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So, I have recently finally gotten possession of all the materials needed to reload .45 Auto for my 1911 and a Sig P250. I shot mostly through the full sized Sig P250 with a 4.7" barrel. I am using Titegroup powder loading either 185gr plated Berry's bullets or 200gr Frontier CMJ with CCI primers and some new Starline brass to make is less variable to start). So, finding load data for plated bullets is a bit tricky, but based on the published info, I loaded samples of the following: 5.0gr for both the Berry's and the Frontier CMJ. - All the load data for for the FMJ 200gr bullets had a low end of 5.0gr and Frontier states you should use FMJ data from Hornday 9th Edition. - The info from Berry's was to use mid-range data for lead or low end FMJ data, so I went with low end FMJ from Hornady 9th Edition and the Hodgdon website. I took, them to the range and had a successful session, with a couple of observations. 1.) the Berry's bullets load seemed to not burn all of the powder, leaving some residue in the barrel after firing. 2.) one of the cartridges did not feed and got stuck in the chamber, i am guessing it was not sized properly. So, one, is unburned powder a sign, I overloaded the charge? Or is it a sign that burn rate on the powder is not appropriate for the bullet? As to sizing, I did not size the new brass before loading, only expanded them. Do most of you size even new brass? I am thinking I need to do that after this experience with one cartridge out of 40 rounds. Thanks for any insight. RD

I got Allegra with some 9mm ammo I ordered from Sportsman's Guide over one year ago! It finally shipped last week, with a timely sample of Allegra. Two of our household uses Allegra! I ordered the ammo so long ago didn't care about getting it, but it was a matter of pride to keep hitting those "keep this order?" emails for over a year! All for 150 rounds of Winchester White box. (decent price, not great...) Cabela's always seems to give me those 5 hour energy camo bottles, that stuff tastes like shoe polish!

Oops, that was supposed to be on the Cabelas M22 Thread!

Got my Blazers and M22's this week. Got me back over the minimum inventory threshold again. Thanks for the thread guys! Off to the range. Saturday may be a nice day!

I agree with what you are saying, but want to put a finer point on it. 1.) Our 2A Rights must be clarified and defended within the framework of the law and current practice and political climate. 2.) Our best defense is a strong Offense. Such and Offense has been missing in NJ until the past couple of years. 3.) One must play the VERY long game here and see the situation in the context of a multi-decade outcome. At a minimum, today our effort should be defend and extend the current laws the recognize and support our rights. Getting compliance with existing law may take years but it is worth it as it will set the ground work for the larger more significant changes we desire. The Second part is to continue to litigate the restoration rights impinged by existing laws, third is work the political climate to find more 2A support in the legislators and administrators of the government. One of the problems we have in the state is that the politicians have no pressure on them to support 2A rights, only changing the legal and political calculus will we be able to change the politicians. Most people get it backwards, generally the political climate of a state or country is a reflection of the mood/convictions of the populous, it only changes AFTER, the people change, and that is what need to do. Recalls, etc. are longshots today, but they can only be seen as skirmishes in the context of the overall war to change hearts, minds and the legal climate. This ANJRPC effort is where things actually happen in conjunction today with the federal lawsuits.

Mine went through and I just got that wonderful "Shipped" message on the order!!!! Woo Hoo! This will keep my kid in ammo for a bit longer. Sunday I only let him bring his Savage MK II to the range and he still went through 200 rounds in less than an hour, with a little help from me :-).

my guess is as soon as you go look at the order status, it will show it backordered. i originally saw 3/5 as well, then backordered.

That is a great trick! I guess you are working some back door into their ordering system! I wonder kind of web-fu you have, but that is a good trick! The inventory is missing from the store-front, but you get to it in the cart.

I have ammo on back order since JAN 2013. don't get your hopes up. I stopped doing business with SG after their horrible response to the ammo crunch.... They send me a notice about every 60 days that if I don't confirm a new ship date, they will drop the order. I have been extending it out of spite at this point. Possibly the worst customer relations I have ever seen for a catalog/website retailer. They should have just cancelled all of these orders and started over (and dropped all of that "out of stock" ammo from their catalogs and website).

