get set up to tumble, sort, remove primer crimp, trim, and size in volume. Basically do whatever to the brass that somebody wanted. Is this a service that would attract customers? Is the market already full of guys doing it that I don't know about? I truly am not trying to advertise, ya'll couldn't pay me enough to prep brass with my current arrangements. Just an idea that came to me. Anybody want to take it, feel free.

This is kind of off the wall but I've been seeing that Leverevolution powder regularly on the gunbot. Seems like it would work in the .308 cartridge.

After having a chance to work with these bullets some more I will say that I'm happy with them. They are not quite as accurate as the HAP but more accurate than the Hornady FMJ, out of my pistol. The full case price makes them very attractive.

I also like n340. Got a 4 lb jug from Powder Valley a couple months ago and was very happy. 4.8 grains with a 115 grain bullet is a good load.

The best thing I ever did to improve my shooting (or at least to make it more enjoyable) was to give up on trying to keep both eyes open. That and worrying about vision issues in general. My eyesight (poor as it is) isn't what is holding me back at this point.

I bought my first iMac a couple years ago. Will never go back. I unboxed the thing and started hooking it up. Assumed that I would have to get my wife to actually get it running. The only two things that caused me grief were finding the power cord (hidden in a cavity in the styrofoam packing) and the on button. Got past those two things and turned it on. It WORKED just like that, the thing worked. It has not stopped working since. Apple fanboy here.

FWIW, a Lee Safety scale requires a tool to operate it properly. This tool is made out of a paper clip with one end snipped off to leave a hook. Works a million times better than trying to manipulate it with your bare finger.

Shot five strings of this drill today for the first time. Average draw 1.97 Average raw 7.40 Average adjusted 7.90 I was 1.41 faster on the last string from the first. If I could knock just .50 off that draw it would be a big help in Steel Challenge. Edited to correct arithmetic.

Practicing with your competition gun makes sense but I was watching a Miculek video the other day and he said he liked to practice with as many different guns as possible. In particular guns that had heavier triggers, lesser optics etc.

Popped quite a few primers as a kid, beating them in with a hammer, using a Lee Loader. Still have ten fingers.