sigep1764
09-27-2017, 03:18 PM
A little backstory: Lathesmith made a custom powder through funnel that reaches deeper into a 9mm case and expands it wider for me around 2 years ago. Has worked wonderfully, not swaging wheelweight boolits one bit. I recently switched to range scrap and am now getting some swaging down of boolits.
There has always been noticeable coke bottling of the brass where it has a smaller waist compared to the ends of the brass. I want to open up the carbide sizing die to see if this helps. Dillon and the local reloading shop won't sell me just the sizing die. Any thoughts on how to open it up? It is currently sizing the brass to an outside diameter of .374. Id like that to be .378 to .380.
If anyone has a 38special/357magnum SDB sizing die that they would run a 9mm case into and measure for me, that might save some headaches as well. Its too bad these dies for the SDB are non adjustable for sizing purposes. I am open to any and all suggestions from the excellent collection of knowledge on this forum.
Thank you,
Kyle
There has always been noticeable coke bottling of the brass where it has a smaller waist compared to the ends of the brass. I want to open up the carbide sizing die to see if this helps. Dillon and the local reloading shop won't sell me just the sizing die. Any thoughts on how to open it up? It is currently sizing the brass to an outside diameter of .374. Id like that to be .378 to .380.
If anyone has a 38special/357magnum SDB sizing die that they would run a 9mm case into and measure for me, that might save some headaches as well. Its too bad these dies for the SDB are non adjustable for sizing purposes. I am open to any and all suggestions from the excellent collection of knowledge on this forum.
Thank you,
Kyle