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My SDB is set up for 45ACP only. Every now and then the shell-plate screw binds. Then it takes me at least 30 minutes to sort out. I use my 550C for 9mm, .38 Spec, and .38 S&W (same shell-plate). I don’t change it often, but when I do……. I’ll check out the ram set screw. Unfortunately I...

I have a small (???) problem with both my Dillon SD and 550C presses. The centre boot that holds the shell-plate in will turn with the shell-plate after being left idle for a few weeks, tightening the bolt till the shell-plate will not turn. It takes me forever to get it to stay when the...

I am currently trying out some light loads in one of my .45 1911's, for a match that has no power factor requirements. I have a nice shooting load, accurate and with reduced recoil, but it is not cycling the slide. UI used to have a recoil reducing recoil spring with several different spring...

I don’t know what your local police set as a sum to investigate, but a few months ago NZ police adopted thresholds for retail theft and online fraud investigations. Anything under these thresholds was filed with no investigation. I was surprised that it took 2 1/2 months for the media to catch...

My reply would have been “You’re no longer in your country, you’re in mine so your customs don’t apply”. Of course, I wouldn’t have been so polite.

In 2009 I had a spinal fusion. Surgeon gave me 10 minutes walking a day on week 3, extending 5 minutes a week till I hit an hour. Week 3 I thought I can do better, broke out to a light trot until I felt pain in my back. Before long I was doing my usual 5-6 km a day. Months post surgery I had an...

In March 2019 there was a major shooting incident at two mosques in Christchurch, NZ. As a result we were instructed to carry our G19’s openly instead of in the car safety box for 6 weeks. The first few days I found myself racking the slide and reaching for the safety that wasn’t there. To much...

I happen to know every four letter swear word ever invented, plus more than a few longer ones. But I don’t use them unless I am alone and really annoyed at something. It wasn’t always like that. I would drop F bombs regularly, until I caught myself doing so in front of a very elderly lady. It...

Karen is watching it now, screening on Kiwi TV.

Phone, laptop and tablet. They are all tied into your social media accounts today. Ever wondered why if you go looking for an item online you get flooded with social media and e-mail ads for that item for days/weeks? The latest is the requirement to sign into sites via Google. One NZ news...

Oh, believe me, I am. i once loaned one of my cowboy guns to a new shooter to use, but forgot to give him my ammo. He was just into reloading and had loaded the same charge under his 44-40 200 gn bullets as under his 148 gn .38 Special bullets. The result was five misses and five bullets...

Wealth inequality will continue to be a problem until those that rails against it realise that it is the system that is the problem. When a certain segment of the population claim more back in economic subsidies than they pay in taxes and where the bulk of taxes are paid by the middle and upper...

A couple of times each month I shoot a uniquely Australian/New Zealand event at my club. The main match shoots out to 50 yards, all others 25 yards and less. There are six divisions in this event, with another six NZ only divisions. Except for the main Australasian division where there is a...

Thanks Dave. While the new facility is only about 5 steps from the sunroom French Doors, the Sunroom has only a single door between it and our living room. This time of year there AAre days when I do not open that door. It will require a concious decision to go out there, just as it requires one...

A google search on a name will bring them all up. Fortunately I use my full name in my social media accounts, but misspelt my first name by transposing two letters and not noticing. Still, I have googled myself and there are a few things there.

The thread on airport scanners reminded me of a story I read online this past week. A "gentleman" now living in Melbourne, Australia, spent 6 years at Columbia university in New York. During the student demonstrations at Columbia in 2024 he wrote a number of blog posts about the protests. While...

Every time I pass through the screening machine it goes off. I thought it was the zipper to my money belt. Then maybe the jeans buttons I had on the inside of the waistband of my trousers to take braces. The last time, at Roy Rogers International in Oklahoma City, I had nothing metallic on me...

Over the last 6 weeks I have been putting together a new studio/man cave. It started out by finding a portable 20'X10' building, getting a foundation built for it, getting it delivered and then fitting it out. I will still have my main man cave for my firearms and reloading. This one is for my...

Nothing worse than a recently graduated recruit at their first qual shoot "catching" a 9mm case. That gun muzzle points in some very interesting (NOT) directions. Last time I qualified I had two 9mm cases from the shooter to my left go down the back of my shirt, which was a uniform tee with a...

Congratulations. I just picked up my first Fender today, after several Squire's. Its a Player Plus Nashville in faded Candy Red, with a third (Strat) pickup in the middle, a five way selector, and a switch that brings in the neck pickup in positions 1 and 2. I plugged it into my Vox AC-10 for...