![]() Now every pistol round I load goes into a gauge before it goes into a firearm.ĭid you repeatedly shoot any of that brass in service pistols such as Glocks, Sigs, etc. Thought that way for 30 years, based on actual experience. Brass with bulged bases is often referred to as 'Glocked' brass, in honor of the poster child of loose, unsupported chambers. I once thought brass was brass and I didn't need to gauge my handloads. LEE now offers a 'bulge buster' kit for 9mm as well which requires the purchase of the larger diameter 9mm Makarov sizing die. Fortunately one of my squad mates was a huge dude with a grip strong enough to pull the "inside-out" TSO slide out without resorting to a rubber mallet. I traded that 1911 for a CZ Target Sport Orange and discovered it was even tighter - at a match. It was when I bought a full-dress 1911-platform pistol in 9mm and had it jam so tight with reloads in that old brass that it had to be pounded open that I learned all chambers are not created equally. I had brass I KNOW I had purchased in the late '70s and '80s and was still loading for my Sig P228 and a couple of Glocks in the 2000s time frame. I agree that 9mm brass can be reloaded a gazillion times - if it's run in the same pistol or pistols with the same chamber profile. Reloads that don't cleanly drop into it should be put into a "Glock jar." I also mark those rounds with a sharpie so, if I pick them up again after a range session, I dump them into the recycle bin.Įdit: I've also found my CZ chamber throats to be shorter than the Glocks, so rounds that chamber cleanly in the Glocks might jam the bullet into the lands in the CZ.Ĭlick to expand.Did you repeatedly shoot any of that brass in service pistols such as Glocks, Sigs, etc. In my painful experience, it's these cases that can cause the hardest-to-clear jams.ĭo yourself a huge favor and get yourself a Wilson case gauge and test every round that comes off your new 550 (mine's almost 25 years old). Firing cases, especially repeatedly as reloads, in service pistols expands the web past SAAMI spec, and your Dillon won't resize the case web (nor will any other press/die combo short of commercial roller dies). My sole source of 9mm reloading brass is what I hoover up from the range, so it can be anything from once-fired quality brass to cases so beat up t's hard to read the headstamp. ![]() The latter are designed, first and foremost, to be reliable, so they'll happily eat cartridges that are likely to badly jam your Shadow. Based on my personal experience with two CZ pistols (TSO, limited-edition 75) and a bunch of Glock and Sig service pistols, your Shadow is going to be far less tolerant of out-of-spec cartridges than your Glocks.
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