Hello John!
28 May 96 22:51, John Sandow wrote to Brian Sawyers:
 BS>> Is 7.0 gr the absolute minimum?
 JS> 0.0 is the absolute minimum.  :-)  Go for 5.0 if you want, that's a
 JS> lot safer, especially if you are starting with magnum primers.  That's
 JS> within .2gr of the start charge for a 155gr bullet with N320 and a
 JS> magnum primer, according to VV.
Sounds like a good starting point.  Want to start as low as I can, without 
having to ruin a cleaning rod getting a lodged bullet out of the barrel.
 JS> Or "stump neck".  :_)
Ouch. . . :^)
 JS> It's not overpressuring, that I know,
 JS> but I've no idea how these bullets will travel down a glock barrel.
 JS> Leather gloves, eye protection, even a face shield for the first 25 or
 JS> so rounds would not be a bad idea.
Maybe I should duct-tape it to the side of the bench, and tie a string to the 
trigger. :^)
 BS>> Had feed problems with over-length (1.138) rounds
 JS> Did you taper crimp them well?
Yep, just didn't seat them quite deep enough for my Glock.  My brother's 
Glock, which has several thousand more rounds through it, seemed to like 
them, and he liked the free ammo.
 BS>> as the hollowpoint's much smaller than the flat nose of t 180's.
 JS> Were those Midway's 180gr SWC's?  They have a giant nose.  National
 JS> Bullet's SWC's are much more like a cone profile.
Can't remember who made them, got a box of 500 at the local gun shop.  They 
look to be shaped like a flat-topped hemisphere.
 JS> I'm so ticked though, Bar-Sto is going to be producing .357sig barrels
 JS>  for the USP, so unless HK gets a move on and gets me my 9mm barrel,
 JS> I'm not goign to be able to get it out to JD Jones in time for him to
 JS> ream it to .357sig, and thus have an 'all factory' HK USP in .357sig.
Haven't thought much about hte various bottle-neck cartridges available these 
days. Keep us posted on how they work out for you.
I've been wanting a longer barrel for my Glock 23, to get MagnaPorted. Did 
see someone offering a Glock barrel with an integral comp for $150, might 
have to get one, once I remember which magazine the ad was in.  Might fix 
that "unsupported case head" problem I've heard about.
Later,
Brian.
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