ChristopherG
Member
Here's my problem (at least the one I'm trying to solve right now): When speedloading my 625, my moonclips won't drop all the way in. I've chamfered the cylinder mouths, and I don't think they're my problem--it's farther down in the cylinder.
I'm loading Berry's 185 gr. HBRN bullets. I started at 5 grs of 231, and moved up by stages to 5.5, since I was getting granules of unburnt powder at the lower charges (which would get under the ejector star etc., hanging things up in a bad way). At 5.5 grs, I don't see any granules in the way, but there still appears to be enough 'crud' (to get technical about it) on the chamber walls (and on the sides of ejected cases) to make it sticky to put new cases in without having to shove them down the last quarter inch or so. This is a problem when going for fast reloads, which, let's face it, are why I'm shooting the 625 in the first place. So what's to be done? Do I need to shoot a fuller charge, to create enough pressure to seal the cases against the cylinder walls (which would put me WAY over the necessary 125 power factor), or should I be polishing the cylinders, or using a different powder, or what? It's starting to get me down--at last night's IDPA shoot, I more or less fell apart on two stages when my reloads broke my rhythm, and I'd like to put a stop to it.
Thanks for sharing your experience--
CG
I'm loading Berry's 185 gr. HBRN bullets. I started at 5 grs of 231, and moved up by stages to 5.5, since I was getting granules of unburnt powder at the lower charges (which would get under the ejector star etc., hanging things up in a bad way). At 5.5 grs, I don't see any granules in the way, but there still appears to be enough 'crud' (to get technical about it) on the chamber walls (and on the sides of ejected cases) to make it sticky to put new cases in without having to shove them down the last quarter inch or so. This is a problem when going for fast reloads, which, let's face it, are why I'm shooting the 625 in the first place. So what's to be done? Do I need to shoot a fuller charge, to create enough pressure to seal the cases against the cylinder walls (which would put me WAY over the necessary 125 power factor), or should I be polishing the cylinders, or using a different powder, or what? It's starting to get me down--at last night's IDPA shoot, I more or less fell apart on two stages when my reloads broke my rhythm, and I'd like to put a stop to it.
Thanks for sharing your experience--
CG