I've been loading 9mm plated bullets for a while with good success. I decided to mess with success (allegedly to save 2c/round) by going to coated bullets.
The coated rifle bullets gave me fits leading to me having to buy an expander since you normally don't flare rifle cases.
Making similar loads to my plated, I have been shooting the coated bullets out of my glock, no problem. My wife's new Canik is still getting broken in and doesn't like any reloads < factory power.
But what was crazy is that it will not load coated bullets. These are bullets that drop in and out of my lyman case gauge, so I assume they are in spec. They are also shorter OAL at 1.155 than some of my jacketed that I run at 1.160.
However, when I chamber them into her Canik (TP9SA) they get stuck. HARD. At a match they'd cycle, but when it came time to eject the last round when the stage was complete you could not rack it- and in one case, not even fire it at the berm (must not have gone into battery?). We had to take the gun apart and knock out the round. The round appeared fine. It fed into my glock. It fit into the case gauge.
Even dropping a coated bullet into her bare barrel, and then pressing it in with any amount of pressure gets it stuck and I have to brass-rod it out.
I assume at this point, that the throat of the Canik chamber is just tight and that the softish coating of the EM bullets just gets glued/locked up, or the canik neck is tighter than spec and is just jammed.
Anyone else have something similar happen? I guess for her, I could get narrower (I'm using .356, could do .355) coated bullets. But- at this point, I'm hating on coated bullets, and I'll keep loading plated for her and will probably just stock up on plated when they go on sale.
The coated rifle bullets gave me fits leading to me having to buy an expander since you normally don't flare rifle cases.
Making similar loads to my plated, I have been shooting the coated bullets out of my glock, no problem. My wife's new Canik is still getting broken in and doesn't like any reloads < factory power.
But what was crazy is that it will not load coated bullets. These are bullets that drop in and out of my lyman case gauge, so I assume they are in spec. They are also shorter OAL at 1.155 than some of my jacketed that I run at 1.160.
However, when I chamber them into her Canik (TP9SA) they get stuck. HARD. At a match they'd cycle, but when it came time to eject the last round when the stage was complete you could not rack it- and in one case, not even fire it at the berm (must not have gone into battery?). We had to take the gun apart and knock out the round. The round appeared fine. It fed into my glock. It fit into the case gauge.
Even dropping a coated bullet into her bare barrel, and then pressing it in with any amount of pressure gets it stuck and I have to brass-rod it out.
I assume at this point, that the throat of the Canik chamber is just tight and that the softish coating of the EM bullets just gets glued/locked up, or the canik neck is tighter than spec and is just jammed.
Anyone else have something similar happen? I guess for her, I could get narrower (I'm using .356, could do .355) coated bullets. But- at this point, I'm hating on coated bullets, and I'll keep loading plated for her and will probably just stock up on plated when they go on sale.