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  1. A DILLON electric brass trimmer also sizes your rifle brass so it must be lubricated. I learned that the hard way and didn’t lube my first case. That was stuck in my trim die “with no chance of pulling it out” for about 3 hours until DILLON suggested drilling it out. I read the directions more closely and ask a lot more questions these days before loading a new caliber that I’m not familiar with.
  2. Thanks to everyone that helped me with this question. I think I’m going to at least lube my cases in separate shoe box before pouring them into the 650.
  3. I’ve been reloading since I took up competitive shooting in 2003. I reload several pistol calibers but mainly 38SC for competition. When I had an Open gun built for me, my gun builder came by to help me switch from a 550 into a 650 with a case feeder. At 50 years old it’s much easier for me if I lube the cases before sizing, he recommended using straight lanolin from a tube, put a little on your hands and rotating the unsized brass until lightly lubed. It didn’t take long to figure out this was to messy so I switched to One Shot and started spraying the brass right in the brass feeder, works great so far. My question is, obviously some of those cases are pointed up and the lube is covering the inside of my case. I’ve never had a squib, misfire or any cartridge malfunction in over 100,000 rounds of reloaded ammo, but is this a stupid practice to do and eventually, it will foul my powder or is this what a lot of people are doing with their pistol brass?
  4. I’ve actually changed to another clutch from another plate. It rotates fine. I’ve tried it with 20 pieces of brass and also 200 pieces of brass, neither fixes the problem. Dillon has replaced my feeding tube so I assume the warranty applies to parts of the case feeder, just not the motor. I am really perplexed on this one.
  5. The bowl is still as solid as it ever was, which isn’t saying a whole lot.
  6. Everything has worked perfect for first 50K rounds. Then I poured in brand new 38 Super Comp brass and I noticed that the brass was not getting picked up very quickly by the plastic case plate. After I loaded those I went back to nickel plated rounds and now these too were loading slower. My plate can make one full rotation and sometimes only picks up 6 or 7 rounds. Dillon asked me to put a fender washer under the plate at the button, no help, then I was told scrub the plastic bowl really well, no help. Dillon won’t just send me a new plate and they keep hinting that if this doesn’t work I might have to send mine back to them for an inspection. I think I’m somehow missing out on their no BS warranty. Anybody with any suggestions?
  7. You are absolutely correct, regardless of which side it is on, our stars go into battle first. I have never heard that it is correct to have it on one side or the other as long as it is being displayed properly. When I invision our flag waiving in the wind, I see it with the stars and field on the left, so on both of the team shirts that I have designed I placed the flag on our left shoulders, stars forward. I too have seen shirts made with the flag on either side and on some, I've seen the flag was displayed on both shoulders on the same shirt. I will never design a shirt that does not display our flag, I just hope that because I like the look of it on the left sleeve better, I am not disrespecting or incorrectly displaying our flag. This is something that I take very seriously and will try and correct it if necessary. Please let me know of any other information on this. Thank You
  8. Sorry for the slow comeback on this Swanny. You don't really need any company names to make a great looking shirt, look at what AWFAXIS did with there group shirts. Some of their shirts might have company logos on them, but they would look awesome with just the USPSA logo and your name one the back. TECHWEAR used to have preapproval to print some of the company logos that they show on one of their pages. I don't know if that's true anymore. Mine have been just that simple. The current shirts we wear, just show the gun stores logo, name and email address on the back with my name just above that under the collar. Left sleeve I "always" have the American flag and on the right side I have the Glock logo. That logo took some doing but I have one of the top GSSF shooters on my team. Sides have our website again or TECHWEAR will put their logo. On the front I have my first name on the left and my stores logo on the right. Shirts are black fade to royal blue. TECHWEAR will help you some matching custom color strips for the side if you want them. The skies the limit on their colors.
  9. TECHWEAR is the only way to go in my opinion. I've designed Team Shirts when I shot for a major shooting goods company and this year I redesigned the shirts when my team starting shooting for a firearms retailer. As everyone has said before there're a great company to work with and have great basic designs to get you headed in the right direction. The colors of your shirt, that TECHWEAR emails you for your final approval are pretty close to what you get but not exact. Between different colored monitors that you use and what somebody else uses will have slight color variations to them. I also like the fades and I think the coloring is harder because you're mixing colors together. As far as size, they can build the shirt that you want. I'm 6'7" - 275lb and a XXL tall fits me perfect and I like them tighter around the waist so they stay out of my way. I wanted to go with the button up polo but in the pictures they looked to me like they don't lay very flat, so I've always done polos with zipper fronts. Is the look really that important? It is to me when my sponsor is laying out around $1,700 for all of your shirts. I think the best feature of these shirts that no one has mentioned is the quality and the performance of them. Their custom polo shirts are side vented and made from a material that I think is much cooler than any other national name brandB shirt I've worn and I've tried them all. We shoot in 90 to 100 degree weather in the summer and this was a huge reason for me choosing TECHWEAR. Ok and they look pretty cool too.
  10. Also in the catagory of whatever it's worth: For less expensive ammo look at Fiocchi - Target Load - 1200 Velocity - 7 1/2 shot - 1 1/8oz. They sell for about $3.00 a box less then AA's or Nitro 27's, they also have a really nice flat primer to help ignition on a light or off center strike and recoil is similar to the AA's. I've only run 4 or 5 boxes so far at 100% reliability so more time will tell.
