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  1. I run a Bul M5 in .40 for IPSC competition. The barrel is throated and I load ammo to 1 1/4". Back in 2011 I built a 6" 10mm top end for it to use on a trip to South Africa. I was having trouble getting it to feed so out of curiosity I tried some of my .40 loads in it and they fed. At which stage I had a light bulb moment and realised that long .40 could be loaded as if its a 10mm. So I just took the gun in .40 and some rounds loaded to 10mm power with 180grn. XTPs. Unfortunately the planned Blessbock hunt fell through but it made a reassuring car gun
  2. Another consideration is that, when you come to sell your rifle, a complete JP rifle will sell more easily and at a better price than a self build which reduces the cost differential somewhat. That was pointed out to me after I had built a rifle with a JP top end and JP trigger on another lower. Awesome rifle non he less and my heirs and successors can curse me after I have gone for not maximising their inheritance
  3. Bear in mind that you have to clear customs at the first point of landing in the US therefore avoid New York, Chicago and Los Angeles as transit points.. That's why I suggested Orlando or Dallas
  4. I have a similar problem with LAX flying from Australia. So I fly to Dallas instead. Coming from your side I would be looking at flights in to Orlando or Dallas with connections to Las Vegas
  5. I was born and raised in Birmingham so being reacquainted with the accent and local slang was a big part of the enjoyment for me. My dentist is also from Birmingham and has gypsy blood. We started talking about the show and reverted to broad Birmingham accents much to the confusion of her nurses. Though the peeky blinders gang existed the plots are pretty far fetched but fun to watch nevertheless. Back in the early 70's I worked with a guy who was on the fringes of the Birmingham underworld in the 50's and 60's. I remember him telling me that the Peeky blinder (who had long disappeared by that time) not only sewed razor blades in their caps but also in their jacket lapels. Bar fighting often involved grabbing jacket lapels to facilitate a head but - sometimes called a Glaswegian Kiss. Would have been an effective defence I think. Peter
  6. There is a "wavy" lockwasher that Brownells sell to lock the mag cap on a rem 1100 when there is no ball detent in the forend. Brownells #838-000-021WB. I think it might be a fix placed between the carbon tube and the extension. I had a similar problem with "my" Versamax when I was in the US earlier his year. Unfortunaley I am back in Australia now but the gun isn't, so haven't had the chance to try it. Peter
  7. Would you believe I am flying over from Australia on Thursday to shoot this match! (Well while I am there I may as well shoot the IPSC World Shoot as well ) Looking forward to them both Peter
  8. No, the dust cover is plastic. You may get one screw into metal forward of the slide stop. Scopes have been mounted on Bul M5 dust covers but you need to sink nuts into the plastic on the inside to tap into. Peter
  9. When I checked in for the last one, the nurse asked a whole list of questions including "and how do you feel" To which I replied "I've been starved for three days, force fed a gallon of poison and had dynestry, now all I have to look forward is being buggered by a bloody big fibre optic cable! How do you think I feel" She just ticked the box that said I was fine. Peter
  10. I was loading .38 Spl blanks on my 650. Not having to seat projectiles I was working it pretty fast with no attempt to feel what the ram was doing. Snapped an indexing ring. Ordered one from our local supplier (I am in Australia) and borrowed one from a friend as I was in a hurry. A few hundred rounds later I broke the borrowed one. When I got the new one, I slowed down and realised I was getting a lot of resistance from the round not seating properly in Station 1. A strip down revealed that the spring that pushes the case positioning thingy had broken in the middle and the two halves wound themselves together. Replaced it with a cut down 5lb 1911 recoil spring (I was in a hurry as I said) The spring still works well years later, My other 650 also broke the same spring and now sports a 1911 recoil spring as well. Peter
  11. They are very widely used here in Australia. I know that one of the manufacturers here uses a centrafuge to apply the coating. Another tumbles them and needs to do it three times. They are baked in a low temerature oven. What they use here is some kind of industrial high temeperature 2Pak paint. Obviously the bulletmakers keep exactly what they use secret for commercial reasons.
  12. If you are going to chamber your dummy round from the magazine repeatedly, it will quickly become deformed and the projectile pushed into the case. Use a FMJ projectile. Put a piece of dowel (Cut from a pencil) the right length to support the projectile into the case before seating. Another way is to clean the case and projectile with a solvent. Put some epoxy into the case enought that it will flow and support the projectle, seat the projectile and leave the round nose down in a tray to let the epoxy run around the base of the projectile. If you are drilling a hole in the side of the case, do it after the bullet is seated as the case is easier to hold and the case less likely to deform. Peter
  13. I am the Australian dstributor for CED. I recently had a client who's timer wouldn't charge. He was using a non CED charger which was the correct 5V. A CED charger worked no problems. I have also had clients blow them up with the wrong voltage charger. I'm sure CED in US can supply the correct charger for a reasonable sum, its not worth messing with it. Peter
  14. He is looking to install the one large ball at the front of the yoke the way the PC center does some guns. Brownells does not have a fixture or kit for this type of lock. You just have to find a ball and spring the size you want and use a appropriate roll pin starter punch as a staking tool. The large ball detent used at the front of the crane by Smith & Wesson is not a seperate staked in ball and spring. It is an assembled ball detent available from McMaster Carr Part number 84835A11. It is a press fit into the crane. Peter
  15. We don't get Titegroup or Clays in Australia, but of the powders I have tried (Blue Dot, Red Dot, 231 and WST) the cleanest, and the best performer IMHO, is WST. Yes you do. Clays is AS30, Clays International is AS50 and Clays Universal is AP70. They are not the only powders ADI sell to Hogdons either. Peter
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