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"The little bro of the Security 9 is the Security 9 compact." Then, perhaps, an identical cousin---like the old Patty Duke show...? ;)

I'm interested in opinions on this gun, too. Wifey is looking for her first pistol, and absolutely loves my Sec-9. Looks like the little bro of that gun, judging by the take down pin...

@Toprudder... All the cases I was having difficulty with were not the same headstamp. 4 or 5 different ones, actually. And please forgive the colloquial way I have for describing things. Or....don't. ;)

Single stage right now for learning purposes. It's really all we need for our current shooting habits. Wish we could target shoot more, but life is busy. Progressive presses--at this point--are way above my pay grade, haha. I'm guessing I'll be posting a lot more questions if I graduate to...

"Yours was incorrectly set, and you just saw the problems it caused." And the next post contradicted what 'you' do, tiger. And I've had a ton of good rounds produced, before any systemic changes. It's lasagna, dude. There's one basic method to make it, but thousands of other ways to modify...

You can push the basics at me any day of the week, haha. Being safe and not destroying my pistols are paramount. Heck, my kids are going to be shooting those rounds, as well...

Interesting update. I went medieval on the bad cases with the sizing die w/primer punch removed, as James mentioned. I'm getting good bullets with the bad cases. I also reevaluated the instructions I've had for the resizer die. One thing that always bothered me about the cases--there was...

Incredibly generous of you! I think we will be okay for the immediate future. But I did break down and buy 2000 magnum SPs on a trip to Western MT over the last holiday. Now....come September time frame, you might be getting that PM from me, haha. And thanks for payin' it forward...

Limit 1 per Midway, due to high volume of orders. $11.99 shipping/$11.99 hazmat fee/$5.28 tax/$.45 roundup for the NRA--which of course I have no problem with. $65.00 total. That's a big jump from the $20+tax I was spending on 1000 Rem 1 1/2s. If I was in a very rural area, I would probably...

James, perhaps you didn't read that I am having definitive problems with some cases involving bullet setback. Why would I want a perfectly fine live primer in those? The primers are pulled and put in good cases. We just target shoot, so they are put back in the rotation so to speak. Can't...

Depiming live ones isn't dangerous. Just gotta go slow and easy. I'm a bit frugal, too. I spent a good 10 mins searching for a large pistol primer that bounced off the bench (found it!). And that was not just because primers are getting scarce. I'm just wired that way. I grew up rather poor...

Thanks, Chris. I have no pictures, but I very much like your idea about making some dummy rounds. I will check the headstamps, too. Lemonade outta lemons...

I read the descriptions for both fully processed and unprocessed brightfire cases. Shame on me for wanting to save a couple of bucks, and have the resizing die do what it is supposed to. And judging from some of the comments on this thread, there are those who would bang the 'fully processed'...

Hate to be a bother to RMR, but I after all the issues I had above, the batch of one-offs from RMR have had more than an ordinary amount of throw away cases. We're cool, because we've found a ton of range cases in BLM property, but damn...I wanted a thousand of cases that worked. Trust me...

First and foremost to all....thanks! And Driftwood, a special thanks for the essay/pictorial. I'm sure there are other tenderfoots like me that find the info incredibly valuable. Also, my Howell is not set up for rimmed cartridges like your picture. Just checking it out, my 45 ACP loads sit...

I am starting to see a plan coming together. This is so cool... DocRock, I have Pyrodex right now for my cap & ball, and ordered some card wedges as you specified. So it's okay to just treat the conversion like I would be loading a regular c&b cylinder? Use the Pyrodex as normal, with wad...

LD, I'm not looking to compete. Just fun target shooting. :) And a quick search on 45 Schofield has yielded immediate results. It looks the 45 Cowboy Special might be the ticket. Catman, I use the pre-lubed wool wads when I go cap & ball. Would they work? I also planned on using gas...

Thanks to all. I should have added more info. My conversion cylinder is 45 ACP, not long Colt. I have purchased two conical molds, both .452; 160 gr and 230 gr, respectively. And I have a sizer/lube for the bullets. So if I reload my 45 ACP brass, Am I using black powder, and not what I...

Just got my conversion cylinder for my Rem 1858. Of course, the Howell instructions give basic, safe specs for firing, but I am wondering from the experts if there is a ceiling as to bullet weight? I want to buy the correct molds for casting, and I don't want to make a mistake in regards, to...

We are good...! Got all the bullets pulled safely (what a kitten that RCBS puller die is); cleaned and processed 25 rounds of previously used cases; resized and processed 25 rounds of the clean RMR cases, and measured all. Specs were right on Nodor numbers. Went to the range close by, and all...