Jeff686

I think you are mistaken about one thing. I made the same mistake. I thought that the gunsmith would drill and tap my slide, then screw one of those pre-fab plungers into the frame under the racker. Not so!! They drill a hole deep enought to insert a spring and ball, then use a special punch to peen the rim of the hole enough to hold the ball in the hole. Instant plunger, no tapping or screwsing, minimal depth needed. As your gunsmith if he can put one in your slide or racker without using the pre-fab plunger.

I think you should build your own. How about a box, a stick, and a string? Tape it and post it on you-tube.

Beautiful! Except.... you're going to need a blast shield on that puppy. My V8 with aimpoint was filthy black after one stage, until I got a blast shield.

Bill, Where are you? I live in Salem, work in Corvallis, and shoot in Albany, Dundee, and Tri-County. Have you been to any events yet? If you're short mags, you could try speed steel. People will refill one of your mags for you while you shoot with another. It's not ideal, but works until you can get more mags. With a hi-cap, you can usually shoot two strings (out of 5) on a stage with one magazine.

Cool!!! Now it says "Freddy is a devil"

H20 Condensation or rain on the lens that refracted light from above, including a nice sun-burst. Depending how the water sheeted or beaded it will create sharp or blurry edges in the image. It was more than likely rain, and additional drops added enough mass so it rolled off the lens.

Those trees aren't in Eugene!! There's no one hugging them!!! (local joke)

Thanks to my wife for finally buying me something I wanted!! Thanks to Henning for making them. I just got a set of Henning's grips for my Gold Team!! Good thing too, because I accidentally messed up my old grips with Action Blaster (softened the epoxy putty). Now, I've been searching for better grip screws. I really hate the black slotted ones that came with the gun. I've tried the usual places, but no one can match the size/thread count. Anyone know the specs for this screw? Is it something really odd? Anyone ever re-dril and tap for a more common size? Thanks!

They had a landmine stage locally this summer at one of the matches. The 'landmines' were clay pigeons, and there were penalties if you broke any. Is this legal? I guess it must be. Has anyone incorporated other similar props into their stage designs? I've seen the 'carry the dummy' or 'carry the briefcase' before. I'm wondering about obstacle like penalties. Maybe: Shoot a steel plate that activates swinging clay pigeons over the shooting box, don't get hit! (safety problem?) Anyone seen anything or have any ideas?

If you email me your data, I'll make pretty charts and do some confidence intervals on the different loads. jeff.bures at comcast.net

Was it really case hardened (surface only), or just hard steel (tool steel)?

Yes. This used to happen to me a lot. You have to adjust the spindle and plastic ratchet nut that turns the turret. I don't remember the exact procedure, but if you take it apart and examine the spindle assembly you'll see how it works. It is not obvious how to adjust it because I think some of it is friction fit. I seem to remember you could do something simple, like turn the turret backwards when at the top of the stroke or something like that. If I have a chance to go out and look at mine, I'll post again. Right now, I'm flat on my back with lower back injury. Sorry I can't be more specific.

So, this might be a stupid question, but I have to ask... How so you know this is a sign of overpressure? Is it some ancient wisdom passed from father to son since beyond time was recorded? Did someone see this in a reloading manual? If so, how old is the data? I don't mean to be picky here, but this seems like an extremely arbitrary metric. There are so many variables at work, how can anyone possible know that this is dangerous, without actually properly measuring the case pressures? (Don't get me wrong, it is probably a good canary in a underground mine, but it isn't really telling us much else that 'maybe' the pressure is getting high.) What is the primary failure mode of overpressure (not signs, but failures)? When and where does it occur? If the primary failure mode is primer related (rupture, blow out, blow by, whatever) then has anyone ever tested and recorded primer appearance, starting at nominal pressures and building to failure? Have they done it for each BRAND and HARDNESS or primers? How do we know that flattening and cratering is the sign of imminent failure? Do all primers fail at similar pressures? If so, they certainly don't all look the same, since some are harder than others. For example, I loaded up a 38 short colt to make minor in my 686. I used Federal primers, since they are soft and my 686 has light springs. A shooting friend was looking at the spent cases and got upset at how flattened they looked. He said I should switch to a rifle primer! Why? To hide the flattening? Sure, different primers have different effects, but I doubt his intent was that it would lower the pressure to a 'safe' level. Seriously, does anyone have any real documented proof of primer appearance vs pressure levels?

I use the factory slide stop pin. I trimmed the bottom so it does not engauge with the magazine follower. I like to be able to manually lock the slide back, but don't want the follower to do it.

HRider - you should take a bunch of photos and write an article for Front Sight. Tell us all the details, like how you met them, where you went, what gun you used, and if any had 'Obama' or 'McCain' stickers on their vehicles....

Yea, I'm shooting a 10lb spring too. I shoot a 6lb with my steel load, however. I have to be really carefull not to confuse the two. I wish there was an easy to way to mark them. Oh, how often to you guys replace your spring?

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Attempting to upload excel spreadsheets. XLS files are not allowed, had to zip them up. One is in Office 2007 (original). One is in Office 2003 (compatibility mode, with unknown status of graphs). dot_window.zip

I'm not a statistician, but I did stay at a Holiday Inn last night.

For Fasteddy... 8moa only.

You don't have to be production legal. You can shoot in 'Limited' with almost any automatic. Since you should not be concerned with winning, but rather learning and having fun, just take what you've got for the first few matches. Then, after you have a good look around you can buy a couple of firearms. Also, if you want to shoot Production on a budget, try a Witness (EAA/Tanfoglio). They come at a good price, and are good shooters. Oh, and if you make some friends at the match, you'll be surprised how easy it is to 'try' different guns. If you lived near me, I'd let you shoot a whole match with anything I own.

Yep, but not till Monday...

Jeff, Looks like I finally have justification to upgrade my old Excel (Small Office 2002). If convenient, I would like copies of the file. Thanks. Bill You can do the same thing in 2002. I'll save a copy in 2002 format. I'm not sure how it will look, the colors might be off. You just have to know your way around Excel graphing features.

Excellent presentation Jeff! Now for all us techno-weenies out there, what program did you use for the graphics? Thanks. Bill Hi Bill, I used an online ballistics calculator for the data in the curves, then just made some tables and graphs using Excel 2007. I'll upload the spreadsheets on Monday, if you want a copy.

For HSSMITH. I used a BC of .118 that I found for a 115gr JHP bullet. It wasn't Zero, but it must be close. EDIT: with higher res graph EDIT2: thought there was a missing trace, but with this BC/Velocity the 25yd zero and 50yd zero are almost identical.