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Welcome!
Can't help but wonder, what's with the user name?
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On 6/7/2017 at 1:00 PM, IDescribe said:
Most people lean toward the faster powders for 9mm minor for the reduced recoil impulse. The most common ones from that faster tier that people use for 9mm minor are:
AA2700X
Bullseye
Titegroup
N320
W231/HP-38 (same powder)
Red Dot
700X is CHEAP too. Local store sells it for like $16.89 a pound. 8 pound kegs could probably be found at a hell of a deal if you shop around.
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Completely understand the desire for an economical but accurate and trouble free bullet to load. The coated bullets (though I have very limited actual experience with them yet) by all accounts are pretty good from good vendors like Blue Bullets, ACME, Bayou Bullets, et al. I have known several people who've had nothing but problems with cheap plated bullets like the Berry's though.
Look into Precision Delta. Nice, accurate, true jacketed bullets at a great price. Check them out. Order 2K of the same bullet and get free shipping. It's a pretty good deal for real jacketed bullets and several reloaders I know who use them love them and yeah they are cheap but good.
https://www.precisiondelta.com/
Comes out to 9mm 124 gr FMJ $88 per K shipped if you order 2K.
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On 6/25/2017 at 5:55 PM, Covfefe said:
Hi,
New member here!
Was doing well in IDPA....tried USPSA with predictable results
It didn't help that there were some GM's there but my footwork, transitions and strategy stunk up the place! 6 shot static IDPA stages are much easier!
Here to learn as much as I can to get to next level and that's any classification over D! Hopefully I can also contribute one day.
Ha! I hear you, brother! I actually prefer Steel Challenge. No running around on the clock, no running back and forth between every shooter pasting and resetting, etc. Stand and shoot. I'm old, fat, and slow and the summers are hella hot here.
Welcome to BE!
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Welcome. Where in south Ohio? I used to spend summers at my grandmother's around Minford (nowhere). Family all around there, Scioto and Jackson counties. Beautiful country and the greatest people.
ETA. NM saw your later post you are above Cincinnati. Not too far from there anyway.
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Agreed.
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9 minutes ago, MemphisMechanic said:
If I may make one suggestion: Don't ever pick up a gun again without looking at it. Eyes on the gun until you've got a solid safe grip.
It's also actually faster to pick it up with two hands. Get up underneath the rear sight with the weak hand and lift the gun off the table far enough to effortlessly and quickly assume a proper firing grip the first time you get your strong hand on the gun.
That makes a lot of sense. I was spending the whole match trying to concentrate on the first target. Many of the stages you couldn't see the first available targets from the start position so I'd stare of in front of me listening for the beep and was reminded by a couple other shooters to look at where I would be going/shooting. Of course it makes sense if you don't actually start with your gun in your holster, "first things first" is to get the gun in a good grip and go from there. Thanks!
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Better to have it and not need it.....
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Don't know if this is the right place but I am a "beginner", sort of. New here anyway. I've been a gun nut for decades. I shot some IDPA in the late 90's. Took a break and tried again in the mid 2000's and actually got semi-serious. Started out and shot the classifier made highish marksman. Got a membership at a local indoor range then and pretty much religiously went 2 to 3 nights a week after work to put a couple hundred rounds through my CZ-75 (pre-B) and shot a match or two a month for a couple years. Got to be a pretty good pistol shot somehow. Never went to shoot the classifier again but was shooting with the Expert class before tapering off again. Never got real fast but more often than not would shoot "least points down" at the local matches which would have several Experts and Masters shooting. My job started requiring more travel and more OT and somehow shooting fell by the wayside.
So 2017 comes around. I shoot 1911's now, and love them. Nothing can ever beat the feel of the CZ in my hands, it's like a literal extension of my hand. But the timer doesn't lie and with the super crisp trigger and short reset of the 1911 I am "faster" (of course with me you have to use the term "faster" loosely) than with any double/single action pistol. Anyway so I got hooked up with some old shooting buddies and we're shooting USPSA. Not classified yet. I also realize I am much fatter and slower and the past decade of neglecting my pistol shooting has degraded my abilities more than I would have thought. Also I have no problem admitting that even if I jumped in with the abilities I had 12 years ago USPSA is a different beast than IDPA was. I've shot 3 classifiers so far and all indicators point to a C classification.
I know if I work at it I can go up quite a ways in the next couple years. But I have a lot of work to do, so much time lost.
So if I can make this work here is some vid. Yes I know I am old and fat and slow. I have lost 15 pounds in the last year and will continue that direction. No I'm not going to start jogging every morning and doing yoga and eating all green stuff, (Haha, I'll be 48 in August, old, fat, have gout, bla,bla, blah...) but I WILL take baby steps one at a time to move closer towards being the young warrior I use to be compared to what I am now.
So here's a vid or two, I swear I was so much faster 12-15 years ago. That's how I remember it.