The reason this scam works is the IRS is very effective at making everyone scared to death of them for reasons of Government action (only possibly legal). Once the fear is established, the bad guys have a useful tool for their own uses. The problem here is that we let the Government have that power...

From the CMP Sales update e-mail : I guess there was some old .30-06 AP ammo available, but as usual is gone in minutes.... .30-06 AP M2 METAL LINKED AMMUNITION. The CMP had approximately 300 cans of .30-06 AP M2 LINKED ammunition for sale. Rounds are packed in rusty .30 cal cans, 250 rounds per can. Manufacturer varies. It appears that much of this ammo was not linked at time of manufacture, but at some later time. Some of the cans have U.S. manufacture (LC, FA, etc.), in same linked belt with Norwegian and other foreign manufacture rounds. Manufacture dates range from 1940 -1956. All of this ammo should be considered as corrosive. Please note that the current 10 can annual limit for .30-06 ammo does NOT apply to this linked ammo. Customers are reminded to make sure that .30-06 AP ammo and linked ammo is legal in their State. Item number is 4C3006U217-250P. Price is $100 plus $11.95 S&H. NOTE: Unfortunately, before we could make changes to the description and send the sales announcement, it was spotted on the estore and sold out almost immediately. Anyone who placed an order because they expected something other than was described above should [email protected] with cancellation instructions. .30-06 AP M2 LOOSE AMMUNITION. The CMP has approximately 3000 cans of .30-06 AP M2 ammunition for sale. Rounds are packed loose in rusty .30 cal cans, 200 rounds per can. Manufacturer varies, but most of the rounds are Norwegian (AYR headstamp) manufactured in 1956, Berdan primed. Although the 1956 manufacture was reported as using non-corrosive primers, some of the rounds may have corrosive primers. Please note that the current 10 can annual limit for .30-06 ammo ALSO APPLIES to the AP ammo. Limit is not 10 cans each of AP and 10 cans each of regular M2 ball, but 10 cans total between the two NLUs. Customers are reminded to make sure that .30-06 AP ammo is legal in their state. Item number is 4C3006XAP-200. Price is $125 plus $11.95 S&H. NOTE: Anyone who placed an order because they expected something other than was described above should [email protected] with cancellation instructions.

Since the original poster is silent, we'll all try to infer the code. Sort of like looking for binary strings in the Hebrew text of Leviticus :-) Since the Greek (HXP) Garand food has been steadily available for years, I will assume he is referring to the Federal AP ammo at the bottom of the page (Federal 5.56mm XM855, http://www.odcmp.com/Sales/ammo.htm#federal762ammo the link is named incorrectly...) For those of you with CMP quals (http://www.odcmp.com/Sales/eligibility.htm), it looks like they recently expanded their ammo order list to include Handgun ammo. that is new to me, I hadn't looked at the site at least 60 days until this little note made the hint. The bulk price for .45ACP Blazer is not bad (38.5 cents/round plus shipping). Note the comment at the top of the page about back orders. You may wait a long time, but heck I have had a back order for 9mm ammo in with Sportman's Guide for 12 months! Note, the price increase on HXP M2 Ball, it is now $118/case plus shipping that is a 20% increase. Still way cheaper than commercial ammo but it does make reloading a bit more attractive. I have been reloading old HXP cases for a unit cost just under 50 cents a round.

I can tell you that "One day in the life of Ivan Denisovich" is an absolutely devastating novel to read on many levels and I think should be read by ever adult to understand the ultimate end state of centralized power without individual liberties and how the human mind is conditioned by that reality. The problem with Solzhenitsyn for most American's is that is hard for us to make a direct connection to his observations and thinking with the life we are living. Like the proverbial frogs in the pot, we don't feel the heat rising until it is tool late. He is exactly right on so many levels and a wonderful support to those who know the temperature is already rising but difficult to use as a thermometer.

I am trying to get my son out when he is home from college around thanksgiving, if we get a time, i will let you know and see if we can meet up. I think you have an M1 Garand too, right? We usually put a lot a few clips through that as well.

Thanks guys, i knew would know the deal :-) your mixed bag approach is a pretty darn good test case! I am going to see if I can make it out out to the qualifier to meet you and see some smoke and lead!

