bengals1975
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I've spent some time working up a load for my 9mm and I thought I found one that works pretty good. It worked great on an 8 round test run so I made another 70 and went out to shoot them this weekend (I wanted to test a greater number before I went ahead and loaded the remainder of the 500 bullets I bought). It went pretty well but it wasn't the perfect experience I was hoping for. I had two cases get caught by the slide while ejecting (I don't know what this is called. it's like the slide kicked back, the case started to eject, but got caught while the slide was moving forward) and once the slide didn't lock open after firing the last round in the mag. These were the only anomalies I experienced. Is this normal? It has never happened to me with factory loads so I thought I'd ask you guys with much more experience than I have. Could any of these issues be caused by using the 95gr bullet? all my factory loads are 115gr.
For more data, in case it helps answer the question, here is my setup.
-I'm using the Lee 4 hole classic turret press w/ Lee dies and Autodisk powder measure
-Alliant Unique powder
-Fiocchi primers
-these loads were on brand new winchester brass
-95 gr jacketed bullets (OAL 1.037)
-Autodisk set to 0.66 cc's threw about 5.1 gr and a 8 round test run didn't cycle very well. Autodisk set to 0.71 cc (nxt largest setting) throws around 5.5-5.7 grains. This is the setting I used for the 70 rounds mentioned above. My loading manual shows a max load of 5.8 gr of Unique for the 95 gr round (but uses CCI primers, not Fiocchi).
-the majority of the cases were discolored after firing, which I read was an indication of too low pressure. but since 5.8 gr is the max load in my manual and I'm already at 5.7ish I'm terribly nervous of increasing powder to increase pressure.
For more data, in case it helps answer the question, here is my setup.
-I'm using the Lee 4 hole classic turret press w/ Lee dies and Autodisk powder measure
-Alliant Unique powder
-Fiocchi primers
-these loads were on brand new winchester brass
-95 gr jacketed bullets (OAL 1.037)
-Autodisk set to 0.66 cc's threw about 5.1 gr and a 8 round test run didn't cycle very well. Autodisk set to 0.71 cc (nxt largest setting) throws around 5.5-5.7 grains. This is the setting I used for the 70 rounds mentioned above. My loading manual shows a max load of 5.8 gr of Unique for the 95 gr round (but uses CCI primers, not Fiocchi).
-the majority of the cases were discolored after firing, which I read was an indication of too low pressure. but since 5.8 gr is the max load in my manual and I'm already at 5.7ish I'm terribly nervous of increasing powder to increase pressure.