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  1. Glad you get such a high pass rate from your hundo loading 9mm without rolling. I dont, there is likely a difference in the source of our brass. Depending on where you get your brass from, the buldge at the base of the case cannot be corrected without a push through or roll sizer type solution. Much like swaging .223 or trimming, that brass is not going to be good when loaded unless you knew where it came from or have a good source. Albeit i would put swaging 223 and trimming it higher on the priority list. Two things can be true at the same time. It is preference, you can load without a rollsizer, and yes, you can get higher quality ammo using a rollsizer. For most people, go ahead and forego rolling at the cost of a higher fail rate. Perfectly acceptable route to go. I would consider things like a case feeder and bullet feeder luxury items that yield no difference in the quality of your ammo. A rollsizer does make a difference in the quality of your ammo.
  2. Sarge is correct. Rolling is totally unnecessary. Just as cleaning your brass, swaging, trimming 223, etc... is all totally unnecessary. However, it seems doing those other steps can make a difference in the quality of your ammo. Loading 9mm i typically had a 94% pass rate through case gauge with mixed brass. After i started rolling that went up to a 99% pass rate. Rolling gives me higher fidelity ammo and i dont waste as much time inspecting ammo when im done loading.
  3. I haven't seen just the collator without any other parts available anywhere. It also comes with a stand as you dont want to mount it to a case feeder. I have both feeders, they are great.
  4. Maybe not the cheapest, but I'm building one of these. Easy to expand it to 2, 3, 4, even 6 tumblers on a single motor.
  5. Agreed, some dry fire at the safe table is a good tip. Some dry fire at home before you head to the range is good. When you get to the match, make sure you are there early enough to walk the stages. Process and program a stage plan for the first stage, and even run the footwork at mid to full speed a couple times before you shoot. When you practice live fire put a lot of weight in the results of your first run of drills cold. Treat that first run the way you would a match. Running cold is something everyone has to do. On match day it is imperative that you can close your eyes and mentally execute each position and shot in your mind by memory before you get up to shoot. Do all this, and I bet your cold performance improves :).
  6. That would be awesome! Ive run suppressed in 3 gun, it was a blast, I highly recommend it. While suppressors are banned in uspsa pcc, it isnt in open. As a result, you can run a suppressor in open till the rule book catches up, ill be running my maxim 9 with a dot in open for fun.
  7. This is why the world would be better if everyone shot pcc, all our ears would be happier!
  8. I am using the commercial rollsizer, they have a few different versions: https://www.rollsizer.com/product/electric-drive-brass-rollsizer/
  9. After I sort I clean everything because I don't like dirt all over my roll sizer, roll sizer case feeder, 650, and 650 case feeder.
  10. By installing the Swage it 650: No, wet tumbling is not necessary just as pre-processing your brass is not necessary. wet tumbling with steel pins gives you cleaner brass.
  11. Yes. A 650 with a mark 7 auto drive. Mighty armory decap, swage-it in place of priming, a couple sizing dies just because. I run my 9mm through the above setup after wet tumbling and rollsizing. After processing on the 650 i wet tumble again to clean primer pockets.
  12. Retain upright, move your thumb lower on the grip and push inward with that thumb since you are missing a hand to control that side of the gun, bend your elbow a little bit (dont lock out) and rotate your elbow inward towards your body to help maintain upright orientation of the gun. You also want to pull your non shooting hand into your chest and change your footing with your shooting foot forward ( whichever foot matches the hand that is gripping the gun.) The elbow positioning should feel a bit uncomfortable.
  13. Yeah, feeding the rollsizer poorly sorted brass is frustrating. Ive got a fairly decent sorting process, rollsizer humms along with it. I was wondering if you had any specific issues with the feedinator. I really dont like the dillon case feeder for the rollsizer.
  14. This is a different answer for each person. Run the stage plan that you know you can execute at match speed 10 out of 10 times. Then in practice work out kinks, grow as a shooter, and when you go to your next match, again, run the stage plan you can execute at match speed 10 out of 10 times. Focus on learning how to shoot. I.e. accuracy, transitions, splits, reloads. then transition to adding movement to the shooting.
