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      Glock 42 Ammo Preferences

      I was posting about a year ago in the Reloading section about how picky my wife's new Glock 42 seemed to be with reload charges. With 100gn FMJ, I finally settled on 3.3gn of HP-38 powder. On the top end of what my Hornady Reloading Handbook recommends, and in fact a bit more than what Hodgdon...
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      9mm Luger Case Volume

      Living in Colorado Springs now, wife and I did some shooting (mostly with reloads) a couple days ago up in the mountains. :-) I'm now processing the brass, as much of it as I could find in the pine needles. Out of about 100 9mm Luger shell casings that I fired, I noticed one that wasn't like...
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      Hornady Primer Feeder

      Anybody else use a Hornady Lock-N-Load Automatic Primer Feeder... ...with a Classic Single Stage Press? If so, how much trouble do you have aligning the primer tube with the primer arm? I know it needs very precise alignment. But after getting the knack, for a couple years I...
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      SKSs and 922(r)

      OK, even after studying the sticky thread, I still don't understand 922(r). If I had a NORINCO SKS acquired somewhere around 1994 (assuming it was legal and came into the U.S. pre-ban), would it automatically violate 922(r) just by existing? Because it certainly would have more than 10...
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      .380 HBRN Bullets

      I've generally used Berry's 100-gn Flat Base Round Nose bullets for .380 range loads. Those are tough to find these days, though I seem to see some Berry's 100-gn Hollow Base Round Nose bullets available occasionally, though at slightly-higher prices. I can't find any specific load data...
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      DIY Primers

      Anyone ever try this for making primers? https://sharpshooter-22lr-reloader.myshopify.com/collections/products/products/prime-all-repriming-compound Seems better than fooling around with toy caps and such... I've still got primers for now, but I've just ordered two packages of these...
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      Sorting 9mm vs. .380 Brass

      How do you-all sort range-pickup handgun brass? It's easy to sort out .45 ACP (which I do reload), and .40 and revolver ammo (which I don't). The issue of course is 9mm vs. .380. What I do is take about a hundred at a time, and stand them all up on the reloading bench mouth up. I then...
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      Questions About Brass

      I was doing some 9mm reloading today, and noticed something about some range-pickup casings that I'd deprimed and cleaned several years ago. This may be common knowledge, but... First, some of the casings have cannelures around the middle. All apparently Speer. The ones with the cannelures...
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      Glock 42 Sight Adjustment

      My wife's got a new Glock 42. With the non-availability of .380 ACP ammunition, my first challenge was to work up a hand load that would cycle the gun reliably. Turned out it needs to be a pretty-hot load, near the top end of the recommendations. (For reference, 3.3 grains of HP-38 with a...
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      Sig Sauer M11-A1 - E2 or not?

      How do you recognize a Sig Sauer P229 Classic vs. the E2 version, specifically the M11-A1? I've got an M11-A1 in 9mm dating from about 2014. Milled slide, so it's pretty-much a P229. It's got the "normal" "P228" over five parallelograms molded into the left plastic grip, and "Sig Sauer"...
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      1.25" Ratchet Gunbelt?

      Anyone know of a 1.25"-wide web gunbelt with ratchet buckle? I have a couple of Kore gunbelts that I use for EDC (I live in Colorado with a CHP), and I love them. I use a leather OWB holster with snap-on loops for my Sig P290RS, and I'm fortunate enough to have a waistbelt on my pack that...
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      Decapping Live Primers

      Up to now, when mashing a shell casing with a misaligned bullet, I've jut discarded the damaged casing with the live primer. But with the (non-)availability of primers these days, I'm wondering if that's necessary. I've seen guidance that live primers can be "carefully" removed. You-all...
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      Cartridge Overall Length

      I'm still trying to work up reliable handloads for my wife's Glock 42 (HP-38 powder, 100-gn FMJ bullets). (Up to now, the 3.1 grains maximum given by Hodgdon doesn't cycle the gun reliably. I'm about to go to the range to try out some with 3.2 grains of powder, and some with 3.3 grains -- the...
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      Inconsistent Max Load Recommendations

      I asked this in passing in another thread, but never got an answer... Why is there sometimes a significant difference in load data between one vendor and another, with the same powder and same weight and type bullet? One instance I'm seeing shows a 6% difference in maximum recommended...
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      ARX Ammo?

      Anybody know whether companies making commercial ammo with ARX (copper/polymer matrix) projectiles are still in business, particularly these days? That's NovX and Inceptor as far as I know. Their web sites haven't been updated in a while, and their ammunition is all out of stock at vendors...
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      How Much Taper (.380 ACP)?

      I haven't found much guidance on how much to taper a casing neck, other than words to the effect of "until it's how you like it." My wife recently got a Glock 42, and we've been breaking it in. I'm now experimenting with 100-gr FMJ reloads (considering the supply situation these days)...
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      .380 ACP Powder Loads

      Been a while since I've posted here -- moved since to Ohio and now to Colorado Springs. I'm doing a lot of reloading these days, for obvious reasons... but just for range ammo, not for carry ammo (sorry, guys in Maryland...). As background, I've been experimenting with "hot" commercial...
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      Sig P290RS - Relieving Slide Stop?

      The P290 RS has a very sharp-edged, squared-off slide-stop notch: The edge of the thumbnail on my left (support) hand rests just below the slide stop. Twice now when shooting, the corner of the front edge of the slide-stop notch has torn into the top of my thumbnail when recoiling...
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      Reloading 9MM ARX?

      I'm surprised I don't see a thread about this. Anybody have experience reloading 9mm Inceptor ARX bullets into brass cases? I've been casually reloading for a couple years now, and wanted to try these. Here's the load data...
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      AR-15 Failures to Feed - Dirty Bolt/Carrier

      Searched, but to my surprise didn't find anything. I took my pretty-new AR-15 out to the Marriottsville range yesterday, trying to burn through some ammunition before we move in a couple months. After about 250 or 300 at times rapid rounds, it started getting regular failure-to-feed...
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