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I was lookin thru this years rezults and then last years. Last yaers WI match, Ben Steoger shot the whole thing in about 100 seconds flat. Man! that was fast. http://idpa.com/matchresults/2006/2006_wi.pdf I didnt see his name in this years results. Where was Ben this year? Looks liken he shot it in 2005 also, and took "high overall" again. http://idpa.com/matchresults/2005/2005_wi.pdf If Ben woulda shot it this year, he would have taken "high overall " again.

I was flipping through some gunzine at the grcoery store and an article was about using an ultrasonic cleaner for cleaning brass. Anyone here every try using an ultrasonic cleaner for their brass? It would be a good way to keep the (lead contaminated?) dust down. (Yeah, I do the used dryer sheet trick on my tumbler and separator too.)

Yeah, all, looking for other makers of micrometer adjustable bullet seating dies besides Redding. This will be for 9mm, 40, .45, .223 and .308. Thanx

Is she hot? This thread is useless with out pics! The question still stands: Good price or not? Cheaper alternatives for a copper clad bullet?

Cabela's has 180 gr round nose or flat point "premium swaged-precision plated" Berry's MFG bullets for $16.99 per box of 250. that's $68 per one thousand, for a copper clad bullet. Does that sound like a good price? Any other cheaper suggestions for a copper jacketed, plated, washed bullet? Nope, no lead!

kdmoore on the first page of this here thread writes: Hyputetically speakink, if I's walk into a situation where after the first 2, 3 or 11 shots fired from my gun hasn't gotten the bad guys to bug out by any means possible, like jumping out a 3rd floor or higher window, I've got a way bigger problem on my hands than I originally thought and should have brought the crew served weapon instead of my sidearm. Yeah, if they're still hanging around after my first several shots and wanting to ambush me, then those guys need to get signed up for Delta Force, GSG9, the SAS, or some PMC outfit like Black Water. Never leave cover w/o a topped off gun. Never cross an opening non-cover area w/ an empty gun. Include in the hard copy CoF description that catch all of "all reloads must begin and end behind cover". That's I heard they did at this last Badlands match. Then the SO verbalizes that failure to do so will get ya a procedural. Lastly, set the CoF up so that such range lawyering/quibbling/gamer-ness gets the ki-bash rite from the get go.

surfing through sinclair's websiite i found this: http://www.sinclairintl.com/cgi-bin/catego...&type=store lookins like ya gots to buy this part two: http://www.sinclairintl.com/cgi-bin/category.cgi that holds your deburring and chamfering tool also, using an allen headed set scwer. no if'n ya had a drill press this thing might be the baum cuz it indexes off the case shoulder and you stick cases in just like the Giraud, the pencil sharpener way. or if you had a way to mount a drill or 3 pointed up you could have'n 'em all lined up and running and trim, then deburr, and then inside neck chamfer all lickety split assembly line like and be done w/ your case prep and tooss them in the ready to be primed, charged w/ powder, and bullet seated box.

The search function must have gotten squirrelly on me, b/c punching in "rcbs case trimmer" got some funky results. Surfing through 5 pages here took a while. I already have the hand cranked (which sucks!) RCBS case trimmer. I was thinking about powering it up w/ their drill attachment, 8 dollars, or their motor unit (167 from Midway). How about their 3 way cutter? I'm just checking my options versus blowing 370 + buckaroos on a Giraud. I suppose the RCBS X-die would/could cut down on my case trimming needs, in that case, getting the drill converter might be a better, cheaper, and used only intermittenly option.

Looking through 5 pages of posts here so far. Think I gots the which dies to buy part down. saw one interesting post where the guy listed his component price per 1,000. This was back in 2005. Linkey: http://www.brianenos.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=17010 the poster said something like $158/1,000 for his reloads which according to him wasn't much of a price savings over Winchester White Box 55gr FMJ's What are you guys seeing loaded 55 gr FMJ rounds going for per a thousand now? Where? I saw some remington green ad white boxed 55 gr FMJs going for $6/box of 20. That comes on out to $300/ 1,000. Also, in looking through some 5 pages of threads here, I got re-educated on case trimming. I forgot about that for rifles. Dang! More stuff to buy and additional hoops to jump through. It seems the names of trimmers kept popping up in this order: 1. Giruard 2. Gracey 3. Dillon Now I have seen the Dillon one attaches to a die and then to a toolhead. It has a hose for a vacuum to suck off the brass chips while it's trimming. What about the other two trimmers, the Gracey and Giruard? Will they go on a 550 toolhead? I read the standard Gracey trimmer doesn't deburr and/or slightly chamfer the inside of the case neck. I guess the Giruard trimmer or it's carbide cutter does. I figure that would save me manual steps. Does the Dillon trimmer do the deburring and chamfering too? I like the idea of the Dillon since it's on the press. It seems like things would go quicker if it was on the press. I done figured I'd run two tool heads. One to do the sizing and the trimming (Dillon trimmer?) and then another .223 toolhead to do the powder charging, bullet seating, and then crimping.

