Aguila Blanca
Staff
I'm past the question I raised in Round 1: https://thefiringline.com/forums/showthread.php?t=604832
Unclenick was kind enough to crunch my reloads through Quickload, and he verified that my 4.3-grain load is not unsafe for pressure using wither the Berry's plated bullets or actual Golden saber bullets. So far, so good.
So this afternoon I loaded up an initial run of fifty of the Berry's bullets. Once I had them loaded, I dropped each round into a 9mm barrel to verify that they passed the "plunk" test. One didn't -- the bullet must have gone into the case skewed, and the case mouth scraped off some some of the plating and piled it up just beyond the case mouth. Easy fix -- knock out and discard the bullet, and reload the case.
Then, as a double check, I pulled out an EGW chamber checker. SURPRISE! NONE of my rounds fully seated. So I tried a second EGW chamber checker, and got the same result. A fired and resized case plunks nicely into the EGW chamber checker, but my loaded ammo doesn't.
So I then tried multiple rounds from two different brands of commercial 9mm ammo -- Cor-Bon, and Wilson Combat. Those also pass the plunk test in my barrel, but NONE of those rounds will fully seat in the EGW chamber checker.
Has anyone else ever encountered this?
Unclenick was kind enough to crunch my reloads through Quickload, and he verified that my 4.3-grain load is not unsafe for pressure using wither the Berry's plated bullets or actual Golden saber bullets. So far, so good.
So this afternoon I loaded up an initial run of fifty of the Berry's bullets. Once I had them loaded, I dropped each round into a 9mm barrel to verify that they passed the "plunk" test. One didn't -- the bullet must have gone into the case skewed, and the case mouth scraped off some some of the plating and piled it up just beyond the case mouth. Easy fix -- knock out and discard the bullet, and reload the case.
Then, as a double check, I pulled out an EGW chamber checker. SURPRISE! NONE of my rounds fully seated. So I tried a second EGW chamber checker, and got the same result. A fired and resized case plunks nicely into the EGW chamber checker, but my loaded ammo doesn't.
So I then tried multiple rounds from two different brands of commercial 9mm ammo -- Cor-Bon, and Wilson Combat. Those also pass the plunk test in my barrel, but NONE of those rounds will fully seat in the EGW chamber checker.
Has anyone else ever encountered this?