[Joe in Missouri]

Thanks for the information I went to Midway and as usual it’s a Mensa test to try to even understand what they’re selling and what it does that I couldn’t make any sense whatsoever out of this Chrono that you linked me to not your fault Midway needs to do a better job. I don’t know how they sell any of these but they had copy they use.

[Joe in Missouri]

Thanks for the update.
I hope never to have another squib load. 🙂
Scares the hell out of you….
For now being on SSI all reloading has come to a halt for the past 6 months.

[Joe in Missouri]

I think that the issue was not enough powder in the load to insure that the slide would cycle.

[Joe in Missouri]

“…..taking them up on their offer of repairing your damaged chronograph for 1/2 the cost of a new one….”

The morons never would mention a cost of repair.
I was less than impressed with this company.
Who would send in a unit when they won’t tell you what the cost of repair is?

The fact that they void the warranty if there is a hit on the plastic housing (that does not necessarily damage the electronics)
tells me that they are dishonest as it gets.

[Joe in Missouri]

The scam with the manufacturers is that if a bullet goes though it and does not kill it….. the manufacturer still will kill your warranty from that point forward.

The entire chrony “warranty” is a huge scam.

They CAN NOT tell if the bullet nicks or holes are actually the cause of the thing not working…… so they ASSUME that any bullet damage caused the problem even though it worked that way for years.

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[Joe in Missouri]

LOL I compressed 20 years of reloading experience into one year.
It’s a miracle I didn’t screw up more than this.
Thanks for the confirmation.
You guys have been a lot of help.

The only reason I am not reloading now is that the cost of raw materials for 223 has shot up to where I need $2000 or so
to put together 5K rounds. Pretty tough on social insecurity.

[Joe in Missouri]

Thanks Joe!
I databased your load

I somehow shot my crony and learned how poorly they are designed.
Just the shock from a “nick” destroyed the LED on the unit.

No warranty service even if it was not the hit that caused the failure.

[Joe in Missouri]

Dillon has similar.
I have heard both positive and negative about using one.
You seem sold.
Thanks for the reminder.

[Joe in Missouri]

Thanks for that feedback
I am grateful that pistol primers did not drive the bullet far enough to chamber another round.

My Dillon 1050 is mounted so high up that I have a hard time eyeballing cases.
I have to stand on my tip toes.
Thinking about something soft to stand on to raise me up a few inches.

[Joe in Missouri]

I think I figured this one out with the help of Competition Electronics.

I missed the very slight hit on the front of the chrony.

I seems that the LED’s in these things are very fragile, and it broke from the vibrations.

VERY disappointed to learn that this is not designed to come apart for simple cheap repairs.

Designed correctly one could easily swap out the sub $5 LED display, but because of the difficulty of even opening
the case they force you to send it in.

And that is assuming that they would even sell me a replacement LED.
Which I even doubt that they will do.

Not pleased with these devices all around.
They are not robust and they are not user serviceable.

[Joe in Missouri]

I hate to think I f’ed up that badly….

But defiantly a possibility.

It sounds better than my explanation.

Thanks Kirk

[Joe in Missouri]

Sorry I did not get most of these replies but was subscribed.

Got it fixed….
Pretty dumb but it was a lead bullet stuck in the the die and I thought that was the way it was made.
Having better eyesight would have helped a lot, but after looking at it 10 times or more, I never saw that it was a bullet in the die that was the issue.

Thanks for you time and responses.

[Joe in Missouri]

FOR SOME REASON I CAN NOT NOW EDIT THE ABOVE POST!
IT’S A REALLY A BAD THING TO HAVE SUCH A SHORT TIME FOR EDITING…..
THIS SHOULD BE FIXED ASAP IMHO.

**** I would like to ask if anyone else is loading these with 6g of Silouette and if so what range of OAL’s that they are comfortable with for pressure purposes and they also pass the “spin test”.

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[Joe in Missouri]

LOL
Thanks for the story Bob.

That makes it much more clear.

Thanks for the idea of sizing on a single stage or alternatively running only the bad the finished rounds through the bulge buster.

One other idea I have heard, is to make sure they you crank the 9mm sizing die down as tight as you can to the shell plate. I believe that is how Dillon has you set that die. I am running 223 right now but will check when I go back to 9mm.

I think you are right. Most of my rounds even if the case gauge doesn’t like a few, will be OK, and that bulge busting them would be best. At least I know what I am looking for now.

Thanks and God Bless from the Missouri Ozarks

[Joe in Missouri]

LOL
Thanks for the story Bob.

That makes it much more clear.

FWIW I have bulk once shot brass from armorally.com and most of them actually drop into the
case gauge and only a few don’t drop in easily.

I then took my G26 barrel and tested a few and most of them dropped right on it. (this is unsized brass)

Thanks for the idea of sizing on a single stage or alternatively running only the bad the finished rounds trough the bulge buster.

One other idea I have heard is to make sure they you crank the 9mm sizing die down as tight as you can to the shell plate.
I am running 223 right now but will check that also.

I think you are right. Most of my rounds even if the case gauge doesn’t like a few, I think that the G26 chamber will take almost anything. At least I know what I am looking for.

God Bless from the Missouri Ozarks

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