big_kahuna

Just to give you a data point for consideration, I've had good reliability loading to 1.225 with 200 LSWC. Has worked well over tens of thousands of rounds in several 1911's. It might work for you as well. Another thing you might try is to set your seating die using a factory hardball round. Hope this helps.

Did anyone put this group buy in yet? I want one! Please advise. Thanks.

I do. Glock 22. CCW'd every day IWB in an MTAC holster... on match days I switch to my primary Production Division rig (Blade-Tech DOH, CR Speed belt, Safariland pouches). Occasionally I CCW my Single Stack (1911) or my other production gun (CZ SP-01). I figured that I might as well get practiced with my carry guns.

I was watching Fox News earlier and saw video of some flooding and heavy rain in Corpus Christi... I got to wondering about Benny Hill and if he might be in the middle of it. I just called the shop and left a message hoping he was doing well. Has anybody in Benosland been to Corpus lately or spoken to Benny recently?

Happy Birthday!

Nick arrived in Cheyenne today! Will take him a few days to settle in. Updates to follow.

My Co-Ax does not look the same as yours. I believe you got a lemon. Contact Forster and they should take care of it.

Years ago I used to review a dozens of resumes every day at work... and we hired some folks with some really interesting names. The best one was: Sum Phat Ho (properly pronounced SOOM FOUGHT HOE but looks like SOME FAT HO) He went by "Sam". ... followed closely by: Phuc Nguyen Tran (pronounced FOOK NWIN TRAN) aka Phuc N. Tran. (FOOK N. TRAN but looks like... well, you get the idea) He went by "Phil". And then there was Ramashandran Narayanasami. (Raw-maw-SHAWN-DRAWN Naw-raw-yawn-ah-SAW-ME) I asked him what the short version of his name was. He replied: "That is the short version." This dude had a great sense of humor. He initially decided to go by "Ram" to make it easy on us. Later, his friends used to jokingly call him "alphabet soup" and "rama-lama-ding-dong"

Good input GrumpyOne. Nick, per the USPSA website you are less than an hour from Weld County Practical Shooters in Fort Collins. I think BritinUSA and Cy Soto shoot there also. Shoot them some PMs... They might have some good advice for you

SWEET! He said he wants to drive.

It is my duty to stand up and challenge this BOLD FACED LIE no matter how tastefully sarcastic it is.

An extreme spread of .007 is no big deal. I see an extreme spread of 4 to 8 thousandths OAL routinely. Expect some kind of variance. I load for both my Glock 22 as well as for my son's 6-inch Benny Hill Fat Free pistol... so I often switch my seating depth between 1.125 (for the G22) and 1.170 (for the BHFF). Each time I switch between OALs, I run 10-30 dummy cases (clean/lubed/resized/deprimed/reprimed using spent primers seated with anvil outwards) through the load cycle; I then measure them all, record the results and calculate my extreme spread and median OAL. I then set my seater die so that the yielded median OAL matches my desired OAL. I then use my handy bullet puller to reclaim the dummy cases, bullets and powder. I keep the dummy cases, because I also use them to calibrate my powder measure. Example: Say I run a bunch of dummy cases through the press and see 6 thousandths of extreme spread (median of 1.145 +/- .003, with once-fired Winchester cases and MG jacketed bullets). For the G22 my desired OAL is 1.125. I keep turning my seating die in until it yields a median OAL of 1.125, with a high OAL of 1.128 and low OAL of 1.122. With a Redding micrometer seating die, this is really easy. With conventional dies, not so much.

Personally, I feel that my time in the Marine Corps was awesome. I found the phrase, "you get out of it what you put into it" to be very accurate. Here are a few things I learned in the Corps... if these make sense to you, then maybe joining the military could be a really good option for you. Military service is not a job. It is a calling. You can't be in this for the money. No amount of money is worth what you will put up with. You better have a good reason for being here. Accomplish the mission and take care of your people. If you do this, everything else seems to fall into place. Doing anything worthwhile involves risk and sacrifice. Know the difference between right and wrong. You will be tested. Do the right thing even if no one is looking. Especially then. It really sucks when someone you know gets recalled to heaven early. Life isn't fair. That doesn't mean you shouldn't be fair.

Was thinking of my kid as a candidate... then I saw this: "Applicants must be at least 21 years of age..." Damn... he's only 18

Forgive the thread drift but... "cursed Baer"? I have not heard too many complaints about Baer handguns and am kinda surprised. I am not a Baer loyalist or anything (in fact I don't even own one) but I am interested in learning more about why yours was cursed. PM me some info if you don't mind. Back to your regularly scheuduled programming...