Posted: 1/14/2017 7:08:18 AM EDT
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With all the talk about reloads and stock glock barrels
I am wanting to shoot reloaded brass case with hornady xtp 124 gr, and 4.8 grs ramshot silhouette powder, should it be ok in a stock barrel or am I looking at having problems with a stock barrel. any advice appreciated |
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An endlessly discussed topic with endless bullshit.
Glock barrels and jacketed bullets: Properly sized reloaded cases with properly seated primers using a "book" tested reloading recipe with 115, 124, 147 grain bullets seated to recommended COAL length work just like any factory ammunition would work. 9mm is very easy to reload. Glock barrels and cast sized lead bullets: The substitution here of cast sized lead bullets is where the discussions usually go astray. "Lore" says it cannot/should not be done for Glock barrels due to horrible leading and your gun blows up and you can never used jacketed bullets again, etc. Mostly bullshit. Glock factory barrels work just fine with the same ammo reloaded as above except using cast sized lead bullets. In a dozen or so 9mm and .40S&W fired with lead bullets when ammo was hard to find and jacketed bullets sometimes unavailable, proper lead bullets worked perfectly and did no leading of any kind. Sizing diameter and alloy matter and I only used good ones. Crap bullets do bad things. The worst ever was Berry's plated lead bullets. They took 3" Glocks at 25 yards and made them into 18" patterns for 10 shots. If you fire lead bullets, check for leading after a magazine. Check for leading after a 50 or 100 count box. There is unlikely to be leading in the Glock bores because they are so smooth and polished. Proper powders help bumping up bullet diameter to seal the bore. Leading comes from gas blow by melting the sides of the bullet. If the diameter bumps up properly to make a tight fit, no leading with a good lube and the proper alloy. Then clean them before using jacketed bullets. The 5-6 cent lead bullet can save some money in volume versus the 10-12 cent FMJ variety. The downside is smoke from lube during firing. The smokeless jacketed bullet loads become a small amount of smoke with lead bullets. No clue on your reloading recipe noted above. What to load is your problem. Pay no attention to what anyone else tells you. Do your own research. That said, the following, after proper research by you, might be interesting. 4.1 grains Bullseye will turn out to be a middle of the range load matching American ammo in power for 115FMJ, 124FMJ, and 124Lead Round Nose loads at 1.13" COAL. Range pickup brass and any small pistol primer. 3.5 grains Bullseye makes loads that are under powered mild, you can watch the brass eject, but work in every 9mm Glock I have tried them in with 115FMJ, 124FMJ, and 124LRN. Even purposefully limp wristed they work. They make a very nice LC9 or Shield practice load. 4.5 grains Bullseye used with 124FMJ bullets begins to go to the upper range of 9mm and matches European or NATO type loads. Zippy enough. DO YOUR OWN RESEARCH. INVENT YOUR OWN LOADS. READ YOUR OWN POWDER DATA OR MANUALS. PAY NO ATTENTION TO ANYONE ELSE'S OPINIONS. Quality lead bullets for 9mm: (almost certainly 0.356" diameter): https://www.dardascastbullets.com/ I have had zero problems with these bullets loaded by simply using a Lee die set and belling the case mouth very slightly more than for starting a jacketed bullet. I have the dies Dardas recommends, have used them, and see no point, IF the case mouth is opened just enough to barely start the LRN bullet. I just set my Lee normal die to do that and use it for both FMJ and lead reloads. Quality jacket bullets in volume: https://www.precisiondelta.com/ |
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My Glocks get a diet of about 98% reloads.
After a lot of experimentation, I settled on two loads that cover all of needs and run in every gun I own. The Precision Delta 124 JHP, loaded with 5.0 grains of WSF. COAL of 1.10 Zero 147 JHP, loaded with 4.0 grains of WSF. COAL of 1.10 Your Glock is very easy to load for. If you have any more specific questions, please put them out. |
| Reloading brass cased is fine, so long as it is copper plated or copper jacketed. It's leading, from cast that causes the problems which means the gun has to be cleaned more often but cast can still be shot. You just cannot parrot that Glocks don't have to be cleaned, which is a cause for these negligent and preventable kabooms to begin with. |