Crash_Corrigan
01-07-2018, 07:11 PM
I recently obtained a fantastic mold from our pal in Slovenia, Mihec. This was a grooveless boolit of 130 gr and casts in my mold at .359. I pc's about 500 boolits in Smokes Carolina Blue and they came out perfect.
The the village idiot (me) set up my Dillon XL650 and proceed to load about 50 of these beauties. Did I check the diameter of these boolits..............no! Did I get around to dropping a few of these into my case gauge.....finally did it but was sidetracked by some problems with the press. I had the wrong tube in the press. It should have the brass tip not the plastic one I used. So I was getting upside down primed cases along with a large percentage of sideways primers. I ended up ordering the proper tubes from Dillon and I removed the neat sponge rubber bumpers from the case locating pins.
Now the press at least stopped where it is supposed to stop and I no longer had issues with the casefeeder and when the shellplate stops where it is supposed to priming is a lot easier.
I finally resolved these issues and got around to measuring my boolits. They ranged from .360 to .363 and of course would not fully seat in a case gauge.
Now I have to bust down those faulty rounds and size my boolits properly.
I have a Lee push thru sizer at .357 diameter and I hope that does the trick. I know if I have a cartridge sized at .356 my Browning Mod 35 will choke on them. Has major soot issues on the cases and gums up the action in about 25 rounds. Running fatter boolits stopped that problem.
I the meantime I await the guy in the FED EX truck to bring my brass tips magazine tubes.
Ya know if you do not attend to the details it can all go South pretty fast......
Loading for the 9 MM can be a bear. This is the one that drives me crazy cuz I do not keep good notes detailing problems and their solutions.....New Years Resolution number One.
The the village idiot (me) set up my Dillon XL650 and proceed to load about 50 of these beauties. Did I check the diameter of these boolits..............no! Did I get around to dropping a few of these into my case gauge.....finally did it but was sidetracked by some problems with the press. I had the wrong tube in the press. It should have the brass tip not the plastic one I used. So I was getting upside down primed cases along with a large percentage of sideways primers. I ended up ordering the proper tubes from Dillon and I removed the neat sponge rubber bumpers from the case locating pins.
Now the press at least stopped where it is supposed to stop and I no longer had issues with the casefeeder and when the shellplate stops where it is supposed to priming is a lot easier.
I finally resolved these issues and got around to measuring my boolits. They ranged from .360 to .363 and of course would not fully seat in a case gauge.
Now I have to bust down those faulty rounds and size my boolits properly.
I have a Lee push thru sizer at .357 diameter and I hope that does the trick. I know if I have a cartridge sized at .356 my Browning Mod 35 will choke on them. Has major soot issues on the cases and gums up the action in about 25 rounds. Running fatter boolits stopped that problem.
I the meantime I await the guy in the FED EX truck to bring my brass tips magazine tubes.
Ya know if you do not attend to the details it can all go South pretty fast......
Loading for the 9 MM can be a bear. This is the one that drives me crazy cuz I do not keep good notes detailing problems and their solutions.....New Years Resolution number One.