nicholastheczar
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I use both.
For pistol, I wet tumble first and then go through my loading steps and then dry tumble the loaded ammo to remove the case lube.
For rifle, I dry tumble to get any crud off the brass then size, deprime, and trim. I then wet tumble my sized brass to get the case lube off and clean the primer pockets and the load the clean rifle brass.
For my wet tumbler I use the SS pins with a little bit of lemishine and dawn soap in hot water. My wet tumbler is home made and I can do about 1200 pieces of 9mm at a time. I have a timer on my tumbler and set it for 1 hour and my brass comes out looking like new. I use a dillon media separator to remove the pins from the brass and spray with cold water from the hose. I dump the brass out on a towel and then drop a rare earth magnet in my brass to get any left over pins and to grab any steel cases I missed (usually S&B ). I use the bowling ball method to dry my brass and then let it sit in the sun for an hour or two to really dry it out.
Wet tumbling cleans brass so much better IMO but I still have a need for both in my loading system.
Nick
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I also run the Bladetech WRS. I like the knowing that if I am running a 3 gun stage and the pistol is going to be used last, I can latch the hood and not worry about the pistol falling out, especially if I am running a slung rifle.
Nick
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What JJ is saying.. after you've prepped your brass.. (all sized then trimmed) - no need for a sizing die again (I do have a universal decapper on, just to make sure no tumbling media is in the primer hole), so no lube is needed
After I size/trim.. I throw the cases into corncob to polish and remove the lube, and it breaks off any burrs from trimming...
This is what I do as well except I use wet tumbling with SS media after size/trim.
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I just bought my first 1050 yesterday. I've had my 650 for 14 years and have been shooting a lot more rifle now and the swage was worth it. I'm interested in a bullet feeder option for my 1050 as well (which will be dedicated to 223). Curious to see what is recommended here, GSI vs MBF.
Nick
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Thanks Nick.
You're welcome
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Is there a list of which Pros are invited to which match?
Here is the Pro Series Match matrix I recieved
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Its not the powder that makes it bad its the bullet. 55 gr fmj bt does not have a great bc and if you plan on shooting beyond 300 I would reccomend at least a 69 gr hpbt 75 or 77 gr is even better. I zero my rifle for my long range stuff and my 55 gr stuff is always within an inch or 2. Which is good enough to ring steel out to 300 yards.With 55's it is pretty bad beyond 300. But I haven't tried h322 in any of my heavy loads as I have always used varget for those.
That's discouraging to hear. I've got that, H335, TAC, & CFE Rifle to try to find a replacement for the 2230. I'd rather just find some 2230 though...
I've been shooting my 55 FMJBTs w/ AA2230 out past 300 for the past two seasons in 3 gun and it has worked well for me. I was hitting Larue's at last years Fallen Brethren at 550. I like to run one bullet vs. having 55s and 69/77s but that's not to say I won't try something different and work up some different loads with a heavier bullet.
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With 55's it is pretty bad beyond 300. But I haven't tried h322 in any of my heavy loads as I have always used varget for those.
That's discouraging to hear. I've got that, H335, TAC, & CFE Rifle to try to find a replacement for the 2230. I'd rather just find some 2230 though...
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I use cci 400 small rifle primers. Hodgdon h322 powder nd hornady 55gr fmjbt. Beyond 300 is when things get interesting.
In a good or bad way past 300? I have about 12lbs of H322 and am about to start working up a new load since I finally used up all of my AA2230.
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In. Looking forward to this one again.
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I'd like to know this as well.
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On my calendar. This is always a very fun match.
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i am using 12 to 1 and it with 99% iso and it is working great, 1000 times better than one shot.
I'm using Bigdawg's formula as well. Works really really well.
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Any new 1-8 scopes?
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Xtreme's for me. I ran the 115s last year and will be running 124 RN this year. I have no problems with them out of my 2011 or Glock.
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I'm in. Texas and Alabama
I'm in too!
Nice!
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I'm in. Texas and Alabama
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I've logged into the Rangelog to find out what is going on. Looks like they need to upgrade the floppy drive from a 5.25" to a 3.5", that should do it
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I personally could care less about the 1 day notice. Glad I received it from no less than 4 sources, and looking forward to signing up. However, today is the day, and the matches are not even listed on the 3gn membership portal yet. There is no way to save / review match details and be ready to sign up, and log in time is 13 hours away. I hope this gets resolved and thoroughly tested prior to having everyone crash the server at rangelog again...and continuing the drama.
They are listed on there now.
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That's the first successful lifter extension I've seen, hat's off! I'm very interested to see how the autoload function continues to work with this mod. Do you quad load week or strong hand?
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Check and registration are in the mail.
Nick
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Not from what I saw. I witnessef 6 of them. 2 were from shooters abandoning their guns on a table instead of the dump buckets. One was from not fully abandoning their shotgun before grabbing their handgun from their holster.Lots of DQ'd shooters. Weather related?
One was a safety not being engaged in an abandoned shotgun. One was a 180 violation, not a trap.
One engaged a target after the marker stating where it had to be engaged from.
They did spot check shooters shotgun load outs before they started a stage. I know there was one shooter that got dq'd before he even got to fire a shot because he was shooting tag ops and ended up counting out 10 rounds in his shotgun.
There wasn't anything difficult and no real traps that I experienced. The stages were way better than the Kentucky match IMHO.
--Bruce
Loading too many is a DQ and not a move to Open? That might explain the number of DQ's as I dont think Ive ever seen a match before where 15% of the shooters were sent home early.
Or were there just a lot of new shooters?
Surely that's a bump to open???
It was stated that its not a bump to open because its Unsportsmanlike and therefore a DQ. There was only 1 DQ for this that I was aware of and it was day 1, first stage of the day from what I was told. They performed audits on at least 2 shooters from every squad on that stage (stage 4).
2015 X-Treme Bullets Texas 3 Gun Championship at Copperhead Creek
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Here are the results:
https://practiscore.com/results.php?uuid=D9F378CD-710B-499A-8134-5E38FFCF1A0C
Like everyone above said, great match, fun stages, very nice venue, friendly ROs, and a deep prize table! You can't ask for anything else. I'm looking forward to next years!
Nick