Recent content by mobocracy

You've got one of my dream projects there! I have a pristine blued 5" m41 and its wicked accurate but I've always wanted a "field" 41 such as you're getting. A barrel threaded for a suppressor and a durable finish. It's such a pretty blued gun, but I think it would look pretty good in hard...

I've done the micrometer powder adjustment mod. At a bare minimum it saves a ton of headache when dialing in a powder adjustment. I bought mine from Uniquetek (great people!) and they have an Excel spreadsheet you can use to model the powder charges and get an exact charge with a micrometer...

I would agree with the OP about the 650 priming setup, it leaves a lot to be desired. The SDB had a superior priming setup; I only had large pistol primer guns when I had a SDB, so I never had to change the priming to small, but it's a nuisance on the 650, even with a complete small/large...

I concur with the previous poster urging caution -- to the point where I don't even bother loading sub-minimum magnum loads (aka, heavy special) anymore. I load specials in special cases, and magnums in magnum cases. I suppose a careful person, with the aid of a chronograph, caution and a...

Thanks for the feedback. I sort of feel like I should have asked about the Remingtons now. I've never used them, but somehow they seem like a known quantity. I still have about 7000 Federals left, but I've run down my ammo supply quite a bit waiting for bullets and hoping to come across more...

I made what I thought would be a futile trip for large pistol primers and was surprised to walk way with a couple thousand. I mostly buy Federal but occasionally pick up Winchesters for my .50AE and will use them up in other calibers, too, from time to time. Today I came home with 1k...

I ended up loading a batch of a 100 with 8.6gr Power Pistol and it was a decent load -- grouped well and shot pretty much exactly to point of aim, cases ejected smoothly with no sticking. And it seemed a fairly stout load as well; noticeably heavier than the Glock 17 throwing 115gr JHPs behind...

It's too bad there's not a simple way to jacket them. Even at 4x pricing, $40/1000 for 240gr JSP/JHP sounds nice.

Any powder weight suggestions? Yes, there are probably better powder choices but the current component market doesn't make it easy to pick up random pounds of powder and I have 6+ lbs. of Power Pistol on hand. The gun in question is a K-frame 4" Model 66-2. Speer #13 lists 9.5-10.5 for all 4...

My local reloading shop owner claims that most reloading components from the major players (Federal, Remington, Winchester) are basically overages from ammunition loading. Cases, bullets & primer components generally are leftovers or intentional overproduction from the primary line of business...