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45 minutes ago, Explosiveo said:
What's your die setup?
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I process all my brass before hand for loading.
Rollsize
FW. Arms universal self centering decapper
FW. Arms swage back up
station 4 is www.thejudgedie.com with sensor to catch all the stepped brass
station 5 is dillon size die (I NEVER undersize, its a bandaid, and wrong. Rollsizing brass is proper BEFORE sizing)
Loading
Lee Universal decapper to catch anything that may of gotten in there
Lyman M die in primer station
MBF powder funnel in 4
MBF bullet feeder in 5
Redding micrometer seating die
dillon crimp die
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I have the CNC toolheads from Immortobot, I have some of the OPM toolheads and some others. They all work well, just depends on what you want out of the different toolheads. Getting the station over the primer station is imperative if you are loading IMHO
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loading short for a short throat is no problem, just maybe a slight powder change to meet your PF expectations
My Tanfo's love being under 1.100, so I keep them at 1.095, with zero issues on 147 RN.
135 RN shouldnt be an issue as well. Glock throats are LONG, as I have loaded for my 34, at 1.155. Can defiitely see the CZ liking them short though
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On 6/1/2020 at 3:29 AM, DubfromGA said:
Finishing my temporary bench this coming Wed/Thu on my days off.
I know it's going to be too cramped with 550c & 750 + toolheads for the calibers I'll be loading. Bullets on the bottom shelves beneath the presses. Bookshelves (2) on the back to hold powder, primers and reloading manuals.
Bench is only 2'x4'.
We will be house-hunting in the next few months. Hoping to have a larger bench/cabinets in the new mancave room whenever we move.
Until then it's going to be tight quarters.
I built 8' benches, 2.5' wide on the top bench, and 2- 2' shelves under it. Having the 2.5' top bench is worth every penny for the 6" IMHO. Ive had a 2' bench and felt cramped, especially with a 8-10" in the back for shelving.
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On 5/31/2020 at 9:38 PM, warpspeed said:
How are you removing the stepped brass?
mojoprecision.com Judge die... its a sensor/die for Mark 7 and Ammobot. Trips the machine when it recognizes stepped brass, and now they even have one to get the MINOR stepped brass specifically for 9mm
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17rd mag with the Springer Precision basepad, and the grams kit, reliable 23rd magazines in my Legion. Havent had an issue, except that when the round shows 17, its actually 18. The gram follower, changes the location of the "windows" in the mag
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pretty crazy evolution on this project. nicely done staying with it
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Love the Delta Point Pro from Leupold without spending a ton of money. Some other great options lately from Sig, but they can get pretty expensive
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Im usually the first or second as well. Same situation as you, as a higher mid pack guy. I always remind myself to grip the gun hard enough, and multiple mental walk throughs has helped increase my first stage jitters
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IF the stage designer wanted you to start in a different ready condition, it must be clearly stated in the WSB
8.1.3
Courses of fire may require ready conditions which are different tothosestated above.In such cases, the required ready condition must be clearlystated in the written stage briefing.When a firearm Ready Conditionrequires a firearm be prepared with an empty chamber (or cylinder), theslide/bolt of the firearm must be fully forward (or the cylinder must be fullyclosed) and the hammer or striker must be fully down or fully forward, as thecase may be, unless otherwise specified in the stage briefing. -
15 hours ago, Sarge said:
Why did you cock and place safety on if you didn't have to? Seems like it would be a time waster when you draw and rack. Are IPSC rules different in that regard? USPSA seems to allow holstering with hammer down, safety off on a single action even with loaded mag inserted. At least that's how I read it.
USPSA rules for a single action pistol, loaded, are hammer back, safety on
USPSA rules for an unloaded start, are hammer down, safety off
I've never seen a stage where you start in condition 3 (mag inserted, no round in chamber)
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Cross eye dominant. Right handed, left eye dominant. I have trained myself to shoot right eye'd. Felt more comfortable, and I started that training as soon as I started shooting. Had a good instructor who helped that day.
Been 10+ years, and am 100% glad I switched eyes. Right handed, shoot pistol right, and rifle right. Makes transitions easier when carrying a primary/secondary weapon, makes weapon manipulation easier since I'm using my strong hand/side. All around, I'm more comfortable and happy.
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RMR is where I get all my rifle bullets from for plinking. Bergers for competition, and Blues for pistol stuff
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Ammobot on a 1050 with pocket probe. Just processed 21k pcs of 45acp. Only had 952pcs of SPP. Pretty surprising actually. Last 20k run of brass I processed, almost 4k of SPP. Just depends on where you get it, when, and from who.
