Maximis228

Thats true. Most use some sort of liquid chalk which is just chalk mixed with isopropyl alcohol. Very easy to make on your own if you want to. We also do have a few guys who use bulk chalk in a bag locally. Given the number of cops you will most likely shoot with... expect jokes like "Did you take that bag out of the evidence locker?" The guys who tend to win the matches have the most on their hands. Not always... but there is a strong correlation. Watching them try to clean off 10-12 layers of chalk and dirt at the end of the day is also comical.

Local matches you wont see it a lot (Depending on the group/area you shoot in). But at majors it seems like 80+% of the match will be using chalk. Its very common.

I only clean my mags if I'm on a very sandy/dusty range. Or right before a major. Thats it. Given im in the Midwest, im not cleaning all that much.

Return to 0 is a combo of the gun, recoil spring, your load, and your grip. Any combo you can think of can have a perfect return to 0. I suggest shooting as many different set ups that you can. See what you like and then place an order with someone. Ask around at your local matches. Dudes love to show off their stuff and talk endlessly about why they built it the way they did. Take advantage of that knowledge and apply it to what you want to do. No one can tell you the best set up. This is all personal preference.

Ive shot every length imaginable. Ive done a ton of R&D with builds over the last decade with Don at Venom Custom. 4.6 is the rage right now due to it being unique and different. In another 2-3 years the builds will be different again. 2011s tend to go in cycles. Right now, short and fat is in. In a few years long and light might be popular. Im currently building a 5 inch hybrid barrel LO gun with Venom. The gun will weigh close to 60 OZ empty with brass magwell, tungsten guiderod and XWF cheely frame. Im also a very big guy with bear claws for hands. The heavier gun doesnt slow down my transitions like it might for others.

Tungsten sleeve barrels are a bad idea. They reduce the life of the barrel itself while also increasing the chance of a catastrophic failure. Not to mention it severely limits who will build the gun (Only 2 builders I know offering this still). Sight blocks or Hybrid barrels can accomplish the same feel for significantly less hassle/cost. 2011s mechanically cycle at .06 . Doesn't matter if you have a 3 inch slide or a 6 inch slide, You will not be able to outrun the gun. Ive got limited optics guns ranging from 56 oz Empty down to 34 OZs Empty. My grip needs to change slightly to have them track the same. Ultimately it doesn't matter. Just build what you like at the end of the day. No matter what you do, you wont get your LO gun to feel like an open gun. Im primarily an open shooter. The PF alone will never allow them to feel the same. 115 projectiles will make it feel "Snappier" but it wont even be close to 165+ PF Ammo feel.

The cheaper the bullets... the larger variance you will run into. This isn't always true, but it sure does correlate. I've found blues to be the worst in weight variance, and it did not matter at all assuming you weren't going for 126 PF.

Ralph was an amazing man. I was lucky enough to have shot. He will be missed by many.

The bulk of my sorting for 9mm is done when adding brass to the case feeder on my rollsizers. I use a 40 cal ammo tray with visually sort 9mm for issues. This gets the random 380s, 38 s/c, and other random debris/misc calibers.

That’s literally it. Aesthetics. The dry tumble is plenty.

1-3% is far more common than most think. Just ask around at your next match.

B Team Engineering makes one. I dont love the slow output of it. The speed seems to be matched to his auto drive that he also makes. No website. Order thru his PMs. At a minimum its awesome to watch him R&D new equipment at a very rapid pace.

Im usually waiting on the press to fill a bucket to gauge while I dry fire. Then take a break to case gauge and then back to dry fire as the bucket fills.

The Midwest (Area 3 and 5) is imploding right now. Clubs de-affiliating left and right. Major matches being scrapped. Its not looking great right now.

Using a hundo case gauge as I load.

Thank you sir. But im always looking to improve even more.

As pricing of projectiles/powder/primers goes up we all look at our failed round bins with more agony. This has caused me to look for ways to reduce my overall waste when reloading over the past decade. I used to get a 2-4% failure rate when I first started reloading. I didn't have my process down and I would just buy whatever was cheap at the time (circa 2014). As time went on I invested in additional equipment to help with processing brass and creating higher quality ammo. Went from single stage --> Dillon 650 --> Dillon 1050 --> Mark 7 Automated 1050 --> Mutli automated set ups. Along the way I picked up a case pro 100 that was automated. Quickly I outgrew that unit once the Australian Rollsizers became available. Add the cement mixer to clean brass by the 5-gallon bucket and I have created myself a small commercial manufacture for 1. I tend to bulk load in the winter months while processing brass during the shooting season. I have compiled the last 3 bulk loading session results into the table below. I have also detailed my current process below. Current Process: Dry tumble brass by the 5 gallon bucket in cobalt plastic tub cement mixer. Hand sort brass with 100 round flip tray as I add to Rollsizers. Process brass on automate 1050 (FW Arms Decap, FW Arms hold down on swage, Dillon die without stem, U Die without stem) Wet clean brass. Load ammo. Im always looking to improve and curious what others are doing to get even better results with mixed range brass.

I would just sell that steel grip and go buy an aluminum one.

Brass and projectiles can have larger variances alone than what you mentioned above. Depending on your projectile of choice, you may see a larger variation. Are you continually drifting in one direction? That could show that a die is moving on you. I would witness mark your dies and lock rings with the toolhead with a paint pen. My current 9 major ammo I'm loading has an OAL range of 1.164 - 1.170. No issues at all with that spread.

MBX sells a recoil kit that they use in their builds. the JP5 system is unique to that specific gun. There are some roller delay systems out there but IDK anyone personally who has tried one yet. Brekke uses the short stroke buffer system with a 308 flatwire spring. They have all the parts listed on their website and you could try to buy them elsewhere.

Same thing I hear people who advocate to weight rounds 1 by 1 to find squibs... Its not worth the risk (Or decreased performance) IMO.

I hope this is a joke. Use it as fertilizer... get a long fuse/empty field and watch her blow ... create a line on your driveway and light it up.... anything but trying to separate powder after this mistake.

I built 2 brekke PPCs using their barrels/comps and buying the parts myself for around $1500 all in for each. Easy adult Lego build if you want to go that route. (ETA this was 2-3 years ago for pricing).

What is the difference in turn out for those matches VS when they were USPSA?

Prawls are damaged when the press tries to force the indexing. Most of the time its one of 3 things... 1 - Case exiting the shell plate is getting hung up on the ejector tab. 2 - Case entering the shell plate gets hung up. 3 - Messed up primer on insertion dragging on the frame. Usually, it takes quite a few of each of these to really damage a prawl. For what its worst... most of my prawls look worse than what you have shown above and I don't get spillage loading 9 major at 1800/hr. Something else might be a little messed up internally with your indexing system.