Recent content by Lief

OK, so I want to do that too. Is the M&P10 lower compatible with a DPMS style upper?

All of the things I mentioned are 'in spec' for the gun even the stressed barrel. if you are serious about accuracy with the gun you will probably need to do some tuning. (side note) I had a professional trigger job done on a 625 and then elected to send it back for a warranty issue. They...

S&W is sometimes lazy with their cylinder dimensions. Go to your favorite gunsmith (that specializes in S&W revolvers; they are easy to screw up completely if the smith is not a pro) and ask him to run a cylinder hone through each cylinder to verify the sizes. I did this on my competition...

I have the Mako recoil reducing stock on my M&P10 and really like it. I can shoot all day and never notice. It does rattle a little but I find that it does not bother me at all. I have a JP trigger to put in the gun because I like it so much on another gun. Instead I decided to do a little...

What Macinaw said ... I planned to shoot my 6" in steel challenge so I went to my smith to get a trigger job. He talked me out of it because the only thing lightening the springs would to is create FTF (as mentioned earlier). The action will smooth as you use it and you will not notice the...

That was a right place, right time kinda thing. Phillips Wholesale is getting in lots of stuff but you have to be early (in line before they open) on the day it arrives to get powder. He has projectiles left over usually. I don't know if you know him but he is open Thurs, Fri and Sat only...

Thanks for your advice. Varget is the one hard to get around here (SoCal) these days. The supplier gets it but when the doors open the people in line buy it. It is also expensive now. A friend told me about the CFE 223 and I tried some and had good results. The copper loosening aspect didn't...

You called it perfectly. I used the ones from the picture and had to take about 3/4 of a turn on the size die to make it look like I was on the shoulder. I did both cases. I inserted a projectile in both and it appeared to chamber fine but I could not run the charging handle to eject them... now...

LOL Well, I think I have peaked on speed ... definitely cutting back to sanity now that I know how to find it.

Geno44, Thanks for your comments. You are right about that. I have ordered the new Hornady manual and the new Sierra manual as those are the projectiles I have to work with now. I didn't have a Hornady manual and my Sierra manual is old. I started with the CFE at 44.6 and worked up to 49.6...

OK, I understand. I think these particular ones were resized but not fired in my rifle yet. The way die is set is how it has been for the rounds I have made so far. Except for the over-pressured ones they have all cycled perfectly. I will re-smoke and edge it down until I see a little...

Sorry, forgot the pictures.

MichiganScott, Trying not to be needy and a pain but here is another question; I added a couple of pictures of the way my die is set right now. I smoked an LC case and a GGG case since they both had to be swaged. It looks to me like the neck is sized very close to the shoulder but the...

More great data. Thanks MichiganScott. I visited Brownells. BTW, thanks for the terminology tune-up ... I guess I wasn't actually breaking someones nose with the rifle...

I should have mentioned BlueOvalBandit too because his instinct was overpressure and that was surely the problem. Thanks.