MikeyScuba

My wife puts a piece of paper on top of the battery.

Simple hammer style puller. The trick is not to whack so hard the bullet bounces back and hits the brass.

The everyman’s round? Lol

While I’m no expert, I do see a lot more 9mm major shooters up here than 38sc.

Thing is though most of my cracked cases split after the powder funnel expansion station. I sometimes can feel the sudden loss of pressure on my 650 handle when a case gives up the ghost

You are forgetting DAA .40 929 moons. We’ve got 100, well 98 now. At 1/3 the cost of TK but without the laser engraving. Don’t get me wrong I like the tk ones (Ely gave me a pack at cost) but I’ve had rounds fall out of them. The DAA work with Blazer, FC and WIN (provided they are not nickel). I did pick up a free pack as a table prize at the irc from..... not sure brand....they stick like mad to the magnetic posts but I can bend them in half. They sit in a drawer.

I’d go for the shadow 2 or even just a cz75. Personally I shoot standard so I have an STI in 40sw, but to start out a CZ means not having to upgrade later. The production guys I know either shoot a s2 or a 75. My wife shoots a s2 with an optic in production optics. It’s out for slide milling at the moment (and her backup s2 too). IPSC can get rather addicting with guns, gear and reloading.

Eager beaver! We only got our bb to use the action ranges at our club. usually the course instructor will want you to have shot a minimum of 1000 rounds through your gun first but more is better right now stick to safety drawing, loading a stripper round, releasing and loading a full mag, engage satety and holstering with finger on the slide ALWAYS ALWAYS you can dryfire but you need to make sure it’s done safely so you pass the bb course and don’t get dq’d not to diminish your purchase but I have only see p320’s for sale on the IPSC Ontario site, not in an actual match. A CZ75 variant is what the production shooters shoot. But the p320 will work fine for now.

Your body can’t tell the difference between lead and calcium. It’s when lead gets used for neurons in the brain instead of calcium that causes problems for young growing bodies. And just slowly f**s up the rest of us. i take a multi mineral supplement as too much calcium can be a problem as well. I use one in caps, the horse pill pressed tablets sometimes don’t dissolve. I use bone up by jarrow.

Don’t forget to run a patch with brake clean down the primer tube every now and then. It gets dirty fast with the “dirt” being priming compound. I’ve recently got a few sideways fspp lately and no bang. the only 2 I’ve set off in my 650 off are were fiocchi non-toxic primers

Our loads shot up to 132 from 126 in the heat of the Nevada desert. It was 105f and a few thousand feet higher than home, no zero humidity. No match’s coming up that way anytime soon but I wouldn’t risk special loads for desert conditions, but it’s tempting, lol.

In our revo’s at the IRC in Mesquite in NV we got 131-132 in 105f heat and it was a few thousand feet higher elevation. Normally we are at ~126 and were a few weeks later in PA 50f 2.7g n320 160gr bayou

Not 100% but 2.65gr N320 GM200 primer @1.185oal in a 9mm case. Reason I’m not sure I can’t get my scale to consistently sit, I keep meaning to bring the better one but it’s a .1 deviation and the chrono is giving the right numbers so everything is set from here on in. I use the federal spp magnum primers as they are a few $ cheaper. btw did u find our leftover rounds by the club entrance after the irc? We were at our ammo limit to fly home. Those though were 160 bayous. Ibejheads sponsors a few ICORE matches we’ve been too. Made sure Alex knew we were thankful for it.

We switched to the Ibejheads 165gr in .358. After our last 2 IPSC matches the ro’s kept mentioning how quite our 929’s are. They make ~125pf and shoot flat, it’s like a BB gun. Hard to believe 5gr can make that much of a difference? I stocked up on 52k of various 40s, 9mm and the 165gr .358’s. Got 15%off for 50k+, I’ll have to double check my math but I’m saving 1 or 2 cents per round compared to the 160gr bayous bought on Black Friday.

I case gauge match ammo, cracked cases don’t pass and running your fingers over finds high primers and upside primers are easy to spot. I used to gauge everything as a newbie, after a while you simply get fed up with the extra work.

Who hoo! Perfect time of the year too. Beautiful country. And not having to fly -awesome!

No but the RO did comment how quiet my gun was. I've noticed quite a bit of difference between the Bayou 160gr and Ibejheads 165gr. I could run them through the chrono but to be honest I don't feel the need. I'll pull a bullet and take pics

Yes, at a classifier. With the 165gr .358's my 929 barely recoils.

Once I get my SVI Limited gun I was thinking about starting a SS SVI. Are there a lot of options for 38sc mags? I would probably get one gun with 9mm,38sc and 40 barrel to cover all the bases. And use the 38sc for matches only. I’ve collected 16lbs so far from the big matches at my home range. Was planning on trading 38sc for 40’s but I got 7k of those so I’ve been hoarding it.

Standing. Not sure if I could ever sit while loading.

Thanks Maximis! The constant jamming at the case feeder was driving me crazy.

How would a sorter deal with nesting? Curious

I’d say you need to clean the tumbler. I like clean shiny rounds and yes I know I don’t need to do it. But they are sooo purty.

I left some 9mm ICORE loads tumbling for 3+hours the other day. Boy they were really shiny

They just take a while. I'm still waiting on mine I ordered at the IRC.... My wife just took one off the table even though it's not what the colors she wanted but it fit perfectly. Good things come to those who wait.