Maximis228

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.

Seeing a lot of shooters? Are you traveling well outside of Wisconsin to shoot PCSL matches? Only 2 clubs running matches in the Midwest (That im aware of) so far are in MN (Tim D.) and Indianapolis (Joey Z.). Killing off USPSA clubs before we even have active PSCL clubs seems like a really bad idea for shooting sports in general.

ALL coated projectiles will create more smoke with Titegroup. Some produce less but all of them will be significantly more than using a plated or jacket projectile.

Josh Stoos, the old USPSA Wisconsin Section Coordinator, started to talk about de-affiliating over the summer with many MDs around Wisconsin. He wanted to have a vote in December to have everyone de-affiliate all at once. Speaking to many MDs around the state myself it was obvious this was not what the entire state wanted. The outcome of the vote was posted on Facebook saying some of the clubs were de-affiliating and going with PSCL. Some were going to add PSCL to the mix, and others were going to stick with just USPSA. Josh has since stepped down at USPSA SC for Wisconsin and now Bill Hatfield has taken over. IMO it seemed to be a few with an axe to grind. I'm all for competition but forcing people out of a sport is pretty lame to me. Ive seem similar things happen at some clubs in SW Michigan and that resulted in killing all shooting sports at a club.

I only had 4 upside down primers (Using an RF 100) and 0 crushed over a recent batch 16K using mixed brass on a Dillon 1050 with a mark 7 aurodrive. I do pre process my brass via roll sizing, decap, swage, Dillon size, and u-size before I load. I see no value in separating primer insertion into its own step unless you are a low volume PRS shooter.... or a commercial reloader.

Not sure where you shoot but I'm seeing a lot of them locally. Both thumbrests and rackers. They don't really matter and are purely personal preference. The same guys who win matches are still winning said matches. Regardless of equipment.

An extra $1.50 per shooter per classifier. Its always about the money.

Something like this will stop that from happening. - Carrier Cap Retaining System for Super 1050 Presses – Level 10 Innovations L.L.C. (level-10-innovations.myshopify.com)