Greg5611

Thanks Andrew!

Conflicting advice, most suggested shorter OAL. I think I will try an experiment, I did file off some “slag” in my Glock mag. I will rerun some 1.150 and reprocess a 100 rounds to shorten them to around 1.060 OAL. See if there is a difference.

Aluminum.

1.150

Yes, I RO’d stage 5. Fun time.

Was not a “Steel Challenge” but the Berry’s Steel Open. Kind of a USPSA format but steel only. 20 stages 600 rounds.

Just finished a Steel Open Challenge with 20 stages using my JP GMR-15 carbine. Very frustrated in that 70% of the stages I had failure to feed malfunctions from my Glock magazine with a TF extension (41 rounds). It seemed like the 3rd round into the stage failed to feed each time so I started to back off and load 3 less rounds into the magazine. This helped but I still experienced occasional failure to feed. I was shooting Delta Precision 124 gr JHP bullets loaded at 1.150 OAL. Anyone have these problems with TF mag extensions in a Glock magazine fed PCC and if so, what is the fix?

Chrono at 1,100 fps. I’m thinking I over crimped plated bullets. I just ordered 124 gr JHP’s from Precision Delta and will give them a try.

Thought I had a good couple of loads for my new 9mm PCC ( 3.9 gr VV n320 using 124 gr Berry’s coated bullets COL 1.150; 4.0 gr TiteGroup with 124 gr Berry’s coated bullets) 1.5” to 2.0” groups at 25 yds and minimal recoil/dot movement. However, when sighting in these same loads at 50 yds, hits were all over the map, no group consistency whatsoever. What do I need to do to get a decent group size at 50 yds? I currently don’t sort my brass or do anything special as far as brass prep goes. Maybe I’m crimping plated bullets too light or too tight? Most of my USPSA shooting is <15 yds so this has never been an issue until I tried to push beyond 25 yds. Factory rounds will give me 2+” groups so I know it’s something I’m doing/not doing in the reloading process. Help,please?

You may want to start a new thread as I think most won't follow this one after this long of time. I am tumbling my loaded rounds in corncob media based on replies received above. I'm "assuming" residual lube may attract dirt/powder residue and gum up your gun?

I just tried lubricating my brass this morning using a 1:10 ratio of lanolin to 99% IPA. It worked Great! My Dillon 550 press ran so smooth with no problems. I also sorted my .40 brass for the first time (loading Federal casings) and got much more consistent OAL's. Not sure if accuracy will improve with this (probably not); however, I did enjoy how smoothly my reloading session went.

I'm running a STI Edge .40 in Limited Major. I currently have loads using both Titegroup and Win 231 powder with Berry's 180 gr plated bullets. I've seen alot of info from people running VV n320 powder, Unique and e3 powders. I can't seem to find good data using these powders in the loading manuals or manufacturers websites. Anyone competing in Major PF using .40 cal guns that would be willing to share their load data along with where they got their start/max powder fill reference? Thank you.

Thanks everyone. Just bought some lanolin and alcohol from Amazon, will give this a try.

Thanks!

Thanks everyone for the comments and suggestions. I will start lubing my cases and see if that helps.

Dillon sizing die is a little over a year old. I've run maybe 5,000 rounds through the die. Do you wipe the lube off prior to shoot? Thanks

Does anyone lube their .40 casings before reloading? If so, what do you use and what is your process? I'm getting scratches on my cases from my Dillon sizing die. Thanks

I've just recently starting scratching my .40 caliber brass casings in the de-priming/prime/sizing station on a Dillon 550 re-loading press. I had not noticed this until after I loaded maybe 7,000 rounds through the die. I will disassemble the die and cleaned it but it gets fouled with brass shavings and starts scratching (horizontal up and down the case) the cases after about 50 rounds of reloading. I thought of trying to lube the casings; however, I didn't think you needed to do that for handgun loads? If I need to lube cases, can someone share the process in which this is done? I'm sorry for the stupid questions but I'm stumped and it's really slowing my reloading process down having to disassemble the die every 50 rounds or so. Thank you for any help.

I'm relatively new to reloading and I'm 0.1 gr above the recommended maximum for Win 231 loading 5.2 grains into a .40 cal cartridge and a 180 gr Berry's RS bullet. I'm trying to achieve Major PF and I'm loading for a STI Edge with a target OAL of 1.170. I'm thinking I can safely get away with loading at the max or slightly above since I'm loading long at 1.170 vs. the specified target of 1.125; however, I want to make sure. I've chrono'd this load and I'm getting a range of 903 fps to 971 fps. Thoughts/suggestions? Any STI loaders with successful recipes willing to share? Thank you...

Thank you all for your posts/advice, I've got some fun work to do!

I just purchased a STI Edge 40 S&W Competition Ready Pistol from Dawson. I would like to reload for USPSA Limited division and would prefer to not reinvent the wheel. What have others found to be an optimum reload for competition and accuracy? I would be interested to know what people are shooting in terms of bullet weight/brand/typd, powder mfg/type/weight, C.O.L. etc.) Thanks to everyone in advance for your advice.