I can't seem to get a good 9mm load (I have a few general reloading questions here)

I just love a story with a happy ending... Good for you, now you have 6000 accurate bullets for your 9mm. That's a good supply especially in this environment.

Well well well! Nice going buddy. Talk about lemons into lemonade.

Tell you what. When you need more 9mm bullets, check out rocky mountain reloading. A google search will bring it up to the top.

Get some of the 124 grain flat point bullets, they should be in stock by the time you're ready for some. Load it with a midrange charge of unique or universal, seat it to an OAL of 1.065, crimp lightly and it'll shoot like a laser. The guy who runs RMR is a member here. Good prices for great bullets. I just happened upon that combo by accident, but it's a winner.

+ 1 on paper patching. It's not your solution as it is too slow for 6k rounds, but it may give you your answer to the accuracy problem.

Schwing said:

I don't know if you are subscribed to this thread or if you see this but:

actually that was the answer (after a fashion). I have access to a pretty good CNC shop. I was able to create a fixture to hold the bullets and I used an arbor press to squish them down about .060. That expands them enough that I can run them through a .357 sizing die and get perfectly accurate bullets! They are TC instead of RN now but dang it worked out well!

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So I win??