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That's the gun I remember. I sure would like to see some pics to try it on my 9mm Eagle. I tried to get in touch with Venry a couple of months ago, but I have not had any luck.

See, that is my kind of Southern Thanksgiving. I cranked up the smoker first thing this morning.

I remember seeing a gun from Matt I think that looked like a long dust cover with a round top slide, but weighed in like a lightened slide gun. I have searched the forums and can not find any pictures of the internal milling that was done. So, lets see some guns that went on a diet, but you can not tell from the outside.

Damn shame, the shooting weather here is great.

So, you moving up there to stay?

Wow comcast IS the same everywhere. That's why I'm on my second year of Dish Network.

This and the fact that the 3 kids are still growing are the reasons I am looking for a clean 2004/2005 diesel excursion. I want something that 4 adults can take to a 3 gun match in comfort. Oh, and take the family on vacations in.

Wish I had seen this before. I had the exact same issue, did the exact same thing, tore it all apart etc. I talked to RCBS support and then directly to an engineer. They are testing 100% of the units for correct function before they package them, so as much as it looks like the clearance is all wrong, it's not. I did not believe this at first either. What is happening is the aluminum plate is not securly held in place for shipping and it's shifting in transit. I advised them to hold the plate in place with foam for shipping, hopefully they are doing this now. The aluminum plate sits on/in a Delrin bowl with a very tight clearance. Delrin is self lubricating so this should be a very good, long term setup. We used Delrin to make suspension bushings for our race cars, good stuff, lasts forever. Once the plate is sitting properly you will find it spins freely and that little motor is more than enough to turn 200 bullets. The motor shaft has a flat and a tensioning allen head screw is in the gear, I missed this at first and thought I stripped the shaft or gear when mine bound up out of the box. Easy to correct. Getting the plate in with the belt properly lined up is not easy, be patient. The belt does not need to be very tight, just enough to grip the teeth in the belt. Lead semi-wadcutters will feed incorrectly since the feeder aligns the bullets on the flat base. Semi-wadcutter have two flats, the base and the paper cutting edge on the front, this lines the bullets up backwards and forwards at random. Boat tails will not feed at all, they slip off since there is no flat. Standard flat base FMJ / JHP work just fine. Lead bullets with a smooth, FMJ like profile and a flat base work fine, but get the feeder dirty. I'll do some video one of these days. Thanks, armed with this info, I attacked the feeder again. It is running fine now.

Kend on here does and won the HOA at the FL section this year with it. He uses his M&P 9l with taylor basepads and a magwell.

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I'm not so sure about this test either. I was told by a couple of local smiths that this is a bad thing to do and not a good test for a competition gun. I know my Fat Free would not pass this test, but ran like you would not believe. I think Benny knows how to do a trigger also.

I just weighed my factory STI eagle in 9mm with a bushing barrel, tri-topped, polymer grip, and SV magwell. It weighs 1 oz more than my sight tracker. I am no more worried about the slot cut in the barrel than any other gun I have to carry. I don't buy the carry ammo/comp ammo difference either. I use the 165 grain Gold Dot JHP s a baseline for testing ammo. It makes a 168-170 PF in all of my 5 inch guns and shoots to the same POA as my 180 JHP/ N320 load. That same gold dot ammo is carried by several LEO agencies. I was given a tip to use some silicone caulk as a shock absorber to help prevent breakage in a Bomar style adjustable sight. I have not had one break since. Just like anything else what is perfect for you might not be perfect for anyone else.

I say use a lightened sight tracker barrel and the STI aluminum grip. Then you don't have any holes in the slide. Then it is exactly the gun I have from Matt. It weighs 36 oz empty with an SV magwell. The trigger is probably too light for a carry gun, but that can be fixed.

Man, wasn't it a beautiful weekend down your way?! We came down Sunday for the steel match and it was great.

Really? Wow I guess is all I can say to that.

I was thinking that the time it takes me to reload was not worth it, until I checked the price of the AAA ammo. I shoot just over 10K rounds a year. I decided that for the cost of the factory stuff I would get a 1050, P/W auto drive, Mr. Bullet feeder, and a bunch of primer tubes. I can load 1200 rounds per hour without much trouble. In about 10 hours I can have a years worth of ammo loaded. Then another 2-3 hours for the calibers I just fiddle around with here and there. I have those hours set aside for my up comming Christmas Vacation( 4 days of getting up early while everyone else sleeps in). I'll clean and cover the 1050 and wait until next year for the next go around. I am liking this plan much better than loading the night before a match, or even the morning of the match.

The title almost made me hurl my lunch + 1 to singlestacks reply

I loaded 2K rounds only stopping every 100 to add primers, and powder/brass/bullets every 300 rounds. I don't know what typical will work out to be, but I thought it was amazing. I would have 1 every couple of hundred, before the bullet feeder, that I would not get the bullet set on the case right and crush the case. Since the feeder, no stopages yet.

That is why I went on and got one. Loading 1K rounds would kill my elbow. Now I can do a years worth for one caliber a week with no elbow issues.

That is my (almost) exact set-up for the same 9mm. I had an issue with mixed brass that was not cleaned very well. I ran the brass back through my tumbler and tried again with out any issues. That is with Fed primers, EGW U die( not FCD sorry) and mixed brass. I ran 2K in one setting early last week with out any issues at all. It did take me a little while to get the clutch and arm adjusted just right on the auto drive first. Now that is is set, I can change out tool heads and conversion kits and run whatever I want to. ( 9mm major, 9mm minor, 95 grain 9mm steel loads, 40 major and minor, .223, 45 ACP and .308) This set-up is great.

Sorry, that would be the 7.8 of HS-6 at 1.10 OAL

I tried this load in my Gans open gun and it ran great. I was really impressed with the accuracy of this round. At 25 yards I could get 2 rounds out of 3 touching, rested from a table. I might back down from the 7.8 gr, they seemed kind of hot still, I'll chrono next time. I'm waiting on new screens. Never try to chrono and zero a new sight in at the same time to save time.

Kenny at speed shooter specialties has a cut down version of their big magwell that I believe fits the box.

Eric, I started off liking the 124/125 JHP, then I liked the 121IFP the best, but now I seem to like the 115JHP with some HS-6 the best. It works the comp great and seems to shoot much flatter than my other loads. This is out of both of my 5 inch guns one with a KKM barrel and the other a storm lake.