I have some old cci, large pistol magnum. Primers, i've been restocking with new these old primers were dated 97. I was running a hundred of these to see if they were still good, they are.
I'm running nine point seven grain's of aa #7, and I ran them with standard fiocchi, primers and the cci magnum, primers, the magnum primers, leave the brass completely black carbon all over the outside, not as accurate, as the fiocchi, and the fiocchi's leave the brass almost completely clean. Are the primers just too hot for that load of powder and 180gn bullet in a g29 short barrel.?

Does anybody else have any head stamp cbc brass the primer pockets don't seem to be as deep. They seem to be looser in the shell, holder and primers seem to be not Seating uniformly because of the looseness.

My mistake, it was 25 thousands not 15.

I saved this as a bookmark, seems to work fine. This way, it's a little difficult to reply. The only way to do it is to quote, but it works and I can find, the posts that. I couldn't find before.

Quote from: The_Shadow on June 16 2025 07:40:55 AM MDTYou listed this post as 200 grain Nosler Gold Dot HP bullets.  Those would be SPEER if they are the Gold Dot.
Yes I did write SPEER about having the 0.400" 200 grain Gold Dots made for handloader components back early in 2019 and they sent me a nice package of those & a thank you note in March of 2019.  Big thanks for Speer that they did make them as components soon after, but the economy & political climate things went south.



As a bit of history to this was the 200 grain Gold Dots as pulled from a 40S&W law enforcement CONTRACT and sold by RMR and another retailer that was selling the pulled bullets...Then after some begging SPEER came out
with their ammo loaded with the NEW 200 Grain Gold Dots #54000 which I did document here. 
Speer's 200 grain GD Ammo


Speer actually used a black sealant on the bullets. Man, that made pulling them apart a little tough.  So much so that the primer pellet actually broke up and the yellow priming mixture was all mixed in the powder making it harder to determine what powder was being used.

Here is the OLD PULLED 200 grain GD from the Contract ammo next to the New SPEER 200 grain GD which has a concaved base.



Hopefully things can get better for us as handloaders because Primer, Powders and even Bullets have become more expensive and, in some instances, Non Existent!

Using Longshot I have loaded 9.2 grains for those older 200 gr GD @ 1240 fps S&W 1006 5"
Using the Newer 200Gr GD I load those with 8.3 grains of BE-86 @ 1225 fps S&W 1006 5"

I just reread this post, and i'm thinking BE-86 is  able to go a lot further from my testing and what you've posted here. In my using it, I have never seen any pressure signs whatsoever.

Quote from: sqlbullet on June 19 2025 09:01:50 AM MDTThere isn't a button in admin to remove the message, but I agree that would be cleaner.  I will see if I can find a mod for it, or if I can find and update the code.

When I use the search engine, I just put in 2025 in the search engine, it gave me an option to choose the message or  just the heading.

Sorry, am I being too fussy?

Yes, that works. You can leave the messages off and we can click on the headings that way, they'll stay lined up better.

Not to be a smart ass, but it kind of looks like a bullet hole

Double post

We need a button or something that will give us all new posts by date. I was reading a post
That was new, went to do something else. Now, I can't find where it was located. This could be used as a landing page.

I just ran an experiment yesterday. Changing the seating depth of the bullet. I was shooting high left, I seated that same batch of bullets, a little deeper by 15 thousands. And then they hit low center.

That's what I was suggesting primers and different headstamp cases.

I'm not sure about head stamp, but I just did a test 30 minutes ago with mixed head stamp and 2 different primers.
Fiocchi standard and cci magnum the magnum primers were 67 feet per second faster. And we're much more accurate, with 12.2 of #9, under a 180 grain round Nose 10 mm.
But I do have a case sizer, and some cases that measure long The sizer won't touch to cut, the inside depth is different. That volume difference could matter.

Powder valley has CCI primers on sale for $59 per 1000.

These things really make a difference. I was all over the place from 0 To eleven thousandths there's still those one CBD (i think they're high) cases or something that it just will not go down very far.