had a recent issue that will never happen again!
NOBODY IS MORE ANAL THEN I AM TO START.
cartridge in the spotlight is the 9mm Luger.
size my flat nosed 125 grain cone shaped and powder coated boolits to .355 [/] check
chamfer the brass and use the correct Lyman "m" die. [/] check
did a lot of powder testing to determine what powder and how much. [/] check.
did a lot of testing to get the exact O.A.L. for this cartridge. [/] check
got out my handy dandy dillon case gage that is made to saami specs. to make sure that my finished product would indeed chamber well. [/] check !!!
now i have 200 rounds tucked neatly into two
100 round cases from MTM case company. [/] check-a- roony!
i'm for range time... i have 16 mecgar magazines for my springfield armory R.O. 9mm Luger.
the reason for 16 is so i can load up all 16 prior to being on the clock for shooting and not wanting
to spend half the time loading mags.
when i arrived to the line it was a simple matter of popping in a mag.... shoot....eject.....pop in another
...and so on.
didn't work out quite that way tho.
the first racking didn't go into battery and locked up the gun...cleared ...got off 1 shot , locked again.
friggin slide won't fully close!
tried 5 different mags same problem .....WTH!
my chamber gage was at home so i improvised.
i field stripped my gun and used my barrel as a chamber gage...you know the one that is supposed to adhere to saami specs?
i found that over 160 of the finished rounds would not do the "plunk test" and pass....half way in and stops.
when i got myself home, i whipped out the dillon case gage and ALL the 160+ rounds went into the gage with no problems.
apparently my barrel is a few thousandths on the under side size.
i'm left with 3 options as i see it.
1. always check with the barrel and toss the gage.
2. ream out the barrel to match the gage. (do they even make such a tapered ream?)
3. keep buying or have a smaller gage made. (not practical to me)
what would you do?