Maximis228

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)

Next time, when constructing the stage, make it so fault lines do not touch walls. Then the shooter cant touch the walls at all while shooting or they receive a penalty per shot. We have similar issues at the indoor club I shoot with.

Always use red thread lock on frame mounts. Blue will fail overtime.

Sounds like your mag feed lips may be a bit tight on the front end. Try messing around with that and I bet it feeds better. Other option could be use to a higher ride mag catch so the mag sits higher in the grip, such as a Dawson Posi tec mag catch.

EGA - Dillon 1050 Press - Primer Hold-Down Die (evergladesammo.com) They arent spring loaded, but its better than nothing if you are having problems.

This whole thing is about having fun. Shoot what you like and f*#k anyone who says otherwise.

Using the RF 100 for a recent batch of 16,000 rounds, I had a total of 3 upside down primers. I would send it back to Dillon at this point to have them take a look. You might have some out of spec parts that no amount of tinkering will fix.

Sounds like the primer pockets might not be properly swaged if you are crushing primers randomly. As you crush primers, yellow cake begins to cover the primer system and causing more issues like not fully indexing. Also you may have bent the primer actuating arm near the end of you loading sessions, causing the primer slide to not slide back and forth fully. This can be caused from a dirty primer system. Essentially your crushed primer issue slowly created another problem with indexing of the primer slide itself. Take apart your primer system and clean it, if the primer actuating lever is bent, replace it or hammer back straight.

Your attempt to post bump isnt going to work. Might as well stop now.

Quality of parts. time fitting, coatings, slide cuts, but the largest is brand recognition. Like anything else.

Just do a Google search for "akia kkm" and see what comes up.

The 2011 MFG who is suing the barrel company was turning down barrels and sleeving them with a tungsten sleeve. This severely changed the integrity of the barrels. I would not put much stock in this lawsuit at all.