AdamM

Actually you usually can see a ring on the outside of stepped brass. Perhaps not always, but more often than not. I always inspect brass before reloading and can almost always recognize stepped brass before reading the headstamp.

My Palmetto 9mm does not have a feed ramp and will ding the bullet slightly, but not as bad as yours. I wonder if your mags are too low so it's causing a realty hard angle hit?

I will also highly recommend Ibejiheads. I use 0.357's in my CZ's as all their barrels are oversized. I've slugged 4 barrels and they are all 0.3555 (they should be 0.354).

I have found that the Lee FCD does *not* work on lead coated bullets. Same issue as you describe where the bullet is loose in the brass. It deforms the lead too easily and the brass springs back. Even had a few heads fall out when they dropped out of the press into the bin. The Dillion die works great for them. However with a FMJ (hard jacketed bullet), it works great. I do the same as Aircooled6racer where there is a very slight deformation in the bullet if you pull it to check. That small amount will not affect accuracy for what we are doing. The first heads I tried for Open were the Zero 115's and at 1.165 they were barely in the case and I had a few that fell out when I had used the Dillon crimp. I switched back to the FCD and it solved the problem. You may want to try the FCD with a tiny bit more crimp. I now use Montana Gold 115's and they sit deeper in the case. With the Dillion resizing dies they still have somewhat of a coke bottle look for me.

If I had to do do again, I would go CGW. I got a CZC Accu 2 and a friend got the CGW Accu, and their trigger is so much better, it was not even funny. I also did not like the CZC rear sight. Just couldn't aim it correctly with the sloped sides for what ever reason. Had to switch it to the old flat style like my SP-01 ST. I don't remember what the rear sight was like on the CGW however.

There was a thread on this same issue about a week or two ago. Perhaps you can search for it?

Put a slight crimp on them with something like a Lee Factory Crimp Die.

My scrap yard pays me the same, per pound, as scrap brass. I just recycle them with the bad cases. As GF says, why would you want to count them?

That pin is to hold the front sight on (non Accu models). It is not used when you have a barrel bushing. My Accu from CZ Custom did not come with a pin as you would have to take the pin out every time you wanted to remove the bushing. They have a set screw to hold on the front sight instead.

I found the CZ barrels to be sized badly for 9mm. For my SP-01 my first barrel was defective. It actually was wider in the middle (like as bubble) and when I slugged it, the bullet freely rattled inside the middle of the rifled section. They replaced it, of course. For that barrel and two others I have, they slugged at 0.3555. 9mm should be 0.354. I run Ibejiheads 0.357 bullets and that solved all the issues I've had, including leading when using the usual 0.356 heads that you would normally use.

That is what I was going to say. They are undersized diameter.

That's the beauty of pattern recognition. Orientation does not matter. Not sure how well it would work on brass, but would try that before OCR.

It's funny that this subject came up as I was thinking about this concept just the other day, but didn't knows this thread even existed. Although I thought that pattern recognition would be better than OCR.

Somewhat depends on the brand of primers too. Not sure where I read it now (may have even have been on here), but someone tested many brands of primers and tested various substances to see what made them fail (water, oil, etc.). If I remember correctly Winchester were nearly impossible to make fail and Federal were the easiest, however none of them were easy.

Most chronos don't work indoors, due to the A/C flickering the lights. Unless you have their lightning kit for the chrono, it won't work. As mentioned above 115's shoot flatter because you use more powder, equals more gas, which make the comp work better. Last 8,5 gns of hs-6 under a 125 would be very hot. Probably pushing 180+ pf.

As someone else (kind of mentioned), some of us like to shoot PCC to practice for 3-gun too. And yes it is fun in USPSA also. [emoji57]

Interesting thread. I'm new to open division and have been sorting range brass for the past couple days. I've been sticking to the major brands, like Chev mentioned above. The rest will be used for minor loads. I have been scraping the X-treme brass for two reasons. First I believe the stuff I picked up was one fired, but saw several split cases (which is usually a bad sign). Second the machining inside the case is horrible, so my conclusion it's that it is crap. So with that being said, are any of you using it for major and is it holding up?

Is expensive, but well worth it. The engineering far surpasses something like a brass feeder. The bullet plates are a work of art. You can tell a lot of time went into designing these.

You can probably Google it, but a guy ran an experiment where he tumbled loaded rounds for 1 week. He pulled the bullets and looked at the powder under a magnifier. He said there was NO discernable difference or powder disintegration. Go shot em!

Trying rotating the unit sideways until you get it to work better. I find that once you have the right angle, the primers hit the end wall flat and don’t get stuck quite as often with the WSP.

Agreed with the Hornady Collect system. I have it in a single stage press and just put enough pressure on the handle to hold the bullet while it’s pulling on the brass. Hardly a mark on the coated bullets. I do it by “feel” instead of cranking down on the handle and denting the lead. If it is one or two bullets, the hammer is just fine. If you are doing a bunch, the collet is the only way to go.

Just clip it on with pliers. Don't worry about breaking it as it will break again anyway from use. It is a matter of when, not if. Dillon will send more if you call them, however you can get them from any local hardware store. I tried buying heavy duty ones and even it broke after awhile, although it did last longer. I usually get about 10k rounds out of a clip.

I adapted mine to use the latest powder drop, by tapping the die toolhead and also added a Mr Bullet feeder. Works great! If anyone is interest in the original powder drop, let me know.

I wrote an app for iOS called "Chronograph Log" (iPhone, iPad). The app can communicate with the ProCronograph using their "Digital Link" (Bluetooth) unit to enter each shot directly into our app.

We did not do an Android version. iOS only at this time.