Rockrivr1
NES Member
I was finally able to get over to the range late Sunday afternoon. I was hoping to be there a lot earlier, but that is another story. Anyway, I started by loading an 8 round mag with 4 new production WWB round and 4 reloads just to see if I could get a feel for the difference in recoil. I will have to say that my reloads has a little bit more of a kick to them, but nothing I would consider major difference.
I started having loading issues pretty much from the start. Not every round, but more then half would not allow the slide to fully close. I could push the slide closed with my thumb. Doing that reminded me of using the forward assist on my AR. Once the slide was in place, the round shot off fine. If though, I tried to cycle the slide there was no way in hell I could do it with just may hand. I had to put the front lip of the slide on the bench and push down. The round came out that way, but it was definitely difficult. It was like the round was sticking inside the chamber.
I was thinking that maybe I'm not crimping them enough and they are bulging in the middle of the casing somewhere. I used the calipers on the brass lip after I reloaded to make sure it was the same as the WWB round. I didn't check lower on the brass though.
I was happy with the accurancy as I was getting it in the 8, 9, 10 and X ring on a pistol target at 8 paces. (16ft) I wasn't shooting off the bench. I'll do that the next time to really get an idea of accurancy.
So what do you think could be causing this problem and how would I fix it.
Thanks for the help.
I started having loading issues pretty much from the start. Not every round, but more then half would not allow the slide to fully close. I could push the slide closed with my thumb. Doing that reminded me of using the forward assist on my AR. Once the slide was in place, the round shot off fine. If though, I tried to cycle the slide there was no way in hell I could do it with just may hand. I had to put the front lip of the slide on the bench and push down. The round came out that way, but it was definitely difficult. It was like the round was sticking inside the chamber.
I was thinking that maybe I'm not crimping them enough and they are bulging in the middle of the casing somewhere. I used the calipers on the brass lip after I reloaded to make sure it was the same as the WWB round. I didn't check lower on the brass though.
I was happy with the accurancy as I was getting it in the 8, 9, 10 and X ring on a pistol target at 8 paces. (16ft) I wasn't shooting off the bench. I'll do that the next time to really get an idea of accurancy.
So what do you think could be causing this problem and how would I fix it.
Thanks for the help.