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no need for pistol rounds, unless you are shooting bullseye competition, and want to verify the ammo is as precise as possible. More often then not, ammo is more precise then you anyways.
I only clean primer pockets on my precision rifle ammo
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Leave it blank if you have verified they are all sized. Loading full processed brass makes life so much easier. Not just on you, but also the machine as well
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If you can stock/save, Blue Bullets or Gallant or any of the other coated bullets usually run big sales on Black Friday.
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trays are cheapest
buying already sorted is nice
ultimate sorter for home use and allows you to make some money back selling whatever you dont want
buy 2 ultimate sorters on the tray system
roll sorter (start at $4500)
bowl sorter (start at $12k)
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1 minute ago, Sarge said:
RETIRED 1SG. Finally able to take only the recommendations that make sense.
My Dillon hopper is still clear after 10 years of leaving powder in it all the time. .05 grain “improvement“ is inconsequential for 9mm USPSA loads. I have done tests to and found I can basically load until the hopper is empty and see no fluctuation in drops.
Not sure what powder you are using, but Titegroup eats up the plastic something fierce. .05gn improvement is nice for anything, ill take the smaller ES/SDs and move on. Busting balls on 1SG, I'm a chief in the Navy
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22 hours ago, belus said:
Basically I just do all my processing on a old Forcht machine set up for 40. 9mm just happens to run along just fine. I wanted to isolate the decapping process so the rest of loading was cleaner and found a good deal on an already set-up 1050.
I run two universal decapping dies, the first one I assembled out of Dillon parts and the second is a Lee with the FFB RCBS decapping stem. The swage assembly is removed from the press.
In the prime station I have plans to install a microcontroller to confirm the decapping worked, but that's still just a pile of parts and I haven't found any primers pulling back on both decap pins. The Dillon decapper misses less than 1% of cases anyways.
9mm only gets decapped before cleaning. Sizing and swagging happens on the loading run which is much smoother knowing my brass is all deprimed.
Further around the tool head I have 40 sizing dies for tumbled 40 brass. The 9mm just passes through these stations unaffected. I load 40 on a manual 650 and I like not having to put the effort into sizing myself. It wouldn't be hard to add/remove a 9 sizing die to the end of the process toolhead if I were doing the same for 9mm.
sizing during the processing run, makes loading much easier. I decap, swage, sort (judge die from Mojo Precision) to remove the stepped brass, and size during processing. Makes loading very problem free.
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19 hours ago, Sarge said:
Dram worx hopper,
NEVER USED IT
polish the bar.
NEVER DONE IT
. keep it over 1/2 full,
TOTALLY UNNECESSARY
glad you know it all. All depends on how accurate you want the loads to be. Dram worx hopper keeps it from turning colors, less static, and IMHO, better powder drops. Polishing the bar, I noticed almost a .05gn increase in accuracy in drops, and keeping powder over 1/2 full has shown to help as well (I havent tested this enough, but since I started keeping it over 1/2, I havent had any issues, and its easy to do when you have a larger hopper from DW)
For being a 1SG, dont take recommendations very well.
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10 minutes ago, IHAVEGAS said:
For my wheel gun the undersized dies seem to stop the bullets from walking out of the brass.
I think roll sizing would be great but I don't personally know anyone who has needed to.
rollsizing is VERY big in 40cal, due to the "glock bulge" www.rollsizer.com is the big commercial rollsizer I use, and after using it on 9, 40, 45, 223, and 308, rollsizing makes life so much easier. No longer do u "need" an undersize die, because the base is back to being correct, the press doesnt have to work so hard to size, and everything runs smoother. Rollsizing has almost made, chamber checking, obsolete. I still chamber check everything in hundos, but im OCD about that crap.
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probably solved, but people continue to have issues with the U die, as they use it to try and fix something thats not there. The solution is rollsizing, not undersizing the brass.
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2 hours ago, Sarge said:
Several reasons. More consistent OAL hence more consistent PF, weeding out junk brass such as stepped or crimped, etc.
Do a search and reap the rewards
i have... as long as you remove the stepped stuff, and process on a 1050/1100/2000, all the stuff gets swaged anyways. Judge die from Mojo precision, and youre good to go. Just processed 20k pcs myself actually
Super 1050 loading experience and issues
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Are you running the 1050 manually?