What did you do in the reloading room today?

[Irving]

Recently completed my 9mm 700x, 115gr berrys and win small rifle primer load development. I casually loaded 200 rounds for an extended test before going hog wild

Was this a fun experiment, or driven by a lack of pistol primers?

[jreifsch80]

Was this a fun experiment, or driven by a lack of pistol primers?

Well i have only 1k spp so a little of both. Ive heard of people doing the same.

Disclamer it worked for me and my cz p09 your milage may vary

[jreifsch80]

Thank you sir.

Also I am seating out to 1.13

[Hoser]

Small rifle and small pistol primers are the same, dimensionally.

For high pressure pistol ammo they work fine. But for low pressure ammo they dont work well. The primer cups are harder and dont seal the primer pocket completely. You can get gas leakage and end up with flame pitting on your breechface.

I only sub rifle primers in top end 9x19 and 40 ammo.

Large rifle primers and large pistol primers dont interchange.

[jreifsch80]

Yes that is good info about the differences in small rifle and pistol primers and something I considered as well. my 700x loads are actually a shade over hodgedon max. The main part of my testing was to see if I had primer leakage. Fortunately no signs of leakage. Also I wouldnt use my cci41s rem 7.5's or fgmm primers in place of spp just wsr, cci400's and rem 6.5 primers. I wish i would have bought more pistol primers a year ago haha

[O2HeN2]

For high pressure pistol ammo they work fine.

Just to add a "Me too!" This is why we used small rifle primers in the .38 Super back when the Major power factor floor was 175 (which meant I loaded to 180). With Major being reduced to 165, .38 Super can make Major with much lower pressures.

But for low pressure ammo they dont work well. The primer cups are harder and dont seal the primer pocket completely. You can get gas leakage and end up with flame pitting on your breechface.

...and that I never knew. Now I do.

O2

[Hoser]

...and that I never knew. Now I do.

Gary or Andy showed me a 38 Super steel gun many moons ago that had a breechface that was all chewed up. Happened in under 500 rounds. I think he put a bushing the breechface instead of replacing the slide.

[bradbn4]

I just used a 50 dollar off gift certificate with MidWayUSA from an optics purchase. I back ordered M1 Carbine mold along with some reloading manuals and some parts are parts for that caliber from Lee. I rather have the 311-121-RN-H5 4 Cavity RG4 PB from NOE, but back ordering this part is not an option.

I guess if I really, really wanted a NOE mold, I could just do the order 5 molds in that specific caliber and get in the mfg queue that way.

Now for the slow hunt for some gas checks....

[Duman]

General reloading question. Do you anneal your brass after every firing?

I've never annealed my own brass, though I've never reloaded the same brass more than a few times.

[Hoser]

General reloading question. Do you anneal your brass after every firing?

I've never annealed my own brass, though I've never reloaded the same brass more than a few times.

Not for most short range ammo.

Out past 600-800 yards, yes. But only because I can.

Lots of national and world championships were won with reloaded brass that was not annealed.