MARKAVELI

Welcome..

Ha ha ha, Nice one! But yet sooooo yuk..

Thanks for your service! Cant waite till it airs...

Nice! Good luck and welcome to the forums..

Buy once cry once... Get what you want, save if you need too.

Cool! ya, I use power pistol most of the time, it measures well and I use it for 380's,9mm,.40,45ACP,38spl, 357mag And sometimes 44mag.. Fairly inexpensive not the best powder but not the worst... having a station empty can change the seating depth,crimp aswell as throwin a charge you can use a factory load to get an idea to where you want the dies to be set.. Dont forget to pick up a chronograph and more reloading manuals..

Had an issue like this before, I loosen the set screw removed shell plate, bolt and star wipe clean wipe a real light coat of oil and but back together bolt, plate, star a bit lower then what I set em at before some times after crushing the cases you can get spilled powder and shading from the brass under the plate. Now that you lowered the the plate you (want it to kinda spring back up some) can lower your sizing die (thinking your using Dillon Dies) some as for thbe bulge in your 9mm does it gauge properly in your barrol or guage? The bulge you might be talking about is that coke a cola shape and that's pefictly fine if that is what you want assuming everything else on your press is set how you want it.. I hope this helps.. Goodluck..

I barrowed this from a different forum, names hsve been erased WARNING USE CAUTION WHEN USING OTHER PEOPLES LOADS! Quote"I reload .380 by the thousands... in fact that's what's set up on my Dillon right now. I don't shoot cast bullets in this caliber... I most always go 95grn FMJ. My load is 3.2 of Bullseye, and it chronies 900ish out of my PPK/S. It's easy to reload... the only annoying thing is that 9mm brass sometimes gets mixed in and is tough to spot. No biggie. My load is 3.2 of Bullseye, and it chronies 900ish out of my PPK/S. How cleanly does the Bullseye burn? Does it meter well? I'm about to load about 1000 rounds of .380 for my PPK/S (as soon as the shell plate I ordered shows up). I've never used Bullseye, but my local shop has plenty of it and they're all out of W231. Thanks so much, folks, for all your great replies. Anyone care to share your favorite dies, or any other tips for loading for this caliber? Thanks again, How cleanly does the Bullseye burn? Does it meter well? It seems to burn pretty clean for me... cleaner than Unique (which I dearly love). Meters well, too. It's been a standard for many many years. You surely won't go wrong with it. "and .....unquote. IMO lead bullets are a bit of a pain in the 6 to load and what 380 bullets cost its not that much of a difference from buying 380's in a coper fmj bullets.. 95gr lead bullet 2.2gr bullseye 3.0gr. max c.o.l .965 to .970 taper crimp @ .371-.372 check fore signs of presure a cronograph (so you will know the velocity &power factor) will be your best friend along with a few more reloading manuals to cross reference your loads... Good luck welcome to the forums and keep us posted

I read your last post also, still having problems? what supplies are you working with & press?

I like this one!

+1 save the money for bullets, primers and powders

Yeeeeeeeup +2 what they said!

Welcome from the SOUTH SIDE OF THE CHI...!

Dr.Woo, you want your sizing die to just kiss or barely touch the shell plate. Drop 10 charges on your powder scale pan and place the ten charges + your plate on your scale, for example if your going for a powder drop charge of 4.8gr. put 10 charges on the pan and place on the scale and you should get an average of 48.0 grains if it ain't. At the charge you want adjust -/+ untill you get what your lokking for.. after the cartrage is compleated, yes gage with your barrel and make sure your C.O.L is what you want and will fit your magz that they don't rub on the walls of your magz.. if you see a buldge the kinda looks like a cokacola bottle its good... as long as it guage's your barrel and drops in easy! Good luck on your quest and welcome to the forums...

Welcome from the South Side of the Chi... Great bunch here maybe see you on the range..

I say its your crimp, and check your C.O.L also... Calipers work great for this plated bullets can be difficult sometimes and copper jacketed bullets are not that much more then plated. Good luck..

Yup! Same here, great to have you here might wanna check out WILLSHOOT.COM for 3 gun and maybe ASC out in Aroura Il in watermen... Not sure if willing to drive out to Porter county In... I dont shoot three gun at the moment but you can try those clubs from what I have heard might have 3 gun good luck & welcome from the South Side of the Chi...

Welcome from the South Side of the Chi!

This should make me new again right ?So Sunday that past I shot my 1st IDPA MATCH! @ ASC out in Watermen, Il I had a great time with a bunch of great people willing to share there knowledge with a yung noob, I wish I got into reloading and competition shooting long time ago. I didnt do that good, I made 3 mistakes 1 I didnt compleate the stage and counted as 5pts x's 6 (oops ) I was nervious at first but started snaping out of it... Over all was fun.. Shout out to them catz out @ ASC thanks for the great hospitality..

Welcom to the forums, Great group here.

Desire

Not sure if this post should be here, but here I go.. This weekend (7/24/2011)is my first IDPA match I wanna use my reloads this is what I got; Bullets are Hornady xtp/hp 180gr. Bullets, MG180gr.hp bullets & Reinier 165gr. hp bullets Allients Power Pisiol Powder CCI small pistol primers Mix brass Glock 27(i know its not the best to start with but its what I got to use.) Reloading on Dillon RL550B.. Can I just go in my reloading manuals and pick a velocity using power pistol and be legal to allow me to compete? What is SSP AND ESP? :blink:any help is greatly appreciated..

@ Brian E, awsome post, if you dont mind I like to share this with a few family and friends!?

+2.... I mostly got good help here on BE's search and got info from some of the pro's here, I would give you the name of a few , but I dont want GMBart, Dubois, Yungeyes to get grumpy like Grumpyone, for givin there names out.... Lol.