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Old August 4, 2001, 11:15 PM   #6
Joe Portale
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Join Date: June 8, 1999
Location: Tucson, Arizona Territory
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MP-5,

The reason that Glock and Beretta both say to avoid lead bullets is the octaganol rifling in the barrel. The grooves are much shallower than older rifling. These shallow grooves fill up with lead pretty darn fast. I learned this the hard way.

As far as the reloaded ammo in the unsupported chamber goes: I am the consumate brass rat. I scarf any brass that is in my lane. Once the manager of the indoor range that I go to that he was going to give me the "Cleanest Lane Award".

Back to the point of this. I have seen too many 40 cases that actually have a big blister down around the base of the case. That gives me the heeby-jeebies about reloading in an unsupported chamber. Of course there are a bunch of reloaders that want to run thier rounds very hot and ignore the possible trouble that causes. You are probably dead on about the excessive pressures. I like the 40 but buying factory ammo is expensive. That's why we reload, to get into that vicious circle. Reload to save money, cheaper to shoot, shhot more, reload to save money and so on.

Thanks for the input folks.
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