January 2012 Archives

Glock Bulge

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Before

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After

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The first pic kind of sucks. You can actually see the bulge more clearly on the nickel plated case in the background.

You can see in the first after pic that the bulge is gone but it left a little crease. In the second after pic of the nickel plated case you can see the bulge is not totally gone.

I ended up tossing both of these cases. They fit in the chamber fine, and the chamber on my M&P would support that area, but I decided to err on the side caution. Not worth a blowout to save those cases.

My Lock N Load broke

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I don't reload much in the Summer if I can help it because my bench is in the garage and humans will expire after 5 seconds in my garage in the Summer. Ok, not really, but it's damned hot. I try to do all my reloading for the year in the Winter and Spring.

Today is a beautiful day, sunny and mild. Thought I would start loading up some of my 40S&W gaming load since I ran out last month.

Spent last night and the early part of this morning cleaning it up, and adjusting all my dies and what not.

I went to seat the first primer, and nothing. Ok, try it again. No primer. What the heck?

The plastic piece that holds the rod that the primer "slider" uses to move back and forth is broken, so the rod is just flopping around and not letting the slider make it's full length of travel.

Damnit.

I'll be calling Hornady on Monday.

I guess it wouldn't be a bad idea to pick up a hand primer. I could have gotten a couple hundred rounds done today, and that would get me through the next match. I'm going to pick one up.

UPDATE:

Hornady came through. Part is in the mail with no charge to me.

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