Recent content by Ravenmoon

Follow up and end of this thread. I got a Clark barrel fitted to the slide by Clark Custom. The fit seams tight. The barrel shows scuf marks on the hood more than I like but it cycles smooth. I shot 100 rounds, ball, wadcutters and JHP. with one mag problem at 15 rounds. Went with GI mags and...

When I started out money was tight so I looked and looked. NO Internet then so looking meant going to the store, catalogs, what others that loaded used. I loved the Big presses RCBS, Lyman, Redding but the cost was not going to work out for me. The Lees of that time just, well seemed cheap. So I...

Tuner, thank you for the 1911 lesson! Glad to here my Norinco is OK for a new barrel. I will be looking at Kart and others. This Norinco is UGLY but with cost of a new 1911 made with good steel I can have a new barrel put in for way less, have great shooter and NOT have to worry about a scrach...

OEM barrel has nice square lookig lugs. Measurments Slide locking lugs 0.81-0.82 (removed from frame) Barrel lugs 0.55-0.56 (out of the slide) Barrel in slide under spring pressure 0.111-0.113 (measured from top of slide to top of barrel) Not easy to measure this with a caliper...

How do I tell if I have later Norinco? Ser# 615XXX from what I can tell it was near the end of the imports. So I should get a gunsmith fit barrel and have that fitted? All he said about the VIS was it was good. I did notice the primer strikes on the last range session were not centered. This is...

Just a follow up to a boring thread. Tuner you are right the barrel is stopping on the link so the smith tells me. His fix is to fit a replacemet barrel. He has used Storm Lake, Wilson, Colt and Clark, but will use what ever I want. Never heard of Clark barrels so I searched. They make a lot of...

Thank you for the help sorry I did not reply sooner. I will go with the Wilson parts they do have a good reputation. I was able to swap in my buddies slide stop from his Springfield of about the same age and shot some light loads. It worked same as before. Would a new barrel help with the...

First I want to say thanks for such a great sight! My 1911 Norinco broke the slide stop right where it goes though the barrel link. Never thought that part could or would brake like it did. I have had the gun for 15 years and enjoy shooting it a lot. So to get a good many more years from it...

You are lucky to have a bucket like that where people put un-wanted brass. The one and only public range in the county I live in has no rules on brass. The one thing that this range has is a person who thinks ALL the brass that hits the ground is theirs! They do not shoot do not reload just...

Before you do any reloading make sure you have a 8MM barrel that is for .323 bullets. IMR 4064, Reloader 15, Varget and BL-C2 have all been good to my Mausers and auto loaders in 8MM. IMR 4064 is the best but also the hardest to throw so get close and trickle up to the charge you want. BL-C2...

Your powder measuer is a Lyman #55 and is great for "Ball" type powders for rifle. As said above Win 760 & H414 are great powders and the measure you have will be good with them. By a few manuals, dies (lee dies come with the shell holder), loading block and lube read the books then lube and...

I have all types of dies in use with my LCT they All work if you add lee lock rings they work better. The Lee dies were made to work with this press so if you need new get Lee. The one die you will end up buying is the powder die if you want to get the most from your press and Pro Auto. I have a...

I have a Lyman 55 for ball and flake powders and a RCBS Uni Flow for stick powders. Right now the Lyman is spinning around on my Lee classic turret giving perfect drops of 800-X & Unique. I have had these 2 measures for years, love them both what one dose good the other dose better. I just...

I just used this powder for the first time in some .45ACP loads. 7.1 gr with a 200 gr lead SWC, WIN Large pistol primer. Shot really well out of my 1911. I used a Lyman 55 to measure the charges. This Lyman 55 was very good with this powder, all I cheked out of 100 (15 samples) were on the money...

First post here, have to say I really like this site. I just had this conversation with a long time friend who wants to get into reloading. If there was one press I wish was around when I started reloading 25 years ago it would be the Lee Classic Turret. I bought and still use my first press, a...