  15. If you want to load long stay away from the TF Goliath, need to stay under 1.125"
  16. Finally! Took longer than expected for that comment!
  17. Any time. New 2018 glock product. Ive pulled 100%+ on classifiers several times with them. They are right at the 170mm length, i prefer pistol style reloads with my pcc.
  18. Simple google search will turn em up, i believe glock released them in 2018
  19. That question could easily be its own thread. I no longer use coated bullets, they dont play well with the goliath. The goliath wants an oal of 1.125in or less. I use plated or jacketed bullets. I check my powder drop for accuracy and consistency while reloading. Powder check ensures i dont have empty or double powder drops. I check oal during my loading sessions to ensure it hasnt drifted. Everything is case gauged, i.e. it must fall into the case gauge on its own weight and slide out on its own or it is rejected. I also check for high and low primers. Your primers should be 2 to 6mil deeper than the top of the primer pocket. Higher than 2mil is to high, and deeper than 6mil, you risk a light strike that doesnt detonate. The above QC combined with oem glock magazines, the base plates i mentioned, and my JP runs flawlessly over 10k+ rounds so far.
  20. For field courses, i recommend an OEM glock 33rd mag with either a taylor freelance +10, tti +10 extension or a Taylor freelance goliath +20. The latter comes with some restrictions on ammo profile and overall length of your bullets for reliable operation. For classifiers, a 24rnd oem glock mag with a +0 tti base pad. On my belt I have a goliath which is used for the stage, 1x 24rnd mag, and 1x 33rnd oem mag both with +0 tti baseplates as backups. If I somehow end up with a malfunction i want to feed my gun something as close to stock oem as possible. The +0 basepads allow me to more easily take mags apart for cleaning. With good ammo the above configuration has run flawlessly in my JP.
  21. Lol, i have two gen 2s purchased a year apart, they also had internal dofferences. Not sure how sig can call these guns a gen 2 with the number of changes they have made. Seems they are really at gen 7 or 8 at this point. Neither of mine run reliably. After getting regularly screwed by the mpx in competition, got a JP so i could finish a match without malfunctions. Any guesses on why sig keeps making all these changes? Why make these changes if the gun runs reliably? Oh thats right, because it doesnt, so they continue to use their customer base as beta testers years after releasing the product.
  22. Keep in mind that manufacturers have an incentive to make sure a top shooters gun runs. Sig could care less that mine doesnt run. Inside the first 3k rounds my bcg separated in half and tore apart my upper, sent it back to sig and they replaced the upper. Months later the bcg was digging grooves into the upper, if the bcg is dragging against the upper, it is losing velocity, in my case the loss in velocity meant rounds werent stripped off the mag. Sent it back to sig, they told me the first time they replaced the upper was "as a courtesy", didnt replace anything the second time and told me grooves being dug into the upper is "normal". Never seen such a thing with any gas operated rifles. If im not mistaken there is a steyr design that has 2 recoil springs like the mpx. There was an issue where the springs didnt necessarily wear at the same rate, over time resulting in unequal force returning the bcg into battery. Wouldnt be surprised if some mpxs meet the same fate. Regardless, if you can get one that runs, it is a nice soft shooting platform. Ive seen my fair share of mpxs that didnt run in bigger matches, seen several that do as well.
  23. Yes, im sure there are mpxs that run, one of the 8 in my sample space runs, im sure there are more that run and more that are malfunction machines. Im glad you are one of the lucky ones, ive put way to much money into mine and sent it back to sig twice and it is still junk. Nice finish at the match! If you want a light pcc and get a hold of an mpx that is reliable, not a bad choice. As for recoil, i was able to tune my JP to be comperable dot movement relative to the mpx.
  24. Lift lots of weights, eat like an animal, and get huge, then run a 20lb pcc, basically no dot movement. Id stay away from the mpx, 50k rounds and experience with 8 mpxs, only 1 runs reliably, all gen 2s. Unless sig somehow fixed the platform. They seem to run well until you reach 5-6k rounds.
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