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You will definitely want to sort by caliber FIRST, then "tumble" or vibrate in media - most common is corncob which is typically cheapest, walnut is a bit more aggressive. If you clean mixed caliber brass together, many will wedge inside each other and be time consuming to separate, and need to be cleaned again. I use the large vibratory bowl machine sold by Harbor Freight Tools to do a couple thousand at a time with corncob.

Keep in mind that what you're watching is television entertainment. Just because it looks like they are distilling moonshine doesn't mean that's what they are actually doing. They may be instructing you how to do it, but that doesn't mean it is what it LOOKS LIKE. The producers craft what they want you to see and hear, and are well acquainted where the legal lines are. I'm not an LEO or Lawyer, but I've worked in television.

Unofficial or not, I don't think anyone has worked out fair weighting factors for combining divisions. I've seen some combined results that were positively misleading. I would vote against any combining divisions. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ We post to our own site, and not to USPSA because our site allows us to post all results that EZW will generate.... ... Even at 50-60 shooters a month, sometimes my best friends/closest competitors wind up in a different division. Since they are my yardstick, I need to look to the combined results to see how we're all doing against each other.... There is demand at this level of the game for that. The results are of course unofficial, and are clearly stamped as such....

I have both the RRA and the Geiselle Super 3 Gun - both were easy drop-ins. The RRA is a big improvement over the stock AR unit, but the Geiselle S3G is much nicer.

Robert, You probably know them already, but if you don't - Shooters Connection is just North of Lexington - helpful folks with a dealer forum here. They specialize in our sport.

Save it for the 4th of July ...

In a recent sectional match, I shot about 68% Alpha hits. After the fact, my coach said "you need to shoot more "A"s. Having mentioned that, I really do think that the "90% of the points" rule-of-thumb is a pretty good indicator whether or not you're shooting too fast / slow. If you're shooting major caliber that would be 50% Alpha, 50% B/C, with zero mikes. Mikes really hurt, so try to keep those pretty close to zero.

During my first few years shooting USPSA stages, one of my favorite errors was to forget targets that were hard to notice, somewhat hidden, etc. Blew right past them and suffered with FTE penalties. I'm mostly cured of it now, but I see lots of newer shooters doing it, particularly when they get excited or something produces a hitch during execution of their stage plan. I found the best treatment is to plan as many have already discussed in this thread, but also to clearly identify the targets which are easy to "blow by" and really burn those and the visualized sight pictures into your brain = if you forget all else, remember those targets. And you'll see and intuitively shoot all the rest.

I'm certainly no rifle expert, but for my build, which shortened a rifle-length gas system 24" barrel down to 18.5", the gas port was .110 and on my JP gas block, I had to open it 5 turns before it started locking open with standard 55 grain rounds.

Hi Rob, keep of the dedicated work! "1","A41275","Fred" or no quotes ? or either way ? Tabs, of course aren't visible in many editors ... Also - what about incomplete fields like country or phone ...

Draw time = Beep to first shot Par time = Preset maximum time allowed Split time = time between shots in a two-shot pair

Recluses are common here in Kentucky - they like dark areas. One really common bite is on the foot or ankle - people leave shoes or boots in the garage, the little brown spider sets up housekeeping there, person puts foot in boot - and only sometimes notices the actual bite until it starts swelling. I know two people who did this. The bites can be nasty.

My problem was that I would set the screw for 4.7 of V320, load several hundred rounds, re-check it, and find it at 4.85, or even 4.9. These numbers were from a 7 or 10 drop sample, dividing the measured weight by that number - on my electronic scale that was up to temperature and checked using a standard weight. Rarely I would see some charge reduction too. I was spending entirely too much time resetting the screw and weighing samples. I'd like to run about 170-175 power factor, not 170 to 180+ Other than this frustration, I love my two 550b's. I should also mention that using the supplied adjustable bar works great for 25 grains of H335 - very stable. So far, the permanent cavity bar is working well. Over a week and every averaged sample set has come up 4.7 + - .01 This is significantly better. Today the load chrono'd 172 with precision 185s at 1.180". After 16 pounds more of this V320 batch, my next batch may require another hole cut in one of my blanks I've made up. As far as throw-to-throw variance goes, my scale can't measure one 4.7 grain drop very well, so I don't know.

That's why I'll have several bars a few thou bigger and smaller. But, it's not for everybody. I have a CNC mill 10 feet from my reloading station so adjustment isn't too bad ... Right, that was my first thought. After loading and chronographing a bazillion rounds with hundreds of different lots of the same powder I determined that - to reach your target velocity - weight was more important than volume. be

Perhaps there is a bit of lemming in all of us.

I've always had trouble keeping the drop stable using 4.7g V320 for .40 I tried the Uniquetek, and then tried setscrews, (which caused the bar to bow)and finally have achieved ultimate stability. Picture below. It does not drift!

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Edited accidental duplicate post.

My sources tell me Para has abandoned the coil-spring based extractor and is now shipping new guns with conventional style one-piece units manufactured by EGW.

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Link to stages I think the reasoning behind the optional rifle/pistol format is to attract non-shotgun folks to the game.

At my CRO class, I was told to score what you see. If you suspect but cannot be sure of something, you give the shooter the benefit of the doubt, instead of going the other way. And you cannot always be sure of everything ... target hit forensics can help, but are not always definitive in determining if the round passed through or simply rubbed a blue barrel. And there are always close-to-the-line hits that require judgment, even with an overlay. As hard as we try, it's not all black-and-white. Is this not the correct approach? If there is doubt, are we to zing the shooter by default? There is no such thing as "give the benefit of the doubt to the shooter". You score what is on the target.

I'm curious - do you see the effects of backlash? That is, the need to approach the micrometer setting number from the same direction for each adjustment? Or do you twist back and forth? I'm looking for a 7 sample average to be consistently 4.70 + - .04 or as it weighs - 32.90 + - 0.28 ... Maybe this is unrealistic? It may also be that this small quantity of V320 doesn't meter well due to the size of the granules. I get much better consistency and easier setting using H335 for .223

I added a Unique Tek micrometer to my 550b. It is an improvement, but when I use V320 for .40 ( 4.70g ) I do not have sufficient repeatability to just reset the micrometer to logged settings - I takes me about 30 minutes of trial & error to reset it, using a 7 drop average. I don't know if they've changed it for the current model, but mine had the mic body just glued into the slider bar. I flatted one side and added a setscrew. That stabilized it.

1. I can usually see bullets going through a barrel - but it's a good idea to keep the area close to the target taped to make it easy to tell. 2. If I'm not sure they went through the barrel, I give the benefit of the doubt to the shooter. Grease rings are helpful but not definitive.