SA Friday

The Lee FCD is a solution looking for a problem. Go to a U resizing die with a normal seating and/or crimp die, and throw the FCD in the trash. I used to use a FCD on all my loads for a while until I figured out it made the bullet set-back potential worse instead of better. Test it. Make a dummy round with a normal resizer and a FCD and another with a U die and normal seating/crimp die(s. Then measure both. Chamber the two rounds in a pistol with a factory weight recoil spring 10-15 times a piece. Measure them after every 5 chamberings and chart out the data. I did, and then threw my FCD away.

Some people like the feel of the 200gr bullet over the 180/185gr. The gun just feels sluggish when I tried them out a while back. I just didn't feel any advantage shooting the heavier bullet. I've never tried them with Solo 1000, but the feel of the slower moving slide and pretty much equal recoil put me off from retesting them with other powders.

Shoot one load for all of it. Find a load and stick with the load in the 9mm across the board. 147s are fast enough for steel if you are calling your shots and not waiting to hear the ding, and shooting different loads and screwing with your timing just doesn't sould like it's worth it.

Yep, it's binding like a mo-fo. I tried three different types of recoil rods and ISMI springs and this will not work. It acually has enough room to bind from pinching in between the bottom of the barrel and the area pointed out in the pics. Cycle the slide two or three times after assembly and your done.

Whatever works for you to get it done. For me, I use an EGW U die for my 9mm, 40 and 45 ACP rounds. I reload lots of different bullets, but primarily moly coated lead in 40 and 45 acp. I never use lube on any of these three calibers. I don't use two different resizing dies. I average one reject round out of every 2500 loaded. My ammo chambers and runs at matches and it's the last thing I have to think about. I don't have to sweat bullet set back in any of the three calibers. I won't reload competition ammo without a U die. It just works. Lee FCD's are the devil.

Serious hard core front sight focus, and the will to not break the shot unless your sights are in the A zone.

Become a dry-firing maniac!

I've used Ramshot Tac with moa to sub-moa results with 55gr to 75gr bullets in 223. Test each load at 100 and 200 yds. I found a lot of rounds don't look very good at 100 yds, i.e. 1.25-1.5" groups, and then shoot the same group size at 200 yds and equivalent moa past 200.

BBI's or Precisions. BBI's are cheaper. Precisions are cleaner to reload with and I seem to get a tad more accuracy with them (this is gun dependent). Lube/powder combo's are what you should play with to figure out the least amount of smoke. You can't get rid of it all, but you can cut it down. Moly's will smoke a bit too, but I find them to smoke less than lead with the right powders. Lots of threads on this stuff in the reloading section already. Dig around in there with a search.

Dude, you're asking for relationship advise on a shooting site . Nothing good can come from this. Drop it all and walk.

I'll throw this in there too, Cy. You and Sandra should take a class. Avery does them here regularly. There are opportunities from other instructors around here regularly too. I've struggled all year, and it finally came together again here in the last 1 1/2 months. A lot of that was a class with Avery and a class with Burkette. One open shooter in peticular around here took both of the above classes and a 2 day long private with Avery. Bet you can guess who. Charlie's also been pretty active in the class taking this year also. It makes a difference; it solidifies proper form, identifies what you are doing wrong and how to fix it, and helps establishes how to practice properly. It makes a difference.

230gr BBI 4.2gr Solo 1000 1.255 OAL Wolf/Fed/Win LPP mixed brass 230gr BBI 3.8gr Clays 1.255 OAL Wolf/Fed/Win LPP mixed brass Clays is a tad more smoke. I shoot the Solo 1000 rounds, and so to many else in their 45's. BTW, I also shoot a Colt 5" and these loads are in the 170-171 pf area.

Ahh, the search police have shown up. It is quite obvious that your Search-Fu is far superior to mine. I can only hope that we do not meet in a dark alley while searching for something...you would surely defeat me. Thanks for the info, though. I'll browse through it after work. Unlike some government employees that are reading this post right now. You know who you are. Yes, my search-fu is strong... only because I started the thread in question It was a while back, and I tested a bunch of powders with this bullet. There were many others who chimed in after my inital testing with other loads to test out and their results. Just trying to help you narrow down the testing etc.

Seth, call her best girlfriend and ask her what she wants.

That's a damn good cop's wife you have there G.

Sounds like something Henning Wallgren would cook up for a weekend just for the fun of it.

Sounds like the weather recipe for a match at DoubleTap Ranch!!! You forgot the four hard-core shooters out there huddled around a burn barrel.

Charlie, you remember that conversation we had about 6 months ago on the way to Whistling Pines?

We're in the single digits and snowing here in CO. It was numbers with this thing (-) in front of it last night.

There are a lot of good threads about Glock sights. A quick search will get you everything you need on this. Sight picture is as personal as anthing I've found in life. I personally don't like Warren Sevigny sights. the ratio you mentioned is too loose for me. I prefer a tighter picture. I shoot Dawsons. Heines are a good in-the-middle of the two IMO.

Yep, Hoser (Tom) is right. That there is the lap of luxury in our Air Force, the C-17. Makes all the C-130 loadmasters weak in the knees and jealous.

Horrific spread in standard deviation with them. Most inconsistant primer I ever tried. I don't like having one at 166pf and the next one at 172pf with weighed powder charges.

http://www.brianenos.com/forums/index.php?...p;hl=147gr+moly 5 page thread on this question 147gr and moly in the search box gave me tons of threads to look at.

I have enough moly bullets from Precision and BBI through multiple manufactured barrels that I would see undue wear or build up if it was bad for them. Personally, I haven't seen any difference between either of these brands and lead/lubed bullets. If anything, I've seen less leading (and smoke) when compared to lead bullets with a lube ring. Considering the amount of high end shooters and gunsmiths blasting these bullets out their barrels, I'm pretty sure they are harmless. My answer might be different if I was having problems with Tom keeping up with my orders though .

I've always thought a grandbagger was a shooter that intentionally did things to improve their classification to above their actual shooting capabilities. You know the GM that can't ever beat the M's and half the A's at a local match...