Captain Quack
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With all the help from you brilliant people, I got loads for my Ruger Max 9-mm worked out. I think. Range day is tomorrow, but they all plink and feed reliably. What I discovered when I went to test them in my Wife's Taurus G3c they turned it into a jam o matic. Every single rd FTF and I had to really wrack the slide to clear them. Ok. I says to myself. "Self I says, You just need to work up a different load for her. Goody! More time in the man cave.
115 gr RMR FMJ-RN. 5.3 gr Unique. The last of the last bottle I have, and I would like to use it up. Supplies around here are very slim. One store only, and they don't seem to carry Alliant, but I have plenty of Rimshot's that will work.
Worked up a OAL that plunked reliably in the G3c. 1.105. I was just going to a OAL that plunked at this point. Not a powder amount.
That seemed a bit short for me. Off to the reloading manuals and pages.
Lee 2nd edition. 5.3gr Unique. OAL 1.120
Alliant Web page: Speer 115 gr CPRN. 6 gr Unique. OAL 1.135
Speer Manual 15: 115 gr TMJ-RN. Unique. 5.6 gr. OAL 1.135
Lyman 47th manual. No listing for 115 gr.FMJ RN. 100 gr FMJ was closest. 5.6 Unique. OAL 1.105
No plunk. No flush with the case gauge with 1.135.
Ditto with the OAL 120.
Nothing until I got back down around 1.105.
Plunk with 1.105. Flush case gage.
Is this going to be safe with 5.3 gr Unique?
Captain "Tired and sore and off to see my happy pills" Quack
115 gr RMR FMJ-RN. 5.3 gr Unique. The last of the last bottle I have, and I would like to use it up. Supplies around here are very slim. One store only, and they don't seem to carry Alliant, but I have plenty of Rimshot's that will work.
Worked up a OAL that plunked reliably in the G3c. 1.105. I was just going to a OAL that plunked at this point. Not a powder amount.
That seemed a bit short for me. Off to the reloading manuals and pages.
Lee 2nd edition. 5.3gr Unique. OAL 1.120
Alliant Web page: Speer 115 gr CPRN. 6 gr Unique. OAL 1.135
Speer Manual 15: 115 gr TMJ-RN. Unique. 5.6 gr. OAL 1.135
Lyman 47th manual. No listing for 115 gr.FMJ RN. 100 gr FMJ was closest. 5.6 Unique. OAL 1.105
No plunk. No flush with the case gauge with 1.135.
Ditto with the OAL 120.
Nothing until I got back down around 1.105.
Plunk with 1.105. Flush case gage.
Is this going to be safe with 5.3 gr Unique?
Captain "Tired and sore and off to see my happy pills" Quack