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Reloading Advice Request
I am trying to work up loads for both .45 ACP and 9 mm using Unique powder.
Here are the results of today’s tests.
45 ACP 185 gr. FMJ with 6 grains Unique (scooped then trickled onto calibrated electronic scale)
10 rds. fired (G4 Glock 30)
2 Failure to Eject (partial stove pipes) plus Failure to Feed
The other 8 rds. cycled but they seemed to eject weakly and landed at my feet rather than a few feet away.
Slide did lock back after final rd.
9 mm 115 gr. FMJ with 4.5 gr. Unique (scooped then trickled onto calibrated electronic scale)
10 rds. fired (G5 Glock 26)
Not one rd. functioned properly.
7 Failure to Feed (rds. ejected but did not chamber the next rd.)
3 Failure to Eject
Slide did not lock back after final rd.
Notes:
Neither gun has ever had Failure to Eject or Failure to Feed issues in my hands. (Both have had feeding issues in the hands of 2 friends who tend to limp wrist.)
Just to be sure it was the ammo and not the gun, I tested the only other ammo I had on hand, 124 gr. Speer Gold Dots. Five of 5 Gold Dots cycled flawlessly. Given prices and availability in today’s market, I did not finish the mag of Gold Dots.
I am confident that case length was not the issue because all 20 rds. were individually measured using digital calipers and were well within the specified OAL.
Given the results, my conjecture is that both of my home loads were too weak.
I am thinking of increasing both loads by half a grain to 6.5 gr. for the .45 ACP and 5 gr. for the 9 mm.
What do you all think?
Is my diagnosis correct?
Is increasing each load by half a grain reasonable?
I am trying to work up loads for both .45 ACP and 9 mm using Unique powder.
Here are the results of today’s tests.
45 ACP 185 gr. FMJ with 6 grains Unique (scooped then trickled onto calibrated electronic scale)
10 rds. fired (G4 Glock 30)
2 Failure to Eject (partial stove pipes) plus Failure to Feed
The other 8 rds. cycled but they seemed to eject weakly and landed at my feet rather than a few feet away.
Slide did lock back after final rd.
9 mm 115 gr. FMJ with 4.5 gr. Unique (scooped then trickled onto calibrated electronic scale)
10 rds. fired (G5 Glock 26)
Not one rd. functioned properly.
7 Failure to Feed (rds. ejected but did not chamber the next rd.)
3 Failure to Eject
Slide did not lock back after final rd.
Notes:
Neither gun has ever had Failure to Eject or Failure to Feed issues in my hands. (Both have had feeding issues in the hands of 2 friends who tend to limp wrist.)
Just to be sure it was the ammo and not the gun, I tested the only other ammo I had on hand, 124 gr. Speer Gold Dots. Five of 5 Gold Dots cycled flawlessly. Given prices and availability in today’s market, I did not finish the mag of Gold Dots.
I am confident that case length was not the issue because all 20 rds. were individually measured using digital calipers and were well within the specified OAL.
Given the results, my conjecture is that both of my home loads were too weak.
I am thinking of increasing both loads by half a grain to 6.5 gr. for the .45 ACP and 5 gr. for the 9 mm.
What do you all think?
Is my diagnosis correct?
Is increasing each load by half a grain reasonable?