Recent content by jbeltz7

Getting tired (or to old and grumpy) of spending 100's of hours of research to buy the best tooth brush. If you had $1000 to spend on a night scope what would you buy? Going to be mounted on a Bushmaster Match .223 AR and I am not concerned with the weight, rifle is already an anchor. Want to be...

The deed is done, thanks for all the advice, I used several of your suggestions which resulted with the successful removal of the bullet. Key take away's where using a brass rod close to the same diameter of the bore and the frame being solidly supported.

Thanks for the replies, I was busy Saturday and ACE was closed on Sunday. Look in two Lowes and one home depot and all they have is steel rods, TSC only had 1/8" brazing rods. So, ordered a 5/16" brass rod from Amazon should be here by Friday. I did try PB and the oak dowel holding the gun in...

Appreciate the responses, the brass rod I bent was a .22 cleaning rod so maybe something closer to 5/16 will work along with a more solid support method. No one suggested a double powder load behind a wax bullet so I will scratch it off my list but seriously I would have never imagined a bullet...

Thanks, I have been using rubber grips in my vice and they might be absorbing some of the energy of the impact but with all the destruction to the rods I have been using I would have thought the bullet should have moved. The range master tried to freehand the initial removal with a rubber mallet...

This is my first in 40+ years of shooting and admittedly, I'm guilty of poor reloading practices, so please forgo the lectures. I have a .357 Hornady XTP stuck in a 4" Ruger GP100 barrel I can't get out. So far I have tried an aluminum rod (nope,) a brass rod (bent) and an oak dowel (broke...

Awesome Matthew, came out by hand, I missed that in the instructions. Thank you very much. Now to fix the thumb safety.

My wife has small hands and she likes the Glock 19. Fact is I never cared for large frame Glocks until I shot this model. It feels like a compact pistol to me and is a natural pointer. If she hasn't tried one out I would try and find a friend or rental to let her try the midsize 19 before you go...

Thanks, yes the mag was removed, this is my first experience with a HP and holding the slide back by hand it is very difficult to keep an exact frame alignment. How hard is it to remove the slide lock? Brownell video shows the guy easily pushing it out by hand, some pistols like my CZ75...

After wanting one for years I traded for a mid-70’s HP a few months ago and finally made the time to shoot it over the holidays. My intent was to make sure it functioned, clean it and put it back in the safe. Problem is when I attempted to field strip for cleaning the aftermarket thumb safety...

100% sure I am not mistaking the Bullet Seating Die with the Crimp and Post Die. The factory recommended "three turns" could very well be for the .38 case which would explain the excessive crimp on the .357 case I was testing with. Got it - More turns out Standing Tall - Good catch. "There...

Lee .38/.357 four die set. With the die removed from the press and the bullet seating knob and plunger removed a loaded cartridge will not insert into the die. The neck of the loaded cartridge stops about 1/2" from being fully seated. I could force it up into the die but this does not seem...

After much researching I'm still unclear. Press in the up position. Seat the die, three turns out. How do you adjust the actual bullet depth? In theory you insert a loaded round, set the die bullet depth adjustment knob to contact the bullet and then proceed loading your empty...

Shooting my Gemtech equiped Bushmaster yesterday for the first time I was using brand new 55 grain FMJ Remington/Federal ammo and after being fired the brass was filthy. I have never seen once-fired brass so covered with black powder residue, the outside of the cartridge case was almost the same...

No debate on needing a scale, however it is a curiosity there are so many references to volume if there is not an industry standard to accurately calculate density between powders. Must be a carry-over from the blackpowder days.