Gearing up to reload

[Bat Rastard]

Who likes BE-86 ?

[Benchrst]

Who likes BE-86 ?

BE-86 seems to be close to PP, but without the velocity.

[The Earl o Sammich]

Who likes V V 3N38 and/or 3N37 for a lighter bullet, besides me?

[Benchrst]

Who likes V V 3N38 and/or 3N37 for a lighter bullet, besides me?

Both work pretty nice with 155's

[CurtisM]

Purchased a Redding passthru die and ran all of my brass thru it last night.  Had one piece of brass that I scrapped since it had a smile in it.  Hope to get some test rounds loaded up this evening to see how the WSF is going to work.

[The_Shadow]

CurtisM, Sounds great!  Yes yet another advantage of Pass-Through sizing as it gives another inspection opportunity!  You should be fine using the book loadings from Hodgdon with the WSF.

If you are new to reloading, be sure you are reading you scale correctly.  Having check weights can help or having a second scale to verify against each other is nice.  Good luck!

[CurtisM]

Thanks The_Shadow for the feedback.  I ran just over 10,000 rounds through my Dillon in the last 12 months, but all were 9mm.  Starting out cautiously with the 10.

[Geeman]

Who likes BE-86 ?

Its a good 10mm powder.

I stepped up loadings until I was around the level of Underwood 180g.  The gun was a stock Glock 20 (Gen4) and there were no smiles, but standard deviation was increasing with every tenth of a grain added to the loads.  I believe this was reaching the limits of the stock spring which translated to reduced uniformity.

The thread is...

http://10mm-firearms.com/reloading-10mm-ammo/be86-180g-xtreme-g20-step-up-loads/

Greg

[PCFlorida]

I agree with that statement. I have gotten PP (one of my favorites) velocity out of BE-86.