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Igloodude

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  1. On that same site: https://www.classicfirearms.com/1911-45-caliber-28rd-drum-magazine/ It makes me smile just thinking about it.
  2. I've got a 20yr old Dillon 550B that's only done 45ACP. Up until recently, I've loaded ammo using recovered/cleaned brass, and as I've generally been shooting Bullseye, my loads are consistently on the lighter side. Several months ago my brass supply was getting low due to shooting action pistol matches where I generally get some or none of my brass back, so I ordered a case of new Starline and started using it. Yay on skipping the dirt associated with punching out spent primers, but I'm seeing that instead I'm getting brass shavings from the powder drop station, and I think possibly from the bullet seating and crimping stations as well. Could anyone please tell me if this is normal/expected, and what it is likely from? Thanks, -IglooDude
  3. I'm having this problem as well. A Dillon 45ACP gauge shows some rounds just not quite seating all the way; they extrude less than the thickness of the rim itself. It happens with Winchester used brass (98% of which I'm sure has never been in a Glock barrel), but not unfired Starline brass.
  4. The negative responses here seem to be half "No. Just no." and half "Not enough other revo shooters." It does seem like if the half wanting more competition all started shooting it, there'd be enough competition after all. I have a Model 625 (and reload 45ACP for my 1911s and carbine anyway), so it's pretty inexpensive for me to show up and be competitive except for the 33% more frequent reload thing. And why the hell not, it only leaves me a little bit farther behind than my usual singlestack does.
  5. 230gr RN is the default, yes. 200gr SWC for Bullseye, and I prefer it for USPSA because of the awesome holes it makes in the cardboard, and everywhere because the recoil is a little less thuddy than the 230gr. The price is that it has a smaller margin of error for feeding reliably. I use WST and 4.0gr under the 200gr for Bullseye and Steel Challenge, 4.4gr for USPSA major PF under both 200gr and 230gr bullets. WST is also reverse-temp sensitive (here's a thread discussing it) so be aware you might want to load hotter when it gets hot out to maintain major PF:
  6. I've got no .40 pistols, nor 9mm pistols, for that matter, but do have a carbine, revolver, and a few 1911s all in .45, and I reload. So, I'm more than a little biased here. But there's one reason to prefer .45 that no one here has mentioned yet, which is that when you're shooting SWC bullets, you get these big giant holes in cardboard targets that are easier for scorers to see and marvel at. Oh, and every once in a while, a .45 hole hits the perf line where a .40 or 9 hole will not...
  7. Are the recommendations pretty much the same for .45ACP (S&W 625) as well? I've got some black metal moonclips, no markings and 15+ years old, that allow quite a bit of directional play in the rounds - if I'm not reasonably close to vertical loading one, then it isn't going to go into the cylinder.
  8. Exactly this. My current 1911 has had some sort of "mechanical challenge" almost every match. So I'm paying more (a lot more, admittedly) for a custom 1911. The bonus is, it'll be a gun I can be competitive with in virtually every shooting discipline that allows 1911 pistols at all: USPSA, Steel, IDPA, Bullseye, Bowling Pin, and... what other ones are there?
  9. This may be a dumb question (so, I'll ask it ) but in a circumstance where accuracy is that much more important, is cocking the hammer an option? I have a 625 with a very smooth double-action pull and a crisp featherweight single-action pull, and I have enough thumb to get the hammer down fairly quickly if needed. That said, I'm a D-level shooter that just shot my 625 in a bunch of classifiers last weekend for the first time.
  10. I'm looking for the article I found, that found - all other things being equal - that coated bullets with the lube rings were slightly more accurate and slightly faster than the non-lube-ring equivalents. On that basis, I'm going to continue to order my SNS 200gr SWC with the lube rings because otherwise it seems to be a pure coinflip between the two.
  11. Indeed. Well, I should confess, I have a friend who has been able to set me up with his spare Glock 9mm and holster so I've already done a couple Limited USPSA matches, and I've already got a 625 revolver (with a nicely smoothed out trigger) so I can also pretty readily go in the other direction and shoot Revolver in competitions with relatively little additional investment.
  12. This. I am in the process of ordering a custom 45 1911, because I can use it for Bullseye CF/45 (including service pistol), steel, USPSA SS major, IDPA, up to bowling pins, all with just swapping out a recoil spring (and oddly enough, removing the magwell for the CMP service pistol shoots). I don't want five or six different guns, I want one really really good gun that'll get me to Master in any discipline that I put the effort into. And steel always falling when hit and (particularly when using semiwadcutter) making nice big holes in paper/cardboard targets just makes me smile.
  13. Welcome, from over in Chester! Have we met at any Piscataqua/Chester/Dunbarton/Pelham USPSA matches? I just started them about a year ago.
  14. Yes, but this stage explicitly specified an empty (holstered) pistol, and pulling full mags from a bin, and putting them away however you wanted while proceeding with the stage. My shirt pocket was faster to re-stuff than my belt pouches.
  15. Thanks, that's really helpful to know, I've been getting ready to buy a few more mags anyway.
  16. I'm about to start back up with the H&G68 coated SWC rounds, after a long time with 230gr RN. Since there's no lube ring on these coated ones, they can be loaded to longer OALs - does anyone have a recommendation on OAL for best feeding/chambering? Yes, I know, for most reliable feeding I should just stay with RN or TC... And for that matter, how many grains of WST to stay comfortably in Major PF?
  17. I shoot SS, and over the last half-dozen matches, have had sporadic trouble with seating the reload magazine all the way in (along with occasional misfeeds and noob mental errors). A couple days ago, after a gunsmith tune-up of my old .45 1911 and using couple-month-old new mags, I'm feeling confident about today's match now and do my first dry-fire session in a couple months, focusing on draws and reloads - the reloads with a handful of plastic snap-cap rounds I have, a couple per mag in three magazines. In the dryfire training I get to the point of doing the reloading with my eyes closed. Fast-forward to the (local club) match. First stage, start with the magazines in a box, so went into a shirt pocket for speed, and... failed to seat either of the reloads completely. I thought maybe it was because of the reloading out of my pocket rather than my belt. But then pretty much the same thing on the next stage, with conventional reloads. The stage after that was a classifier, and suspecting the problem, I loaded to six rather than eight, and had no problem with two reloads. Then, fourth stage, and... one of two reloads, same problem. It was during the classifier that I think I figured it out, that I'd essentially trained up to fail on reloads - the one out of eight rounds meant a much less tensioned spring, so the mag seating was far easier than it was with full eight round loads, and I trained up to not seat a full magazine with enough force. This week I plan on loading up a couple dozen powder/primer-less dummy rounds, and practicing my reloading that way with full mags, to finally fix this unfortunately ingrained behavior.
  18. Can you somehow blur or erase the caution statement? I don't mind my peanut butter having a "caution - contains peanuts" legal disclaimer, but I'm not shooting my Jiffy jar in competition, either. (Edit: please view in 'sarcasm font')
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