RandyLahey

Personally, I prefer the Gen 4's for the mag release and the grip even w/out the smaller/larger back strap to me feels better, in stock form anyway. I haven't messed with stippling. I have a G35 gen4 and a G22 Gen3. The recoil spring in the Gen4 seems much beefier as well. However, if you are going to mod up the grip with stippling etc... then you can just as easily add a Gen4 mag release button while your goofing about and then the Gen differences to me practically vanish. Recoil springs are cheap and they don't seem to be an issue with earlier gens. Moving forward though I'll buy Gen4's just to keep things more similar in parts/spares. I myself was back and forth on G34/35 but I got a decent deal on a police trade like new G35 with night sights and for me even in day light, I pickup the sights a lot better vs the factory glock sights which to me are just atrocious. My plan was to get a 9mm conversion barrel which I did. Haven't shot it yet as tbh the g35 shooting reload 40 is about like shooting a smaller gun with hot factory 9. So since I reload, I just prefer the 40 almost as for whatever reason I tend to shoot it a bit more accurately(mental thing I'm sure). Both are great, but the 35 u can get a conversion barrel to go to 9mm. The G34 you can't convert up to a 40. That's what sold, and the good deal on the police trade with NS.

My Glock 35 Gen4 seems to have developed a problem. It has bred with itself and ordered a G22 Guns are funny that way. My M&P9 did the same and bred a M&P40. Damm guns

Loving BE-86 here as well. Will be stocking up on more when I run through my final 7lbs

I had lead issues with bbi until I opened the bell more and reduced my crimp. I pulled a few bullets and you could see shaving of the coating. Opening the bell was most of the issue.

So a month or two ago Xtreme had a 124gr FP plated special. I ordered 3k(6 boxes) and they showed up maybe a week later. Took two boxes out, loaded them, no issues. Went to get more out of the box to load, and low and behold the remaining 4 boxes were RN not FP bullets. My FS M&P9 is markedly more accurate with FP vs RN; so I emailed Xtreme and within 30 minutes had 2 emails AND a phone call asking me how I wanted to handle this. They gave me a couple of options. Ironically, that same day, they had another special so I ordered 2k more bullets. They sent me via email a return label to send those RN bullets back, and will send me replacements for the returns I'm sending back with the current order I just put in. Was a painless process. Stuff happens, I get it. What really matters to me is how vendors "make it right". Xtreme is good in my books. Just sharing if it matters to anyone

I ordered the Lonewolf from Midway. Will have to see how my reloads chamber, but may have to pay the $25 reaming fee if they don't chamber well. Loving the gun mostly. The seller's description was not really accurate, but functionally, the gun seems to function well. Fired one mag in the back woods tonight, but the mosquitos got me bad so I bailed on more testing. Crazy how much tamer the 40SW is in a longer gun vs my M&P40 full size(4.24" barrel). Seems to me when I go from one size pistol to the next, say compact to full size, or full size to 5+", it's almost like it shoots like one size smaller caliber.

I just ordered my first glock. A police trade gen4 G35 with night sights. I've been wanting a 5" pistol and was going to get another M&P, but I decided to try the glock as I've shot a friends G34 and liked it. I love my M&P's, but feel that each gun offers pluses and minuses, and I want to play with a glock for a bit . Good excuse to get another gun right?? My concern with the M&P 5" was in my experience, the 9mm M&P's are very fussy with loads, and I had to dial and dial a load in for that gun. The stock triggers suck and need upgrading, which can induce some dependability issues if everything isn't just so. Anyway, what barrel would you recommend for converting to 9mm. I shoot a fair amount of 40, but for plinking 9mm is cheaper to reload for. I'm somewhat concerned though that match barrels will give me more fits. My Full size M&P9 eats everything I've fed it. Knock on wood, I've never had a round fail to chamber in many thousands of rounds of reloads. I run a standard Lee carbide resizing die btw. I hear about people having to resort to undersize dies, or push through sizing. I'm too lazy to push through size, but I could buy an undersize die if it comes to that. I may eventually shoot some competition with this gun if I'm comfortable enough with it. Plan to have my friend work the trigger on this gun after I get it and verify function. He did a good job with his. Other than that, no other mods planned for now. Maybe some stippling down the road. My M&P's have Apex poly triggers and FSS jobs, which have spoiled me a bit. That said, other than the takeup on the stock glock trigger, the stock trigger is pretty dam good, at least his was after he polished his a bit. Definitely workable as opposed to that pos stock M&P trigger.

