Chills1994

That is interesting. If I was you, I would weigh each of those bullets individually to make sure they are both 55 grainers. As far as BC goes, I wouldn’t know. I am in southern Illinois, and have never shot past 200 yards. If I was out somewhere where I could shoot to say 500 yards plus, I would spring for a Lab Radar. I think the Lab Radar’s software/app has the ability to calculate real world BC’s.

Yes….correct. Now, granted there are about a half dozen different ways to take a once fired .223 case or a Lake City 5.56 case and turn it back into a completely loaded round. There might be some threads still here where I griped about concentricity issues I had with pre-processed Lake City brass. I still haven’t exactly 100% determined the cause, but I have “back burner’ed” that processed brass. Instead I have resorted to or relied on using my own once fired XM193 or XM855 ammo that has been fired through my AR’s for the brass. In my opinion, one of the other ways I think…THINK…I have better concentricity now is that I have removed the decapping rod/expander ball from my full length resizing dies. I rely on a Redding neck bushing to get the neck tension just right. Or I use a Lyman M die to open the case neck. Soooo…that is a very long round about way of saying that I am NOT relying on a crimp die to keep the bullet from getting pushed deeper into the case. Rather I am relying on just neck tension. I will take the first 5 to 10 rounds that come off the press at the start of a reloading session, insert them into a mag, and hand rack them through the AR. I do this over the bed, so the rounds are easier to retrieve. Then I measure the COAL on each of those ejected rounds to make sure they haven’t setback. If everything checks out, then I will really go to town cranking the 650’s handle. I do the same with handgun rounds. The first one or two rounds off the press…I will try to shove the pointed end the round into my reloading bench’s top. Then I check the COAL again. It’s a very scientific technique. As a side note, I bought a case of Montana Gold 55 grain FMJ’s back in like 2007. I will have to look again, but I think they have cannelures. Their QC was horrible so the cannelures are at varying heights on the bullets. The jackets on the fat end of the bullets also either vary in length or the lead cores having varying lengths. So, also another reason why I gave up on trying to crimp the case mouth exactly dead nuts centered on the cannelure. Worst. Bullet. Ever.

A couple years back I did a test where I compared accuracy between 2 loads. I kept everything the same except one batch of 20 got the Lee Factory Crimp Die treatment. The other batch of 20 didn’t get FCD’ed. Turns out I had better accuracy with the batch that did NOT receive the FCD treatment. So since then, the Lee FCD has been removed or omitted from my .223 toolheads. so in my opinion, it really doesn’t matter where the case mouth ends up with respect to the cannelure (as long as the COAL = 2.250”) Neck tension gets dialed in with either a Lyman M die or a Redding Type S sizing die (no decapping rod/expander ball) with a neck bushing.

If this is for an AR15, then I seat everything, 55 grain FMJ’s, 69 grain SMK’s, or 77 grain SMK’s, out to 2.25” plus or minus. I reckon going out to 2.260” plus will start giving me issues getting them to fit into AR mags and/or getting them to feed reliably from a mag. I just so happen to have the 11th edition of Hornady’s manual close by. They call it a “55 gr. BTSP W/C”. Take another look at page 170 of the 11th edition. Top right of that page :

Danke!

Okay…I gotta ask… for you guys who are roll sizing .223 , .308 , and I guess even .300 Black Out, what do you gain by roll sizing bottle necked rifle brass? In other threads, guys have said they still have to full length resize since a CasePro only squishes like maybe the bottom third of the case.

Unfortunately, out of all the cops who I have seen show up to matches, maybe only two ever came back for a second (or third or fourth) match. They get spanked so hard at the first match their egos can’t take it.

Amen to that! As a side note, about 15 years ago, Ben used to post on the Beretta forum. At some point, he was in some police “academy” and posted about the range instructors there trying to teach tactics. You could sense Ben’s frustration with what they were trying to teach. Granted, my memory is a little foggy about it, but one could get the notion that the instructors were telling Ben to slow down.

I am about 31 minutes in and have another 45 minutes to go to finish that first video. I think I have heard enough. I have better things to do with my time. So I clicked on the video description. If you think of the run of the mill Joe Average cop as skilled with a gun…HA! Check your underlying premise. I ran into an old police chief and academy instructor at the range once. This was the late 1990’s. He told me back then that officer involved shooting stats showed that most encounters were from 3 to 5 seconds long, 3 to 5 shots were fired, at a distance of 3 to 5 yards. So what were those two dudes saying about the speed aspect of USPSA being bad?

