I've recently started reloading for .40S&W and I'm having a problem with random OAL, using a Hornady LNL. I'm not new to reloading, my 9mm is fairly consistent... but these .40's keep coming out with bigger gap in high/low OAL than I care for.
I went to run a few longer ones through the seating die again with some brass filling the rest of the stations. I took the powder measure off so as not to dump into the primer-less brass and hit about 10-12 in a row with calipers. They all came out to within +/- .002 of my base of lets say 1.125".
I was really surprised at how tight the variance became after the second pass thru the seater.
Any ideas on what I might have gibbered up? I'm running resize, flare, powder, seat, crimp as my 5 stations.
I went to run a few longer ones through the seating die again with some brass filling the rest of the stations. I took the powder measure off so as not to dump into the primer-less brass and hit about 10-12 in a row with calipers. They all came out to within +/- .002 of my base of lets say 1.125".
I was really surprised at how tight the variance became after the second pass thru the seater.
Any ideas on what I might have gibbered up? I'm running resize, flare, powder, seat, crimp as my 5 stations.
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