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Please continue to post. A resource like this would be great for new reloaders

This is exactly what I was thinking. Collectively we have more info than the manuals. My lee manual doesn't even have data for their own cast bullets and we don't have their specific gun. So knowing...

This is great keep them coming

I was thinking we should have a thread where we share our data and the gun it's loaded for. There's more knowledge on this site than in our manuals. If there's already a thread like this let me know....

I'm not sure what the slide IIRC is.

So I found a video of when I cut into the Rhino lining to see what was in there. I was 50 yards away, shot it with a 55gr. 223. out of an AR 1-9 twist, I put the plate in a box and shot it once...

Yep. I ordered an extra plate. If anyone is interested I can post some pictures. I think I have a video too.
Smoke4320 is correct. I was trying to reduce the bullet fragmentation. I tested with and...

Just trying to gets general consensus of what you guys do for casting 9mm. I've only ever water cooled and didn't know what the majority did and why.

I completely agree on bugging in. I don't plan on leaving my home unless we have too. I don't want to be backing bags for us if we do have to leave and thinking about what we need when we need it....

Just trying to understand the proper fit. If it doesn't pass the plunk test but it does go into battery and eject properly, is that okay?

Popper, I'm not sure what the band edge is?

Thanks for all of the help guys. I size the boolits to .401 and I'm glad to hear that .421 is your crimp, that's what I do too. The OAL just worries me because of the amount of case space the PP...

It's my first time casting 40 S&W with the lee 175gn mold. I'm having some trouble with the head spacing and was wondering if anyone had a similar experience. I set some dummy rounds to 1.110 oal,...

gloob, I'll try that on the next patch. I've been using the hornady case lube but there so much pressure going on to resize and flare. I think you're right about that causing the problem. Thanks for...

Not a fixation jay a conversation. I do have my other preps although they're never done. My thoughts were just on foot. I think 1000 rounds would be a little heavy

Just like the post says what guns are you bringing with you if you're on foot and how much ammo?
I have a Daniel defense v5 with an eotech with about 200rnds and a Springfield xd compact 40 with 5...

I bought an eagle plate carrier and some at-500 plates for it. They're heavier the hell but I don't like the fragility of ceramic plates and the expectation date. Anyway I was concerned about...

Go to BJ's or Sam's club and go to the bakery section. They have food grade buckets that they store their icing in and will give them to you for free. Clean 'em out and get some mylar bags and O2...

I am going to get a turret press, just waiting to find a used one.

Unfortunately, I pulled all of the pullets so I can't measure them. But they would stick out of the barrel and not headspace...

I'll start by saying that I'm still wet behind the ears with reloading. I reload 9, 40, 45acp and .223, out of all of these, 9mm has been the biggest headache for me. Last night while I was ready...

I did the same with bullseye, but ran out and can't find any at local gun stores. I was worried because of a different burn rate with PP.

That's exactly what I was looking for. Thanks guys!

Thanks. It seems crazy to have to load a specific oal for each pistol just for plinking. I like to load for the tightest tolerance pistol.

My Lee manual doesn't have specific data, but other powders call for 1.125, but they're all like that and it seems a little generic for me knowing that all guns have different chamber lengths. When...

Yep. The 6 cavity

Casted my own 9mm boolits with a lee mold, 4.8gn of power pistol. To get them to fit into my xds the oal needs to be 1.115ish. Some of them have an oal of 1.100. This seems really short. Anyone...