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Yes, my first thought was just get some steel plate and use it as a giant washer. I wonder if v the would work with the 3/4 plywood top in my bench?

I put down money on a leader 50 A1, so now I'm in the preliminary stages of getting and setting up a loading station for my new .50 BMG. I've heard that the press takes a lot of torque from the handle, and that you want a very solid mount. Anyone done this before?

Update: got up to 1025 FPS with the 115 grain XTP loads over 4.8 grains Power Pistol. I got slight pressure signs at 5.0, so backed off. It's a blowback pistol, but an all stainless frame and slide so accelerated recoil spring wear is the only real concern. Given the intended use of the pistol and how often it'll be fired (hopefully never), I don't see eating $8 recoil springs as an issue.

Putting my .380 115 grain loads together. Light died before I could get a reading for the 4.4 and 4.6 grain loads, hoping for 950-1000 FPS. Using a stainless Sig P232 with a heavy Wolff 22 lb spring, so it's technically blowback but in reality designed for a much stiffer load than standard .380. The recoil is still well under the 90 grain +P Underwood 90 grain JHP oads that I'm using as a rough comparison.

The real goal is to approach the 115 grain "Hyper" 9mm loads that Shootingthebull tested recently.

Any reason you don't use a cheapo prochrono off amazon? It's like $80 for the chrono and $30 for a tripod. Beats the heck out of guesswork.

How are you measuring velocity at 300 yards but not the muzzle? Won't a LabRadar give you a distance vs velocity plot? I may be missing something.

In other news, I built a bunch of rule bending loads for USPSA. I got an extended and ported Barsto .40 barrel for my X5, and loaded 135 gr Nosler JHPs with 9.6 of Longshot, which gets me about 1300 FPS. That's better than a 165 power factor, but it's pushing a bullet only 10 grains heavier than the 9mm shooters. My idea is that the extra gas through the ports will stabilize muzzle jump, much like the unlimited guys with .38 Supers and huge comps.

Last week I finished a 6.5 Creedmoor build for my dad on an old M700 action, and worked up a load. It puts 5 shot strings of 143 grain Hornady ELDX bullets into 0.3-0.5 MOA groups. I made dad 200 rounds, and will get it to him once Leupold finishes the custom dial.

I also finally got my model 70 back, and will soon start loading for that. I am really excited.

Im really excited account CFE BLK in the 7.62x40. I'm also going to try to see if I can get a 220 RN seated in the same chamber and subsonic. It won't cycle my carbine gas, but I'll turn the gas off if I can get subs going anyway.

Have you tried lil' gun? From hodgdon's data, it looks like a great powder for .300 BLK.

Made 500 cases of 7.62x40 WT from range pickups.

Working a 6.5 creedmoor load up for my dad's rifle.

A few hundy of .357 Sig. Going to start up on a build for my dad soon, a 6.5 creedmoor built to be cheap fun and accurate. Old donor action that got about $1300 put into it. Want to push some 142 gr ELDX bullets through little holes.