Joedirt199

What weight buffer did you settle on? I am running an 8.5" barreled one and can still cycle ammo with an H buffer. Nice light recoil. Ejection is a little more forward but no stopages yet.

Yeah I ran some of the more promising loads at .357 diameter and just was not liking the recoil impulse of the heavy stuff. Going back to my tried and true 120-124 lead coated flat point at about 1050 fps. Shoots great groups and recoils nicely. Looks like an order for 3000 Acmes is needed.

Titegroup will get your cylinder pretty hot on a longer stage. I shot it through my snub nose for an IDPA match and that sucker got hard to handle during reloads and that is will 18 rd max stages.

Ammo flies too fast through the machines for them to catch the few bad ones. We sent back a pallet of winchester ranger .40 LE ammo cause of a few flip primers, dented shells, and luckily a squib durring qualification and not on duty. Through the 17 years on my dept we have used federal hydrashock, rem golden saber, winchester ranger. They all have bad cases get through. Winchester took the ammo back and is sending us FBI contract ammo as they claim it has higher quality control. We will see.

Second that. Have been playing with 244 in numerous bullets weights for 9mm and always single digit SDs and smaller groups no matter what powder level. Not as high of velocities as some but very consistent.

Supposedly these will be calibrated for 9mm so we will see. Watched a fee videos of previous matches and they used alot of smaller plates. Just wanting to make sure a bad shot on the larger rifle plate style doesn't slow me down too much. May bump the PF up to 135 and leave the sizing at .357 in hopes of better groups. My p09 with 124/125 range is a 1" grouper at 20 yards. May stick with what works.

Our shield guys on our swat team had the laser guide rods in their duty pistols. Nothing but problems. Unless they have improved in 10 years, I wouldn't bother.

Will give it a try since the match is not till June. Gives me some time to tinker.

I guess it is the same concept either way, slow and heavy or light and fast. Just all boils down to recoil impulse you like. The 135s felt good and I already know my p09 likes 124s.

So tested some Summers coated LRN trying for a nice light recoiling load for some falling plate steel matches. Used 160 RN, 145 RN, and 135 RN that started as .357 sized down to .356 with a Lee Bullet sizing die. Groups were not great as I had a 20-30 mph wind but the temp was better for a mid February day at 55* so had to get out and get some numbers. All of these shot out of my CZ P09 with RMR. Was shooting for 130 PF. All hand weighed charges with federal brass and winchester primers. 5 shot strings shot at 20 yards off a bench rest. I have used WSF but have seen its temp sensitivity and I shoot matches all year so don't want to have to change the load for different seasons. Did have a couple of tumbling 145s so may just leave these as .357 and try some again. Some of these were from other people's loads and some are for a baseline as I didn't have much to go on. Any help would be appreciated 160 LRN Win 244 2.9 gr AVG 808 ES 15 SD 7 OAL 1.12" 145 LRN Win 244 3.4 gr AVG 923 ES 20 SD 8 OAL 1.11" 135 LRN Win 244 3.5 gr AVG 973 ES 27 SD 11 OAL 1.10" 160 LRN Power Pistol 3.8 AVG 862 ES 25 SD 9 145 LRN Power Pistol 3.9 AVG 878 ES 38 SD 16 135 LRN Power Pistol 4.1 AVG 925 ES 34 SD 14 160 LRN Sport Pistol 3.1 AVG 837 ES 26 SD 10 145 LRN Sport Pistol 3.4 AVG 929 ES 12 SD 5 135 LRN Sport Pistol 3.5 AVG 985 ES 17 SD 7 160 LRN HP-38 3.0 AVG 810 ES 19 SD 8 145 LRN HP-38 3.2 AVG 867 ES 15 SD 6 135 LRN HP-38 3.5 AVG 945 ES 43 SD 18 160 LRN Tightgroup 2.7 AVG 796 ES 22 SD 9 145 LRN Tightgroup 3.1 AVG 909 ES 13 SD 5 135 LRN Tightgroup 3.5 AVG 1009 ES 29 SD 12

Was going to do the sparta 300 falling plate match and want to know where to find rules for the divisions so I can figure out what gun I want to shoot. I don't have facebook, as it is the devil, so if there is an organization that handles the falling plate style matches that has a rule book that would be great. Nevermind. I found a tactical sh!t review of the match that had a download of the rules.

Grab some fine diamond knife sharpening stones and rub all the powder bar surfaces on it. Will show you all the rough edges. The smoother the powder measure runs the better. I also started running my pistol brass lubed to ease the down stroke when coming off the mouth bell. Spray some lube in a freezer bag, add the brass and roll it around in the bag.

http://uniquetek.com/free_tips_files Download the tips on powder measure improvements. If you polish up the insides and moving parts it will run smoother. I unhooked the powder safety that causes the "clunk" when lowering the shell plate, just unhook the top part of the spring that connects to the pin sticking out. Powder par safety will fall out of way and not catch anymore. I did put 2 of the wife's elastic hair ties between the hopper and rear of bar to close the bar. Much smoother powder drops. I can get very consistant drops with my dillon. I would say .1 gr variance. No need for vibrators, fish pumps, voodoo hexes, or holy water.

Check the wire spring that retains the shell in place so that it is not pushing too much on the brass. It can push it off alignment and cause the primer to hang up or go in crooked. Make sure everything is clean on and around the priming bar. Your screws on the bottom that hold the priming station upright may have come loose. Undo the return spring and make sure the primer pocket is lined up with the shell plate tray hole. Tighten the priming station down, then put the return spring back on. Sometimes small shavings of brass get in the primer cup. Push the handle forward and make sure your primer seater is coming up high enough and has no gunk in there.

Cz custom has an adjustable set that I put on my phantom. You will need ones that fit the standard 75 cut and go with a thicker front sight blade. The fast target guys like thinner front blades around the 1mm thickness.

If you have a shadow sp01, the rear sight will fit no problem.

Just a cheaper option. Sorry for the confusion. I keep a single stage loaded the with swager so when I come across a crimped die in my dillon I can knock it out and get back to business.

Yup hit them on my rcbs anti-crimp die and they work just fine after that

I would have bought a primary machine threaded barrel for my p09 but the stock barrel shoots so damn good. The p07 was another story. Primary machine barrel dialed that one in nicely.

My p07 poor man open gun.

I have been having good luck with win 244. Meters well, has good single digit numbers even when loaded below starting weights, accurate with several bullet weights. WSF and sport pistol are also good to go. Have seen the temp sensitivity of the WSF with my 160 gr RN. Loaded 3.2 in the summer and was getting around 850. Was going to use them in winter and the brass was showing pressure signs so backed it down to 3 grs and that helped. Shot my chrono so waiting to get another one.

Think the shadow 2 slide is wider than the sp01 frame

I tried a H buffer and it helped. Ejection was more forward but still fine. Settled the dot down some.

Got 3 of them from cmmg. Only had one lock bolt back with 1 round left in the mag, once. Loaded with flat points, hollow points, round nose, heavy and light bullets mixed in a mag and ate them all up.

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