MarkM on the first page of this thread wrote: I don't buy 20 + gallons of water at a time, though.Nor is my usage of water tied directly to the (sunk costs) investment of tens of thousands of dollars (a car / truck). If I stop buying gasoline, then there's no point to continue owning a car. If I stop drinking water, well, I guess I'd be dead in a few days. I can always live w/o the car if I had to, although "making a living" would be different altogether. Read my signature line, wontchya? Link to the plot summary for a movie called "The Last Chase" produced in 1981: http://imdb.com/title/tt0082642/plotsummary

is is just STI and trijicon?

a couple more questions for you all about IDPA nats: 1. To win something off the raffle table, do you have to be present when they draw the raffle tickets? 2. What if you signed up to shoot nat's and something came up where you couldn't be there and shoot it, do you still get a raffle ticket? 3. Is there a # to call to see if you won anything? Could one of your buds pick that item up for ya and bring it back?

the "hush house", what is that another military contradiction in terms? like military intelligence? like friendly fire? or jumbo shrimp? nah, they're aint nothing like the sound of that 30 mike mike cannon going "BRRRPP"! shakes your clothes, vibrates through your chest, rattles the windows.

hey steve, revchuck and jim watson, thakn you fer the replies. i'm not going to nationals. i just think it was totla Bull Hockey what I saw at that one match. A whole freakin' family out there scrounging brass while were out trying to eat our lunch the whole time thinking that we will be able to pick our brass up after the match. they probably turned right around and sold it on ebay or back to some of the club members/match participants. no, i'm not saying skipping out on the pasting duties to be a brass whore. we all know there's a few seconds here and there between shooters and pasting where you can grab some brass. even if i was an SO or MD and I saw some competitor totally blowing off his squadmates and their pasting efforts in order to scrounge brass, i'd ding that person too. unless it was something already pre-arranged with the squadmates, maybe they all split up the brass later, i dunno.

just a quikc qustion about nationals, is it a lost brass match? does that mean a compettor will get penalized if he picks up brass while he is waiting for his turn to shoot a stage? let me see, 200 rounds minimum, 315 shooters = 63,000 pieces of brass left laying on the ground who gets it? i's only bringun it up because i went to a large match once and these people who i guess were members of the host club came in and swiped up all our brass while we went out for lunch. came back to shoot in the afternoon and we were like "where's our brass?" i thought that was poo poo.

i didnt see no switches for the am/fm/CD changer stereo. where do you insert the CD's, anyways? i guess it'd be OK to take one hand off the wheel to change discs. i usually have to drive w/ m knee when swapping them out, anyway.

i gots ta wonder 'den what would be a perfect system?

with IDPA Nat's less than a month away, their are probably some realy successfull IDPA shooters who are on this forum that will stay away from this topic just so they don't cuase no trouble here which in turn might follow them to Nat's. ask this question again after Nat's, especially if some shooter gets DQ'd after the fact, like last year.

thank you Jim. i thought alzheimer's was setting in. my hat's off to you folks for including the classifier in 6 of the 25 stages. way back when some whiner came on here moaning about sandbagging at major matches. incudineg the classiefeer in a major match was one os his or her suggestions as a some method to put off the sandbaggers and "trophy hounds". i think a lot of posters got on him for whining about it and we all told him he needed to practice a lot more. oh well, jim that was neat that you guys did that. i wonder now if more major matches will follow suit or if IDPA will revamp the whole classifierre set up, maybe to something like USPSA has. jd

