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John25 wrote:Happily getting ready for Blair Atholl this week end. Just have enough ammo, packing plenty of spare clothing then minutes ago, remembering that all my Avon oh so soft is all at Bisley - dur.

Anyone else going to Blair Atholl for the 'F' class meeting?

Crikey! That's quite a trip - have a safe journey and a good shoot John

Maybe a trip but well worth it.....

Hmmm today?
Still cleaning the firearms I took to the fall shoot last weekend.
I cleaned the black powder burners and the ones that had corrosive surplus ammo first, the rest could wait a few days.
Today I'm working on getting the residual copper traces out of the gas block of a FN FAL G1

My reloading stuff turned up for the 8mm Mauser so made up 20 rounds which i'll try sunday.

Unfortunately,i was a complete douche and ended up doing them twice. I had them sat on my table like little soldiers in rows of 5 in their various powder weights...then went into clumsy mode and knocked them all over...mixing them up. Had to pull the bullets,empty the cases and start again. emrolleyes

I have just taken delivery of a Hornady "Lock and Load" bayonet system to use with the dies on my RCBS Rock Chucker press. It seems to work well, and also the Redding " Instant Headspace Guage" with its sexy dial micrometer. Does anyone have any experience using these items?

Steve wrote:My reloading stuff turned up for the 8mm Mauser so made up 20 rounds which i'll try sunday.

Unfortunately,i was a complete douche and ended up doing them twice. I had them sat on my table like little soldiers in rows of 5 in their various powder weights...then went into clumsy mode and knocked them all over...mixing them up. Had to pull the bullets,empty the cases and start again. emrolleyes

What, no reloading block? Get yourself a bit of wood and drill some case sized holes in it.

John25 wrote:
What, no reloading block? Get yourself a bit of wood and drill some case sized holes in it.

Yeah...i know,but its one of them things i keep putting off.

Yeah...i know,but its one of them things i keep putting off.

zeroveez wrote:I have just taken delivery of a Hornady "Lock and Load" bayonet system to use with the dies on my RCBS Rock Chucker press. It seems to work well, and also the Redding " Instant Headspace Guage" with its sexy dial micrometer. Does anyone have any experience using these items?

I use the bayonet system on powder measures, but prefer to just use sure-loc rings for dies (they're available from our very own jon17). Actually I'm not sure I have a press with a 1-1/4-12 thread to take the Hornady system anyway.

I had the Instant Indicator on my wish list for a while (was thinking of putting one on the Dillon for checking seating depth), but I haven’t got a round tuit yet. I'll be interested to hear how you get on with it. Meanwhile I'm looking forward to upgrading to a Shed Comparator.

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In the Andrew, our 'as issued' Round Tuits were made of hemp rope, where can I get a wooden one?