First string was classifier CM 06-07 Steely Speed IV, all steel, second string was three of those commie IPSC targets then two steel poppers. You can see I got to the first firing position and my trailing foot hit outside the box and I had to bring it back to start shooting:
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57 minutes ago, Weever82 said:
Oh thats horrible. lol
I do everything left handed/footed but my dad taught me to shoot rifles right handed because it's too much of a pain racking bolt actions and shooting AR's. My grandfather and pops are both left handed and shoot rifles left handed. Least they hooked me up. Ha!
Funny thing, you'd think shooting long guns from the wrong side would be a pain. My experience isn't so. Like I said my right side is my natural "strong side" even though my left side is more dextrous. Writing and eating left-handed, swinging a bat or kicking a ball right handed or footed. I really think it may be because one of the first rifles my dad handed me to shoot was a big 50 cal muzzle loader that probably had a 24-26 inch octagon barrel. Didn't kick bad but it was heavy, front heavy. I think I put my right (strong) arm out front to hold that big gun up and my left (more dextrous) trigger finger just worked out.
So all through my shooting life I picked up a long gun lefty and shot. Bolt actions, semis, shotguns, whatever. Long story short, years back, I found a lefty bolt action I was interested in, and asked the proprietor to hand it down. I shouldered it lefty, racked the bolt, and it was just... wrong, somehow. Didn't know why right away, so I did it a couple more times. It hit me. I could see how it could be more natural with practice to use it that way, but I was so use to being on the "wrong" side of the gun I always took just a half second to watch the round going in the chamber. Being on the "correct" side I missed that.
In carbine classes in recent years the instructors at a nearby class make quite a point of teaching to make the rifle ready and then turn it to do a visual "chamber check" before anything else. They repeatedly asked me when I failed to do so "how do you KNOW there's a round in the chamber?" I say "because I watched it go in when the bolt slammed forward! Remember, I'm on the wrong side of the rifle, I don't have to turn it over to see the ejection port." That was good enough for them.
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21 minutes ago, Focker said:
Looks like your gun is on the wrong side. Other than that looks good though.
I noticed that, too. My condolences...... JK.
I am even more of a freak than just being a lefty. I write and eat left handed, shoot a pistol right-handed, shoot long guns left-handed. Right side is strong side. ??? At least I don't have to deal with buying left-handed holsters. Long guns I shoot the right-handed ones fine from the "wrong" side of the gun.
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So I've shot two matches since putting the Dawson front on. Put a green fiber piece in it. Much nicer than the red. Marked the slide where the center of the original sight was and put the new one as close as I could eyeball it. Shoots pretty much dead on. It is a little easier/faster to find than the original fatter front site. And I do like the green dot. Doesn't help me move my fat ass from place to place any quicker though.
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Michigan pin shoot? Isn't that where they always had Second Chance?
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On 6/28/2017 at 0:32 PM, R1_Demon said:
LOL! You're worse than I am. I would be thinking something similar too. LOL! But unfortunately I don't have a spare room for my reloading, so I have to move my press from my kitchen (where I store it) to another room when I actually reload and then back again.
Sigh...some day I'll actually have either a garage to reload in or a basement or a spare room. One can hope. Anyway, enjoy!!!!
Yeah, that's where I've been my whole adult life. Now I'll have the luxury of some space just for reloading/gun stuff. I can't wait.
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OK. Working on finishing up the interior. Got it insulated and putting up paneling. What would be a cool name for the cave? "The powder keg", "The Foxhole"? The Bunker?
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15 hours ago, Wolfmetalfab said:
Where I am set up now, presses on the bench depend on what I'm messing with, tho I really just need to get a XL650 =)
What's that cool red machine? An antique?
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On 6/12/2017 at 10:33 AM, jhgtyre said:
This thread has a ton of options for setting up your bench. Some of the older posts (the thread started in 2003) have broken images but you can skip ahead a few pages to see relevant content.
That's what I'm talkin about. Thanks.
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So, I have my first Dillon machine. A new SDB from Dillon. Getting my man cave/reloading room set up. I passed on the strong mount. Looking for pics and advice on ideas for mounting to a bench.
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I got it. She put up a hell of a fight, though. The .100" post is noticeably thinner, but not a huge difference. I'll shoot it a time or three as is. I may still want to try .090".
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Came yesterday. Just checking, if I'm looking from the back of the slide like I'm shooting it, you drive the sight out to the left?
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Thanks for all the advice. I picked up a 5.11 1-3/4" "Trainer" at a shop on the way home. They had those and HSGI. Only difference I could tell besides the buckle was that huge D-ring, I don't see why I need that.
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11.5 pounds of W231 - $100
10,000 Tula small pistol primers -$100
10,000 Tula large pistol primers - $100
Hell yeaaah.....
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It didn't help that there were some GM's there but my footwork, transitions and strategy stunk up the place! 6 shot static IDPA stages are much easier!
Marking springs?
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Here we go:
http://www.taylor-tactical-supply.com/1911-recoil-springs-p/1911-recoil-spring.htm