What did you load today

New 6.5x55, blasphemy! Lol



You need some brass?

Well I started in on this tonight, hard to tell from the pic but almost half a 5-gallon bucket of 9mm, no idea how many thousands it is.

I had quit loading 9mm back years ago, it was EVERYWHERE and so CHEAP, it didn't seem worth it, but then the YoMama Abomination changed all that, so I have been back into it since then.

Probably my least favorite caliber to load. Small components and big fingers, but I shoot quite a bit of it. Got a late start tonight but cranked out 500 this evening, no discernible dent in the case bucket! I will hit her again tomorrow.

Primed 329 7.62x51 brass that I previously prepped and stainless steel pin tumbled over the weekend. Got about another 400 to prime before the loading begins.

Got to test some of my hand loads today. Tried filling some 380 XTPs with gasket maker to see if they expand more reliably through 4 layers of denium. The short is it didn't work shooting through denium into water jugs.

The one on left is straight into water jugs. The other two are through 4 layers of denium and into water jugs.


More details on the What Did You Shoot Today thread.

The gasket maker added 0.22 gr measured across a 10 bullet average. That's about the same as the polymer type of a FTX. I'm just a little disappointed in the initial results.

@rigrat You asked, so here it is. I based my loading on Allients load guide and Hornady's Handbook of Cartridge Reloading 10th Ed. Still working on perfection. This was 4 1 gr of BE-86, Fed. GM100M small pistol match primers, 0.961 OAL, mixed once fired brass, and gasket maker filled Hornady 90 gr XTP.

I didnt load today but I did mid-week last week. Some rds of 45 on the 650. Just had to fill the can up.

rigrat said:

Thanks I get home I want to run it through Quickload and see how much room is left pressure wise.

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Tim18wheels said:

Might be a little wiggle room as Alliant is known to be conservative. Alliant's max charge was the 4.1 gr of BE-86 I was shooting with a minimum OAL of 0.94 inches. Let me know what Quick load says. My velocities, 893 fps, were out of 2.75 inch barrel LCP. Alliant velocities were from a 3.75 inch barrel yielding 1038 fps.

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Since RigRat is over the water right now or somewhere........I looked it up. Curiosity I guess gets to me. BE-86 is not in Quickload but it’s sister powder (power pistol) is. Chart for reference

So data shown is off it. Your load vrs close to max.

@Ellis93 , thanks for the info. Yes, that is about the burn rate of BE-86. Alliant Unique might be even closer in burn rate thou Alliant specially states than the load data is not interchangeable. My understanding is Alliant wanted a cleaner burning powder than Unique that would have flash suppressant additives. Something that would complement Bullseye and PowerPistol.

Hope this is useful @rigrat .

Loaded up a few of the hollowpoints to test