After all these years of making 9mm ammo, I started having problems
with a load plunking and going into battery, at my last range session.
I took the pistol apart and started testing my "Dummy" rounds
and putting cases through the dies to check every possibility that
might turn up the problem.
When I got a 147 Berry plated RN to drop in and plunk at a OAL of
1.221"
I realized it was not the bullets fault.
I finally found the problem that was causing all the trouble.
Mt #2 die screw had worked loose and the result was that the case was not getting reduced enough at the mouth of the case.
This prevented the case to go 100% of the way into the chamber, by hand.
I am just glad that I did not load any new ammo, with this problem
to find out that it might have no worked later on.
Just a heads up for those, with well used units.
Have fun.
Just notice that this is in the ammo dept.
Please move to reloading, if needed, thank you.