Making some rounds for the wife’s new piece, and I am having an issue with low neck tension. The boolit is a 124 grain truncated nose, cast from 92-6-2 hardball, sized to 0.356. The brass (Starline) was expanded with a Redding neck expander for lead. I crimped with a Redding taper crimp die. Problem: if I did not crimp so tightly that the lead swayed in, then I could press the boolit into the casing by pinching the round with my fingers. Even then, cycling the round through the pistol would reduce the OACL by 0.004”. Cycling the round multiple times does not result in more than 0.004” set back.
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I’ll try 0.357” & 0.358” sizing, along with omitting the neck expander. However, is low neck tension an issue with 9mm and it’s tapered case? I’ve never paid any attention to 9mm issues before, so I am relatively ignorant here.