KnurlingTurtle

My new starline 9MM did not go through my dillon 650 with the dillon die with minimal effort. The resizing was sticky as hell. I have this same problem, although not quite as badly, with brand new 38spl starline brass so I figured it was normal.

It's the Starline brass - I discovered this ( with a heads up from MWP) today during chrono. PF at 138 very sticky with Starline - same load with Fed brass easily extracted. Yeah, it's the flippin brass. I knew it would be something simple. Pretty annoying to have 1K starline 9mm brass and TK clips since it looks like the cheap stuff is the only brass that will actually work. I shot 2 moons of PMC factory ammo and had no problems with extraction. I did have 2 failure to fires so that's lame. I tried 115gn plated round nose, 4.0gn Titegroup, mixed range brass and CCI primers. Not one round would ignite. I tried the factory moon and a TK moonclip. I guess CCI is too hard. I haven't touched the mainspring so this 929 is straight stock.

Chrono'd 10-5-14 at 6k ft, 60 deg, sunny. 16 shots. Avg 1044fps PF 120 It wasn't under 50 degrees when the sticky extraction started. I didn't consider weather so that was worth a look. I thought it would be something simple that I'm overlooking but I'm at a loss. I guess the next step is to try some factory ball ammo and see if that has issues. I'll do that sunday.

I'm having sticky extraction in my 929. 115g plated rn bullets 4.0gn E3 fed match spp starline brass I've shot a few hundred rounds over a couple months with no issue right out of the box. I was trying to decide if I was going to do the trigger job and replace springs or send it to Apex to work it over. I'm not confident in my abilities and the parts aren't easily replaceable if I mess something up so I've decided it's going to be sent it off for the tune up. I've since decided I want to buy a place with acreage and put myself on a self-imposed spending freeze which means my 929 is on hold. Last week I took it out and it wouldn't extract after the first moon. The cylinder bound up during the second moon. Apparently the yolk screw had worked loose and the cylinder and crane came completely off during cleaning. Oops, I put some blue Loctite on the screw after finishing the cleaning. I went to the range yesterday and found the same extraction issue. It made me cuss. I didn't have any factory ammo or other loads to test but extraction wasn't an issue with the exact same load a couple of months ago. Thoughts on why it was running fine and now I'm having this issue?

Got the call that it came in this morning so I did another happy dance. 10 month wait. Suprisingly, the estimated time frame wasn't too far off. I get to drive 140 miles round trip tomorrow to pick it up and I'm damned happy to do it. I have my TK moonclips and 1K new starline brass all ready to go. I was able to pick up 2 lbs of titegroup a few weeks ago so I'm going to load up some test loads tonight. I better go order a BMT mooner.

Off topic but..... This is the review under the 627: I am competing in the PA Steel League. Using the DMCT-357-X8-1 tool sometimes causes the moon clip to bend. Your cylinder check was very expedient in checking the moon clip in the cylinder. Most of the league revolver shooters use the BMT Mooner/Demooner tool. This tool secures the eight round moon clip, the casings, loads and unloads the rounds faster than the DMCT tool. ----------------------------------- GM: I would love to host a speed challenge. DMCT vs BMT. But from rounds in box to loaded moon clips...say 30 of them Who wins this race?

Weird.....double post.

Dude was born to sell.

ok, good to know.

People are comfortable stacking round nose bullets on live primers?

Sold for $1525. Doesn't look like there was a bidding war at the end.

This did the trick and got 1k rounds in the box to QC. The screws had a type of loctite on them so there's no way they loosened over time. Very odd. I'm thankful for everyone's help. THANKS!

I will check the indexer block when I get home. That would be a super sweet fix if that's the issue.

I'm doing something wrong. I used the alignment tool last night before I posted (which is a GIANT PITA) but like Too_Slow pointed out.......that ain't the problem. I'm using the replacement index ball/spring and the washer cam fix to help alleviate snapping. Dillon doesn't like these parts but they don't have a better solution other than using my left hand as a clutch for indexing which is not acceptable. I tried removing the washers and using the original ball/spring but the primer punch is still off center by what looks like the same amount. The primer punch was centered reloading .38spl but It's off center when I changed to 9mm. I'm 99.9% it's something I'm doing but I'm at a loss. The case insert slide is adjusted for 9mm. The primer locator arm is adjusted for 9mm. I double checked the shell plate is correct for the 9mm. The shell plate isn't too tight to index but tight enough not to snap. Tried OEM indent ball/spring. Tried alignment tool.