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Kind of a strange question, but does any of your reloaded ammo umm... smell like pee... when you fire them? Specifically, cat pee? I'm sure it's just the nitrogen compounds in the powder, and I'm probably just associating it with cat urine because I have cats, but a few of my reloads have...

Every day when I go to the forums, I've been seeing that warning at the top of the page about the new TFL policies on quoting copyrighted materials - the one that went up about the time Righthaven started suing everybody. Today, on a whim I clicked the little 'X' to dismiss it, and evidently...

I need to adjust the rear sight on my Springfield EMP just a smidgen, but even after loosening the set screw and tapping on the sight with a brass punch, I can't get it to budge. I don't mind buying the right tool for the job, but when I go online and look at sight pushers, most of them seem to...

I recently re-arranged some of my collection, and I've begun storing some handguns on a shelf in my safe. The shelf is just painted steel, so I put down a layer of that foamy mesh material, like what you would use to line the drawers in a tool chest. The problem is, the liner absorbs whatever...

I'm really liking the two-tone look on my Springfield EMP: As far as I know, there's no coating on the slide - it's just a matte (possibly bead-blasted?) stainless steel. If I wanted to duplicate the look on one of my other (non-stainless) guns, could anyone recommend a durable aftermarket...

What were some of the things you did wrong (or just did the hard way) when you first started reloading? I'll start this off - before I started reloading, I read lots of books and articles, but I guess I didn't pay enough attention to the pictures. I didn't realize just how little the cases...

When you're handloading for a semi-automatic, how do you go about troubleshooting an intermittent feeding problem? I'm not talking about where one or two rounds from each magazine won't feed; I'm talking about where you have one or two FTFs per 100 rounds. Obviously, you've got it *mostly*...

First off, I know I should have taken pictures. I will next time, since I'm sure this won't be the last time it happens. I was at the range Sunday with my fairly-new Remington R1 (about 400 rounds fired so far). Twice over the course of 100 rounds, I had a failure to feed. The failure was...

When I'm trying to figure out what size disc(s) to use in my Lee dispenser, I throw six charges, weigh them all together and then divide the result by six. This has the benefit of reducing the inherent inaccuracy of the scale and giving me a more accurate measure of the *average* charge...

Just discovered that the Case-Gard reloading trays: Fit perfectly inside the metal G.I. ammo cans that 9 mm and 5.56 mm rounds come in. The MTM website doesn't mention it, but the fit is too close for me to believe it's a coincidence. Of course, I don't know how useful this fact is, but I...

For those of you with progressive presses, are you ever intimidated by how much it costs to run them "full-tilt boogie" for a few hours straight? Looking at my .45 ACP load, it would be about $140/hour (assuming 1,000 rounds per hour), and that's with cast bullets and neglecting the price of...

I know the preferable method is to find a barrel that sticks out past the end of the slide, and cut threads into the outer surface of the barrel, but for pistols where the aftermarket selection is non-existent, is it acceptable to drill out the last 3/4" or so of the barrel and thread the inside...

I have a new PPK, but I haven't taken it to the range yet. After a field strip and cleaning, I tried cycling some ammunition through it to check the function. The pistol would strip a round out of the magazine, chamber it and go into battery with no problems. But when I pull the slide back...

I bought 500 pieces of Starline brass in .380 ACP so that I could get started reloading in that caliber (I didn't have much factory .380 ammo, and spent .380 cases aren't plentiful at the range where I buy my fired brass). So far I like them a lot - they're uniform, take primers well and...

I'm having trouble getting my new R1 to reliably feed semi-wadcutter bullets. I started reading up on the different 1911 magazine designs out there, and the follower on the R1's magazine doesn't look like any of the ones I've seen before. Here's a picture of seven different followers from one...

I like my new Remington R1 so far, but there are a few things I'd like to change. I'd like a longer/wider "paddle"-style thumb safety, and perhaps a beavertail grip safety. My question is, do I try to find aftermarket parts that match the R1's finish, do I make all my changes and then have...

Here's a picture (crimped primer pocket on the top, uncrimped example on the bottom): Once you know what you're looking for, the crimp is pretty easy to spot - it's just a ring of material around the outside of the primer that's been compressed to hold the primer in place. You only have to...

Looking at the Quickload site, I'm not seeing any way to purchase it for immediate download - do you have to wait to have the CD shipped to you? I did download the demo, but there doesn't appear to be any way to purchase a license from within the demo to turn it into the "full" version. I...

I just recently purchased my first full-size 1911 (a Remington R1). I removed the firing pin stop, firing pin/spring and extractor, just for practice and to make sure there wasn't any factory gunk in there. Everything went fine, but since the extractor is free to spin in its channel (as well...

I'm loading up some .45 ACP 185 gr LSWC bullets for the first time. I had used an OAL of 1.19", and they absolutely wouldn't feed. They'd fit in the chamber just fine, but they weren't making it cleanly from the magazine to the chamber - not even once. The slide would end up about 1/4" out of...