New 9mm reload

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New 9mm reload

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Here is one of my reloads for 9mm. How did I do?

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No harm. no powder or primer. Just testing seating the bullet and didn't pay attention to back out the adjustment screw. Big Ooops.
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I think maybe it would be a tad compressed. :lol: It takes little practice to get used to dialing it in. Glad you were running a test round instead of a live one but either way you can dismantle andmaybe salvage.
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When I first installed my .38spl dies the first test round looked about the same. Sorry for the bullet.
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Igniting the primer should knock it out! Just kidding!

Now for the most important tool after the press itself, the kinetic bullet puller!
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Yes, with jacketed you can do that. But lead bullets get damaged and can't be reloaded, or at least that's what I got told. Haven't tried it.
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Fyodor wrote:Yes, with jacketed you can do that. But lead bullets get damaged and can't be reloaded, or at least that's what I got told. Haven't tried it.

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Now that I got my seating die calibrated (and very familiar with the kinetic bullet hammer) I can work on getting the powder dropped properly. This could be FUN! +guns
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Post by wscywabbit »

Lol that's too funny, because I did the exact same thing the first time I tried to dial in the seating die lol. I didn't think that from the factory the height adjustment would be so low!
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