rklessdriver
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I bought my brother a Lee (4 hole w/auto index) Turret press deluxe kit from Grafs for christmas this year. It comes with the scale, (1) Auto Disk, primer pocket cleaner ect.... Came in the mail yesterday.
Same system I've been using for 10+yrs pretty much (Mine's the old 3 hole turret w/no auto index).
He carry's and shoots (G22 or G23) .40 Smith mainly. He has quite a few other firearms that I'm sure he will get to loading for them as he gets more proficient at it. However the .40 is his main and he'll get the most benifit loading for it to start with.
I'm thinking of setting him up with 155gr Berry's plated bullets over 6.0gr of Unique.
I don't load .40 S&W. I know its a high pressure cartridge. I know lots of beginners KABOOm their Glocks reloading....
I took some Unique (I have a left over 1/2LB laying around) and threw some charges out of one of my (well used) Lee Auto Disk. Seems to throw consistant enough (+ -.2gr) to be safe. 6gr is pretty upper middle of the road charge for a 155gr bullet and it seems to take up a good amount of volume in a .40 case. It seems to me like it will be really difficult to double charge....
I've only expirimented with Unique one time about 7-8yrs ago in my .45's. Don't rember much about those results (but it obvisouly wasn't anything to write home about becasue I went back to using 231 and AA#5 depending on what I was doing....)
I just want him to have a safe load to start out with that he can tweek himself later. No one ever gave me crap when I started and no one ever warned me of the dangers. I'm lucky that I figured it out without blowing up something. He wants to learn how to re-load and I don't want to drop this stuff in his lap without at least giving him something solid (load wise) to start with. I've got excally (1) .40 handgun... A Beretta 96G topend for my 92F actually. I've shot it maybe 2 times.... I do plan to work this load up (using his new equipment) to see how they load and how they shoot for me before I give him his stuff.
Is there anything I'm over thinking with this .40 load?
Any beginner .40 S&W loads you guys would recommend if Unique don't work out for me?
thanks
Will
Same system I've been using for 10+yrs pretty much (Mine's the old 3 hole turret w/no auto index).
He carry's and shoots (G22 or G23) .40 Smith mainly. He has quite a few other firearms that I'm sure he will get to loading for them as he gets more proficient at it. However the .40 is his main and he'll get the most benifit loading for it to start with.
I'm thinking of setting him up with 155gr Berry's plated bullets over 6.0gr of Unique.
I don't load .40 S&W. I know its a high pressure cartridge. I know lots of beginners KABOOm their Glocks reloading....
I took some Unique (I have a left over 1/2LB laying around) and threw some charges out of one of my (well used) Lee Auto Disk. Seems to throw consistant enough (+ -.2gr) to be safe. 6gr is pretty upper middle of the road charge for a 155gr bullet and it seems to take up a good amount of volume in a .40 case. It seems to me like it will be really difficult to double charge....
I've only expirimented with Unique one time about 7-8yrs ago in my .45's. Don't rember much about those results (but it obvisouly wasn't anything to write home about becasue I went back to using 231 and AA#5 depending on what I was doing....)
I just want him to have a safe load to start out with that he can tweek himself later. No one ever gave me crap when I started and no one ever warned me of the dangers. I'm lucky that I figured it out without blowing up something. He wants to learn how to re-load and I don't want to drop this stuff in his lap without at least giving him something solid (load wise) to start with. I've got excally (1) .40 handgun... A Beretta 96G topend for my 92F actually. I've shot it maybe 2 times.... I do plan to work this load up (using his new equipment) to see how they load and how they shoot for me before I give him his stuff.
Is there anything I'm over thinking with this .40 load?
Any beginner .40 S&W loads you guys would recommend if Unique don't work out for me?
thanks
Will