Recent content by cbnoble

I've loaded and shot somewhere north of 50K tracers (all but 1K in 308, the 1K was in 223). They WILL start fires. I have had the opportunity to shoot on a range where the fires "ok" and even during a one shoot in the rain, we started multiple fires. Normally the military loads it with 844T...

I have an FFL and at a show recently had come to an agreement on price to sell a gun. I reached over to pull out a 4473 and the guy says "Oh, wait. You can't sell it to me without the paperwork? I'm a convicted felon." I've also heard people tell other dealers that they were buying the gun...

I would check out Mark Kubes Firearms in Largo or Gun Stock and Barrel up in Inverness (a little over an hour north off of I-75). I know both of them and either would treat you right.

Take it slow and easy with steady pressure and you should be fine. I've deprimed quite a few and never had one pop. That said, I do wear ear and eye protection just in case.

Wanderinwalker has a pretty good explanation of the process (I am an FFL and get to deal with this mess regularly). A couple of points that I might add: 1. Most of the distributors, but not all, work with allocation systems for in demand products. This means that they may get in 100 of a...

You're seeing new powder prices because it is new powder. They list it as virgin surplus, but it is actually new powder straight from St. Marks. If you're buying in a large enough quantity, the powder is out there. I'm getting ready to open a new keg of 846 that I acquired at about the same...

drband - Thanks for the heads up on the replacement parts just costing shipping. I went on to their site today to look for some parts that I've been needing to replace for a while and as soon as I went to the cart, there they were - showing no cost! Now I just have to get around to calling...

How is this different from advocating that we turn the RIGHT to keep and bear arms into the PRIVILEGE to keep and bear arms? If I have to go take a class and get a license to exercise my right is it really a right anymore? And is the process for owning NFA items going to be more stringent than...

Disclaimer: The gun that I shoot the most from is not exactly noted for its accuracy - before we changed the barrel the last time it wasn't quite MoA, heck it wasn't even MoM (Minute of Mountain - and yes, we did in fact miss the broad side of a mountain 800 meters away.) I did however have...

If you want to look at it from a risk assessment perspective P has the potential to be higher (you could have had powder flow through the flash hole and reduce the effective volume of the primer pocket) but it is very unlikely and the forces being applied to the primer are usually not of the...

In my earlier post, this is more or less what I was trying to get at. But I take the leaflet and hand it to them, telling them that it has some good safety tips about gun handling. They will be more inclined to read at least the first few sentences while humoring you - and it might be enough...

I got my FFL and started to sell guns at shows a year ago. I had been selling non-FFL stuff before that so I knew that most of the people coming through had no real clue - and quite a few of them would go out of their way to prove that they know nothing about everything. The idea of a...

I've always been taught to wait 30 seconds, but that seems like an eternity when you're sitting there waiting. We were shooting some 7.62x54R over the weekend that was horrible for hang fires. 3-4 seconds was long, but not uncommon. Most of them were in the two second range. We were testing...

I think you have a good, well thought out process. If it's working for you, keep at it. There are only two things that I do different. The initial tumbling to clean the brass is 4 hours with the tumbling the remove the lube being about 30 minutes. I also inspect the brass for separation...

I'm with mdi on this one. If the primers are high, I would not try to shoot them out of a semi auto. Pull the bullet, dump the powder, and then finish seating the primer or remove it and start over. The scariest thing I've had happen while shooting was an out of battery firing. Not sure...