So, I am pretty new to Muzzle loading. I have a hand-me-down T/C New Englander in .54 cal. I also had handed-to-me, some Pyrodex P and I obtained some Pyrodex RS for the gun. So far both shoot just great (reliable and somewhat consistent groups), although the P is a bit cleaner. Now, the question. The gun came to me with a tin of very old Remington #11 Percussion caps that are running out. They have been reliable as long as the primer stayed in the cup. about 25% of them lost the primer! I think they are pretty old (maybe 15 years old) So, I found some CCI #11 Magnum Percussion Caps. Are these a reasonable primer for the New Englander using Pyrodex? I can't seem to find any definitive statement on good or bad. it just seems they are "more flame". Would this mean a bit more pressure/fps on the round or just more likely to ignite the powder? As you can see, I am learning. Smokin' .50 -> I do hope to get out to OBRC one weekend as this black powder is getting under my skin quickly, but calendar is not letting it happen quite now! BTW, I just remembered that there was a previous topic with this name from MosinRob, but it seems we never answered the question "Is there reason to not use the #11 Magnums?"

When I shoot at the range, I normally only put 5 rounds in the magazine. That is because I like to shoot 5 round groups and compare over time and it drains my wallet ever so more slowly. I have absolutely no desire to tell someone else how many rounds to put in their magazine. If they have a need/desire to put 60 rounds in the AR extended mag and dump it in 60 seconds. I'd be happy to help them, but It is is not my place to tell them to save their dough. I also don't believe I have any business telling them how, when or where to buy their means of personal protection, how to put a dog in my car, how I identify my 17 year old in his car, ruin people's lives over stupid juvenile pranks by labeling them as sexual predators, regulate every aspect of someone's real estate, etc.. NJ regulations are the worst in the country on a whole range of issues not just 2A, PA is marginally better, but no utopia. That place disappeared about 80 years ago with the New Deal. We are a processed, sliced and diced and boxed-in society today. It is only an issue of degree. BTW, CA in totality is actually much worse than NJ. So we do have the going for us, sigh. We are probably only 2nd worst when it comes to regulation.

It would take a hundred pages to describe the history (I have lived in Readington and Branchburg for over 22 years), but the bottom line is that there has been a long history of mis-trust between the township (committee and residents) and the Solberg family that dates back to several attempts to complete extremely large expansions of the airport (think Teterboro size) and later back handed attempts at selling the property outright to a developer for an industrial park or housing development (exactly what is a bit murky). The township and its residents has a love/hate relationship with the airport itself. Love the open space around it, like/tolerate the small airport generally speaking, but not interested in a major development in the heart of the township that would change a rural township into another Bridgewater type area. (Readington is the furthest east municipality in Central New Jersey that can still be considered Rural in any real sense). The township and its leaders have tried lots of things to work with the Family on a plan for the property. In the middle of this, the family appears to be split among themselves (two sisters and a brother). The leadership has a long history of anti-development in general (They have about 5-6 lawsuits pending on any given time with developers and it has been that way for a very long time.) Julia Allen is the leader of the group (anti-gun it appears, she actually at one time maybe still was listed on the Bloomberg MAIG site). The condemnation (officially for the purpose of retaining the airport) was actually put to a township referendum by the leadership about 8 years ago and it won pretty handily even with major money and influence spent to defeat the referendum. This event happened around the time of the selling out to become an industrial park appeared to be happening while at the same time, the family was officially putting in for an expansion of the airport to a size larger than Morristown airport. How does Donna Simon fit into this? Well her husband was a former USMC Air traffic controller who was appalled at what the township was doing to “ruin the airport and the Solbergs” if I remember the words correctly. He was actually taking flight lessons at the airport at the time if I remember correctly. So he with some knowledge of air operations did some research into the proposed changes the Solbergs had put forward. What he found out surprised the heck out of him. (I am remembering this from my own attendance at township meetings and news articles and a couple direct conversations with Michael Simon). The proposed changes in the airport had been sold by the Solberg’s as safety improvements for existing operations, when in fact he found out the changes were more in line with creating a small commuter operation along with significant corporate jet traffic, maybe even some cargo. After confronting the Solberg’s on the bait and switch, he ended up switching sides and began to support the township’s position after realizing what was going on. So Donna as half of that issue became part of the mess. The airport and Readington have been in court now for almost 8 years if I remember right and I expect it will continue until at least one or two of the Solberg’s siblings die and the remaining ones work out a plan for the property that can be approved by a township planning committee or the township prevails in court. BTW, Donna ended up in politics a couple hears later after she helped start a recall campaign against probably the worst Sherriff in NJ in the last 50 years, Deborah Trout. That is a whole other story. I can tell you that that case, she was doing things that can only be considered good by lover’s of freedom, legality and civility. The Trout issues are still bouncing around in Hunterdon and continue to end up in court, and could actually cause issues for Gov. Christie one day. I feel it is safe to say she is a pro-2A politician (she is actually an NRA member, you can verify on the NRA-ILA website) and that the development issues are more complicated than simple eminent domain. Her primary candidate/opponent is Marie Corfield, is a Public School Teacher and very liberal Democrat who was a very public opponent of Christie’s reforms on taxes and compensation for teachers. She is also a strongly anti-2A candidate. Anyone who votes against Simon is voting for Corfield and would be a definite vote for Sweeney/Weinberg and company.

