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IME fast burning powder is cleaner than factory 9mm in a carbine. I use Bullseye, W231 and Power Pistol in my carbine loads, all very clean burning in my blow back Ruger. Power Pistol is the accuracy champ.

My concerns with Colt pattern rifles is the lack of a proper feed ramp that needs FMJ to feed reliably, at least IME. Hard to beat the reliability and accuracy of the Ruger. If I were buying a AR 9 it would be a Glock mag type with an advanced feed ramp for reliability with HPs.

There are quite a few people reporting mis-aligned ejectors. Can you swap to the other mag housing and try?

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Tumbling from lack of velocity combined with a long for its weight bullet and low twist rate. Not enough RPMs. I used to shoot a lot of factory WCs, all were stable @25 yards, some tumbled at 50.

CZ 452 Scout is my lightest and most accurate rimfire so everything else went away. From the bench it out shot my Lux, Trainer, a very expensive Kimber H-S, 10/22, plus it handles like a wand in the field. A Leupold 4x RF Special fits nicely on the tiny rifle and is enough to shoot <2” groups at...

I’ve had the same experience with mags in max chambers. Why 38s work so well in a mag, but mags work so poorly in a max is beyond me. That Chiappa listed above looks real nice, svelte even. 26 inch barrel? With the right load that would be a quiet game getter.

I have a NEF Handi rifle in 357/30-30/.410. Very accurate, but not made any more. I thought about getting a rolling block, but never did. Henry makes an affordable single shot.

The M die didn’t help, but the competition seater did.

My problem with the Lee seater was primarily bullet tilting during seating.

My first 9mm die set was the Lee deluxe, nothing but frustration. I replaced the seater with a Redding Comp die, but that was not cheap. It’s all about the shape of the recess in the seating stem. Maybe the plain Redding would do as well.

You can seat most jacketed bullets in 9mm (and .38 Super) without expanding, flaring or chamfering with a seating die that matches your bullet profile well. I loaded both those calibers for a while with just the sizing die and a seating die. I was having trouble with a .38/1911 and bullet set...

I like a little mineral spirits in my walnut media. Keeps it dust free, I can run it topless, and the cases come out with just a little slickness, ready for the press with no further steps.(handgun cases, leave the primer in) Too much liquid of any kind will lock up a dry vibratory cleaner.

I’ve had 1 fail to extract with mine. 4.0 W231 under a 124. No problems with anything else. I suspect more power would’ve helped. The extractor is a stamped part, so they have to change dies often, so every batch is a bit different.

Buying a carbine to use up components is what I did. Found a used Ruger PCC for $500. It takes my tiny G-26 mags or the big sticks. Very satisfied.

One more for one shot.

Just remember not to use brake cleaner or gun scrubber on those vintage Marlins, it will destroy the plastic of the mag housing/trigger guard.

I had a 357 max for a while. (10” Contender) Accuracy with anything in 38 cases was terrible, magnum cases not much better. If you wanted accuracy it had to be in max brass.

I have my Romeo 5 on the foreword part of the receiver. No problems with poi shift.

Two threads on this topic recently. Prolly why it’s quiet.