Jonnin

When it comes out of your seating die, the case mouth is opened up wide from being squeezed hard farther in? In that case, is your seating die also a crimper, and if so, it may be set up wrong? Unless the seat die also crimps, the round should come out of bullet seating with the bullet poked in the brass and the case should look more or less like a perfect cylinder. It may have the bullet base stretch ring that we talked about, but otherwise a perfect cylinder. Then crimping should push the brass into the bullet a little bit, but not enough to make the mouth of the case open up like that. If the case mouth is opened up after seating, wider than the bullet, then your seating die must also crimp and needs to be set up differently.

It is an unfortunate side effect of a politically correct society. We are not allowed to talk about shooting actual enemy so we use a made up joke of an enemy to explain tatics or preparation things. It just does not work to say "when the _____ invade and we kill em all, I prefer an uzi to the AK, what do you think?

The CZ shop is SLOW on some mods -- but I honestly think this is a "get it right the first time" issue. We ordered a very customized kadet in july and it is "almost ready" whatever that means. I also ordered a simple mod to a rami, basic SA mod and left handed mag release, and it arrives today or tomorrow, about 4 weeks for this one. The kadet had to be ordered (they do not stock the .22 or were out of them) and late in the process they had me mail them our red dot sight so they could fit it better -- so there were some delays due to that and some of the things they are doing are for the first time as they get few orders for custom 22s. All in all, though I would love to have had the gun sooner, they have communicated well and I get a good vibe that its going to be awesome when they finish. Just go into it expecting a long wait and if they get to it faster you get a nice bonus.

It is normal to see the base of the bullet in the brass like this, where the bullet stretches the brass just a little bit wider than the rest making a visible area. Usually the only reason you can see this is because of lighting tricks, the reflective surface at slightly different angles can really make it show up but the actual deformed case area is really only very slightly out of round. You should only just barely be able to feel that ring where the base of the bullet is. While overcrimped, they look safe to me, it looks like the crimper hit it behind the lip of the case which pushes that part in but makes the actual mouth of the case bell out, allowing headspace safely. It is still wrong -- you are crimping the heck out of them. 380s are small and their cases are thin. Be gentle with them.

Keep it simple and without the funny but not too helpful statements. The funny quotes could be offensive to some and may seem to be taking the subject less seriously. How about the 2nd in full (all the text not a snippet) and a working defination of militia such as: mi·li·tia ... The whole body of physically fit civilians eligible by law for military service. Surround that with some basic links to good web sites (want to know more? visit www.whatever.org). Maybe a small amount of pro gun text but these basics are all you need. Along with the militia defined, you might note that all the other bill of rights refer to THE PEOPLE to mean all citizens. The 2nd uses THE PEOPLE as well: "the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed" compared to "the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances" and so on. Liberals (dont say this!) often claim THE PEOPLE as all citizens for every other right, but want to limit the THE PEOPLE for the second.... plenty of times the term has been used to mean all citizens, so that can be used in our favor!

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For more precise loads, use a fatter powder. For example, take the 45 acp and say your scale is +- .1 grain accuracy. If you poke in 5 grains of a hot fast powder, the error max between 4.9 and 5.1 is 2%. If you use slow fat powder and drop 10 grains in, the error is 1%, so ther error in your loads is half as much.

absolutely by weight. While powder is designed to prevent this, you still can get air pockets (tiny) or have a small amount of settle room in loose powder, while weight tells you exactly how many grains you have in that scoop. That said I do use the scoop sometimes, and they are fine. Its really about how precise you want to be, the scoops are not unsafe if you use the correct one for your powder and load data.

Viruses are pretty smart these days. The rapid way to fix the machine is to remove the hard drive, install it in another machine, boot the other machine, and scan the new hard drive with a good virus scanner (we use viper). Delete the page file (assuming windows machine). It is rare to have to reload a system or restore it to fix a virus, that is the last resort approach. Most can be removed with the above approach. You can also avoid removal of the disk and headaches by booting your PC off a pen drive and scanning the disk that way, or boot from a CD/dvd or whatever. The point is that booting off the infected disk allows the virus to execute, which allows it to play hide and seek with the software. When you boot from another source, it cannot hide!

and you are correct. A novice PC user can (and often does) make tons of work for the IT/support staff. Heck I am probably an expert user and I still break mine now and then, the difference is I fix it myself.

I am the same way (over cautious), you cannot be too careful with explosives. If that pin can hit anything, something is not set up correctly. This should be obvious right away: your shell plate will be off center, the brass not in the shell plate, or the primer arm thingy may be stuck up in there. Any of those are bad and stuff. Should be a clear drop from the primer in the current piece of brass all the way to the floor for typical presses, or a drop into the tube if you have a tube/guide or something. Regardless, there should not BE anything for the pin to hit, and if there is, take a picture and ask about it here. My short & sweet tips to remain safe are 1) never force anything!! 2) optional, but use of a powder that will overflow the case if you use 2 charges of it, else be careful with the powder charges, 3) make sure each case has some powder in it before you poke in the bullet (prevents squib-> kaboom issues) and 4) use common sense (no fire/sparks/static around your explosives, dont eat the lead, keep one set of components out and the rest stored away, etc). New reloaders seem to be overly careful and do not have a lot of reported incidents. Its when you become used to it and less careful that stuff happens. A year into it, the thing I fear most is missing some error due to familiarity that I would have double checked a few months ago... I try to double check everything still but this is my fear.

