jetinteriorguy
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Even though I’d been loading straight wall ammo for over 30 years when I first started loading 9mm about ten years ago it drove me nuts. Even though it seemed like I had a lot of issues, it really only turned out to be a simple case of not seating bullets deep enough due to a short throat in my M&P. But I did learn another lesson in the process and that was to use an undersized resizing die. Once I started seating bullets to plunk reliably instead of blindly following the SAAMI oal guide and used the undersize die I’ve never had another reliability issue. Of course after determining proper seating depth with dummy rounds I would then work up the load from the beginning. Revolvers are so simple and 9mm was a real learning curve, but once mastered loading 9mm is also pretty simple too. I do use the Lee FCD but I use a very light crimp with good success.