I submitted a ? to them re: disk w/out the set screws. Will see what they say. That said, I may be doing the $1,000 upgrade for my Lee powder measure. Getting a Dillon 650 setup

ok thx all. I guess I don't care as long as a "regular" type die like the Lee U die or the EGW die can "fix" the bulge, but I don't want to have to get into push through sizing .

Wondering what your experiences are with newer Gen3 or 4 glocks are with bulging brass? I'm considering glock 35 and would probably buy the 9mm barrel as well for it. Since I reload though, I'm concerned with bulging brass.

would guess you may need a new recoil spring. May not be allowing it to fully lock back on last round? Just a guess!

Some of you may have read my posts dealing with my other presses(LnL and LLM). My LnL back from Hornady is now indexing correctly and I can load 40SW on it very well. However, I just put the .223/5.56 dies back in it last night and I was having a TON of priming issues with the brass I had(processed brass from Fast&Friendly). He's saying it's due to the LnL not centering the primer well enough, and the brass he makes is rather tight tolerances. He offered to re run the brass to open it up more in the primer pockets, but I thought I'd use this as the excuse I've been looking for to get a 650XL setup. I'll start with 5.56 on this press, keep my LnL on 40SW for now, and my LLM for 9mm as setup. Eventually, I would like to sell one of my other presses, or at least decommission one of them from loading duties and probably use it as a universal de-primer prior to wet tumbling. I will be using my current Lee and Hornady dies so no dies needed. So for certain this is what I want. 650XL with the casefeeder setup for 5.56(I know it doesn't come with dies) Dillon 1200T and the steel 5.56 die I will probably also strongly consider getting the conversion parts to move to 9mm. Do I need to buy a caliber conversion and the quick change kit in order to have a complete tool head ready to swap over? I thought I recall seeing somewhere a whole kit for about $150-160 or so, but through Dillon, Graf's etc... I cannot find it now. . What I don't know is what other parts should I be considering as spares, caliber changes, nice to have etc.... I was thinking the bearing upgrade and washer parts I hear about to help smooth indexing? Some spent primer mods. I have a pm from someone I'll need to reference, just bouncing ideas off of you all here!

yeah my bunny fart 40 loads are so easy to shoot, I was shocked it was still as accurate as the more powerful loads. I'll keep shooting the stock barrel for now, and the mid power green dot loads are pretty accurate for what they are, and probably good enough. I have 9lbs of the BE-86 and 9lbs of power pistol I picked up(haven't used that yet), so I'll probably just use the Green dot for the 40 reloads for now, and the BE-86 for my 9, and maybe load up the power pistol for the highest power factor loads I want to test, and store some SHTF ammo with the BE-86 and power pistol. I thought about getting a "better barrel" for the 9mm, but at $150 I'm not sure the economics make sense for me on that move. I could put that towards another 9mm gun, or more gear, bullets etc... Shoot the 40 more etc... . Good to have options now. Again, thx for the advice on the 124gr FP .

I was able to get to the range Thursday night and show a few hundred of the 124's with each Green Dot and BE-86 loads. Testing pretty much confirms my prior post. The 124gr FP are the ticket for my gun. With green dot powder I am getting acceptable accuracy for plinking loads. Holding 2-3" groups at 15 yards offhand. The BE-86 loads are quite a bit snappier, but hold very tight groups, and I can make a ragged hole about 1.5 or so CM in diameter offhand shooting; save for the occasional flier that is my fault. I feel I've gotten the accuracy I was looking for. Maybe not quite as accurate as my 40, but 98-99% as good, which is fine with me . Thx to all who helped etc...

Just a follow up. was at the range today and put 200 rounds of the BE-86 and 300 rounds of the green dot 124 gr flat points down range. The Green dot loads were easy to shoot, and fair accuracy. Better than any other load I've run through the gun so far. I could hold 2-2.5 inch groups at 15 yards. The BE-86 loads though were money. Able to put a ragged hole in paper about 1-1.5 inches in diameter at 15 yards. This is about as accurate as my M&P40, but that gun is accurate with about any load you give it. My M&P9 definitely needs it's ammo tuned for sure. Glad it's getting the accuracy though . Really liking the BE-86.