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Back in February, I ordered 10K of Federal FA100 small pistol primers. I assumed I'd have to wait a while to get my hands on them, but it now seems as though I'll never get them. Why? Because Graf's will apparently take your order, let it sit in the queue for months, then arbitrarily cancel it...

I've looked through all of the on-line sources and the three reloading manuals I own and can find only 2 recipes for the bullet listed in the subject using the powder selection I have on-hand. Those powders are Bullseye, WST, AA#2 and Clays. Lee's Modern Reloading 2nd Ed. lists the following...

I shoot mostly Missouri Bullet Company cast lead bullets from my S&W M&P .40 Full Size. When I get back from the range, I've usually fired anywhere from 200 to 300 rounds. I clean after every shoot, and examining the lands and grooves of the barrel will often find patches or streaks of lead in...

Every weekend my "Sportsman's Association" (Rod and Gun Club) hosts a "plate shoot." It's a loosely organized event, open to the public, where folks can get together and take turns blazing away at poppers, steel plates and dueling trees. It attracts a fair number of local gun enthusiasts and the...

(Also posted on THR . . . sorry if you've seen this before) I have a few handguns . . . 3 to be exact. Two Smith & Wesson M&P .40's; one's a full-size, the other a compact. The third is a Desert Eagle Mark VII .44 mag I bought from my brother-in-law in a moment of weakness (sure is fun to...

I just got 1,100 .40cal/10mm 180gr Hollow Points free from Hornady, as part of their Get Loaded! promotion. 1,000 for the press, and 100 for the die set. They seem like awfully nice bullets for poking holes in paper, or even knocking down poppers. And I'm not supposed to use 'em in the indoor...

I'm buying a Desert Eagle .44 mag a good price from a family member. Now, for those of you that are wondering: No, my genitalia is not abnormally small, and I sincerely thank you for your concern. I've been reloading for my .40cal S&Ws for 3-4 weeks now with very good success and very...

I have a couple of S&W M&Ps (.40 FS and Compact) that I've been having a lot of plinking fun with. I'm reloading, so it hasn't been terribly expensive. My aim just isn't improving as quickly as I'd like, though, and I think it has something to do with anticipating and/or flinching from the...

I spent some time poking around the internet looking for a good range bag. I have a couple of S&W M&Ps (both .40 S&W; one a Full Size, the other a Compact), 4 mags for each, keep my brass because I reload, and need a variety of doohickeys and thingamabobs to do what I want to do when I get to...

Saw this around the interweb this morning. Sorry if it's a repeat . . . I thought it was hilarious. And it's funny because it's true :D

I've only been shooting regularly since September, and up until the middle of December only FMJ in my two S&W M&Ps (.40 S&W, FS and Compact). Because I was going through so much ammo on the weekends, I invested in a reloading setup. For the last 2-3 weeks, I have been reloading using cast lead...

I just joined a Rod and Gun club in Maine that is fortunate enough to have an indoor shooting range. There's an annual surcharge on top of membership dues to use the indoor range, and you have to be qualified on it as well. No guests, though, and the range isn't open to the public; you must be...

I have the standard 3 die "New Dimension Custom Grade" .40 cal set for my LNL AP . . . decapper/resizer, expander and seater/crimper. It seems to work fine; I don't have any feeding problems in my two S&W M&Ps (FS and Compact). I also have a Powder Cop die, so all 5 stations are in use. I've...

From my first reloading attempt last week, I wound up with 8 FTFs. I'm quite sure the cases were properly charged with powder, and that the reason for the FTFs was a light strike . . . most likely due to either an improperly seated primer or an aggressive crimp. So now I have 8 .40 S&W...

And like the experience of many virgins, losing my cherry wasn't particularly pleasurable :( I spent Wednesday night cleaning and degreasing my new Hornady LNL AP, installing it on my newly-built bench, getting the dies set for .40 cal, and dinking with the powder drop to get the right charge...

I ordered 1K of C & C Casting 140gr Cast Lead Conical Flat Point bullets in .40 cal as a reloading experiment. I'm not quite sure what I'm expecting to get out of them, though, perhaps something closer to a 9mm in recoil. I'll be shooting them with both a FS and Compact S&W M&P .40. Has anyone...

After a 30+ year hiatus, I've gotten back into shooting. Target practice and informal falling plates get-togethers mostly, just for fun. I never owned a handgun previously, the guns from my youth were long guns, in 30-06 and 22 bolt-action varieties. I now own both a Compact and Full Size S&W...