[Bayou 147gr FP seating problem?]

Looks like the bullet is not going into the seater straight up and down. Take the time to make sure the bullet enters the die straight.

Add bell and make sure that your seater is not closing the bell as the bullet is being seated. This can be a cause of the scraping in the area depicted in your picture.

You may have to raise the seating die itself and lower the stem to get back to your preferred OAL to prevent the seater die from closing the bell.

[9mm xtreme bullets with Titegroup]

115GR 4.3GR TG 1120 AVG FPS

[What do you think about my Bayou 147, Titegroup, G34 load adjustment?]

I have not tested for accuracy but I got the following outdoors 39deg out of a G17. Same Bayou pill.

1.13 3.0GR TG 878FPS

1.13 3.2GR TG 928FPS

[Bayou Bullets Shameless plug]

I have sample packs of 200SWC and 147FP coming today, pretty pumped to run them against my normal plated and see what all the talk is about.

[115gr FMJ LOAD DATA NEEDED PLEASE]

115GR plated out of a G17

Powder Powder Charge Bullet OAL Crimp Primer Date QTY Chrono AVG SD spread Remarks Titegroup 4.3G Xtreme 115 RN 1.13 0.374 Wolf 1/30/15 10 1121 16.6 44 Test

[New to reloading and starting with 9mm]

Buy:

Tumbler to clean brass

Scale with check weights

case gauge

Calipers to measure various lengths

Bullet Puller to fix mistakes

Primer flip cup

RELOADING MANUAL(s) Lyman 49th is good

A light you can angle down into press to make it easier to visually confirm powder charge

A chrono is good if you can afford.

For selecting the load, as others have said, go to the powder MFG site, and cross reference with a manual. Start low and load small sample lots. Use the samples to determine things like function and feel and refine from there.

Plunk test to assure you have an OAL that will work in the intended chambers before loading. Make some sample dummy rounds to verify they will cycle.

[45 acp xtreme 230 grn]

4.6GR TG 1.25 OAL Xtreme 230GR RN Here.