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Compressed powder charge?

I had good luck after polishing the inside of the Dillon powder funnel. No more powder bridging with Varget or N140/N540. Another issue is that you should give the charge enough time to drop through the powder funnel by adding a little dwell time.

Hi tkss_burgundy, Do you have a link supporting the claim below? I'm not able to find any small pistol primers under 75 Euro per 1000 at the moment. Thanks!

Hi, https://geco-ammunition.com/en/ammunition/products-overview/pistol-revolver-cartridges/geco-full-metal-jacket-flat-nose-pr This is what Geco lists: Velocity V0 [m/s] 283 V10 [m/s] 278 V25 [m/s] 270 V50 [m/s] 259

Just trying to help. Have a nice weekend!

For comparisons sake I added 2 pics of factory S&B cases fired in my Q5. The 3rd pic is from the OP BlackApache's case failure. It looks like I see 2 ring markings from the stepped chamber. Considering that it concerns a reloaded case this could indicate the case was not fully chambered the 2nd firing.

I think Miranda is correct as well. When I have the time I will check and compare with fired cases from my Q5.

Hi, I guess Dave Corbin and the rest of the bullet swaging community is wrong too than. This comes from his website: Swaging is the opposite of drawing. When you DRAW a bullet or jacket, you push it through an open ring die that reduces the size. When you SWAGE a bullet, you expand it to a slightly larger size in a pressure-sealed die. You can draw down, but you always swage up. http://www.corbins.com/intro.htm But after checking I noticed the term has different definitions in different contexts. That I never realized but we are using it in the context of bullets here. On topic: Personally I'd shoot the projectiles in the picture without reservations.

Slightly off topic but swaging is increasing the diameter and drawing is decreasing the diameter. I have been drawing copper jackets and using these to swage jacketed bullets (.224, 308 and .355) for 13 years and this is the terminology used.

Hi, The largest benefit from these type of toolheads when loading handgun calibers comes from clamping it. Floating the dies does not add a lot more for these calibers. Bottleneck rifle calibers are another story where floating the dies (in addition to clamping the toolhead) does have a positive measurable effect in my experience.

Here also no issues with Win SR in my X5.

Both the Mighty Armory and FW are excellent and tough but I like the FW the most due to the already mentioned case centering function. This function proved to be very helpful when decapping cases with a narrow neck like .223R.

I'm happy with the MA decapper dies I have but sadly cannot say the same about the 9mm and 223 FL dies I purchased a couple of years ago. Issue was not insufficicient neck tension but they scratched my brass severly due to insufficient hardening. I assume that issue has been addressed in the mean time.

Below a pic of my X5 slide manufactured end of 2017.

I see your point. Just make sure to try a seating die without crimping function (like the Redding Pro variant for instance).