mizer67

Given the comparison to bike racing, I'll add a comment. I have two bikes, one that's completely serviceable but older, one with the latest gadgets and aerodynamic improvements. If I go out for my regular weekend ride, the newest, high-end bike is about 6 min faster per three hour ride, or ~3.3%. For me, I broke all my PRs on the newer bike. There's no denying there's a (very slight, depending on your point of view) difference in performance, even though my energy expended (measured in watts) didn't change at all. While I might be faster, any pro. could probably destroy me riding a 70 year old Schwinn tricycle. It's not really about the bike (or gun), but any edge is still an edge, however slight.

I've wet tumbled and not deprimed, but I've had issues with wet primer pockets as long as a month afterwards. I went back to dry for my most recent batch because I didn't want to wait on dry brass or go through the extra step of depriming first. Wet SS media gives a much superior clean to the brass, of that there is no question.

I've probably loaded 75K over the past 5 years using the spray-in-feeder/rake method and never cleaned my feeder. No issues with the Dillon case feeder or feeding in general as a result.

I was having this issue and came to realize that the entire base of my press had worked loose from the ram over time. There are two allen head screws that hold it down that you can access if you removed the shell plate and they had backed out over time. Between that and tightening down the shellplate more I didn't experience any issues in my last run, even though I'm using an EGW-U die.

I've shot 124 gr. jacketed HPs with WSF, but not plated. My load, through a Glock 17 was: 5.0 gr. WSF 1.10 OAL 124 gr PD JHP (it's a long 9mm bullet, probably longer than the Xtremes) CCI SP Speer brass I was averaging about 1,070 - 1,080 fps with that load.

Good powder, not as soft shooting as some but accurate. ~4.7 grains under a 124 PD JHP loaded short ~1.1 OAL runs about 1,080 fps out of my G17 and groups under 2" at 25 yds for 10-rounds.

Longer is not better, necessarily. If you're loading for accuracy in 9mm look at the length the Bullseye or NRA AP competitors are shooting. I can duplicate several of those loads and make them shoot well in any gun I've tried, regardless of the maximum length I can load to is in that particular gun/barrel.

This is my Shadow Light with the Accu Shadow bushing installed. I just got it back from CZ a few days ago. This was a stock Shadow in which I had the bushing installed. It has well over 10,000 rounds through it, so it's not exactly new. This was fired at 25 yards using my practice load and multi-time fired mixed range brass. It measures 1.5" CTC. I fired 30 rounds before this group as I'd cleaned the barrel and it needed to settle back in. I was getting a little frustrated with the first groups as all were trending right by several inches. I haven't shot this gun in a few months and had some trigger finger placement issues, so ignore the right push. I was aiming at the bottom center of the black circle (6 o'clock hold).

I recently happened upon two RL1050's for sale locally, one in 45 ACP and one in 9mm for ~$900 EA. I do know they were at one time used for commercial reloading but don't know any approximate round count. Is there any wear items or parts to look for specifically that would make you want to pass on a used 1050? Are there any parts that are no longer made? I don't load longer rifle calibers and would likely dedicate the machine to one caliber.

25 yards to start, then 50 yards after you find an accurate load to make sure they stay stabilized. Sometimes the jump from 25 yards to 50 yards can show you issues with the load you can't see closer in.

This is one of my favorite 9mm powders for accuracy. 4.85 gr with a PD 124 JHP at 1.085" OAL is an extremely accurate load running ~1,080 fps out of a G17. I'd try 4.6 or 4.7 gr with the Berry's at 1.130 OAL or so and see how it prints.

Shot the 4.74 load out of an H&K VP9. This would have been a decent load for the Glock 17 with it's larger chamber. However, for the VP9 with its tighter stepped chamber, there were pressure signs on the brass. It was fairly heavily expanded and there were some extractor marks. The Winchester primers looked fine, but I'd tread with caution. Accuracy was only fair, with the smallest 10-round group at 25 yards measuring 3". My thought is about 4.6 grains is max to run across a number of guns in 124 grain jacketed bullet weights, unless you're loading long. This powder might be a better match for lead or 147gr bullets. 1,050 fps is about max in jacketed 9mm at shorter OALs in my experience.

Is the Accu Shadow legal in production for NRA AP?

Question: If you were starting from scratch, what gun would you choose for Production class?

Will try a few of these at 25 yards for accuracy tomorrow. Loaded a batch at ~4.74 grains, looking for ~1,075 fps.

Here's my load data for CSB-1 in 9mm: 124 grain Precision Delta JHP 1.10" OAL Win SPP Mixed Brass 4.0 grains: Average: 988 fps ES: 44 fps SD: 16 fps 4.2 grains: Average: 1,020 fps ES: 36 fps SD: 12 fps 4.4 grains: Average: 1,027 fps ES: 47 fps SD: 16 fps There were no signs of pressure. I'm going to try 4.6 or 4.7 grains to try to get to 1,050 fps minimum, but it'll be a compressed load at my seating depths with this bullet. Updated for ~4.7 grains below: 4.67 grains Average: 1,061 ES: 73 SD: 21

Apparently, if you want powder, move to Ohio.

The only brass I have ever had rupture was a Win case also. I was shooting only Speer at the time and this was a once-fired casing I picked up from my shooting buddy by mistake. It was once fired from Walmart WWB. It was not a hot load running about ~1050-1080 fps. Fortunately, no damage.

N330 is (subjectively) the best 9mm powder made if you're chasing accuracy. Too bad it's rarer than hens teeth and I've never seen it in a 4 lb. jug size before.

4 lb. N340 kegs were gone when I tried, even though they showed in stock, but was able to score some 1 lb containers. Thanks for posting.

Decided I'd give CSB-1 a try and ordered 5 lbs. Will post results when I get a chance to run some 124 gr loads across the chrono and at 25 yds.

Thanks for the update. I like that it's a single base powder like VV, should burn clean and the recoil impulse should be less harsh, I would think.

I really like the Precision Delta 124 gr JHP for a low cost jacketed bullet in 9mm. I haven't been that impressed with the consistency of their FMJs I've tried, but this particular JHP is excellent. I see little reason to shoot much else given the cost to performance of the PD JHP, although I would like to try a few more Zero bullets to see if there's something slightly (and I mean slightly) more accurate but yet not significantly more expensive. The only bullet I've tried more accurate than the PD is the Hornday 125 gr HAP, but they're ~67% more expensive.

On a scale of 1 - 10 with 10 being hardest of the primers I've used, I'd rank them like this: 1 = Federal 2 = 3 = Winchester 4 = 5 = CCI 6 = 7 = 8 = 9 = 10 = Tula/Wolf