New glock 34 and new load to the range tomorrow

[5early]

Just got my new 34 finished for SSP. Off to the range with what may be my load for the thing. We'll see how it does.

147 MG CMJ

1.135" COAL

3.5 gr WST

I'll test for function and feel but I don't have a chrono. Should be close.

Anyone in Orlando want to do some load testing a CFRPC tomorrow afternoon?

[5early]

Due to different case brands I had oal's from 1.128 to 1.137 in the mix for testing. I guess my Glock doesn't like the shorter lengths with 147 MG's. It would fail to feed with the round ending up on the feed ramp, bullet in chamber or nose diving into the ramp. Three factory mags did the same thing. WWB and BBI reloads had no problems and functioned great. The failure rate of the MG's was 10 % or more. I set my press up to load the Winchester brass ( which usually comes out the longest ) @ 1.150". So now I have oal's from 1.152" on the high side down to about 1.145" ( federal brass ). We'll see how these work.

[Sarge]

My G34 shoots MG 147's @1.135 with no problem at all. But different guns like different loads.

[njl]

IMO, you're nuts to be loading with WST (a powder for which there's just about no published 9mm data) and no chronograph.

That said, I recently loaded some 147gr Gold Dots to 1.115 with about that amount of WST and had no problems shooting them from a G17.

I'll be trying some 147gr X-Treme plated bullets with Universal and WST soon.