I have a Mossberg 16ga, bolt action with a 2rd mag and a poly-choke. I have had it for over 60 years and I bought it used. Still works find--goes BANG when I pull the trigger.
Who said it can't be done? 'Won't work" on a single stage press ...BAH.... Been thinking about trying it for some time, so I took a $40 gamble. For single stage press, I find placing the projectiles on a tray full of charged pistol cases and then seating them is the worst. No more precariously placing bullets on charged cases by hand, or dropping one onto a tray full of charged cases and having to do them all over again. Works great, and with some refinements I felt it needed. Couldn't use my cast press because of the huge nut on the adapter, too bad would have been ideal because I have a "case kicker" and a chute that drops rounds into a bin. The El"Cheapo LEE was just collecting dust, so I'll leave the feeder on it permanently.
Some 9mm Ballistic Lab work for one of the largest privately owned Ballistic Labs in the USA. Conway, South Carolina
Thanks! It's all manufacturing related. I've designed/built many things for many industries, but racing and firearms are my passion. My location helps alot too. I'm near Charlotte, NC and the racing industry, and also about 2 hours away from Ft. Bragg, NC. I do alot of small arms type R&D for the special operations community. I like designing & building chit!! lol It ain't work if you like what you do.
I also want to be a good steward and member of the community here at FHC. I'll try to contribute quality content and help out in any way I can.
Looking at a laser sights, the hawk gazer kind of has my eye right now. can anyone recommend one under a bill? I want to try one on this pcp pistol I'm getting.
it is a hatsan jet 1. midway usa has a sale on the .25 for 135 and I just couldn't pass it up. I've wanted a .25 pcp for a while for some reason. word of caution, I've never owned a hatsan and they seem to have a reputation of either good out of the box or not. The price seemed right and kind of impulse...
Dodged another $300 hit today. I bought a replacement scale almost exactly one year ago when I dropped my other one on the concrete floor. This one's been giving me increasing amounts of trouble lately, until today when it just would not work correctly. It was acting like it was stiff or frozen, with numbers slowly going up or down when weight was applied or removed. I couldn't even run calibration because it kept reading ...OL.. how can it be overloaded with the supplied check weight???? In my panic, I removed the metal pan on top of the plastic platen looking for sticks of log powder that like to bounce everywhere, thinking it might be jammed up in there. As I touched it, the plastic platen rotated underneath my finger, so I gently snugged the screw into it's brass insert to hold the platen in place. The thing has NEVER worked so good! Even out of the box new I noticed it wasn't quite the same as the one I broke (or so I thought). Returns to zero every time now, no more than 0.02 wandering. Yee Haa! Funny thing... something must have happened to my powder measure also, because that thing is throwing rock solid charges all of a sudden, I wonder why though
What brand scale? I had a problematic Lyman. I switched to a redding beam scale for a few years then ended up getting the Auto Trickler III.
After getting more familiar with latency, repeatability and error rates I did not find "reloading" scales to be very accurate, it's in the fine print IF you can find it. Some "name brand" have an error rate of +/- 0.15gr and I just cannot accept a potential of 0.3gr deviation. Finding something suitable that's also affordable (for me) was also difficult. I settled on the Tree JLY-53. It has an error and repeatability rate of 0.02gr and 2 second latency. The only limitation I've found with it is temperature stability. It requires a steady ambient to remain consistent, so since my reloading is in the garage and taking a Que from lab set-ups, last winter I made a finished wood box with a vertical sliding plexiglass door for it on my bench. I have a a wi-fi temperature controller to control a 40w candelabra bulb and the scale, that keeps it at a steady nice 76f and also out of drafts.
Had some time this morning so I hit the reloading bench. Loaded up 100 spicy 9mm EDC rounds for the SIG P365. • New Starline cases • Lehigh 90g EFTM - XD projectiles • 7.5g V-3N37 1422fps - 4" 1295fps - 3"
