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What are you doing with it? I have a LOT of brass in .45 and .38. I just deprime a few hundred at a time. I load on a single stage.

My brass is wildly inconsistent which I suspect is the issue. Although, I would think that it would be irrelevant because the case holder should always be the same exact distance from the bullet seater, therefore the same COAL. I'm all new to this stuff. What is also a good COAL? 2.260" is max, so I'm thinking about going to 2.250" although most are at 2.200".

What can cause an inconsistent COAL? I suspect it is my inconsistent case length, but I am unsure. I was using an RCBS competition die with 223 brass, 24.5 grains of H4895, and unknown manufacturer FMJ BT 55 grain that actually measured 54.5. I adjusted it to seat at 2.260, but my cases were varying from 2.257-2.267. I went through them with my regular seating die and most of them are around 2.257 now, plus or minus .001. What am I doing wrong? I plan on buying a Lee FCD since they have cannelures.

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Depending on how civil/not civil these things are..... If the breakup was ugly, I would suggest selling long arms to friends and keeping your handgun in a rented locker at RTSP or in a legal place. Women (and men) have been known to be psychotic and kick people while they are down. If your ex feels like being vengeful she can call the police and say you are suicidal, threatened her, or simply "running around with guns".

What's the skinny on logger boots? My dad had an uninsulated pair of RW loggers and they killed his feet. Gave them to me when I was young and I disliked them as well. Are they considered less comfortable?

It was a joke.

There are probably lots of guns underneath floorboards and in walls and such. People forget about them. This sounds silly, but depending on the AR you could probably disassemble it. If you could pull the stock, the tube, and the barrel it would be a very neat package.

According to this thread: I can't shoot, my guns suck, and I'm not cool Mall Ninjas really annoy me. They're constantly running "drills" at my range Edit: office wallpaper certainly doesn't help me

How good is the stock at Sarco? I know their ammo is limited and pricey. $150 a keg seems good.

Looks like a Pmag and a propane canister had a baby.

The only gun I shunned irons on was a Mosin-Nagant... that was when I realized the front sight post took up the entire target at 100 yards. My AR15 has A1 irons, and everything else has stock irons. I do appreciate a nice bolt action sporter with a quality scope and bipod. Also, shun me all you want, but I dislike my 1903 sights and wish it were an A3-03.

I had to, sorry. AFAIK, some S&W models are available without locks. I forget what model I was looking at, but it was one of the hammerless J-frames was available with or without a lock. I think it was a centennial? That doesn't sound right.

I am going to try resetting my seating die tonight and see how that goes, then crimp with the Lee FCD which came in today. If I have a failure rate of more than 1/50 or maybe 1/25 I'm going to give a few to a coworker of mine who loads Rainer and see how he does. What still baffles me is when I was roll crimping my bullets I had more success than when I wasn't. I emailed Xtreme and they offered a refund. Nice offer, but I would like to know 100% its my fault before dumping these bullets. Edit: I'm going to follow these follow these directions verbatim: http://www.chuckhawks.com/adjust_reloading_dies.htm If everything works out, I'm ignorant. Thanks for the help guys. Double edit: No bueno. Followed the instructions for setting without a crimp, and my die was set way too far from the shellholder. I drove the adjustment screw as far into the die as possible then screwed the die in until I made contact with a factory round. I have pics of the die. And when I tried to section a bullet (on a dummy round) but quit early: Triple Edit!: I called RCBS about another issue, and while on the phone I asked if modern dies offered me any benefit because of this issue. It turns out that my flaring die originally decapped, and my sizing die was converted to decap. Importantly though, he claims it is my seating stem causing the issue and offered to send me a new one. Odd, but okay.

I am not crimping. My dies can be set up to seat, or roll crimp, or both. I have it seating only.

Bugging you!?! If it weren't for this fourm I would have melted these down and cast them by now! These are NOT crimped. I cannot flare them anymore. I am making every effort to put the bullet in correctly when seating, and as you can see from the round on the right it will strip anyway. My first box I had a failure rate of about 1/25, now it seems like I am to 1/10.

I am no longer crimping. My FCD will be here Wednesday. I am flaring the cases so significantly that the bell is ever so slightly visible once loaded, yet still managed to strip them. In fact, I am having a very difficult time fitting them in my seating die. My final straw tonight was when I managed to slightly strip the plating around the entire circumference of the bullet.

I will not be buying Xtreme bullets again. I am flaring my cases to the point it is extremely difficult to fit the cases in the seating die without crushing them, yet I am still getting the occasional torn plating. Unfortunately I bought 500 bullets and for only $20 more I could have bought FMJs and been happy.

That is a pretty sharp looking Mosin-Nagant. Any nice Mosin always looks strange to me because the Soviet ones are always so crude. I would shoot it. I'm not much of a fan of safe queens.

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Finding the best oil is like trying to figure out who shot JFK. You will go crazy trying to find out. I suspect the fascination with Mobil 1 is the marketing hype it has for engine use. I believe that any SAE motor oil of the same viscosity would perform just as well as Mobil 1.

I've always wanted a Tec-9. What is the going price on a shrouded model?

That is not flared, just a sized case. Is that an issue? You obviously need neck tension. If it is an issue, what am I doing wrong? Also bought a Lee FCD last night.

Bullets measure 451 and case ID is 448.

Gas or electric? Let me know. If Sandy doesn't take them, I know a guy at work who hauls his stuff to the laundromat and may be able to use it.