cptinjeff
10-05-2009, 09:23 AM
Hello All,
This is my first post to this great and very informative forum. Wow...what a wealth of information. I've lurked here for the year or so I've been casting boolits.
Over the past year I've cast and loaded many "big bore" revolver rounds and have had great success (thanks in part to the wealth of info here).
I've started shooting USPSA/IPSC and want to use my own cast. I have a older Glock 21 that I use for the sport (had to replace all the stock springs with new stock springs and the slide stop spring to get it to feed and fire 100% again...I haven't used this gun much in the last 6 years...been living the revolver life. Oh yes, and I put in a Lone Wolf replacement barrel so I don't have to face the stares for loading lead in a Glock.
At first I tried the Lyman 452-460 semi wad cutter. This boolit shoots great one at a time or in my revolvers but won't reliable feed in the glock. The driving band of the feeding boolit hits the ejecting case rim and ties up the gun at all the OAL's I've tried.
I now am loading some lee 452-230 tc. Accuracy is fine....feeding is great. All is good right? Not exactly. Maybe 1 in 50 rounds will not fire...due (I think) to the gun not going all the way into battery. When I eject the round that did not fire...it has a huge wad of lube on the case mouth area (I think preventing the feeding). This seems to clear the mess for next 50 or so rounds. When I clean the lube off the non-firing round it shoots. This wouldn't be a problem for plinking but for IPSC it has to work 100%
I'm using a Lyman 4500 and sizing to .450 , .452 would not feed. LBT soft lube. I wipe all the noses and case mouths after loading. Using a Dillon 550b, the lube tends to get into the seating die and crimping die and therefore on the nose/case mouth area....but I wipe this really well. What am I missing? Sorry for the long first post...I'm not usually a long winded poster:)
Thanks jb (long time shooter/reloader...short time caster)
This is my first post to this great and very informative forum. Wow...what a wealth of information. I've lurked here for the year or so I've been casting boolits.
Over the past year I've cast and loaded many "big bore" revolver rounds and have had great success (thanks in part to the wealth of info here).
I've started shooting USPSA/IPSC and want to use my own cast. I have a older Glock 21 that I use for the sport (had to replace all the stock springs with new stock springs and the slide stop spring to get it to feed and fire 100% again...I haven't used this gun much in the last 6 years...been living the revolver life. Oh yes, and I put in a Lone Wolf replacement barrel so I don't have to face the stares for loading lead in a Glock.
At first I tried the Lyman 452-460 semi wad cutter. This boolit shoots great one at a time or in my revolvers but won't reliable feed in the glock. The driving band of the feeding boolit hits the ejecting case rim and ties up the gun at all the OAL's I've tried.
I now am loading some lee 452-230 tc. Accuracy is fine....feeding is great. All is good right? Not exactly. Maybe 1 in 50 rounds will not fire...due (I think) to the gun not going all the way into battery. When I eject the round that did not fire...it has a huge wad of lube on the case mouth area (I think preventing the feeding). This seems to clear the mess for next 50 or so rounds. When I clean the lube off the non-firing round it shoots. This wouldn't be a problem for plinking but for IPSC it has to work 100%
I'm using a Lyman 4500 and sizing to .450 , .452 would not feed. LBT soft lube. I wipe all the noses and case mouths after loading. Using a Dillon 550b, the lube tends to get into the seating die and crimping die and therefore on the nose/case mouth area....but I wipe this really well. What am I missing? Sorry for the long first post...I'm not usually a long winded poster:)
Thanks jb (long time shooter/reloader...short time caster)