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Hey everybody thanks for the input, Mainly I just don’t need to clean very often so I forget what I did 5he last time. I do like um shinny but need to cut back ob the Kenuand and just run them longer, Thanks again, Craig
I did forget to mention I am using dawn dish soap with all wet tumbling. I was checking some brass today and most came out very clean and shinny. Craig
Well I am in the misted of large quantities of 9mm brass cleaning as I have like 10 smaller jars of brass I have gotten over the last couple of years. It amounts to 3 large loads in the ss tumbler of I would guess 500+ per load or more. They are coming out like brand new and very shiny the way I like brass. Craig
Just got back from the local gun shop and bought Winchester small pistol primers for 64.99 per1000 with tax out the door for 69.70!! This is the leased I have paid in a few years. They had a lot of stock. I think I paid like 87.00 a week ago there. Craig
BTW the panic is subsiding!!I can’t remember if I posted this or not but I had to buy BE86 as power pistol is was not available locally at the time I needed it. The local place now has a 8 pound jug of it now that I have been loading with be86!! This is driving my crazy/ The difference between the two powders is very slight but the be86 has to be loaded hotter than the power pistol it seems to me anyway. Boy I am not sure what to do. I think I should buy the power pistol for backup but 250.00 buys a lot of other reloading stuff. Oh well. Craig
Ken, I got 6.6 off the Alliant site as a the max the load for 180g FMJ. It is working at that level. Craig
Hey Ken yeah I have used Power Pistol for years in 9mm at 6.2g.I use 6.2 for 115g and 124g bullets!! BE86 is about the same I am finding but in 40 cal it shot light with 6.6g with a 180g bullet. If I move up to 10mm the same round uses 8.+ I will try that next. BE86 is very good in 9mm as I shot more of it today and will shoot more tomorrow!!! Craig
Hey Ken I have had issues with this 40 call S%W gun in the past but thought I had it figured all out. I basically forgot the COL had to be in the 1.17 area instead of the book 1.12 range. I will shoot today but I am sure it will work. All so what did shoot was very light so I upped it to max 6.6 BE86. Craig
Well some old bad habits are hard to break. I have a Redding t-7 press which lets me keep 9mm dies screwed it all the time with 3 empty holes to use as needed. Well the 4th taper crimp die gets left off if I don’t think I need it for like 40 call. Well I get to the range and non of the 40 will fully chamber. DUH. I get home and run them through the tamper crimp die and all fixed. Oh well will test tomorrow. Craig
You know it’s a good day when!! A guy at the range gave me a “Berry’s 180 grain FMJ box of 250 his friends girl friend bought him and of course he wanted loaded rounds and she bought tips. So I just loaded some testing 10 mm shorts(40 cal) and will test tomorrow. We are having fun now!! Craig
Well I shot the 10MM today with no problems to report. It’s funny when you reload correctly with the dies set up correctly it all goes with out problems and a lot of fun to boat!! Craig
OK tried to shoot the 10MM reloads with BE 86 powder but none would chamber. I got two to finally shoot and they were fine. When I got home I found the resizing die was not screwed in all the way and I fixed that and all chambered fine. Boy when I screw up I really screw up a?? BTW the two that I got to shoot were very nice. Craig
Lust received 250 empty 10MM brass and will load some tomorrow/Thanks for all the input from everyone!! Craig
I am wrong about the data for 10MM. I was looking at the “barrel length” of 5″ The data is all over the place so heads up on that one. Craig
Hey Kenk, how are you? OK shot the BE rounds today and saw no difference in the flash. I had some range people who saw me shoot and agreed with me. Some of the rounds even seemed brighter but really no major difference which is good as I can treat it just like my Power Pistol rounds with the same data. The 10mm is very weird data wise as all rounds are the same grain size. I have mevver seen that before!! Craig