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I just finished my first reload. Trying to be as careful as possible. I decided to weight my finished rounds just to recheck my work. about 30 came out weighting 175.4 GN the rest were all over the place the heaviest being
180.15.
Is this a good reload and safe to fire or is it not. I was using HS6 powder 115 grain Frontier bullets 9mm casings CCI primers.
 
Did you weigh the cases or the bullets alone first? Some bullets vary a few grains as do some cases. The cast bullets from M.T. Chambers that are meant for any type of target shooting are weight segregated, one at a time.
 
I wouldn't worry about the weight of a loaded round. As long as you followed your manual religiously and the loaded ammo drops into the chamber(use the barrel out of the pistol as a guage) you'll be fine.
 
One day when I was bored I weighed 60 pieces of Winchester .223 brass, most of brass varied within a 2 grain spread. The bullets I was using also varied within about 1 grain. If you're using a powder dispenser it might be throwing things off a bit too.

I wouldn't worry about 5 grains of variance between rounds.
 
My brass is all weighed to within 1 gr. Even match bullets and match primers vary in weight ( I am not anal enough to worry about this) The spread between 1600 Lapua cases runs from a low of 170 gr to a high of 174.
I can seperate the cases by weight and control the powder charge by weighing every charge. Bullet weight and primer weight I can't control or don't feel the need to control or seperate.
I know guys that weight every finished round and shoot them in order from lightest to heaviest. Their way of thinking is to get the smallest increase/decrease as possible from round to round. I have not seen any evidence that this increases their scores.
 
When I first read about weighing brass, I had two boxes of Dominion 30-06. The first box varied from 186-203. The 2nd box from 183-206. I think one box was salvaged with a 4 grain variation. I also had two boxes of unprimed Norma brass in 6 mm Remington. The first box varied 1.1 grains and the 2nd box varied 0.8 fitting completely within the first box. It now makes no difference as to the calibre of the rifle, everything is weighed and segregated. Does it make any difference? It does to me. With pistol ammo, I would be concerned if the final variation was greater than the weight of the powder. As to the brass, I would consider separating it into two groups, Light and heavy.
 
I've never bothered with weighing brass on a regular basis. And groups, as long as they are tolerable are not something I'm anal about.
If I get a badly performing rifle though, no stone goes unturned, and like those above, I've noted considerable variation in brass, particularly, if it's mixed lot#s, or brands. Between brands, the difference can be substantial, and if that's what you are loading, a mixed lot, or mixed brands, then chances are, that it's just the brass that's making up the weight difference.
 
I used all Federal casings. I had a few left over so I weighted those, there is a difference in weight in them but not much. So I weighted some bullets and almost all were different weights. I only weighted about a dozen and there were some 115.03 Gn and some were 110.30. I'm new to reloading , I was under the impression if you bought 115 Gn bullets thats what you got, but not so.
 
acrashb said:
Fronteir's aren't jacketed, they're plated (unless they've come out with a new line). Plated typically have greater weight variance than jacketed. Frontier's aren't the most consistent of the plated selection either.
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You are right on the money they are CMJ, I just found the receipt. I was intending on FMJ but on the phone I kind of got talked in Frontiers.
 
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