Can normal 9mm be fired out of 9x25 Dillon barrel?

[chucky2]

With a standard recoil rod conversion kit you can get down to 10#.

http://www.gunsprings.com/index.cfm?page=items&cID=1&mID=5

Even before the great 22 shortage I was finding it just as cheap to cast and reload 10mm as buy new 22.  Now, not even the same ball park.

I would LOVE to get into reloading, but alas, I literally have no time nor any space for it.  I live with the parents, and our house just has no additional room for a reloading setup.  Even if it did, I have no time for it...  :'(

[sqlbullet]

Time is a valid excuse.

Space...Nope.  I was still reloading when my family of eight was living in an 1800 sq ft condo while our house was reloaded.

Lee reloader press mounted to a 10" long 1X4.  Two small wood clamps to clamp it to a table.  Good to go.

[my_old_glock]

It might fire and come out of the barrel, but accuracy and reliability would be almost non-existent.


I (mistakenly) fired a 40S&W out of my 45ACP Glock 21. It went bang, and the bullet hit the target sideways about 1.5 ft low and 1 ft to the right of where I was aiming.

Not sure if you read the entire thread, but at this point we have deviated to using a 9mm conversion barrel from Lone Wolf in a Glock 20.

I did.

I have a 9mm Lone Wolf barrel for my G20. It works great. The 10mm magazine will hold the slide open with a 9mm round still in the magazine. You will have to modify the follower if you want to feed the last round of 9mm out of the 10mm magazine. You will also need a lighter recoil spring, but you probably already know that from the LW website.





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[Pinsnscrews]

Black and Decker fold up Shopmate bench conversion 
My first reloading bench was a Microwave Cart

As for time, a half hour here, a half hour there, it adds up 

And, when you consider the cost, it really comes down to How Much is your Time Worth  I haven't done the math on the 10mm yet, but when I consider I paid $35 for 50 rounds of loaded, that works out to $.70 per round. I bought 500 bullets from Rainier for $65, which is $.15 per bullet. I already have brass, so I just need powder and primers. Primers run roughly $32.50 for 1000, or $.03 each and powder is roughly $30lb (what I paid for a pound of Longshot) at 7000gr per pound. Figure an average of 9.5gr (for Longshot with my Rainier bullets) that is roughly 736 rounds, or $.04 each. For a grand total of $.22 per round. I just got in 30lbs of lead, and a friend is going to loan me a 200gr mold. So once I get those made, my cost per bullet will be even lower.

Just some numbers to crunch.

[sqlbullet]

I guess that is true of time too.

You always hear you shouldn't be "distracted" while reloading.  And that is true...For the actual loading part.  But all the case prep that has to occur, not so much.

You can deprime, size, clean primer pockets, expand necks all while relaxing to your favorite TV show.  Then set aside an hour a week, or every other week, or a month, to charge, seat, crimp a couple hundred.