New 9mm Major Loader

[Timp]

I was going to order some brass from starline to load 9mm. I have 1000's of rounds of 9mm, but i was wondering of I needed to use 9mm+p rated brass for 9mm major, or if regular 9mm is ok to use.

Thanks

Tim

[Alan Meek]

9mm brass has worked fine for me. Just work up carefully as you would any other loads.

Alan

[spd522]

I have been using regular mixed headstamp 9mm brass also without problems. Just check it before loading for cracks etc and work it up slowly in your gun.

[BritinUSA]

Back in the 1990's when Major-9 was big in UK, we always used +P cases. This was back in the days when the PF was 175. With the lower power factor regular brass should be ok, but if it were me, I'd still get the +P brass, it should last longer.

[eric nielsen]

I got nickel Speer brass from brassmanbrass.com - no problems so far, at all. 124gr bullets loaded to 1350 to 1395fps. Some of the cases say +P, some don't.

A person I trust about these things said that Speer makes all their 9x19 cases the same but the +P headstamp goes on their +P rated ammo for law enforcement.

[rtr]

How many reloads are you folks getting out of major 9 load? I've gone 3 so far with no signs of problems.

[blkbrd]

Why would you pick up brass?? Much less use it 3 times??

[Flexmoney]

Some ranges consider brass to be trash. If you don't pick up your trash...somebody else has to.

If you are picking it up, then it might be worth using again?

[.40AET]

FROM STARLINE BRASS:

9MM+P has no difference from the standard 9mm Luger other than headstamp designation for load segregation. Due to standard case design, will handle +P pressures with no problems.

I finally got around to Starline Brass to check for the info. Don't waste your money on the +P stuff.

[redmercury2]

Police your brass!!!!!! others that follow dont want to sift thru yours to find theirs.!!!!!!

[cpty1]

Use the 1000s of pieces of 9mm brass you've already got. I would not be concerned unless you know some of them have been fired and reloaded repeatedly.

[Carlos]

"How many reloads are you folks getting out of major 9 load? I've gone 3 so far with no signs of problems. "

Am I being paranoid by only using 1x fired 9x19mm? I load 9Major using 3N38 compressed, N350 and Power Pistol to USPSA's 165+ PF. Pressures appear reasonable.

I have a rational basis for my paranoia I think: the brass I do not buy comes from the commercial range where I run a small club match. We sell all our brass to a commercial reloader who reloads it & sells it back to us. Year after year this goes on. How many loads are on some of that brass? Likely its been reloaded dozens of times. I guess I am leary of loading such mystery brass to Major. I use that stuff for minor.

D.C. Johnson

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