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Last post 09-09-2008, 10:03 PM by rolmdl. 7 replies.
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  •  05-06-2008, 3:58 PM 827

    IDPA Nationals

    Looking for someone to join me at the IDPA Nationals in Allentown PA . to share costs and squad together. Have already made reservations at the match hotel for $99.95 per night (3 nights) Thurs-Sat. Have a great rate on a rental car. Will shoot Fri-Sat. Depart on Sunday morning. Anyone interested please contact me and I will share flight info and coordinate getting applications submitted to IDPA HQ.

    Ron Lauer

    laueron@hotmail.com

     

  •  07-06-2008, 8:21 PM 857 in reply to 827

    Re: IDPA Nationals

    Just found out that I would be taking a job in Coatesville, Pa. Packing up and headed there tomorrow. So I duely filled out the entry for for the national match. I'm going to be living like 80 miles from the range so cant help much with the transportation costs getting up there. I will be interested in lodging though. You heard of any other GADPA guys making the journey as well?

     

    Neil Glausier

  •  07-28-2008, 4:38 PM 876 in reply to 857

    Re: IDPA Nationals

    Just found out that I am squadded up in squad 14 and will beshooting Friday morning and Satueday afternoon with lunch on Friday as well. Hope I see some GADPA shooters out there. I'm living 45 minutes away from the range in PA.

    See ya, Neil 

  •  07-28-2008, 11:19 PM 877 in reply to 876

    Re: IDPA Nationals

    Good luck at the Nats, Neil. Hope you can make it back down for the GA State in September.

    -Capel

  •  07-28-2008, 11:36 PM 880 in reply to 877

    Re: IDPA Nationals

    With any luck I will be there to start moving my wife up here. I'm sure she won't mind a day at the range.
  •  08-26-2008, 9:23 PM 895 in reply to 877

    Re: IDPA Nationals

    I need some help... I have been using the load you suggested to me for a while now; 4.3gr titegroup under 230 g fmjs seated to 1.24oal. I just invested in a chriony and am seriously inconsistant in the velocities. I broke 720 fps only 4 times out of 75 rounds! The rest were in the low to mid 600s. Can you make any sugestions for a more consistant velocity. Clearly I need to up the charge a little to hit the power threshold but I would like to see only minor deviations in the velocities. before I take these to the Ga state and Nationals. I have tried to isolate a few variables such as using only one type of brass, and seperated into three different manufacturers to try to narrow the spread between them and 25 feds, 25 wins, 25 rems all inconsistant after meticulously monitoring charge, depth, and crimp. What else is there?

     

    Thanks,

     

    Neil

     

  •  08-26-2008, 10:06 PM 896 in reply to 895

    Re: IDPA Nationals

    Niel,

    The only thing I can suggest is that you point the muzzle skyward before each shot on the chrono. This is the official way to chrono. It insures that all the powder is at the primer when you pull the trigger. Other than that, I suggest you go to http://forums.1911forum.com/forumdisplay.php?f=58 and ask this question. There are many people with more reloading experience than me on that forum.

    -Capel

  •  09-09-2008, 10:03 PM 900 in reply to 896

    Re: IDPA Nationals

    Thanks for the help. Sorry to have put this topic in open forum, but since I started it there I'll follow up.

    I got a little more serious about my reloading since the attention to the chrony. I bought a couple more powders and made sample batches working up velocity and accuracy. I completely overhauled, cleaned and resetup my loader with the exact instructions from a dillon rep. chunked the cheap digital scale and went back to the ol' reliable beam.  I then purchased a graduated micrometer set screw for my powder bar from Uniquetek.com. It has a much finer adjustment (40 thread as opposed to 28) and is graduated for repeatability. It has worked marvelously. Alternating between W231, titegroup, and bullseye only takes about four seconds and a couple of dummy charges to dial in my desired charge weight and seems to be exponentially more consistant from drop to drop. My velocity inconsistancies seem to have disappeared. The last 1000 rounds have been incredibly consistant and unbelievably accurate. The worst Standard deviation of ten, ten round strings was with the W231 and was only 13.68. Not too shabby. The best was 6.27 with bullseye. Followed by 8.11 with the Titegroup. I would use any of these powders again, but will be packing the bullseye for the Ga State match. With absolutely nothing else to do out here in Pensyltucky except work and shoot putting more attention to detail in the science of it all may have kicked my game up a notch or two. I hope to continue to tweak and improve all the mechanical variables along the way. If you or anybody else who may have read this can open any new doors I'd love to hear about it. Again thanks, and I'll see you all on the 20th.

     

    Neil  

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