Its not the windows libraries or other junk (I rarely use this, many of my programs are just number crunchers), its the basic features. Auto-complete of class members with the associated comments for the fields. Open included files with a click. Not having to deal with make files or other 1980s stuff. Easy to use class factory in the IDE. Collapse code sections with outlining. Mouse over code info, from value of a variable if in a debug session to data type when editing. I am not sure how "caught up" the others are with all the cool features, but the last few times I had to use something else, there was always something the other product would not do that I missed. The IDEs that have "almost" everything else often fail to make project files and configurations easy, either still using makefiles or their own limited internal formats that are just not as rich as what VS has. And a lot of these IDE's are not really "I" -- they use some compiler like gcc by trying to be a wrapper for it, which can lead to aggravations. And I second that about old software -- I still use a half dozen dos 6.22 programs including the trial version of paint shop pro (I bought it, but the freebie was better than the version I bought sadly), egaint (the worlds best tetris style game), arj (7zip is as good --- finally a program that is as good as the old stuff came along!), and a few others.

I have no idea what you are saying about the deprime pin. The pin should fall into empty space below the brass, there is nothing there to hit that could damage it. What you want to avoid is mashing the die into the shell plate too hard, its best if you set up so they all but touch but do not actually touch. The only way I know of to damage the deprime pin is to deprime berdan brass, where the holes for the primer spark are off center and the pin will be pushed into solid brass, folding it over to the side if you tried to force it. If you feel that much resistance in the press, stop before you break things, nothing should take extreme amounts of force and using that sort of force is 1) likely to break something and 2) possibly dangerous if the force is applied to a primed case. As for tumbled brass, I just do it once, first thing. I do not see a need to re-tumble after sizing the brass; if your primer pocket is really dirty use a primer pocket brush on it. It takes a lot of firings of a case before the primer pocket becomes clogged enough to matter.

Back to what I was saying... I see how the mac has better bloat and concede the point. It does come with better software out of the box. (Bloat is any program on the computer when you buy it that is not critical to OS function, all types have their fair share of it). But if you have a computer with programs installed to perform the desired tasks, they are about even. I do not accept preloaded software as a valid way to say the mac is better though; windows is not allowed to put good software on their OS, they got sued for this a few years back and the practice was determined to be monopolistic. If that had not happened, I think windows would come with a video editor now, and a better paint program, and so on. So apart from the "buy a computer, start using it" race scenario, they are, as I said, about even. Mac video editing is better than all but the most expensive stuff for a PC, I have not seen a really, really good free one for PC. Biggest thing for me on a PC is visual studio. It blows anything else out of the water for developers. Anything else I can do on any type of machine.

Walk slower sire, the guy with the fan cannot keep up with you!

why do journalists not know english? Brandish - verb - to wave an item as a threat. No state grants this that I know of, in fact, most define it as a crime.

Trade it in on a real makarov (pistol design, not caliber). The 64 bites the hand more with felt recoil and has a stout da trigger pull. I am not a fan of the 63s and 64s.

If they ask the adult, I agree. If they ask the child, that should not be allowed under the first --- it is a form of using a postion of authority to get information from a minor. I took a moment to read the trash. It is anti gun trash, full of crap about "high cap mags" and "assault weapons" -- with the usual inability to understand or define either term but it clearly states that the author is against gun owners having a decent magazine for defense or a semi automatic rifle for sporting purposes. In his eyes guns only exist to kill people and must be limited to prevent violence blah blah blah. Typical liberal garbage.

Thats as much as I was able to google. I couldnt find an exact list of dates to serial numbers or anything else useful.

There is no reason for it. The doctor cannot provide safe gun handling training, or should not be doing so, just as your mechanic should not be removing the wart on your butt. That would be the only excuse for it, but MORE kids die from other causes that were not asked about. It would take a top ten list along the lines of "guns are the #4 killer of illegal mexican drug pusher gang members in ghetto, AZ" before guns show up as a major killer of children. 3000 sounds like a lot until you look at the number killed in car wrecks each year! Without a valid reason, the only thing left is an anti gun agenda of some sort.

The 37-a was a reproduction of their older series, it was made between '73 and '81. It is probably not rare, but neither is it common. It is still 30 years old or so, if it is in mint condition it has *some* value as a not quite ancient but out of production firearm.

As far as I know, this type of brass gets shorter as it is used. Random length brass will mess with your crimp if you are a perfectionist, but you should be ok to use up to the point that your primer hole wears out, as that should wear out long before your case becomes too short to use. The caliber is usable between AT LEAST .84 to .85, if not shorter still. I do not think you can go too much over .850. It may be good all the way to .825 or so --- as long as the bullet seats in the brass well enough to stay there and the OAL of your finished round is in spec, the round is OK to shoot, if not the best for accuracy or consistency. What makes the pressure increase is a volume decrease, which would mean you seated the bullets deeper --- if you kept the same OAL, the bullet is into the brass at the same depth as always, there is just less brass around the bullet now. If you go deeper for your OAL, you must reduce your powder charge and deal with that if your loads are hot. A small amount of extra depth quickly leads to a lot of pressure... try to stay with the load data's OAL spec.

I feel bad for the bear. Sorry to put it that way, but that is how I feel.

Lee often has refurbished presses on the cheap. If you can afford it try to avoid the aluminum framed ones though. 45 is really easy and a great one to learn on. You can save at least 50% off every box of ammo by reloading, saving up works but a buy now, save forever strategy works as well. Even a more expensive press pays for itself rapidly if you shoot a lot.

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