In picking up brass for a 9mm I've come across a 380 acp but no 9x18. These old eyes have trouble reading the small stamping and was just wondering what the stamping on the 9 x 18 was. Any others I should be on the look out for?
And 9x19 Lugers that have been cut down to 9x18 will really mess with ya.
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And 9x19 Lugers that have been cut down to 9x18 will really mess with ya.
Dang it, what in the world are they thinking?
Dang it, what in the world are they thinking?
I bought a bunch of 9mm Luger brass. I heard about an issue with a guy loading a 9mm Kurtz (.380 ACP) and had a small accident when he fired it out of his 9mm Luger. That night I took the time (and it was some amount of time) to place each and every piece of brass on the table to check heights. I did actually find a few 9mm Kurtz in all of that and am happy now that I took the time to do it. Would have been really ugly. Now when I pick up brass from the range, I sort out anything 9mm on a flat surface (have seen 9mm Makarovs, 9mm Kurtz (380ACP), & 9mm Luger). When sorting 9mm brass it does pay to be careful.Some will say 9x18, some will say 9mmMak, some just say 9mmM. It can be hard to tell, but if you stand them all up on a flat surface like a table top, the 9x18's are a tad shorter, and the .380's are shorter still. And 9x19 Lugers that have been cut down to 9x18 will really mess with ya. I always do the tabletop sorting thing, and use tweezers to pluck out the shorter cases. I shoot all three of them.
Anyone here mistakenly loaded a 9x18 as a 9x19? If a 9x18 was sized and bullet seated to 9x19 spec, what would happen?
all the above and, that 9mm Mak case is a fair bit larger than the 9MM Luger case. It's going to take noticeably more effort to get it into the sizer.