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I had my fun with the Lee ALBP, it was educational and interesting, but I'm moving, and I decided I don't want to take it with me. For the price I don't mind scrapping it, it paid for itself. So I'm pretty sure I want to just upgrade to a Dillon, skip the next couple of steps in between. I will...

Happy Saturday. (And why aren't you at the range?) So, there's a lot of grey area and controversy lately with the emerging legalization of cannabis in general. State law v. federal law, medical v. recreational, etc. I'm in law school with another gun guy, and he told me he occasionally uses...

Ok, so in my years of moving, divorcing, splitting up collections, and learning to reload, I have accumulated a significant collection of rounds of many shapes and sizes which I do not consider to be safe to use for a variety of reasons. What should I do with them? Just easing them into the...

I have had a Ciener .22 conversion for a long time, I run it on my Kimber frame. Recently a lightbulb went off in my head, and I decided that being a full adult of reasonable means, I am in a position where I don't have to switch the slides back and forth. (And one day inevitably lose the slide...

So I built a .243 AR-10 with a 1/8 barrel specifically to be able to run heavier bullets out to 1000 yards. I want to work up loads to use it for me and my wife to both be able to use it in our local "1000 yard milk jug challenge" competition. I also intend to use it for mule deer and coyotes...

Hey guys, I recently jumped on the release of the Magpul PRS Lite for my DPMS Gen-1 pattern AR-10 I built in .243. It arrives (after some FedEx shennanigans) and I find out this one needs an A5/SR-25 buffer tube. Annoying, but no big deal, I'll just order one from Magpul. However comma It...

Since we appear to be emerging from the supply shortage, I better start looking to load for my .243 AR-10 with 1/8 twist. I will be using small-base dies, just thinking if it's for an AR I might as well start with them. Heavier bullets, 85 gr and higher. (I have been running 105 gr Core-Lokts...

I spent many years neglecting my 870, because I didn't feel like it was as much fun as my EBRs. Then I caught wind of the Armscor VR80. A M-4gery shotgun. For $550. Too good to be true? So I bought it, and did some mods. I took off the CA-legal skeleton stock (not a thing wrong with it, btw, I...

I recently started running an Armscor VR90 and i love it. I have been telling a few friends about it, and one wondered if leaving shells in a magazine over a long period of time would result in mis-shapen shells which will fail to feed? Has anyone seen this happen with say, Saiga magazines? Are...

I have accumulated enough .223 and .243 brass to start reloading them for my AR rifles. I am going to start with small-base dies, just to eliminate the guesswork of whether or not I need them. I have not yet reloaded rifle cases enough that they have stretched enough to need to trim or bump...

So I was coming off of a long out-of town assignment where I made a little extra cash, and I had planned to upgrade from s hand press and a single-stage to a Lee Classic Turret. But the ad goblins showed me that the Lee Auto Lock Breech Pro was actually cheaper, like $109 from Midway, So I...

So as I have been slowly progressing in my reloading, I have accumulated some bad rounds. I have mostly just let them accumulate, and didn't worry much about them. I just got a Lee Breech Lock Pro progressive press, and I cranked through 300 ish 9mms. I took some out with my wife's new Ruger...

So I now have a functioning .243 AR-10, after much procrastinating and a little bit of tweaking. I have always wanted a ,243, and I wanted to build something unique. I like to keep things simple. I got a 1/8 barrel, because I want to be able to push it to 1000 yards. I would like to make one...

So, (going back and forth between Utah and Texas) I finally managed to shoot my .243 AR, and the headspacing was good. Next problem, It's short stroking. Ejects about half the time, never cycles a new round. So I take it back to the gunsmith in this one gunsmith town who helped me assemble it...

So I am temporarily stuck in a one gunsmith town. I got all the parts together for my AR-10. Nickle BCG by Stoner, barrel and extension by X-Caliber. Local guy puts it in the vise and torques it together. All done. I ask: "What about headspace and timing?" He says: "You don't really have to...

I am scheming to have my grandfather's old Model 97 restored. Aside from needing a thorough overhaul and re-finishing, the barrel is currently abbreviated with a ding in it, from a home saw-off job decades ago. (No one still alive remembers the story behind that one.) Where can I find a 16 ga...

I have a new RIA double-stack 9mm 1911, and it is very finicky. It will reliably feed 124 gr hydra-shoks, I'm guessing because of the nickle-plated cases, but everything else is a crap shoot. It doesn't like 115 gr, and it doesn't like my handloads. I was getting FTEs, and I sent it back to the...

I'm looking to get new sights for my RIA 9mm/.22 TCM conversion. (As soon as I back and forth it to them for a bad extractor.) It has dovetail cuts, but when i search the web sites of various manufacturers, I don't see them listed as an option. Who else is compatible, or uses the same cuts, as RIA?

I bought a RIA double-stack 9mm/.22 TCM combo, which is mostly glorious, except that the magazines are $40+ each. The problem is, I'm getting failures to extract. In the middle of the magazine, it fails. It doesn't double-feed, the extractor seems to lose its grip and the case is stuck halfway...

Just ordered an RIA double-stack 9mm. They sell them as .22 TCM, with an included 9mm conversion setup. Having not yet fired it, I think the .22 TCM is a nifty little cartridge that will probably turn a jackrabbit into a fine pink mist. The cases can be formed from 5.56 brass, and loaded with...