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First off, thanks to all the members on this forum for tips, advice, and helping me getting started. It made all the difference.
I got to shoot my first reloads ever the other day. I did .223 and .45 ACP and all my guns are in one piece so that's a plus.
All the .223 fired except one which looked like it had a malformed primer, likely from me improperly swaging the primer pockets. I did a couple tests to see how much of the crimp I needed to remove and I imagine this was one of the ones I only lightly swaged.
All the .45 fired fine but I did have about 3 stovepipes out of the 50 rounds. I haven't had this issue with factory ammo through my 1911. I did err on the side of caution and used the lighter charges from the load data table so I assume it could be from that or could it be from improper crimp?
I got to shoot my first reloads ever the other day. I did .223 and .45 ACP and all my guns are in one piece so that's a plus.
All the .223 fired except one which looked like it had a malformed primer, likely from me improperly swaging the primer pockets. I did a couple tests to see how much of the crimp I needed to remove and I imagine this was one of the ones I only lightly swaged.
All the .45 fired fine but I did have about 3 stovepipes out of the 50 rounds. I haven't had this issue with factory ammo through my 1911. I did err on the side of caution and used the lighter charges from the load data table so I assume it could be from that or could it be from improper crimp?