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Colion Noir referred to the height of the slide as "retarded midget slide". Then in the next breath complimented CZ on the easy follow-up shots and low felt recoil. If you were closer, I'd be glad to let you try any/all of mine. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

I have 7 CZ pistols, 4 are full size and 3 are compact. I'd like to agree that there are no cons, but the DA trigger pull is heavy and gritty out of the box. I had forgotten about this myself until I picked up a like-new PCR and compared it to my favorite CZ (a P-01 with nearly 8K rounds through it). You'd think my P-01 had been sent off for a trigger job in comparison, but the truth is the parts just need time to smooth out. Another con already mentioned is that parts and accessories aren't as easy to find. Luckily CZ-USA is close to here. I've yet to order from them and not get a package in 3 days. Plus, they are just some awesome folks to do business with. Mags are also a bit expensive.   The pros column will make you forget about the cons, though. Just hold one and you'll be hooked. The ergonomics are probably an even bigger selling point than the accuracy. The just feel like they were made just to fit you (life's too short to adapt to a gun). I've heard of competition guys who run recoil springs so weak that they break a slide stop about every 1500 rds. Otherwise, they just don't break. And if you don't like it, it'll sell quickly on the classifieds (unless you overprice it like I've seen a few times lately).

3-die sets work fine, but I always ran a FCD on my turret press. I liked having the seating and crimping to be separate stations, because it's easier to setup and I think the additional sizing the FCD does when it crimps to be worth the one-time expense. If I ran a single-stage press, I might not want the added hassle of a 4th die, but I prefer turrets or progressives. YMMV

  Personally, I agree with the commonly espoused opinion. We just happen to be lucky tha our position is so strongly rooted in common sense that we are gaining ground DESPITE people like this. If it weren't for idiots like this kid in FL and the crowd OC'ing ARs and shotguns in Target/Starbucks, the fight might already be over.

  That's impressive!!

  I have this one on an AR and I like it pretty good. With the tube off, it does a lot better job of keeping the muzzle on target (as you'd expect). I think it works best with the tube on. It seems much quieter and throws a cool looking fireball out the front. I'm definitely buying another.

I'm pretty stoked for Better Call Saul too. It'll be hard to watch without expecting Breaking Bad level awesomeness. Them's some big shoes. I didn't think they had anywhere to go with House of Cards after season 1. I was pleasantly surprised at how much I liked season 2. Still I can't help but wonder...Where do they go now with season 3? Great acting all the way around in this series and excellent writing. Still, I could have done without that one scene...you know which one I mean.

I'm surprised nobody in the home got killed either. How do you confirm the target is in the house, kick in the door, clear part of the house, get shot at, and NOT return fire. At that point they don't know they have the wrong man and he's just shot someone. WOW!

You KNOW those boys were pretending the buzzing sounds made them lightsabers...too funny reminds me of this online real estate photo tour of a condo in Houston: swamplot.com/relief-in-alief-the-condo-hard-sell-gets-results/2011-02-14/

just in time, I recently find myself in need of a few ammo cans thanks to some ammo sales I found...thanks

That was a lot of hard work this guy went through to do this. I'm impressed.

  that's gonna be a lonely like button on this comment, LOL

That's one of the coolest things I've ever seen. I'd save that brass WITH my chunk of rotting bone/flesh inside and make a key ring out of it to remind me how stupid I was when i reached in that moving press.

sums it all up for me

borderline superhuman, if you ask me

I wish we had a forum just for jokes

Loved that one too

some IDPA stage designer decided to have a little fun with his squad   at least it wasn't a Teletubby

I've watched all these Pro Tech threads, but this is the first one I've seen that I really want! That is just too cool. 

I liked 8 the best. Looks just like she's pushing him off the cliff. LOL

These are the people the media will continue to use as the face of American gun owners. You'd think the only people ever hit by a tornado lived in a trailer park and everyone who owns guns is like this idiot.

I don't even own a computer nowadays. I use one every day at work, but at home I just use a tablet. All I do is surf the web, check email, and read TGO anyway.

If enough people liked Macs for them to have a respectable share of the market, it might be worthwhile for more scumbag virus writers to attack that OS. It's not that Mac users are immune, just too small of a target to bother with. In 2012 600K Mac users (probably a large percentage of them, LOL) were hit with "Flashback" . Before that even Linux got hit with koobface and BadBunny. It's a numbers game from both directions. Virus writers won't "waste" their time to hit small chunks of people like the Mac community. Likewise, to make Windows as secure as Linux would make the user experience less desirable and anger too many people.

Man, you picked a fantastic round to get started on. If you get Lee .357 dies, they will not turn down far enough to do .38 spl. I don't even know why Lee makes .357 dies, because you CAN use .38 spl dies to load .357 (the only difference is how far you screw them down). I'm a tinkerer, so measuring tools and fine tuning come natural to me. That made the turret press the best choice for me starting out. I just fiddled with the sizing/decapping operation until I got it perfect. Then I added the next die and fiddled until I got it perfect. To me this was the same (in concept) to starting on a single stage. I didn't just screw in all the dies and test my setup by shooting the ammo. That brings me to what I think is the most important choices...the tools. I hated the beam scales with a passion, but the darn things work real good. I just don't have the patience. I lucked up and got a real good digital scale real cheap on my first try thanks to Dolomite's advice (Franklin Arsenal mini digital). The other important tool to become good at using is calipers. You're gonna need to be able to use them to check the over all length (OAL) of a finished cartridge, check the flare you put on the brass (less = better), the crimp, and even the brass length. I respectfully disagree about some things others have said, like powder choice. Low volume powder like Bullseye has been around for over 100 years for a reason. It meters well and is very economical. Unless you are trickling each cartridge's charge using a scale, you're probably converting a weight to an estimated volume. Small powder converts from grains to cubic centimeters the best. So, it's a good choice for case activated powder measures on turrets and progressives. No denying it's less forgiving than bulkier powders, but you don't start reloading if you don't think you can be careful. If you can't measure accurately with small amounts...save yourself a hospital bill and buy ammo at Walmart.

I've never seen a bad Bill Whittle video, he just seems to "get it" and is better than most at explaining it too.