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  1. I recently ran into a similar problem with my Blue Bullets (9mm 125 gr RN). I had been loading at a COL of 1.12" for thousands of bullets with no issue. Then I started having problems with the bullet striking the rifling and not plunking only on my XDM and XDS. The 1911s and Berettas were ok. It turned out two of the boxes of 1200 had a different profile (pictures attached). The XDM and XDS have a shorter throat and that different profile would cause the bullet to hit the lands. The bullet on the right is the bullet that has caused the problems. In addition to the profile being different, the length of the bullet changed from .6" to .588" which gave me a change in the insertion depth. I recently received a new case of bullets and the profile is similar to the original that had no issues. I contacted blue bullets and they said that they change the molds every 12 months and that the profile with the new molds may be different. I haven't decided if I am going to change suppliers. Up until now, I have been very pleased with blue bullets. It is possible you ran into the same problem that I did.
  2. Thank you to all for the warm welcome. I have a couple requests to share some chrono data. Being new to the forum, I am not sure if I should share it by means of this reply or if there is a better place to share it. Any and all advice is welcome.
  3. Thanks for the welcome calebj06. I have not done any loading with titegroup. The powders that I have tried are: Bullseye, 700X, BE-86, CFE-Pistol and HP-38. I will ask around at the club to see if someone else has some Titegroup data that I can share.
  4. Thank you for the welcome, Jack. I initially switched to the polymer out of curiosity. I was pleased with the results and the price difference. I have used both blue bullets and Eggleston bullets. Currently, I am loading 125 gr Blue Bullets in 9mm using CFE-Pistol. In 45 acp, I am loading both Blue Bullets 200 gr SWC and Eggleston 200 gr RN with HP-38. For making holes in paper and shooting steel targets, the polymer coated bullets more than meet my needs. I still have very high regard for MG products (still have a few cases of 9mm and 45 acp MG bullets). The consistency of their product is excellent.
  5. Greetings!! My wife and I are avid pistol shooters (shotgun as well). I have found the forum very useful as I have started loading metallic last year. We don't compete, but we do have our own steel plate targets (from Arntzen in Rockford) as well as an assortment of paper target holders. We shoot pistol at St. Charles Sportsmans club and at Tri-County Gun Club in Polo. We have an assortment of Springfield Range Officer 1911's as well as a couple of Berettas. I do a lot of ballistic testing on my reloads and have recently gone from Montana Gold bullets to polymer coated bullets. I am always happy to share my chrono data with those who are interested.
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