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Reloading / Re: Brass not getting clean
« on: January 12, 2016, 12:32:45 PM »
Buy a bottle of Lemishine dish detergent. Soak in warm water agitate here and there, dry then tumble...brings back the shine.
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Hey Oldfart,
I seen your post with the 9mm XTP and had a question on reloading 9mm. I ran cases down a Lee 9mm Luger carbide die to FL size them. The case came out fine with no visible bulges. I then seated some 124gr JHP bullets into them. They seated fine but notice that it slightly bulges with the contour of the bullet. Is this normal? It seems that the bullet is bigger than the neck of the case. I measured the bullets and they are all roughly .355. This happen to you before?
The bulge is nothing to worry about. It just means that the sizer is squeezing the case down a little "aggressively".
The bulging effect means you don't have to worry much about bullet setback.
That is when the bullet hits the feed ramp and gets pushed further into the case than it ought too.
You should still taper crimp the ammo. Typical would be 0.374 at the mouth. Some people use the LEE factory crimp die, but I have never used one and don't know anything about it. My Dillon press came with a sizer that did the same thing. The ammo had that "hourglass" effect. The ammo works great but I did not care for the appearance. So I switched to an old RCBS sizer die