


Nickel plating is harder than brass and the cases require more effort in sizing.

If you using Nickel plated brass, special care must be taken to lubricate the cases prior to sizing them. To prevent the case neck from stretching, be sure to lubricate the case neck inside the case mouth. To straighten the case mouth, run the case part way into the sizer die and let the expander ball straighten the brass. With all new rifle brass, you should first straighten out the case and case mouth, then chamfer and debur the case mouth inside and out. On non-plated brass, you may also notice all the anneal stain might not be polished off, which may give the case neck a pinkish color. Minor dents normally removed in the first firing and will not affect case life or performance. Brass manufacturers are aware of the case cosmetics and have worked to mitigate it, but due to equipment design, denting may still occur. This not loaded ammunition.īrass Preparation: With bulk rifle brass you may sometimes notice a few case mouths are “out of round” or slightly dented below the shoulder. Starline Brass is located in Sedalia, MO and has been in business for over 30 years. Each brass case hand inspected to guarantee the highest quality possible. 9mm brass: also known as 9mm Parabellum, 9mm Luger and 9x19mm. Cases annealed between each draw to ensure consistent metallurgy in all lots. Starline 9mm Luger Brass Cases 9MM Luger Brass (Small Pistol primer)9mm brass, 9 Luger brass, 9mm Luger brass, 9mm Para brass, 9x19 brass, 9x19 Luger brass, 9mm Parabellum brass, 9mm Glisenti brass, 9mm pistol brass0.748 - 0.754 O.A.L. Their brass comprised of 70% copper and 30% zinc and vertically drawn during the manufacturing process which results in more uniform wall thickness. This picture is after I polished with my Dremel and ran 100 rounds through it.Starline Brass prides (Starline 9mm Brass Bulk) itself on producing the highest quality brass case available. The brass lines were so thick they created actual ridges you could feel. I wish I had taken a picture of my funnel before I cleaned it the first time.

I have since run 2000 rounds of 45ACP through it, and it is still perfectly polished, with no resistance on the upstroke at all. It's also 0.003" slimmer in diameter which I believe reduces friction slightly. My powder funnel is magically smooth now. I started with 400 grit sandpaper to polish the funnel and went to 800, 1000, 1500, and finished with 2000 grit. I removed the powder funnel and basically put it in a lathe. That is stupid and completely defeats the purpose of a progressive press, so I kept searching for a solution. I called Dillon and they said this was normal for new or really clean brass, and that I should clean the powder funnel every 25-35 rounds. I used my Dremel to sand the brass lines off, but that only made things worse because I created so many more imperfections. manufacturers premium handgun pistol ammo for sale: 9mm, 40 SW, 45 ACP, 50 AE. New and/or fired cases must be full-length resized or have the expander ball of the sizing die run through the case neck prior to loading. Due to standard case design, it will handle +P pressures with no problems. 9MM+P has no difference from the standard 9mm Luger other than headstamp designation for load segregation. The problem is if the powder funnel has any imperfections brass will stick to them, and more brass will stick on that, and it snowballs until you have vertical lines of brass all the way around the powder funnel. Starline Brass 9mm Largo Unprimed Bag of 100 Quantity: Due to the packaging and shipping process, case necks are often slightly dinged or bent and need to be rounded up and sized to give proper neck tension. Starline Brass Product Description: 9mm + Power, 9mm + Pressure 0.748 - 0.754 O.A.L. Their brass is comprised of 70 copper and 30 zinc and is vertically. It got to the point where it took 2 hands for me to pull the upstroke. Starline 9MM Steyr Brass (100) - Powder Valley Home / Reloading Supplies / Reloading Brass / Pistol Brass / Starline 9MM Steyr Brass (100) Starline 9MM Steyr Brass (100) SKU:STA1130 24. Starline Brass prides itself on producing the highest quality brass case available. Basically a lengthened 9mm Luger, the 9mm Winchester Magnum was developed for use in the Wildey semi-automatic handgun. I ran into this problem when I started wet stainless cleaning my 45ACP cases.
