Big Country:

Thanks for the tip I can use all the handloading information I can get. Good luck.

Big Country:

I was talking to a guy at a gun show today who loads for the 357 Sig., and he was having the same problem as you. He said, " to seat the bullet further out, so the crimp will be at the shank (flat or stright) of the bullet back away from the ogive" . Good luck.

Good idea, I shot up the 125 Speer Gold dots. Bad things almost happened. I mean real bad. Well first off, after getting a smith to smooth out the feed ramp, they feed ok now. Still push the bullets back about 5/1000" when feeding. Nothing I can do about that except change bullets like you suggest. Which I went to 147gr XTP. I will let you know how they shoot.

But one of my loads out of my progressive didn' t go off very well. When chambering another round, it smashed the case. Tried to chamber another, pushed the bullet back into the brass. Unfortuneately it was my friend shooting his sig sauer. He came and got me and told me what happened. Told him to give them a break. He put his .40 barrel back in and proceeded to shoot. That night he called and said " you know what was in the barrel keeping us from loading another round" . Thats right that bullet. Thank goodness, it didn' t push that bullet up another 1/8" . Bad news.

I ordered that 9mm crimp sleve. Going to try that next. Let you know how it does.

That was a close one thank God no one was hurt. Good luck.

Okay handloaders. you are trying to put a 9mm bullet on a necked down 10mm short shell. If you continue to use 9mm bullets you will alway have loading problems.
Try using 38 super bullets that are straight walled design and not tapered like the 9mm. There is no reason why you can' t use a standard .357 bullet. It would help if you could resize them to .355.
I have made loads using .357 - 158 gr rounds. I like shooting the .357 - 125 gr rounds better. I' ve have chrono a few of them tosee what kind of speed is being generated.
Once you have found your source of bullets. You will find that the taper crimp works well and you will not have any more loading problems. The current ballistic charts only have load up to 147gr bullets, so be careful. Make sure you don' t exceed OAL of the round. If you seat the bullet close to the OAL and not deeper (shorter), this will also cause cycling or magazine loading problems.