Albroswift

Sweet.

Thanks. Got a bunch more in the safe, not too many to shoot in a day but way to many to clean in a day!

It is one of the nicest shooting "out of the box" 45's on the market. I fitted the ambi safety, other then that nothing. Has cycled everything I've thrown at it. Stupid tight offhand groups at 50 yards. The milling inside the top of the slide is really rough looking, I mean really rough. Other then that no criticism.

Oh, Knew I was forgetting something, the E-Series S&W 45

Sunny Morning here on the left coast, headed out to the range with several of my favorite shooters. Then to the shop for a less favorite sport, cleaning. (Damn those wheel guns have a lot of holes!) Bucket O Glocks Bottom left Model 24/ 40S&W, Bottom right M24 w/ wolf 9mm barrel, extension, porting, beaver tail, and slide lightning by yours truly, Top Left Model 34, Top right 17L Freedom Arms 454 Casull and a Hamilton Bowen custom 44 Mag built on a 50th anniversary Ruger Flat Top frame, Herrett grips, Turnbull case hardening. 260g Freedom Arms FP bullet out the pointy end at just under 1850 FPS. Enough room in the cylinder for 2100 FPS worth of case and powder but this is plenty brutal enough on the cowboy gun sized frame! Smith and Wesson 629 Classic 44 Mag built by an old boy for me over in PA and a Rossi Cyclops 357 Mag, hand made grip, new unfluted cylinder, timing and tuning by yours truly.

3 times to the range so far performing flawlessly

Dillon: The dillon trimmer is too short/ too fat to reach down into the tool head for the pistol length cases, but I agree, it could have been designed (or re-designed) a little differently. It's good at what it is designed for. LEE: I ran a couple last night, just messing around, first trial in the Rock Chucker, worked perfectly but no case feeder/ progressive features obviously. The Lee trimmer depends on the shell holder (or plate) being forced against the die base otherwise the inner collet and shell spins.On the Dillon the tool head is just about 1/16" too thick, kind of a boss around where the die meets the tool head. Flipped tool head over, reinstalled die, worked great, so need to mill the boss off one of the stations (or just run tool head upside down) rig a vac attachment, good to go. The Lee produced a trim length +/- half a thou variance on the 5 cases I played with, and chamfers/ bevels to boot. Mickey Mouse having a drill motor hanging out the top of the die but awesome looking results.

I use a dillon electric case trimmer on my .223, .308, '06, and belted mag cases in my progressive press. Sets up on a caliber specific die, vac attachment, very fast and accurate way to mass produce trimming. Unfortunately doesn't work with pistol length brass. Just got a Lee Deluxe Quick Trim trimmer, a caliber specific die setup, came with a drill motor adapter. Trimming a batch of 44 Mag this weekend, going to see if I can get that run that on the Dillon.

Lee factory crimp die is my go to die, just about every caliber I reload. a lot less case length sensitive then typical dies. Ram fully up, screw in until the collett completely closes (no more) without a round. Put a round in, ram up, and look down the die, if the collet is closed you are good. Inspect round afterwards of course, nothing wrong with a small amount of in or out to taste, but you can damage the die by over crimping. If you run max length cases it will look like a collet crimp, "Trim To" length brass it will look like a nice roll. On my 300 Weatherby loads, non cannelured (ELD-X) bullets, I back off about 1/8 turn. As with collet pullers, a little grease between the collet and the die body sure doesn't hurt.

Seattle. Shoot at the Seattle Police Athletic Association (SPAA) Happy New Year!

" ...sweet spot at 53 grains under a 300 gr Hornady pill..." Going over and logging my data into the book noticed it was actually 55 gr Varget, but highly unlikely anyone is going to be relying on a 308AR forum for obsolete cartridge data anyway...

It's a fun process if you are in no hurry. Month's worth of work spread out over several years. Thanks for the kudos.

Been a work in progress, 7-8 years or so. Started with basically no wood, my dad did the furniture from scratch, bore was in great shape, rest of metal not bad. Old local smith did the finish. .223, .308, .405, 45-70

Took my "Good Medicine For Lions" 405 cal '95 Winchester to the range today, been trying to get a decent load for it over the last couple months, hadd spreads close to 100 FPS with H4895, over 60 spread with factory loads, tried Varget today, sweet spot at 53 grains under a 300 gr Hornady pill got a SD of less then 4! Managed shoot a couple of 100 yard groups that rivaled the scoped gun next to me, wind blowing rain sideways kind of a an equalizing force! 405 Winchester M1895 1929 build. 300 gr pill over 53gr Varget Truly a gun that earned the "Punishes at both ends" title. Providence Tool Peep Sight

OK, Range report Started with the Seekins adjustable block closed, wanted to see how much extraction force was required for a couple different rounds, seemed about right but nothing to really compare to. They extracted without too much force. for future may be a good way to judge chamber pressure. Then using some wimpy loads, took it out about 3-1/4 turns to get it to cycle and just lock back. took it out another 1/2 turn for good measure. Then ran a couple hundred rounds through it, 2800 fps 150 gr bullets AR Comp powder, 180 gr RL-15 hunting loads, 180 gr AR Comp loads, bunch of misc BL-C2 and Varget loads from earlier testing. Cycled flawlessly over the entire range of loads. Brass stacked up in piles varying from 11:00 to 5:00 depending on load. Wimp loads stacked up on the shooting bench. Shot over a couple hundred rounds, Re-lubed BCG after first 100 rounds. Now ready to start tuning rifle and loads for accuracy.

Month and a half or so not too bad wasn't expecting miracles. Took about the same or more for the Leupold I sent back, busy time of year. Probably won't get back to the range till next year, hunting season, vacation, holidays. Have to have a little patience, but definitely taking all the rifles out while its still cold to get some chronograph data in winter temps. The Strelok Pro lets you enter several temp/velocity pairs for ea round, uses it for fine tuning the dope table based on current conditions. Think I can do that with the BDX stuff also.

Not only no FFL required, but new rifle didn't even come with signature required. Sitting on front porch when I got home yesterday. Brand new lower and complete upper, including barrel and newer design floating handguard (longer barrel nut and more clamping surface, 3 screws instead of 2). Still a DPMS based recoil, however before I replaced it with the longer tube out of curiosity I pulled the spring, dropped the buffer and BCG back into the tube, and clearance looked good, wasn't ramming into the ears anyway like last one. Got to say, Anderson making every effort to make good. 12.06 gas tube looks to be positioned correctly. Completely disassembled and mostly back together last night, still need to fit the Aero bolt catch, put the M4-72 brake on (How to get the old locktight out of the threads?) , mount the new Sig Sauer BDX scope and a few rail accessories.

Sig Sauer combo: Sierra3BDX 6.5-20 x 52 scope and Kilo 2400BDX Range finder

Got the email from Anderson, gun is on the way back, should have it in my hands next week. No FFL

the Barnes X claimes a BC of .432 but if I use the 0, 20, and 80 yard average from the Labradar and the 100-200 yard drop I get a bit less, so I used that number in the ballistic calculator. Need to do some further testing at longer range to confirm. Then all I need is a lot of luck, and a cooperative critter...

Under 8 inches correction at 300 yards, point blank on elk sized critters

Dope table 185 barnes x

185 gr barnes x

Not sure if there is a autoloading sporter shooting a heavier caliber.