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thanks for the reply i use to recycle a lot of crimped brass and thought for a few bucks make it all usable. just tired of throwing good brass i could put to use . one can never have to much brass or bullets or powder or ECT.....

Good Morning all : i have been reloading for many years now and a year ago i bought a SDB and just love the little thing 10k plus now in reloads. i have been reloading 40sw and 9mm and invested in EGW undersize dies for those two calibers which i run thru a single stage press. My first question is i am about to start doing 45acp and wondered if that brass belled as much as 40 and 9mm did and do i need to invest in the die? i love the way my 40 and 9mm smoothly cycle thru my SDB after brass had been undersized but is this a problem with 45 Brass? second question ran into several thousand cases of 45 and 9mm in there original boxes that are crimped couldn't beat the price FREE to good home so they went home with me have looked at the Dillon swagger and also the other RCBS one i think which looks like a lot of work aligning the brass and a lot of pressure in my old single stage press any body know of any other devices? is the Dillon worth the money? and because it basically resizes the primer hole would it also make S&B brass useable? or should i just run a counter sink thru the primer pocket and cut out the crimp yes the counter sink would be cheaper but are the results better with the swagger verses cutting thanks for your opinions

i guess most of you would call me a time waster but with the speed of reloading on my SDB it gives me more time doing reloading and not sitting in front of the TV my process is as follows: home from the range i de prime all my brass 9mm and 40s&w using a universal de primer die in my old single stage press sort by caliber and then into the tumbler with Walnut for and hour . then into my pan for Case Lube and undersize EGW die in the old single stage . from there into the ultrasonic cleaner 20 minutes to get rid of any lube it also cleans out the primer pockets and inside the brass . after they dry for the night next evening i place them back into the tumbler with corncob and polish for an hour after the prep all is ready for reloading. carbide dies are expensive so i feel the first tumble in the walnut cleans off any dirt caked or cooked on the outside of the brass off so there is not as big a chance to get a die scratched Yes i know the under size die has a de primer pin in it, well i like the feel of resizing smooth not the jerk or pop that occasionally happens when de priming just a smooth feel of the resizing. all this extra stuff does take more time , did i get out of the house "yes" did i get a product i am proud of "yes" does my Dillon press stay cleaner "yes" i could go on with yes's and no's for ever the bullets still only hit the target where i aimed clean or dirty it is my personal preference to have clean shiny brass when i go to the range to shoot and my press likes clean shiny brass as it cycles through its stations 12k plus thru this little press in the last year not one problem and when i change out the tool head to another caliber the dies clean out spotless with a Qtip

i have been using Power Pistol for both 9mm And 40 SW and it lists 45. i really like this powder it seems to burn real clean and have never had any problems with it in either of my loads i guess i am the only one who uses it because everyone else lists other powders they use Is there something Wrong with Power Pistol Powder?

nice list looks like what i use when sorting brass for reloading. one exception most of the FC brass (the new very shiny stuff) i run across resizes strangely especially if i use my under-sizer because of Glocked brass it always seems to leave a ring around the base of the brass. it still seems to shoot fine but i don't like the ring. it also seems to be flimsier brass than the RP or Win Brass my fav's. some of the other brass does the same thing but not on the scale of the FC brass. good luck and have fun reloading

i have been fighting this issue for awhile now . after using Dillon case lube i like how my under sizing process is so much smoother but it always left a film on the cases. maybe i was using to much because even after letting them sit for awhile sometimes next day the cases were still tacky and heaven forbid if there was some inside the case powder would stick to it and not allow an accurate powder measurement to my scale because some was still stuck inside the case. have tried the carb cleaner/brake cleaner but worried about flammable residue, gallon milk jug liquid dish soap hot hot water shake for several minutes and rinse well only problem had to let the cases dry over night next tried an ultrasonic cleaner it got the lube film off and some carbon build up but same thing had to rinse and let sit over night to dry. tried the tumbler with corn cob or walnut now i end up with media stuck to the inside of the cases and primer holes. the search is still on for a better way guess i will try less lube or give the silicon way a try

yes that what i was thinking pull them (luckly only 250 of the HP the 1000 115RN-DS's are ok) and start low on the charge. 4.5 was just a number i pulled out of my butt no data to back it . other than looking for popped out primers and a case that might get stuck in the chamber is there anything else i need to look at for excessive chamber pressure? Does 4.5 even sound like a good number? thanks again for your input Steve

