Old School

Please disregard Jon's opinion and comments as he is a known HATER. And... has anatomiclly incorrect hands. OP - Just go to the market and see what's selling and popular. My guess the the most popular pistols are S&W M&P's and GLOCKS. Shoot both if you narrow it down to these two and make your choice.

You're not opposed to large breasts are you?

You are correct...I dropped the ball on the sight radius thing But you're telling me that NFA comp hanging out there is lighter that a barrel of the same length that makes it legal? Just asking?

I never understood the 14.5" barrel thing... Because of NFA and a permanently attached comp it's no lighter than a 16" barrel and gives up velocity and subsequently trajectory. Oh, and you give up sight radius too.

Not good... Additionally - Tough way to get a raise and a promotion

I don't think there's a one size fits all answer. I think an important factor is what cartridges you are loading and especially the components. 223 - my dies require very little / no maintenance. Cases are tumbled clean, I use One Shot lube and carbide dies. So no die contamination. 9mm - Pretty much the same as 223. Clean cases and carbides 15k/ yr rounds and never cleaned a die. BTW always loaded jackets. 45acp - The thing I monitor is lead building up in the seating die and moving contamination over to the crimp die.

It's CR for me as long as I live 8 miles away! And dollar wise a great deal!

My policy exactly. Competition guns in the hands of capable competitors are the only exceptions.

True Chris, I had one doubling and going occasionally rock and roll just from improper assembly. And I'll never tell anyone how to do it.

Happy B-day!! All down hill from here...

Hope you're kidding... It's your family...

Chris - You're a lever action lover. If you sell it you'll regret it.

Gentlemen - A little on a side note, Don't blow off the progressive press for mega accurate loads. I spend a decent amount of time on case prep (FL sizing and length, all cases from same lot and same amount of firings). And using the ball powders my powder weights in the Dillon are with in .1 to .005 consistent. And yes I end up using my 550 as kind of a single stage for rifle.

Meters beautiful, like water. and always within .1 to .05 gr

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This is loaded out of a progressive press but I take a lot of care with my cases. Shot out of a SS DPMS bull barrel that when It was boreoscoped showed some broaching marks so go figure. BTW This was shot w. Armscorp bullets and W748

I load both for accuracy and I do also run a progressive press as well. For lighter bullets 50&55gr Varget works well for me but when I load heavy bullets I end up with the compressed load problem. Now Varget just doesn't work for me in a auto-measure and I find in the lighter bullets W748 is as accurate as as Varget. When loading 69gr bullets I'm getting good results with CFE223. The only thing is I'm shooting a 1:9 barrel and to shoot 69gr pills I have to start pushing them pretty hard and I'm starting to see mild pressure signs not bad but I know enough to be careful. I gave my Varget away and am concentrating on ball powders for ease of measuring.

Yes the bears poop in the woods

Shane your answer is what I was trying to bait Nick into. NFA stuff is what it's all about.

Nick - What are the two ways? Who determined the ways? My understanding the law says "permanently". The two ways I know of are pinned and welded and just welded. Now if tack welded, lets say at the bottom the weld can be ground and the comp removed. So what is permanent?

Like I said I bought BP substitute from Simon Peter on Thursday.

I know Bob and he's great and yes he is in the Bench Rest Hall of Fame. But he is at the other end of the state from the OP. I'm sure Shane45 could do a more than adequate job in this application and at a fraction of the price.

I just picked up a pound of Triple Seven at Simon Peter but expect to take it in the pooper...$30/lb plus tax

Vlad - Was there any recoil involved? I don't like that at all. You know you can save them if you want. And other stuff from that lot I would only fire single shot or add crimp which can be done with any 30 cal crimp die.

I didn't know you pulled the plug... Congrats and enjoy!!!!!!