Jimlakeside

I set up my new Dillon 550 this weekend and ran my first load of 9mm. Reloaded 20 with no problem, went to the range checked them out, came back home and started relaoding in earnest. I loaded 160 rounds and 14 rounds didn't have a primer in them at all. All of the brass I had problems with were the Winchester White Box brass. I am using Wolf primers. I called Dillon this morning and got a recording saying that they were not available. I know the simple answer is not to use Winchester brass, but I have a ton of it. Any advice for a new reloader that hasn't learned how the machine works yet? Thanks, Jim

My wife and I are going. This will be our first major event to paticipate in. I am looking forward to it. Jim

Just staring to reload for a G34 and Kimber 9mm. My wife and I shoot IDPA almost exclusively. We have monthly matches and drill session every week all indoors. I have settled on my bullet (Precision Delta 125gr for my FMJ) and Kead (125 gr for lead bullets). Did I mentionI shoot almost exclusively indoors? I am planning on loading the Kead lead bullets the most for practice because they are inexpensive. I know the lube on the lead will smoke, so I am looking for a powder that doesn’t smoke very much. From reading on the forum, WST, Clay Tightgroup, and Power Pistol are all highly recommended, but some have high muzzle flash. What would you experienced reloaders recommend for indoor shooting (i.e. no smoke, low muzzle flash)? Thanks in advance for the help.

Will sevigny competition sights shoot high on a G17? If so how high? I installed the Sevigny competition sights on my G34. They don't shoot high and I love them. Jim

Please excuse my ignorance, but why does the type of bullet have anything to do with podwer smoking??? I am reading everything I can because I have got to start reloading soon. Thanks Jim

From the Classifier instructions in the rule book page 68 Draw, kneel, and fire 2 shots at each T1 - T3 from around either side of 55- gallon barrel. You must kneel. Sorry, I wasn't very clear. I am talking about string 2. String 3 clearly states that you must kneel.

A few of us guys and gals were practicing for the classifier last night at our local range. Stage 3, String 2 requires a shooter to draw and fire 2 shots from either side of the barricade and advance to position #5, fire 2 shots from around either side of a 55-gallon barrel. We were debating whether or not you had to kneel in order to shoot "around" the barrel. I can't think of any other way, but the description of the stage does not say anything about kneeling. I assume we are suppose to kneel - correct? Thanks for all the help on this forum.

After reading and rereading the rules regarding tactical reloads in stage 3 of the classifier couse, I am more confused than ever. Pg. 40 of the rule book states: "Failure to do the reload specified by the CoF will result in a three (3) second procedural penalty fo an FTDR." The Classifier specificially calls for a "TacticalLoad." Then, also on page 41, the rules state: "Tactical Reloads and Reloads with Retention are interchangeable." Qustion: When shooting stage 3 of the classifier do you draw a spare magazine prior to injection of the partial magazine from the gun as the definition of Relaod Tactical requires or can you drop the magazine first and properly stwo the magazine before drawing the relaod magazine? Thanks for the clarification.

Vulture Yes, exactly, an excellent reply. A little anxiety is helpful, but when we are full of anxiety that interferes with our shooting, then it becomes harmful. My point is that when you don’t know who you are, your only choice is to be overly concerned with what other people think of you creating harmful anxiety. Your description of yourself is of a person who has a solid sense of who he is and, therefore, is not concerned about being validated by other people. In my opinion, this is mental toughness.

Anxiety is a polite word for fear. You cannot be anxious unless you believe that you are going to be harmed. Anxiety is the perception that you are going to be harmed. You create your own anxiety when you have a reflected sense of self and you attempt to regulate your anxiety through how well you shoot. We create our own anxiety when our sense of self is dependent on what other people think of us. Anxiety is created when we base our sense of adequateness, competency, value and worth as a human on achieving and performing. We get anxious when we don’t perform well (and we feel bad about ourselves), then we attempt to regulate that anxiety by working harder so that we can achieve and perform better (creating an endless feedback loop). “We believe in a personal, unique and separate identity; but if we dare examine it, we find that this identity depends entirely on an endless collection of things to prop it up: our name, our ‘biography,’ our partners, family, home, job, friends, credit cards…It is on their fragile and transient support that we rely on for security. So when they are all taken away, will we have any idea of who we really are? Without our familiar props, we are faced with just ourselves, a person we do not know, an unnerving stranger with whom we have been living all the time but we never really wanted to meet. Isn’t that why we have tried to fill every moment of time with noise and activity, however boring or trivial, to ensure that we are never left in silence with this stranger on our own?” The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying. Soyal Rinpoche. Know thyself: Socrates