i reloaded up 1000 9mm rounds this last weekend useing berry's 115 rn-ds something i have done for over a year and several thousand rounds my brother in-law bought some Berry's 124gn Hollow point bullets and we loaded them up useing data from my Speer and lyman reload books keeping with middle of the road load data i used 6gn Power pistol and set crimp and bullet depth to the book. 1.120. we went to the range and shot several hundred of the 115 round nose with no problems as usual and decided to shoot a few of the Hollow point rounds we had set up. well they didn't fit in the chamber. None of our guns would chamber these rounds XDM 9mm, Walther P99AS 9mm, or PX4 storm Beretta 9mm. went back home and started checking the rounds to see if i may have miss read my calipers and mics. nope they were set right on 1.120 as the book sugested. pulled the barrel out of my Walther P99AS and proceeded to make measurements . long story short i ended up having to seat the bullet another .100 just to get it to fit the chamber the COAL was now at 1.020 bullet look good and feeds good but am now worried about the extra depth i needed to seat the bullet to make it fit. the deeper the bullet the more compressed the powder will be which will also increase the pressure. What do i do!!!! i don't want to shoot these bullets with the chance of a blow up. has any one run into this problem? did you lower the powder charge to say 4.5 grains to compensate for the deeper depth of the bullet? does anyone have any info on this issue?? any help is greatly appreciated Steve G

Running the brass through the EGW/U-die before loading on an SDB is an excellent way to go about it. If you're going to be picking up your brass and reloading it you probably won't have to run it through the U-die a second time since it's going back in the same gun. Using case lube will cut down on the effort to run the press and it's even more helpful when using brass that's been run through a U-die at it's a little tighter on the expander die. I prefer to use a bit of unscented lanolin as a case lube, but lots of folks use One Shot. You can do a search in the reloading section and find lots of info on both of those (and more). R, thanks so much for your help

new to the progressive reloading machines but have been around for a few years. question is just got myself a new 40SW been picking up brass here and there and ran across this forum on glock bulge . i have a XDM and just ordered my Dillon Square deal press. i have yet to order a case gauge (after all i have read guess i should get one)(thought it was for checking OAL of the finished round and had calipers to do that) with all the stories about the bulge and not for sure where all my brass is from i decided to order a de-capper die to set up on my single stage Lee Challenger press its around 25 to 30 years old but used very little so i could decap and clean / tumble my brass before inspection and reloading in my new press.....(thought it would keep the new press cleaner because old primers get things dirty faster) are we now saying the current thought process would be to use an undersize die also before loading these cases? would i resize useing the undersize die (on my old press) and then run it thru my square deal and resize/prime the cases? One time only for this unkown brass right? once i have run them thru the undersize die, reloaded them, shot them (not thru a Glock), and collected my brass when i go to reload them again they should be fine right because i have the XDM ????? and supported chamber... also i read mention of useing case lube i thought the reason for carbide dies was that you didn't need to use lube.... maybe these questions are answered in my book on the press i bought guess i will read it cover to cover a couple times before i start up reloading again when it gets here. Hopefully i am not beating a dead horse with these questions and that there is some merit to them. i never seemed to run into these issues years ago when reloading 30.06 for hunting and the several hundred rounds of 32 long and 32H&R mag i shot thru my old ruger revolver. any help/insight is greatly appreciated

new to the progressive reloading machines but have been around for a few years. question is just got myself a new 40SW been picking up brass here and there and ran across this forum on glock bulge . i have a XDM and just ordered my Dillon Square deal press. i have yet to order a case gauge (after all i have read guess i should get one)(thought it was for checking OAL of the finished round and had calipers to do that) with all the stories about the bulge and not for sure where all my brass is from i decided to order a de-capper die to set up on my single stage Lee Challenger press its around 25 to 30 years old but used very little so i could decap and clean / tumble my brass before inspection and reloading in my new press.....(thought it would keep the new press cleaner because old primers get things dirty faster) are we now saying the current thought process would be to use an undersize die also before loading these cases? would i resize useing the undersize die (on my old press) and then run it thru my square deal and resize/prime the cases? One time only for this unkown brass right? once i have run them thru the undersize die, reloaded them, shot them (not thru a Glock), and collected my brass when i go to reload them again they should be fine right because i have the XDM ????? and supported chamber... also i read mention of useing case lube i thought the reason for carbide dies was that you didn't need to use lube.... maybe these questions are answered in my book on the press i bought guess i will read it cover to cover a couple times before i start up reloading again when it gets here. Hopefully i am not beating a dead horse with these questions and that there is some merit to them. i never seemed to run into these issues years ago when reloading 30.06 for hunting and the several hundred rounds of 32 long and 32H&R mag i shot thru my old ruger revolver. any help/insight is greatly appreciated