Handsome Rob

Unfortunately they don't do the .400 corbon barrel for the 3.3" xds, however I ordered a couple of boxes of Underwood .45 Super ammunition. Ran a box of 20 through the gun to check for malfunctions or feed issues & other than relocating my right elbow to somewhere around my right ear.....no problems whatsoever. Honestly, it's brutal. Definitely not something I'd want to shoot unless I had to, but it puts the little acp into the legitimate bear/moose protection category. Oh, and I also picked up a Safariland holster & drop/offset mount so that I can comfortably & easily open carry whilst wearing a loaded pack & bino harness!

I changed my reloading order. I've always deprimed/sized then wet tumbled. I tried tumbling first then sizing. It seems like the carbon deposits in the case neck are reducing it in size enough that they were sticking to the expander plug on the way out. I tried the reamer suggested by Chris, but it just polished the carbon deposit. I also switched to Redding sizing wax. Sent from my SM-G900V using Tapatalk

Love everything about it!

Not sure if it's been done before. What is your '24/7 every time I'm wearing clothes' edc pocket knife? I've beecarryingng this Benchmade 556 Mini Griptilian every single day for the past 9 years. The only time it isn't in my pocket is on a plane. I've cut everything you can think I could possibly cut with it. It's dressed 6 hogs, 4 deer, 3 coyotes & 11 raccoons. I've spread mayo & mustard, opened countless boxes, un done screws, re tightened screws, opened a million snuff cans & popped the top of hundreds of beers. I'd rather let you have an hour with The Wife than 10 minutes with this knife.

There should be a small coupler on the gear-shift shaft. You'll have to remove the lower bolt before the lower unit will drop loose. Try shifting it from forward to reverse & look up at the top of the shaft. You'll see it right near the casing joint in the least accessible place possible. Obviously.

Never mind, problem solved!

Any 280 Ackley shooters here? I'm having no end of trouble with my Redding dies. Both the FL & neck sizing die are extremely 'sticky' The cases run fine up into the die, but are a maddening hell to get out. I've tried several lubes, both spray & paste. I've tried hugely overlubing the inside of the mouth & I've even run some 2000 grit wet & dry over the expander plug. Still bad. It's almost as though the brass around the neck is too thick. I have no way to neck turn the brass unfortunately. It's Nosler brass, by the way. Any suggestions?

It's taken about 15 years of practice to be a natural!

Managed to get the scales glued up, pins installed, shaped & finish sanded over the past couple of days. ¼" stainless pins, G10 scales with white & blue liners. All I need now is for my leather to arrive & I'll get a sheath made up.

*facepalm*

Been a loooong time since I last had access to a workshop, but I had a fun day today! Got this hunter profiled, ground & heat treated. O1 steel 3/16 thick. 4¼" blade fully flat ground at 62RWC. 5½" handle. I'm just waiting on some bar stock to come in for the pins, but I'll be handling it with blaze orange G10 with blue & white liners.

It's an SKS. If you can't fix it with a 2lb hammer & a crescent wrench, it's screwed.

PM sent Sam....

The quantity of my admiration is only surpassed by the rigidity of my tumescence. That's one of THE most beautiful doubles I've ever seen!

They're really nice. I've actually tried one in every conceivable configuration, but with a bino harness & the sternum strap on my pack, it simply doesn't work. Sent from my SM-G900V using Tapatalk

So, by that reckoning, only a 'handful' of people were killed in WW2? "World War II was the deadliest military conflict in history in absolute terms of total dead. Over 60 million people were killed, which was about 3% of the 1940 world population (est. 2.3 billion)"

Well. This is a gamechanger..... http://www.xdtalk.com/threads/45-super-in-the-xd-s.208944/ I'd never even heard of .45 Super until Nightrunner mentioned it. The gist of the thread is that it's ok to run in the diminutive XDS, just not very many & not too often. I get the impression that I probably wouldn't enjoy it anyway!

Just as a little background, this is purely going to be a once or twice a year carry gun. Mostly while I'm hunting out West. The XDS covers anything I could ever run into in the woods here, with any number of legs. I have some +P that I was planning on loading up for Wyoming, just in case of grizzlys (a distinct possibility where I go) but I think a 10mm would be a little more suitable. I hike a LOT in the mountains & weight is a huge factor to me. I try to stay as light as possible with all my hunting gear (I can manage 10 day's in the mountains on less than 50lb) & it seems odd to then carry a 3+ pound sidearm that I'll probably never need.

I'm really trying to keep in the small as possible size range, so a 6" 1911 is a little big for my needs. Thanks though! I like the look of the 4¼" RIA job though. That's a distinct possibility.

Joking aside... Does anyone make a 10mm 1911? Sorry for the dumbness, I'm really not a pistol guy.

"3 pounds of steel".......:D

Does anyone know if Glock (or anyone for that matter) makes a single stack, semi-compact 10mm?   Is there anything on the market in a single stack .40 that can be converted to a 10mm?   I'm having a bit of a rethink of my 'backwoods/out West' carry options. I've toted heavy .44 revolvers for long enough & I'm getting tired of hauling 3lb of steel around. I have a lovely, lightweight XDS .45, but I'm thinking that a little more 'Ooomph' couldn't hurt.

Pffft. Walk it off, Pansy. That's '2 Motrin & take a knee' at worst.

Holy crap we're #24! I honestly thought Tullahoma would rank one above Memphis.

Thanks again Hoz. I'm going to resize, trim & anneal a bunch of matching headstamp brass over the weekend so I've got a little uniformity to work with. I don't know why I never considered it before, I guess it just didn't occur to me, but I've never actually sorted my .308 brass. It's not a round I shoot for match accuracy so I just have a bucket of mixed headstamp stuff. That'd go a long way to explaining my velocity differences I guess. I just checked what I had loaded yesterday & there is Remington, Hornady, LC, Winchester, Norma, Nosler & Federal stamps! I'm going to stick with 2012 Lake City (seeing as I have hundreds of them) from now on. I'll pm you the specs as soon add I have them prepped