southernshooter

Its a kart. I'm not sure which ramp cut though. It feeds great with those seated to 1.185, in just past the lube groove. Sent from my SCH-R530U using Tapatalk

I've been casting the lee 175s with the six cavity mold for a Glock 22 with a kkm barrel and a Caspian 1911 and they shoot awesome. I just recently started using the hi tek lube and really like that stuff. Sent from my SCH-R530U using Tapatalk

Thats exactly the problem that I'm having. I'm ready to get this straight and get back to the shooting.

Thanks guys for all the info on this. This has had me scraching my head. One quick call to Mr. LaFrain at Black Bullets and I've got a plan. Get a Manson throat reamer and the .400 bullet sizing die.

The coating that I'm using on the bullet is serving the purpose of the marker (for the bullet) and the only visible point of contact is completely around the remaining .401 diameter sticking out of the case. Theres an even line all the way around. I did try to seat the bullets deeper to the point where there was none of the larger diameter sticking out of the case. This solved that problem but then the rounds were too short to feed reliably. OAL on the shorter round was about 1.115.

Ok, so I'm casting my own bullets out of wheel weight and using the Lee 6 cavity 175 grain TC. I coat my bullets with the Hi Tek lube from Bayou Bullets. Uncoated bullets with the traditional lube in the lube groove ran fine. The coated bullets ran fine for a couple thousand rounds, but now they won't chamber. Everything is sized after lubing/coating to .401. I'm trying to use these in both my KKM barrel in my Glock and my Kart barrel in my Caspian. The loaded rounds (1.135 oal) won't chamber in either gun. I inspected both barrels for leading in the throat area, causing the round to not chamber. No visible leading was found, but I read on the castboolits forums that some copper chore boy scrub pad on an old bore brush would work wonders. I made the brush up to be tight and proceded to scrub the snot out of both barrels. No luck. I slugged both barrels and the groove diameter comes out at .400 on both. Jacketed bullets run great but I can't afford to practice in volume with jacketed bullets. 50 bucks for 110 lbs of wheel weight makes alot of good bullets, so I need to figure out how to get them to run. Any ideas?

I'm running a KKM barrel in my G22 and see no signs of bulging. As a side note, I'm using all Dillon dies and get some bulged brass from time to time and they remove the bulge 99% of the time. I'll case gauge my rounds and only 1 or 2 out of 400-500 rounds won't fit.

I shot 61% on a classifier last month and it didnt get sent in. That woulda been my 3rd one over 60%. That sucks.

Let me get in on this. Limited A69579

Loaded up some 155 grain round nose over 5.2 grains of N320 at 1.135. I'm shooting a Glock 22 with a KKM barrel. They shot great, real accurate. A tad more snappy than 180 grain loads but, still not too bad. I did have some leading, so I maybe bump the charge up a tenth or maybe two to get the bullet to seal better and see if that helps. You can call hodgdon and get load data from one of the techs that work there for a load using your titegroup.

I'm in the same boat - right handed and left eye dominant. I started out shooting with one eye closed and that was just too dang slow to me so I wanted to learn to shoot with both eyes open. Thats when I learned that I was cross dominant. What I do is draw the gun and just present it in front of my left eye. Its awkward at first but to me, it was well worth it. As far as dropping your left elbow, if its actually a problem, you can always consciously work on your stance and form in dry fire and build that muscle memory. I'm pretty sure Benos said that a good technique will evolve over time.

N320 is a faster burning powder, with a burn rate slightly slower than titegroup and solo 1000. While it is slower burning than titegroup, I can't tell a difference between the 2. I loaded some precision 180s with 320 a while back and really love that round. Soft shooting and plenty accurate.

The extra weight shouldn't have much impact on the PF. It'll probably go up a few points. As for the PF with my loads, I'm not sure. I came up with this load from some data from hodgdon and lyman. I haven't been able to chrono them but, according to what I've read, they should be making major.

I'm shooting a Glock 22 with a KKM barrel and one of my favorite loads for major is a 175 grain bullet that I cast myself from wheel weight and 4.1 - 4.2 grains of titegroup. People say that titegroup has a tendency to smoke alot but, I've used it with cast lead and moly coated bullets with very little smoke at all. Thats just my experience with it, your results my vary.

I loaded up the first batch of zero 165's with 5.0 of N320 at 1.135. Recoil was a touch more snappy when compared side by side to my cast lead 180's with 4.1 of N320. The accuracy, in my opinion, could have been better, so I loaded up another batch with 5.0 of titegroup. Recoil impulse was the same as the N320 loads but the accuracy was better. All in all, I like the 165's but I do prefer the 180 grainers and specifically, my own cast lead boolits. The accuracy and recoil from those is by far the best that I've used.