fred fague

Buy a strong magnet and check for brass coated steel cases. Most are S&B, they look like real brass but are steel. S&B makes brass and brass coated steel. The steel cases are harder to seat the primers. AMMOLOAD cases have a smaller case volume. Look inside and you will see a rim about 1/4 of the way up, which reduces the case volume. When loaded to major the primers show excessive pressure. They are OK to load to minor.

Spray the mag with guide coat or primer to determine where they are rubbing.

A vengeful, ugly Gus will be back.

Tim, I use MTG CMJ 124. OAL is 1.160 to 1.163. STI mags .355 in front .360 at rear. Stainless steel floating spacers, Grams 9x19 followers, 13 coil springs in 170 with 3mm base pads, 140 13 coil springs with 7mm base pads. The 170s hold 28 and the 140s I only load 22, the 140 can hold more but are hard on springs. I had feeding problems with MTG JHP. STI mags' feed lips are easy to adjust and tune. I have some old SV mags, which run with no problems. I had problems trying to adjust the feed lips on SV mags, they are like spring steel. The SV mags also had drop free problems and it took about three hours of sanding and fitting on each mag to get them to drop free. If you look inside the frame you will see a ledge, the top side of the SV mags hit on the corners of the ledge. If you bevel the edges where the mags hit they will drop free without working on them. The STI mags are narrower near the top and do not rub against the ledge.

Call or e mail Cannon. Also phone a lock smith, they might be helpful.

Think outside the box. S*** happens.

Google Albany Rifle and Pistol Club. The site has address and map. It is very easy to find and drive to.

On long runs I engage the safety. If you fall at least the pistol will be on safe.

I use Krunch Products Pistol Pro Mag Slick magazine treatment or Tri-Flow dry lubricant with teflon on steel mags. I spray it on the inside and outside. Both are dry lubes and do not collect dirt. The Krunch Product I bought from Brownells and the Tri-Flow from Shucks Auto Parts. I use Armor All on the inside of Glock mag wells and nothing on the mags. I tried Armor All on the mags and thought it made them too slippery. You could try it on the mags!

Using different bullets will change your zero. Such as MTG CMJ and JHP have different zeros as well as Zero JHP.

I tried all the usual solutions of taking apart, cleaning, oil on the ram, etc. Nothing cured the problem. When I loosened the lock nuts everything freed up. I even bought a special grease gun with a needle attachment and lubed until grease exited out around the end of the pins, ram was still stiff to move. Again loosening the lock nuts on my 650 solved my problem.

My 650 was binding on the up and down stroke. I loosened the Nylock nuts on the ends of the Link Arm Pins. Problem went away!

Look in Matt Burkett's Practical Shooting Manual it shows the Aimpoint mounted with the rear of the tube about even with the rear of the slide. Saul Kirsch is shown with his Aimoint mounted about the same distance. I use a Aimpont Comp C with the rear of the tube about even with the rear of the slide. I like it there because it improves the balance and it seems to be easier and faster to find the dot.

The Hornady 4th Edition shows 124 LRN COL 1.090.