CMV
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So I got entirely out of .380 a few yrs back. In part after getting a Sig P938 & Ruger LC9s I had no good reason to keep any .380 guns around - their size was their appeal & the micro 9's fixed that. Main reason though was separating 9mm & .380 was such a PIA. I let lots of people shoot at my range and I really don't care what they shoot but I don't allow steel/aluminum case or .380 because I don't want that stuff entering my brass stream.
So anyway, I traded for a lot of 9mm brass that was "clean and sorted". It was neither.....Ran a magnet thru and got all the steel, visually got all the aluminum, but I suck at visually separating .380 & 9mm....after a while they all look the same. So thought whatever was getting thru was getting sorted on the press. Waste a primer, but powder won't drop in a .380 case, feels off placing the bullet, and even if it sneaks by that looks odd enough to stand out.
Well apparently not. I thought I caught 100%, but today at range I had a stoppage & sure enough a primed .380 case with bullet plugged my barrel. No big deal smacking the bullet out with cleaning rod, but irritating since I thought I had them all.
Ughh....so now I have to go thru ~2400 loaded rounds and about 3k pieces of brass and pluck out whatever .380 I missed. I guess real bright light & some reading glasses - I can't think of any other way to cull the .380.
Since I got out of .40 also everything else is real easy - no mistaking this for that, no cases that can jam others inside.
oh well...just griping. IF I were a tiny bit smarter, I would have just stopped at the 2nd or 3rd .380 and really gone thru it all then. Really figured I was attentive enough to not let one get past bullet seating at least, but apparently not.
So anyway, I traded for a lot of 9mm brass that was "clean and sorted". It was neither.....Ran a magnet thru and got all the steel, visually got all the aluminum, but I suck at visually separating .380 & 9mm....after a while they all look the same. So thought whatever was getting thru was getting sorted on the press. Waste a primer, but powder won't drop in a .380 case, feels off placing the bullet, and even if it sneaks by that looks odd enough to stand out.
Well apparently not. I thought I caught 100%, but today at range I had a stoppage & sure enough a primed .380 case with bullet plugged my barrel. No big deal smacking the bullet out with cleaning rod, but irritating since I thought I had them all.
Ughh....so now I have to go thru ~2400 loaded rounds and about 3k pieces of brass and pluck out whatever .380 I missed. I guess real bright light & some reading glasses - I can't think of any other way to cull the .380.
Since I got out of .40 also everything else is real easy - no mistaking this for that, no cases that can jam others inside.
oh well...just griping. IF I were a tiny bit smarter, I would have just stopped at the 2nd or 3rd .380 and really gone thru it all then. Really figured I was attentive enough to not let one get past bullet seating at least, but apparently not.