I am new to guns, shooting, reloading & competition shooting!
WAIT, don't leave yet!!
I have a mentor who took me under his wing.
He has 30+ yrs experience in firarms & reloading!
Now on to my problem.
I am loading a 115gr cast LRN 9mm bullet with 4.0 gr of 231!
In the three loading manuals he has, (both old & new) there was no data on 231 or bullseye load for 115gr.
We did an online search with no results.
With our thoughts & the suggestions of others in the reloading world, we went with the data for the 124gr LRN. This brought us to the 4.0/231 load.
We went with a 3.8 load to start with just to be safe!
We loaded 10 rds and tried them in my gun. Had 1 loading malfunction.
It ejected the cartridge but failded to put the next into the chamber.
We loaded 10 more with 4.0 & they functioned properly.
So I ran off several hundred rounds!
I put another 100rds through the gun the next day & had around a dozen mulfunctions.
FTE, FTL & some that didn't seat fully into the chamber.
I have since come across more info that leads me to believe these are "light" loads!
Which I feel jives with the problems that I described.
BUT, I fellow shooter brought up a length issue he had with his .40 S&W.
His problems resembled mine.
These were seated to an OAL of 1.1 per reference!
I am wanting to try a 4.3/231 load at the same length!
1 adjustment at a time!!
Thanks for any comments or suggestions!!