i i was in the store buying some arrows today and saw about 6 crossbows on the rack today. i didn't look close, but it looked like a couple Horton's and at least 1 Ten Point.

I agree, get slugs designed for smooth bore barrels and you will be okay, i wasn't clear. Mismatching is the problem. I normally shoot a rifled barrel for hunting. OP, I assume is looking for something for a smooth bore.

Heritage Guild in Branchburg has a very good selection most of the time. i haven't seen how oversold they are in the middle of the season though.

Remington Slugger Managed Recoil Rifled slugs. These are probably about the cheapest slugs you will find, they are 2 3/4" only 1200 fps, so very low recoil. I keep some around to find the paper on the first couple shots when sighting in my shotgun for deer season. I then switch to higher power sabots to get the scope fully sighted in. I have also used them to introduce younger kids to joys of recoil when moving up from a .22LR They still kick, but only a bit more than the usual target load for trap. http://www.remington.com/products/ammunition/shotshells/slugs/slugger-managed-recoil-rifled-slugs.aspx I have no idea if they are readily available right now. BTW, shooting slugs from a smooth bore barrel is a random walk. Don't expect any consistency past 15 yards or so. These Rifled slugs are supposed to work better then smooth slugs, but i've seen them keyhole at 50 yards.

My son took the NJ Hunter Education course today and the instructor (and the booklet) reminded us that you can put a powder charge and ball/bullet in a muzzle-loading rifle and transport it as "unloaded" as long as it does not have a percussion cap install. Does that help? :-)

I ordered some of this Fiocchi ammo on 1/5/13, it is currently back-ordered until 1/14/14! on the same order, I requested Mini-mags as well. they are back-ordered until 12/31/13... I have been buying Mini-mags from them for at least 4 years. I have received cancel/keep requests at least 3 times for these this year for this order (and a separate order of 9mm I put in later) and the dates just slide right. SG is clearly not following a FIFO model for orders as some of you ordered ammo after I did and have either received it or go earlier ship dates. SG has not covered themselves in glory with this ammo backlog. they should have just cancelled the orders as unavailable instead of stringing us along. When/if things ever stabilize, SG will no longer be a "go to" site for ammo purchases. They clearly don't the logistics under control. I had an order in with Brownell's that stuck around for 4 mos, but at least they finally filled it. Cabela's, no issues except for an order of .30-06 that got back-ordered after after the order was originally accepted as in stock. That showed up 30 days later too. BTW, I have found the brick and mortar stores have been easier to get .22LR anyway. My local store in Flemington (Sportsman's Rendezvous) usually had stuff in stock if you stopped by on TUE or WED after deliveries even when things were real bad. Heritage Guild almost always had some ammo in Branchburg, but they would always limit you to one box. HS in Easton is still range use only (even as of a month ago).

that is an illegal transfer. the only way you transfer a handgun to someone who will take it out of your sight is to transfer using a Pistol Permit. someone can shoot your gun at a range, but only with you in their presence. you are responsible for the gun at all times.