Recent content by nannoman

Ok.. I can agree with being safe. I started with that load because it was the load data that I could find that came closest to lead bullet data. It's possible that I won't be doing any more loads with the Rainiers anyway, if I can't get the feed issue sorted out. As for the Remingtons...

That's where all the manuals disagree. Rainier says to use lead bullet data or you can use FMJ data if you don't have access to lead bullet data. Shane at Rainier says that usually he grabs the Speer reloading manual when he works up test loads. My Lyman manual says that for HS-6 starting...

Just spoke with Shane over at Rainier Ballistics. They have been getting calls about this bullet specifically with the M&P line of pistols. They are changing their bullet geometry to see if it corrects the issue. Might be that those of us with M&P's could get them to exchange our bullets in a...

bds, It doesn't seem that the chamber is all that tight. Once the bullet is in the chamber it has enough slop to shift back and forth a noticeable amount. The cartridge falls right out of the barrel when inverted and basically goes in and out quite freely, it's only when it's trying to make the...

This is the best picture I could get of the chamber mouth, I've annotated where I think it's hitting, I think I could see black marks from the rubbed off sharpie.

Here is one of the bullets that I "colored". I positioned the round in the magazine so that the vertical line on the bottom of the casing was facing straight up. This cartridge is one of the ones that I put back through my seating/crimp die to add a little more crimp to it. It chambered from the...

RealGun... so it's sounding like I might need to buy a FCD, unfortunately that would offset the savings of buying the Rainier bullets.

bds: I have shot ~500 rounds of Winchester 180gr factory loads and about 10-20 rounds of Winchester 180gr JHP factory and then probably about 200 rounds of S&B 180 gr factory loads. All of those cycled through the weapon without fail. In addition, as I noted the reloads that I did with the...

Here are a couple of images of the bullet sitting in the barrel at the point that it seems to want to hang up. If I take the bullet and hold it parallel to the chamber it drops right in. It just seems like there's a problem when it is trying to feed from the magazine into the chamber. bds, so...

When I did my original loading I pulled the barrel from the weapon and used it as a guide. None of the loads, the Rainier or the Remington seemed to contact the rifling. In the meantime I went out to the garage and screwed my taper/seating die down about a quarter turn or so and re-crimped...

First off, I am fairly new to reloading. I am still in the stages of working up my loads and have been loading bullets 10 at a time to go to the range to test. I work up test loads for the different bullets and different cases that I have. My problem is that when I got some of my test...