  11. I just got my comp today and will be installing it tomorrow with my buddy’s mill. I too started with the Tromix gas booster bushings and I really couldn’t tell much difference. The key for me was the light recoil spring, after that was install I have yet to have a misfeed of any kind with AAs or STSs. It still won’t cycle the cheap Walmart stuff, I get a stovepipe about every 5 rounds. At my local Walmart, the price for cheap Federal’s is only a buck or two less than the Winchester AAs at Scheels and since I shoot for Scheels it’s probably better if most of my products come for there. So the bottom line is that now my gun runs perfect and I know I should leave things along that aren’t busted, but I’d love to get my recoil closer to my 1100. Plus these comps look super cool.
  12. Hi Mike, I'm in the same boat as you, I own the gun but will be shooting my 1100 until the MKA mags are out and I can jack some 922 parts into it. I do know one thing, we are very lucky to have Jim at Firebird working on our problem. Tons of guys on this forum love him and I've heard his name mentioned quit a bit at multigun matches. My buddy did see one of his extentions on a mag at the SHOT show last week at the RAAC Booth and Jim was nice enough to let him take a picture of it and send it to me. My guy said it was top quality and it likes pretty cool too. Guy
  13. Hi J-Ho, I don't see what your looking at on Firebird's website. He's promised people a 10 round magazine with the purchase of his tricked out 1919, but I don't see were the rest of us can buy them. If you where we can order them I would appreciate you letting us know. Thanks, Guy
  14. Thanks Doug, This is a great checklist. Guy
  15. I'm going to be counting on you for that Jim. The stock gun will be here Friday and I hope to have it ready for competition in the next 2 or 3 months. I've tried to call several times without success, I'll keep trying as I know you guys are swamped with calls and emails. Thanks Guy
  16. I not exactly sure how this got into the HUMOR catagory but I new so what the heck. It's my understanding that at least 3 other parts need to be change to make it complainent to use a larger mag. I'm I close on this? Thanks for your help.
  17. Your brass I'm not sure about, I think it's Federas cleaner burning load. I have purchase Federal's new and then returned because of crappy offset flashholes. But with said, I just shot a whole match with 2nd or 3rd timers and they preformed perfect???? Your primers are to soft, while I've used them in the past, I have had them double on me. I use Federal 205 small rifle for my Open Guns and love them, but I prefer to use a Winchester or CCI Primers for my 223's. On the Varget powder, most of the guys I shoot with use it and love it. My Dillon 650 doesn't throw stick powders very accurately so I've been using H-335 with much lighter bullets 55/60 grain. I did just buy a powder thrower and a pound of Varget myself last week and I do find it slightly more accurate then the H-335. For our USPSA matches most of our shots are less that a 100 yards so handloading with Varget is to much of a hassle for me, but for the larger matches I'm going to use it. Guy
  18. Is anyone currently selling extended 10 or 12 magazines for the MKA 1919's???
  19. If you are in Missouri, most of that pretty looking chrome stuff was my once fired chrome plated Starline 38 Super Comp. It makes me sick to think I'm leaving 20 cents on the ground every time I pull the trigger. I think the older I get, the cheaper I get. On a serious note, most of us are shooting those loads pretty hot, so make sure you inspect that brass carefully. Most of the Winchester, Starline or Lapua brass is easily good for 4, 5 or 6 reloads. But on 2 separate occasions, I've seen "AP" brass fail after only 2 or 3 reloads and blow the shooters magazine out the bottom of the gun.
  20. Thanks Ken for an overall great match. This was my first 3-Gun match and while I’ve shot 2 national pistol matches and dozens of area and regional events, this match was by far the most fun to shoot. There were no stages that required a mathematician to remember the secret sequence of shooting 4 targets thru the 1st opening, 3 thru the 2nd opening and so on. The targets were right there in front of you if you possessed the marksmanship to make the shot. Well, I’ve got another year to work on that. The RO’s were the friendliest and funniest I’ve ever shoot with. I’m still laughing at your Stage 1 RO who always needed “a little peeky” to get things started. Now if I can just get “rifle raffle, rifle raffle, rifle raffle” out of my mind. It was also an honor to be able to talk with and work beside our awesome young service men and women. Their help was very much appreciated. Also, a special thanks go out to the other shooters of Squad 11 for their help and patience. Thanks to Bryan Payne for carrying an old man’s gear back to the truck (I think Doug wants his $1 back). And poor Chuck Anderson, who had to put up with me tagging along behind him like a 1st grader asking a 100 questions a day. It’s amazing what you can learn by watching the really good shooters execute these stages. I watched Chuck sit on a shaky bench, in dark, crappy weather and pound targets at 200 yards like he was ringing a dinner bell. Thanks Again, Guy
  21. This is a Guga Ribas magazine pouch. Rene at SSI - Speed Shooters International puts his own badge on the side. They are made in Brazil and in talking with Rene he was having problems getting product from the company. I haven't seen them for sale for the last year or two. Both my son and I have used them in OPEN Class for the past 5 or 6 years. The biggest advantage to them is you can mount the pouch on its side and get a different angle to your mags. I ran them this way for about 4 years until I got tried of getting punched in the stomach when I went prone. If your going to sell it, please let me know as I currently have 2 that are cracked.
  22. I shot this for an Open score back in 2005 and put down a 100%. I did smoke it, but I'm an average B shooter, this thing jacked with my percentages for a couple of years. It finally drop off in 2008. Guy FY-48607
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