Recent content by Tidewater Tom

Wow! I just re-read the last couple of posts. I had a bad incident, didin't catch the first time that the shotgun shell had to be empty!;) Lol

Gewehr98 said: "4. If you're in the habit of leaving powder in the powder measures of your Dillon press, do yourself a favor and rubberband a card or sticky note to the hopper with the powder type and charge weight. Don't assume the charge weight is dead on after coming back to the press...

Well I'm going internal...I'll let you know how it goes. Thanks for the responses.:o

I have a Kimber Custom Shop CDPII ( 3 years old) and basically love it. It has an external extractor which recently broke. Kimber got me a replacement part for free in 3 days (cool). In discussions w/ Kimber they said that if I sent them my gun they would replace the entire upper slide w/ an...

A follow up. Kimber has offered to replace the entire slide assembly w/ an internal extractor. This past weekend, some of the folks at the match said that they would prefer an external extractor. They said that several manufactures are going to them because they are more reliable. Any...

Well great news! Kimber did send me a new extractor and it came a day earlier than they said! I'm impressed so far!

Hey Doc2005 at least Kimber's are accurate! Can't beat a head shot!;) As for doing the change out, I'm gonna do it after my match on Sunday. If for no other reason I would want to shoot single stack 8 mags in a IPSC future match. That would require an internal extractor. Kimber says it will...

I just spoke w/ Kimber again about ordering a spare extractor kit and then got into a general discussion about internal vs external extractors. They said that now Kimber has gone back to the internal extractor and I could send them my slide assembly and they would replace the entire slide w/ an...

Well I've gotten two e-mails and a phone call from Kimber, I have to admit they are paying attention to me and my broken extractor. They say they will have it to me by Thursday. I will post the event when it happens. The fellow that called me said that the site posted above was not an...

Well I just got off the phone with a rep named Jamie and he told it's a warranted part. He says he'll ship it today UPS ground and I should have it Thursday. We'll see, the match is Sunday and I would hate to have to throw the bullets down range. Did you have a phone number for Dennis just in...

I went to their web site last night and I wasn't impressed. Unless you want to buy a Kimber shirt or hat they didn't have much to offer. Maybe I was at the wrong site, anyway I was gonna call them today...Thanks for the reply!

I've got a match this coming weekend, does any know where I can get an external extractor for a Kimber Custom CDP II? A small peice of the claw hook broke on my extractor. Any help appreciated! :(

I was loading some 45ACP ammo the other night: 230 gr copper clad RN ball, 4.0 gr’s of Clays, Win LP into assorted range brass. For some reason I decided to measure the total weight of some bullets. I was surprised to see a healthy variation in the total weights. So I grabbed a collection of...

Lifes to short...toss em. It's 9mm!

Yeah I did, but luckily I found it during the prep steps. I go to the same range all the time and I've only found it once, about a year ago. It has had one good side effect, I now check brass even more so than before. Does anyone know how prevalent the use of NT primers are and is there some...