Reloading 40S&W

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Duner

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So I bought a glock 22 gen 4 from Arma Coat... which is my first handgun. I have been shooting rifles for a number of years hunting and target shooting. I reload for my 300WSM because I do not want to pay $3 a round for quality hunting ammo (well I don't save any money but I shoot it more) and I reload for my 308Win target gun for cost and accuracy.

I am looking at reloading for my glock, I figure it is going to cost about $100 for 500 rounds using brass I already saved. Which makes it worthwhile... I have a few questions though.

Is it necissary to trim pistol brass (trimming 500 brass would not be fun)? Is there any advantage in accuracy? Do you work up a load similar to rifle testing accuracy at set increments in the powder charge? What powder and bullets are recommended to try?

Thanks!
 
lets start with trimming usually there is no need to trim pistol brass although i have had 2 strange ones that were over stretched and i just threw out. in most cases yes you work up a load in the same manner as rifle or at least i do just moving in small increments of usually .1 grain due to small amounts of powder. i like titegroup for 40 and i usually use berry bullets and cci primers. all of which can be ordered through Henry at budget shooter supply and i believe he is usually the cheapest
 
Same here got the Arma-Coat G22 deal. Already reloading 9mm and 45ACP with Berry's bullet, titegroup & CCI primer from Henry/Budget Shooter Supply. Will start reloading 40 if I stick with this mid caliber.

Have never trim 9mm nor 45ACP. Using 4gn and 4.5gn for 9mm & 45ACP respectively (from Lee & Hoghdon).
 
I am really happy with the glock... looks like new! It sounds like tightgroup and berrys bullets are the way to go.

How many reloads can you get out of the brass?

Thanks
 
Duner said:
I am looking at reloading for my glock, I figure it is going to cost about $100 for 500 rounds using brass I already saved. Which makes it worthwhile... I have a few questions though.

Is it necissary to trim pistol brass (trimming 500 brass would not be fun)? Is there any advantage in accuracy? Do you work up a load similar to rifle testing accuracy at set increments in the powder charge? What powder and bullets are recommended to try?

Thanks!
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Yes you do. Just make sure you go up in increments of .1 not .5!! You are probably aware of that but figured it should be mentioned.

Get some Cam Pro bullets if you can. Canadian made and a good product, fairly inexpensive.
 
Duner said:
I am really happy with the glock... looks like new! It sounds like tightgroup and berrys bullets are the way to go.

How many reloads can you get out of the brass?

Thanks
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its hard to say how many loads you will get i just load till i notice any brass problems some of my 9mm brass must be over 20 reloads
 
Only shoot plated/jacketed; Glock has polygonal rifling and doesn't like lead.
A bulge buster kit is handy.
Plated 180 grain semi truncated works good.
You will never need to trim brass.
Normally, in most 40's the brass lasts as long as you can find it (or until it splits).
In a Glock I suggest to carefully look at the case heads for signs of seperation (I experienced several-prior to useage)
Titegroup works great, so do several other powders.
Not a fussy cartridge to load for but yes you start low and work up.
Much like a rifle OAL affects accuracy.
Watch your pressures and have fun:)
 
I got all my stuff off of the reloading section here on CGN, Custom reloading service inc and I found their price great, and he cut some prices down to help with the shipping, got enough of everything to do 1000 bullets for 280 tax's and shipping in.

I use Winchester 231
CCI Primers
Speer 180gr

and I am having great success, I do look forward to trying other bullets, I will say reloading has added a great facet to my shooting experince and lets me have a bit more fun with just shooting paper

Other than that, Henry at budget is my goto stop for quality and price, great man to buy off of
 
Rugerman said:
Yes you do. Just make sure you go up in increments of .1 not .5!! You are probably aware of that but figured it should be mentioned.

Get some Cam Pro bullets if you can. Canadian made and a good product, fairly inexpensive.
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Yeah that would be a good idea! The load for Tightgroup is 4.2gn to 4.7gn for a 180gn bullet so 0.1gn increments are a good idea.

I didn't think you could get that much out of the brass.. As stated it will probably be lost before it can't be loaded again (although I will be sure to inspect before loading). With my 308Win I can get about 7 to 8 loads before chucking the lot, but I am close to the max load.

I appreciate everyones advice!
 
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I shoot and reload .40 all the time ... One thing I've noticed is CCI primers do not particularly get along well with Winchester brass. Even on my 1050 which has the swaging station, they don't like each other so I separate the Win brass that I pick up and use the others.
 
joe-nwt said:
Life's too short to trim pistol brass. It's even too short to measure pistol brass......
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I agree. I just full length resize, refill and shoot. I toss individual cases as they show cracks around the case mouth. As for number of reloads per case...I've loaded all of my .40 brass a few times. However, I have 9mm cases that I've reloaded God knows how many times over 20 years (I marked the case heads with a red X in order to identify them during some competitive shoots while in university...and I still have a few of them.)
 
I load a cam-pro 180 TC plated with 3.4 of clays at 1.125"(mixed brass and Win primers)
Very clean, accurate and not as much recoil as factory
I have a bunch of brass (about500) that i have loaded 5 times now and no case failures yet.
 
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