DougCarden
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PS make sure you shoot multiple 7 shot moons and then check the last round for bullet pull.......wink wink....at .379
DougC
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Your load data from lead to FMJ with the same everything is around .02 grains less for Lead......almost all the time.....but chrono and check before loading a metric butt load of them.....
DougC
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Yep. the case rim is boogered up. Try some that got crushed. it won't slide into the shellplate all the way due to the case rim getting mashed out.
If you run the machine too fast it will start rolling before it bottoms out and starts the roll on the plate. The case rim is not in the slot, but higher and it mashes the rim a bit too much. No way to rehab it either I am afraid.
DougC
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Dillon is flared too much at the bottom.....the lee is not and resizes farther down on the case. You are only having the machinist remove the OD on the body of the die to match the Dillon SDB die.
DougC
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Try shorter OAL....Your chamber leade may be too short for that bullet style. One thing you could do is buy a Lee standard sizing die. Pull the Dillon out of your SDB. Take them to the Machinist. Tell him you want the lee to match the Dillon die. Once you do that you will resize the brass all the way and have no bulges that might affect chambering....
DougC
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Save your brass. You can always trade it for what you need, or scrap it. Think of it as being "green" and recycling it....
DougC
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Ripp is most likely shooting .40 or 9 major...
My guess is .40, and he is running brass through a case pro too fast and it is buggering up some of the case head rims, hence they are not going all the way into the shellplate. After a good night's sleep I remember having that particular issue.I am curious to know what happens....
DougC
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That is a lower load. Bump it up in the 5.'s and get it to major and it will burn cleaner. W231 leaves gritty residue in low charge weight loads, esp. in 38 special.
DougC
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The tulas will work, but make sure you have a nice smooth bevel on your tubes.
Very important. Take the time to sort your brass for large and small primers. Don't be lazy. Instead of crushing a primer you can set one off. Very exciting. Just take the time to sort your batch once and be done with it.
Good luck,
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If it crushes it is because the brass is not oriented in the shellplate correctly when the toolhead comes down.
If the case rim is boogered up then it won't go into the shellplate from the case feed plunger.
If it makes it into the shellplate enough for the shellplate to rotate then only reason the case would get crushed is because it is not in the shellplate centered up. This can be because of the wrong buttons in the station, or the reason I noted above. Tack a dental tool and clean out all the shellplate station recess areas and see if you get anything out.
Start with the basics and work your way through it. Good luck.
DougC
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It is the priming station. Your priming station is making the brass go sideways and when it goes into the powder die it crushes the mouth.
First, make sure your shellplate is snugged down, but enough that you can move it around with your hand. Now take some time and and make sure the swage die is down enough, Now adjust your swage rod so you are getting enough swage. Most likely after all this you will need to readjust your primer depth and back it off quite a bit. This would be a good time to put new springs on the primer slide arm.
That should take care of it. Also make sure there is nothing in the recess on the shellplate that is keeping the cases go all the way in like it is supposed to.
Hope this helps.
DougC
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Competition Shooting Specialties make, or used to make a Nylon 6 mag pouch with a cover that works well for holding SS mags and rimfire mags as well....
DougC
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I am no Oracle. I probably have made more mistakes than most and like to share that so you don't have to.....
DougC
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Sean, I hate to say it, but with your tendonitis.....I wouldn't be running a reloader, or most definitely be running brass through a U die.......seriously.
DougC
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You will need a 38 special resizing die, and then a 9mm seater and 9mm taper crimp die. It is pretty simple. You are loading the case to 9mm OAL so using the seater and taper crimp works well. You will need to use more taper crimp on the case than you would on a semi auto cartridge the keep the bullet from jumping.
DougC
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It is similar to using a lee factory crimp die. There is more resistance, which will be less smooth when you are running the machine.
DougC
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Sean. I bet a standard lee or redding sizing die will take care of most of those cases. Loading while using the U die will be much slower. Tom is right about the roll sizing though.
DougC
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Hi there. Look up Ankeny Ikes if you are in central Iowa. They have a lot of shooting and their own webpage as well.
DougC
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Yeah, what he said. If you don't know your way around the 1050 system, or don't have a buddy that knows it intimately........jumping in with the autodrive in any fashion will be a very frustrating situation. You HAVE to sort the brass first, to make sure you have the right brass you are loading.
Garbage in, garbage out.....
When you have a set procedure to process brass, then load it can work really well, but it takes much more time and work than operating it manually.
DougC
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Get some coated 122 LFP sized .357-8. Load them to 1.030 with a crimp of .377 and 3.6gr of Titegroup.
If your guns wont shoot that load around 3inches at 50 yds then it is the barrel.....
DougC
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You may have a light poofer on the draw due to pushing the gun up fast due to the large case volume due and the low charge. Just experiment until you get enough to set the round off on the draw
DougC
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If you are doing it on the toolhead while you are loading bad idea. If you want to put it on the toolhead when resizing and swaging brass only then it would be fine. You don't need it though. Use a redding or Lee sizing die and it will resize the brass properly. I recommend processing the 9mm brass first then loading separately on the Forcht system.
DougC
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Ultradot is on my open revo. no problem with brightness, bought it last year.....FYI
DougC
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Get a Schuemann ported barrel... may be the only effective option. The bushing comps are usually junk and don't work at all.
DougC
WHERE IS ALL THE POWDER
in 9mm/38 Caliber
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no. they don't....