Loading up some 32 auto this morning and ran into a problem. Set up the die and sized 50. Setup the expander and ran them through, setup seat and crimp die, added primer powder and bullet and seated the bullet. Plunk tested first few and all was well with the world. Completed the batch of 50 and plunk tested all of them. 19 of them failed, would not go plunk in my Beretta 81. Separated the ones that didn’t fit and found that 1 of the 2 head stamps that I am loading was the issue. The Aquila brass went perfectly PLUNK into the chamber. The PPU brass did not. I could get lockup when I sent slide home, with out firing the extraction was very difficult. Only tried it once and had to push the slide back off my desk top to eject the round. I am at a loss as to what is going on here. Didn’t separate by head stamp when sizing, pure chance 19 of them were PPU, 31 were Aquila (roughly 50% right). Both were sized to the same setting of the same die at the same time. All were expanded with the same die at the same time. All were seated with the same bullet and crimped with the same die at the same time. Only the PPU failed.
Did some measuring and the PPU at the case mouth with bullet measured .338 and the Aquila measured .334 (average). Obviously this is the issue, Just don’t understand why they came out this way. Any way to “fix” this after being loaded? Constructive thoughts would be appreciated.
Bullet im using is Berrys 32 cal (312) plated bullets.
Did some measuring and the PPU at the case mouth with bullet measured .338 and the Aquila measured .334 (average). Obviously this is the issue, Just don’t understand why they came out this way. Any way to “fix” this after being loaded? Constructive thoughts would be appreciated.
Bullet im using is Berrys 32 cal (312) plated bullets.