johnandersonoutdoors
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Hey everyone,
I am new to reloading. So far I have cleaned my once fired 9mm brass and taken some measurements with my calipers. The brass has not been resized yet but they all are right around .744 or .745 which is the trim to length as shown in my speer manual. This weekend the girl is going out of town so I should have lots of spare time to really focus and reload my first ammo.
Recently I wrote this post asking the community if bullet length varies from one manufacturer to another among common bullet weights.
http://www.thehighroad.org/showthread.php?t=683506
As I suspected the community said they do indeed differ (i.e. one company's 124 round nose will be different length than another company's). The responders suggested loading some long dummy rounds and dropping them in the barrel for the "thunk" test. That is what I plan on doing, although instead of loading 124 grain lead rounds that I mentioned in my original thread I will be loading up some 115grain fmj from Montana Bullet.
The biggest question now is the powder and seating depth. The Lee manual, as anyone who has one knows, does not list load data for a specific bullet. They simply list 10 or so powders and the charge range for 115 grain jacketed bullet. Of course they also list a minimum oal. Now the speer manual that I have shows a specific bullet, the speer gold dot and they show the various powders and appropriate range of powder grains to meter.
My plan is to load these 115 grain montana gold fmj with unique. Just for added information I was wondering if anyone could post a suggested recipe for this combo. I will be using CCI 500 primers and I have a lot of brass to choose from. I can use only federal, only winchester, or I could just leave the brass mixed. Any thoughts would be appreciated.
I am new to reloading. So far I have cleaned my once fired 9mm brass and taken some measurements with my calipers. The brass has not been resized yet but they all are right around .744 or .745 which is the trim to length as shown in my speer manual. This weekend the girl is going out of town so I should have lots of spare time to really focus and reload my first ammo.
Recently I wrote this post asking the community if bullet length varies from one manufacturer to another among common bullet weights.
http://www.thehighroad.org/showthread.php?t=683506
As I suspected the community said they do indeed differ (i.e. one company's 124 round nose will be different length than another company's). The responders suggested loading some long dummy rounds and dropping them in the barrel for the "thunk" test. That is what I plan on doing, although instead of loading 124 grain lead rounds that I mentioned in my original thread I will be loading up some 115grain fmj from Montana Bullet.
The biggest question now is the powder and seating depth. The Lee manual, as anyone who has one knows, does not list load data for a specific bullet. They simply list 10 or so powders and the charge range for 115 grain jacketed bullet. Of course they also list a minimum oal. Now the speer manual that I have shows a specific bullet, the speer gold dot and they show the various powders and appropriate range of powder grains to meter.
My plan is to load these 115 grain montana gold fmj with unique. Just for added information I was wondering if anyone could post a suggested recipe for this combo. I will be using CCI 500 primers and I have a lot of brass to choose from. I can use only federal, only winchester, or I could just leave the brass mixed. Any thoughts would be appreciated.