Recent content by J Paul B

Impressive! Apparently it going to be moved to the hw floor location, can yo lift it easily?

AA7 in 357 mag I've used it with 125 HDY XTP, 12.0 grains and it shot very well in my SW 686 - 6" barrel- most accurate load I've come up with so far. Plan to try it with Berrys 125 TP bullets next.

I didn't do anything to the powder bar or press except it alone for 24 hours, threw a load last night and weighed it at 4.4 gr. The next 20-30 charges all weighed from 4.1 to 4.3, I was looking for 4.2 grains, so figure that one out? It's throwing just as good as the other powders I've had...

I failed to mention that I shot the loads I made last night - all 20 of them - that I spent over an hour weighing those powder charges and missing quite a bit of the Red Sox/Ranger game.... and I was surprised with how well they worked, about a 10" group at 20 yards at a pretty fast firing...

I've been using Unique, 231, Titegroup, AA7 and Silhouette and all have been consistently throwing charges +/- .1 grain. I threw about 25 charges of RD last night and weighed each, many on both the RCBS digital scale and the 5-0-5 beam scale because some were .5 grains off on the digital and I...

Thank you gentlemen, I'm not going to spend a lot of time on this, but I may try changing the charge bar on the Dillon tonight to see if it makes any difference. I tried a few rounds with Herco, and it didn't throw to well either. I was just trying to make a little room in the powder cabinet...

Has anyone used Red Dot in 9mm re-loads? I have about 14 lbs of it and haven't been loading many 12 ga. shells since the boys grew up? I've checked several manuals as well as loaddata.com and only found a couple of loads that use it? I did load about a dozen rounds last night (haven't shot...

I typically used to get one misfired load per magazine (10 shot) in my Ruger Mark II when using Rem bulk ammo. Never a problem with the Federal. I quit using Rem bulk 22.

Got it, thank you all, I'll tighten it up a little and try a few.

Thanks, Murf. I failed to mention that my question was specific to the 9mm. I've noticed that most of my once fired brass is basically all shorter than the trim to length listed, majority of it is .738" up to .742", very few at or over .750". I'm guessing that the variation I'm seeing in the...

I've been reading this forum for a few months, and I have a question regarding the measurement of the case mouth. I've loaded rifle ammo and shotshells for several years, but very new to the pistol ammo, about 2 years doing 357 and 44 magnum and about 6 months loading 9 mm. I've read several...

I agree with most of the "regulars" regarding reasons to re-load versus buying factory ammo. I have one other reason: I started re-loading 357's about a year ago because my oldest son had an urge to buy a used 357 revolver - I never knew he had any interest in pistols! He asked if I could...