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I can't comment on the Shield, but I recently picked up a post recall manufactured XDs in 45 ACP. It's a lot of fun! Check out the attached pic from yesterday. Nevermind the 6 round group in the middle...that was with my strong hand only. My trigger as new was horrible...just under 8 lbs...

So when the shoulder of the unimormer bottoms on the case, how do you prevent marring of the case head around the primer pocket?

Brass is pictured as fired...no cleaning. The FC appears to have some blue markings...not from me. It will not get used again.

Hey 243winxb...good link on primers. Unfortunately it's not 100% consensus on whether the root cause of this was a bad primer or over pressure. I did work up loads from the starting load to max load twice, 5 stages of charge with 3 rounds of each. I never once saw any extreme flattened...

I guess I'd expect to have issues if I were setting the bullet too close to the lands, but with the numbers I stated in my previous post, I'm 0.091" away from the lands. I realize that every gun is different, but how can there be over 2 grains difference between two publications?

But doesn't using a magnum primer lead to a faster / hotter ignition and even higher pressures? And how about my COL? I set these longer than the Hodgdon website which states a 2.800" COL, these were at 2.860". Wouldn't this also lead to a lower pressure? FYI...when I used the modified...

Thanks for all the replies. I'll be reworking up a load with Winchester brass paying more attention to the primer seating force. I do still have a few hundred LRP to use up but maybe I'll sit on those and pick up some CCI primers. I'm still curious as to the differences between standard and...

So here are the primers...blown through. I'll be switching away from Federal brass. I only had about 25 anyway. I've got 50 once fired Winchesters and 50 new Remington to use. How do the R-P compare? I suppose I should size trim and do a capacity check. Will the burned bolt face cause...

Thanks for the informative replies guys. I still have a lot to learn. The primer is a Winchester LR. Does the primer really make much of a difference in terms of weakness for letting gasses through? I was told I could us a standard primer instead of a magnum as long as I wasn't having...

Looking for some experience on this. I've got a couple pieces of 270WSM fired brass that have this condition. Thoughts on what contribute to a failure like this? I have little history with the brass, I've fired it twice, it came in a baggie with my rifle. The load was 60.5 gr of IMR4350 with...

What problems have you had with the Lee 1000 primer feed? If it's just the primers coming out of the hopper into the trough, just use your left middle finger (not to flick it off) to tap at the 11:00 position of the hopper. This jostles the primers enough to clear the jam, and urges the cover...

Another shot out for the 270 WSM. I recently aquired one that I put a Leupold 4.5-14 x 50 LR BC. Up until Christmas Day I had shot about 60 rounds through it while working up a handload at the 100 yd range. Christmas Day I got out in a 8-9 mph quartering away cross wind with my Dad and set up...

Good words. I think I'll work up the load from a lower charge and see how reliability and accuracy are affected before shooting or pulling the 600 rounds I've got loaded. Now to find or make a new recoil buffer.

Thanks for offering up the wise words guys. Much appreciated. The problem is, I've only just begun hand loading and am unfamiliar with all of the pressure signs. The one thing I have recently noticed is that my Centaur Systems buffer is in need of replacement. Not sure if that's a result of...

It's a .45 ACP using a cast lead 158grn semi-wadcutter that I buy from a guy at a gun show every couple of years. He casts them himself. They shoot great for bulk shooting at paper, steel, pins, etc.

I got the load from my dad. He's been reloading for quite some time. I've been shooting his handloads since I was 12...in both 9mm and 45 acp. Literally thousands of rounds in each caliber. Which is why I was so shocked when I started reloading and looked into the load data.

I've been shooting my Dad's handloads and now my loads (same recipe) for about 1000 rounds now. Very accurate out of my Series 80 Gold Cup with an old school Centaur Systems barrel. Recently I started loading for a couple other calibers and bought a chrono and was a little surprised to see the...

Right on. Thanks again for the help.

Be suspicious...it could be a trap. Sounds to good to be true. Usually when she says "I think you should" she means "I need some new earings".

So it that the one that you were not able to get the bipod solid with?