Sledgehammer
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Hi All,
I have loaded some 9mm Luger rounds for a shooting buddy of mine and we went out to the range today so he could test them out.
Out of about 130 rounds, he had 2 stove pipes and 2 failures to feed (no failures to fire).
The gun is a Walther P99. He has shot about 600 rounds of factory 115gr ammo through this gun with no issues.
The rounds I put together for him had the following specs:
Bullet: Montana Gold, 115gr, FMJ
Cases: various, once fired brass
Powder: Win 231, 4.3 grains
Primers: CCI Small Pistol
OAL: 1.14X (I matched a 9mm factory 115gr Federal round)
Crimp: .377 (also matched to the Federal factory round)
Now, here is my question...
My Lee manual says 4.3 is the min charge and 4.8 is the max. I went with 4.3 based on some things I read on various forums. Could the 4.3 grain charge be too light the cycle the gun correctly and thus be causing the stove pipe and extraction issues?
The charge is all I can think of given that my cartdige dimensions are consistent with a factory round that functions in his gun with no issues. Prior to shooting these rounds we took 10 cartridges and dropped them in the barrel to verify they were seating properly and also loaded them up and manually racked the slide and all 10 extraced with no issues.
Let me know what you all think.
Thanks in advance for you help.
Jason
I have loaded some 9mm Luger rounds for a shooting buddy of mine and we went out to the range today so he could test them out.
Out of about 130 rounds, he had 2 stove pipes and 2 failures to feed (no failures to fire).
The gun is a Walther P99. He has shot about 600 rounds of factory 115gr ammo through this gun with no issues.
The rounds I put together for him had the following specs:
Bullet: Montana Gold, 115gr, FMJ
Cases: various, once fired brass
Powder: Win 231, 4.3 grains
Primers: CCI Small Pistol
OAL: 1.14X (I matched a 9mm factory 115gr Federal round)
Crimp: .377 (also matched to the Federal factory round)
Now, here is my question...
My Lee manual says 4.3 is the min charge and 4.8 is the max. I went with 4.3 based on some things I read on various forums. Could the 4.3 grain charge be too light the cycle the gun correctly and thus be causing the stove pipe and extraction issues?
The charge is all I can think of given that my cartdige dimensions are consistent with a factory round that functions in his gun with no issues. Prior to shooting these rounds we took 10 cartridges and dropped them in the barrel to verify they were seating properly and also loaded them up and manually racked the slide and all 10 extraced with no issues.
Let me know what you all think.
Thanks in advance for you help.
Jason