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  1. I remember hearing about the Detonics back in the early 80's, and after seing it, it stood out next to all other 1911's for obvious reasons. I started really looking into the specs, and history of how they came about when I was on a serch for an officer size 1911, and ran across some very good reading along the way. I finally worked a trade for one and have been content with it ever since. One interesting thing I did learn was that they made them in 3 calibers, 45acp, 9mm, and 38 Super, and some how the 9mm pistols bring the highest premioum, I'd have thought the 38 Souper would have been the most valuable to have? Oh well. Nice build by the way, hard not to like a 1911 in my book.
  2. Both of those calibers make fun little rifles I have built one of each on small rings, and have been playing with using sabots in the 7.62x39 with pretty good results.
  3. I think yes, their are a lot of things hapening all at the same time and very fast as to interiour ballistics, powder is very complex in it's makeup it's self you could read for weeks everything you could find and still leave your self asking questions. Each cartridg has it's own pressiour limit set baised on a number of things. The brass may be thicker inside on say a 30-30 than on say a 22-250, as the cases were built different for the different aplacations / lever action VS modern type bolt action. Still even tho the action may be able to with hold the pressiour, the case will fail when loaded to hot for the particular case. Find a Hornady loading book and look at the 257 roberts, and or 45-70 pages and read the first page in each and it will let you know a little about thy the loadings are what they are, now they also have a section like for the 45-70/TC hotter loadings NOT ment for the old Trapdoor type 45-70 guns. Gi brass is thicker than commercial brass is built, so if you are loading each the same you may be loading the gi brass a little on the worm side. I always thought my dad among other things was to ANAL about his reloading, because he seperated each piece of brass by brand, and worked up loads seperate just to make sure if their was a difference he didn't get in a bind and have a miss hap. You need to keep notes of everything you have tried and what worked and what didn't for future refferance, or you may be repeting the same test later, or taking your life in your own hands, which is the reason why I won't shoot other peoples reloads. All I can say is read, read and read more, but read good published material, not something that was just posted on some fourm with no details on how they found out what they found out.
  4. First compairing a 96 Sweed to a Rem 700 is like compairing a VW to a chevy. They all function kinda the same, how are they throuted, the one with the longest throught=free bore, will usually show the less pressiour signs . The rifle with the loosest headspace will probably show pressoiur signs first when getting on the high side or going slightly over the loading data stop point Always look at what was used to reach this published data, they will usually say what rifle they used, and sometimes how long the barrel was, OR they will say data was collected using a test barrel. Which is not a rifle, as we know it If you know anyone that has used a crony and try to match certin velositys bublished in any book, they are very lucky if they did. their are people that have sold their guns because they didn't reach the same speeds published in some book. And last no one wants to admit they made a mistake, because usually in the first paragrapf that comes with every new rifle, it says something like always make sure gun is pointed in a safe direction, and not recomended to use hand loads and if you do it voids the warrenty among other things. But we all know that things get shot that were not ment to, and guns sometimes blow apart, but 99% of the time no one did anything wrong? I don't have a book in front of me so I can't say what SAMMI calls out for 6.5x55 pressiour, I know the rem 700 can hold most anything you can fit into it correctly. The 96 sweed was chambered for the 6.5x55 and all small ring actions have pressiour limits, even given the action and barrel are in good shape. but if all is good the 96 action should hold up if the ammo is loaded correctly within the published limits. Seeting the bullets out into the lands can make pressiour shy rocket. Get a copy of the Lyman loading manual and read the first section about reloading, and then reread it, there is a lot of good information in there.
  5. Even tho there are defenant start and stop limits with hand loading, they should be worked up to in small steps. Lets say you have what looks like on the outside to be two, identical rifles, you may see pressure signs at different load charges between the two. If one has a longer headspace than the other it may make a differane when reaching the upper limit of a load charge. one may be throughted longer than the other, there are a lot of factors to figure in. Thats why no two like rifles will like the same exact loading the best. A low powder charge can in a lot of cases, be more distructive than an over charge, that's taking for granted you are using the right powder for the cartridg you are trying to load and didn't get it mixed up with another powder, like H-4895 VS IMR 4895. Without knowing all the details it's hard to say why the bolt sheered the lugs off. A taylored hand load is just that, and for the rifle you worked it up in, not your neighbors or friends rifle. My dad has been loading for over 40 years, and it used to piss me off that he wouldn't give me the exact charge weight he was using, all he would give me is the type of powder and which bullet he was using and would tell me I'd just have to work up and find out what my rifle liked. It took me many years to understand why he did it that way.
  6. Az, yes a person does not know how he will react till after the incident has happened. People should practice regularly with the firearm they intend to carry to keep familiar with the firearm they are carring and the controles it has. if making a radical change say from a revolver to a simiauto their needs to be extensive retraining and practice to become proficient with the new platform they are using. With all that being said I am considering one of the poly frame guns as a spare carry pistol, just haven't figured out which one yet. The ones I'm looking at are one of the ATI Fatboy's, XDS, M&P Shield, and there is always a Glock if it goes that far.
  7. I personally don't care for the polymer frame guns, but they seem to hold up well. But what I do disagree with is the no manual safety, now days there are plenty of options out their using the same polymer frame type platform that DO have a manual safety to choose from. Me personally I'd look for a Officers size 1911 and call it good, there are plenty of company's making them now days and are reasonably priced, I think ATI even makes a polymer framed 10-12 round Fatboy version.
  8. I'm NOT a Glock guy, but if my memory serves me gen1 - front and back of grip plain, gen 2 - checkered front and back of grip, gen 3 - finger groves and checkering front and back, gen 4 says - gen 4 on slide.
  9. Looks like there isn't any bedding in the back part of the action, and the rear tang may be a little tight? Repair crack, re inlet and full length bed at least the hole action area.
  10. To make a long story short after being informed at 48 yo I have two very serious heart conditions and having a pacemaker/Debibrilator inplant, and two strokes all in a yeart and a half, the big boomers need to go. Besides the guy that I traded with was very happy to get it, and no since in having something laying around I'm not going to use. Same thing as the 416 Taylor I built a couple of years ago.
  11. Wow that's news to me. It's so hard to learn to shoot? So hard to maintain? Sounds like they need to stick to really hard things that are ment for real men, like video games and facebook, and twiter. It was John Brownings goal when he designed the 1911 to not have to use any tools to dissamble it, and if he could have figured how to hold the grip pannels on without screws he would have done it.
  12. That's one good looking cartridge, and is #1 on my want list of rifles to build.
  13. Yes the first few made had 3 recoil springs, then they switched to 2, and now they just have one, same as what wolf makes to replace the older multi spring units. On my pistol whitch has 2 springs, it seems a little stiff partly because you don't have as much to hold onto, as the grip is quite a bit shorter. Short enough that when loaded with 6 in the mag and in the pistol the back of the follower stickes out the bottom of the mag
  14. I'm fixed up on ammo, been loading 45 acp for 20 years.
  15. Over the Hollidays I made a trade I was very happy with. I traded my 35 Whelen AI on a Mauser 98 action I built several years ago, complete package, 120 rounds of ammo, dies, bullets, scope the hole nine yards, for one of the first oridgional batch of 5,000 Detonics ever made, a Combat Master in 45 acp. I'd been looking for an officers model 45 for a while and had a guy interested that had a Rock Island officers model, we were still discussing it, but before the deal went through the Detonics came available so I jumped on it FAST. Now I have my new CCW pistal, I'm a very happy camper.
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