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Bullseye: Great stuff! I'll forward this to my wife's e-mail and start shopping for new guns.

My friends and fellow shooting-club members often remark on the nobility of my character when it comes to such things, although my wife occasionally questions my habit of spending all of our Social Security checks on guns and ammo. But the value of such a policy seems self-evident, does it not?

Sometimes we just have to bear the burdens life forces on us.

Seriously, it gets worse. Brownell's bought Sinclair a few years ago and this summer they moved that operation with all the shooting and reloading equipment here. The warehouse and offices are ON MY WAY TO THE RANGE! (I'm headed there in an hour). I'm doomed.

I'll do as you say. I'm very fortunate to live only a few miles from Montezuma, Iowa, so Brownell's is my local gun parts "store." I can order from their huge inventory and pick up at the front desk.

I'll try it Bullseye. I thought the titanium pins would be an improvement, since the original steel Ruger pin broke.

Thanks!

Yes, but I've checked the things covered there, and none of the conditions or solutions suggested there seem to apply. The gun has a VQ extractor, which looks pristine. The rebound spring was broken previously, but was replaced. The bolt face looks OK and is not missing an metal. The two replacement...

I picked up a Truglo basic model at Sheel's last spring on a whim and put it on my Mark III in place of a Bushnell Trophy, thinking I'd change back right away. However, the Truglo shoots considerably better for me than the Bushnell, and the dot is rounder and less prone to distortion. I have to bele...

I need some advice. I installed a new titanium firing pin 6 months ago in my Ruger Mk III target pistol (VQ trigger). I shot 60 round Bullseye matches each week, plus a few practice rounds, and a month ago the firing pin strike became lighter and lighter until I was having several misfires each matc...

Thanks Bullseye. You have never failed to have good advice for all of my firearm problems.

I'll try it, and I dump that batch of reloads.

After writing the reply above, I got a better source of light and I can now see a ring inside the chamber at the point of the break. That's undoubtedly what's causing the marks on the fired shells.

I guess there's no telling what that means in terms of reloading.

Thanks again.

I haven't been able to determine why the first case broke. I had fired over a hundred rounds of both factory and reloads with no headspace problems, including 20 or so of the same reloads that broke. So, I can't imagine that a headspace problem could develop spontaneously, although that is what it s...

After several hundred rounds through a new H&R Ultra Varmint .223, a reload broke when fired about an inch up from the primer. The broken shell came out with no trouble, but now every fired case has a lightly etched ring in the same place as the original break around the circumferance of the shell. ...

The guy charges $25 for a basic breakdown and clean, but it's not much more for some real tinkering, such as adding a VQ trigger for $40. He's a retired police captain who was the armourer for our small local force. Nice guy, and he really knows his way around a pistol, but I need to be able to do i...

Somewhere in the back of my mind I seem to remember a proverb to that effect.

I have discovered that a large share of any difficulty I encounter in working on my guns is due to my ignornace of nomenclature, so pix really make a difference.