the Summer Sizzler was a match shot in TN. it was 2 days long of 25 stages, six of them were the classfieer. if you go to idpa.com and check the results here: http://idpa.com/matchresults/2006/2006_summer_sizzler.pdf they are only 15 stages long and some names are missing from the results listed here: http://www.midtnshooters.com/sumsiz%20score%2006.htm at this site, the score incudes all 25 stages, and then a separate column for how the competitors shot the classifier. if that score was in green, that person actually shot the classifier better than the classification he/she entered in (sandbagging, possibly?). in the black, you signed up appropriately to your skill level. if it was red, then he/sshe shot below their entered classification. some people entered as MM actually shot the classifier stages at EX levels did idpa hq take the Summer Sizzler scores from last year and put them on their website as the scores for this year? im cornfuzed. jd

hi! i'm running windows XP. i saw shred's post up above about patching XP for security purposes, so i went to the windows update sight and got all sorts of fixes and patches installed. i did the necessary restart. now when i reboot or log back in, about half the time the desktop icons don't appear, just my mouse cursor and the wallpaper image. when my icons do appear the other half of the time, a little window pops up right in the center of the screen saying something about a windows reinstall, IIRC, and then a Norton window pops up oon top of that one saying that it won't allow it, IIRC. i haven't downloaded and installed service pack 2 yet. i was going to wait until i got some stuff backed up. just in case downloading sp2 does make my computer go haywire. i did a google search, and got maybe one good answer from the windowsnetworking.com website. something about at the command prompt, change to the %SystemRoot% folder, remove hidden attribute from the file, and some more greek speak i know nothing about a shelliconcache. i had to access IE through the windows task manager (hitting ctrl + alt + del). this is a PITA! any ideas what gives? john

ever here someone comment on trends and or fashion? "it all starts out on the west coast and moves east" WAKE UP FOLKS! some people in the rest of the country want the others states to be exactly like Kalifornia wrt to gun laws chances are if you are reading this forum you have a lot of money wrapped up in guns, ammo, reloaders, holsters, belts, range bags, gun safes, electronic ear muffs, range membership (s), UPSPSA/IDPA memberships, gas money back and forth to matches/ranges, reloading supplies, etc. IT IS YOUR RIGHT TO BEAR ARMS VOTE to protect your rights, VOTE your sport +10 on firing your current gov't and getting a new one

oh boy steve moneypenny i went to your profile and then went to your site, read your bio, etc. you mite want to edit your last post because it comes off sounding very anti-Veteran. your bio says your an instructor. we shooters don't number very large. the military folks who could benefit from professional pistol instruction are an even smaller and tighter group. if word of your anti-Vet views ever got to them, kiss your chances of ever teaching this nation's elite good bye. oh and don't forget, these are groups with very deep pockets and more than willing to pay. (very easy to do with the taxpayers money). also, your profile said you were born in '79, so that makes you about 26/27ish. you're also into martial arts got a CJ degree with a PE minor. sounds like you're in good shape. you should already be past that age to have signed up for Selective Service. if the PTB decided to have a draft, it sounds like you would get picked. c'mon volks, we're not trying to pass a new rule in the rule book, now are we? we're just asking the MD's to add one little blank to a major match entry form and buy one more 20 dollar trophy. is that too much to ask? besides, if i happen to be at a match with julie goloski, i won't be walking away with the Hi-Vet trophy.

i checked the idpa website, the results aren't posted there yet. you guys got a link to the results?

'kay, chiillie dawg, since you asked. an acquantance used to live in Great Britain, so he relayed this story to me. it'll sound conspiracy theorye like, but please reed on. the Brit said that's how the gun grabbing started over there. they built nice big ranges overthere for the public to shoot at. then they passed a law that they couldn't discharge a firearm anywhere else but at these ranges. when the Brit went to shoot, they kept track of what he was shooting, what caliber, pistol, rifle shotugn etc. then the gov't passed a law saying that you better have it documented that you had a secure safe inside your house to keep your guns and ammo locked up in. but then that wasn't good enough so a a law was passed saying you had to store guns at this new uber-range. and then the rest as we all aknow is history. those guns got cut up and melted back down into who knows what pieces of crap steel productrs, instead of the nicely machined mechanical works of art they used to be. i',m just a s aying that you all shouldn't get so excited over the state building a new range for you illinoisians and the trap shooters. ya know, there are no free lunches. pardon me, if that sounded to much like a conspiracy thoery here.