MikeyScuba

We bought these https://www.doubletapsports.com/heat-factory-electronic-hand-warmers After the Canadian ICORE regionals got really chilly, especially so for early September, I had enough. It didn't help I checked the weather forecast the day before and ignored the cold forecast. It was 95f only 3 days before! So I got stubborn and didn't even take a sweater. brrrrr Trying to reload a revolver with cold hands isn't easy.

This is new to me. Is there a kit I assume? Probably won't be easy to find up here. btw mr swordfish -spotted you in the latest edition of the USPSA mag

By accident I discovered that 9mm brass runs much better through the rollsizer if it's sized first. I was depriming and sizing first, the thought being that it would make the sizing easier. However on this last run I forgot to rollsize first so I ran the batch after. I find I usually get some cases that roll their way up along the way, some more than others. This presized batch behaved perfectly.

This Canadian took boxes of ammo down from Canada to the UPS depot in Buffalo. I took one of those surplus metal ammo cans, lined with bubble wrap filled with 1250 rounds, bubble wrap on top, closed and wrapped in nylon impregnated tape. This went into a box that I overkill taped then wrapped in brown paper with my own printed ORM-D logos printed on orange paper. Then completely taped so no brown paper was exposed. I read something about manufactures boxes so I figured the paper covered all and would avoid questions. This was for the IRC. I try to keep boxes around 40-50lbs, easier for everyone to handle. my only worry was US Border Customs might want me to open the boxes!!! So they were in the back seat footwell under bags... I have the permits to transport my guns and ammo, opening the box however would leave me with a mess to figure out. waze however took me through some real sketchy areas of Buffalo to get back on the interstate to Rochester from the UPS depot..... yikes I do ship a lot from my business, so I’ve lots of shipping supplies.

Thanks. IPSC Alex is going to make it brutal though, got time to practice!

How/where did you find this?? I’ve heard diddly squat on the 2020 Nationals . Not that I’m a member of Sharon or anything....

I'm not doing well with the search engine... Can anyone recommend a good die setup for 38 short colt?

That's what I did for my wife's 686 cut for moons, Starline brass and TK moons. Didn't expect such a wait for the brass though.

The 16th East Coast Regional Revolver Championship Just wondered who's going. Long range forecasts actually are positive for a late outdoor match. We are going to make a 3 day roadtrip out of it given its a 15hr roundtrip. I've bought some of those usb powered heated hand muffs/sleeves, my hands froze at the CDN Regionals last month. Never again!

We are in Canada, gun stuff can take forever to get up here sometimes

After a 4 month wait my Starline order for 1k of 38sc finally arrived. It’s for my wife’s 2nd revo, 686 & recently cut for moons, made in the late 80’s I think. A former crime gun gone good lol

Same here, but my wife’s name starts with K so she’s usually first followed by Michael.... I’ve seen some names like Aran Anders lol. And on the other end Xiabo Zheng.... I wish they would mix things up instead of being so lazy with the shooting order alphabetically by last name.

With 929’s DAA sells good stainless moons quite inexpensively compared to others. We show up to a match fully mooned up. during the IRC I demooned from stage to stage, saved a big job later that night.

Got chrono'd at the IRC last week, last squad to chrono @ noon with temps 102? (or more....). Both of our guns were 132! We use 160gr with N320. I've never got that high, 128&123 at a match early Sept, temps ~50. I think the IRC was a few thousand feet higher too. At home range on a Labradar ~124-126.

We’ve flown into LAS from Toronto twice in the past 3 weeks. Pretty easy other than the hour long wait in secondary in US preclearance in YYZ. Wasn’t the agents fault, whoever is responsible for recalling our bags off the line took forever.... Our process involves declaring firearms at check in, filling out the form declaration saying a) the guns are unloaded and b) no more than 11lbs of ammo then the bags go off with the regular luggage. It isn’t until we get to the border agent 15-20 minutes later that we tell the agent we have guns they show me pictures of our bags and then recall the bag. Both bags inevitably get recalled. Problem is the last time we went was an 8am flight and it’s really busy so we took longer to get to customs and our bags got further down the line. So we wasted an hour. Thankfully at a match I was told to give an extra hour when flying with guns. Getting to the airport at 5am is a drag though. This time the customs agent was cool and let us go once he did a quick serial # check. Last time they “let” us through even though claimed our ATF NIA6 form was incorrectly filled out. They had old info. The 2nd time I had printed email correspondence with the ATF agent just in case. One thing I’m not sure of is if the TSA opened my 2 packs of 3 MTM ammo boxes (in 2 separate bags) I duct taped together in LAS.The tape sure looked cut.

Hats off to Mark given that he practically held and set up the 2018 IRC single handidly. A big THANK YOU Mark!

Beautiful time of the year up in this part of the world. I did get some bad info from some NY state shooters at the CDN Regionals when they said it was Nov 4 and the upcoming 16th East coast match was a trial run to see how bad the weather might be in early Nov. It’s not, obviously, and my wife took the $100US ICORE prize instead of a free 2019 IRC ticket. A 7hr drive is a huge plus! Mesquite was a haul, fun, but too much effort for all the other Canadian shooters.

I think it depended on which squad you were on. A few in ours were using 38 special, however everyone was using moonclips. Made for a fast moving squad. We were back at the Casablanca by 1:35 yesterday. And with 929’s we can leave our brass here and not care. ?

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Thanks, Does Smith's have a coffee bar? The Starbucks in the Virgin River isn't in a great location. Any other coffee place between the Casablanca and the range? Don't recall seeing anything during our recon last week.

How is the food situation Saturday? It says snacks served throughout the day, just curious as to what that entails. No time Sat morning to get anything and pretty sure there isn’t a fridge in the hotel room.

For those with an hour to spare (or less really) head just north of Mesquite on the I15 and drive through the Virgin River Gorge and back again. Beautiful drive.

Primers are a perfect delivery vehicle for atomizing lead so it’s easily inhaled and coats everything.

It goes back to the distributor in Toronto I would guess. My POS 41 did. It was a Wednesday before thanksgiving special. Bullets tumbled out of it from the 1st shot. Slide wasn’t finished properly grips were different colors and the case wouldn’t close. the smith who ordered it for me was a cranky old dude who got me a replacement in days.

Like TK, and any US smith getting the gun back won’t work. From what I understand they have to send the gun to a FFL? Up here in Canada I get the gun sent directly back to my home address. I take it a FFL won’t give a gun to a non US resident? Not to mention that idiotic ITAR business. It would be easy for me to cross into the US with my revolver as I have the NIA6 form approved and send from the UPS customer care like my ammo.