The first video is an hour plus long. I just started watching it. The second video is 3 plus minutes long. If one were to think of various shooting competitions like they were flight simulators, for 40 years IPSC / USPSA has been the best “gunfight” simulator that most people can practice in or with just about every weekend of the year. Outside of some government funded shooting school, federal agent academy, or some high zoot civilian Hogan’s Alley range, there is nothing better than USPSA. There have been a few other start up organizations over the years, but they didn’t take off like USPSA did. Those two guys in the video are more than welcome to start up their own new shooting competition organization.

Wait? There are two hundred five thousand and some change USPSA members?

Whatever the size limit of the pics are here, I had to crop the original pic down at least once maybe twice to get under the size limit. But I wanted to make sure I got the price tag in the pic. anywhhhhoooo… I kinda lucked out in that an “old timer” at my gun club is selling off his stash of primers. $45 a brick for Winchesters. $50 a brick for the Remingtons. The gun club staff makes you sign in on a separate list. You can only buy one brick at a time. Then they make you wait two weeks before you can buy again. I should have taken a picture of that shelf full of primers. There were even 209 shotgun primers. I felt like a kid on Christmas morning.

My local Cabelas had primers last night : and some powder:

I made it to the range with these holsters as is . Umm, yeah. They were kinda high:

I looked up the BOSS. Maybe I just missed it, but what kind of material is the BOSS made out of… aluminum?

A local “mom and pop shop” made a kydex holster for me to fit this Beretta 92 Langdon model with a Steiner light/laser. It uses a BladeTech TekLok adapter on the back: Can I use an adapter like this : https://blade-tech.com/products/drop-and-offset-short to drop the holster lower? I noticed there is a T shaped impression inside the holster where three screws thread in. I put the holster on my 10+ year old CR Speed belt tonight. It dang near looks like the butt of the gun would be up in my armpit.

The various levels of government make more in taxes off a gallon of gas than what the oil companies see in profits.

If the primer situation doesn’t get any better, how much is either machine going to be worth? Better sell one or the other, or both now while the gettin’s good.

I have an old 2011 Open gun. It came with one mag…that ran. I ordered some more mag tubes and all the other accoutrements only to discover that SVI changed their mag tube dimensions. So if a TSO in .40 cal runs with factory mags that do not require tuning, I would jump all over that. On the flip side, I have been out of the loop for a while so MBX mags for 2011’s might be a game changer now.

If my memory is correct, was this the article about making reloads/handloads for their junior team? If so, IIRC, they were using two different Dillon presses to process/load the brass…. One was a 1050 and the other was a 650 .

For this next pic, just to be clear I have absolutely ZERO idea what kind of accuracy Palma matches require: I am in southern Illinois, still, and I have never shot anything beyond 200 yards. Rumor has it that Tubb actually weighs and sorts his primers. I’ll never be at that level. It has long been internet “lore” that the weak link for getting accuracy out of a Dillon progressive press is the Dillon powder measure itself. Especially with “long grain” extruded stick powders In the past year or three, I have weighed say 10 or 20 .223 cases, 10 to 20 Winchester small rifle primers, and 10 to 20 69gr SMK’s. Just to get an average for each. Then I have weighed each loaded round in my entire batch, but that was just to see if any completed rounds were light by say 20 to 25 grains of powder. Next time, I will have to actually record their completed weights ASSuming I sorted the cases by weight. The underlying premise being that any differences in loaded round weights would be caused by the inconsistent throws of the Dillon powder measure. I have the fluorescent light fixture grid. I just haven’t used it yet to sort brass by weight.

Since somebody mentioned G. David Tubb, probably over 10 years ago somebody uploaded his reloading video to YouTube. Way back then, I had the good sense to take a few screen shots off it.

Double tapp

Yep! I hear you. I have not tried that combination of mag and base pad you mentioned. I originally started shooting a Brig 96 with factory .40 WWB ammo for Steel Challenge. It would sling brass into the next county. Is there a recoil spring weight and/or main spring weight that you like? (To be edited in just a minute)