My youngest brother has been wanting a Star Model B for a while now.
Once the requisite funds had been gathered together, he was off to the local Cabelas.
That evening he texted me to let me know he got it. This was followed by the succeeding messages:
"It's not feeding right, won't chamber the 9mm luger I have on hand"
"Well (you can fill in the blank here), they mislabeled it in the display case. I'm the pround owner of
a Modelo Super in 9mm Largo. Guess I'll have to buy a set of dies now."
So we got together over the weekend and did some reloading.
By some stroke of luck, Cabelas had Unique in stock. So Bert got a pound of that along with Federal small pistol primers and some Berry's 124 grain plated bullets. He also got in some Starline Largo brass.
After getting the Dillon 550 dialed in, we had a ball. For those of you interested, Dillon doesn't list a caliber conversion for 9mm Largo. I ended up using shell plate 3, the #3 buttons and the F powder funnel.
The 14th edition Speer manual gave a starting load of 4.5 grains of Unique of a 125 grain bullet. That was plenty to cycle the action and drop the cases at our feet. Accuracy was superb. The soda cans didn't stand a chance.
I guess an Astra 400 will be rounding out the collection