Range Report

[Sieger]

Hi:

For a round nose bullet, your OAL should be way out there at 1.169 to 1.173. At this length, you will be able to shoot a full 8 rounds without jams (if your magazine is in some kind of shape). Who cares if your top groove is exposed, as long as you don't drop the rounds in the dirt, it won't make a hill of beans of difference.

Now as to your load, for Unique, your load sound a bit low. If your bullets really weigh 124 grains, I'd work up from about 4.5 to 5.2, or so, looking for accuracy and perfect function..

Forget about throwing a powder like this and go get a scale. I know it takes longer, but you will be rewarded by fine accuracy in a Luger.

For your Bullseye load, try from 3.6 to 3.8 grains. My accuracy load with this powder is 3.7 grains with the 124 grain bullet.

Enjoy!!


Sieger

[Chris from Minnesota]

Ok second attempt, I pushed the OAL out to 1.15 with 3.6gr of bullseye, I put two full mags through my byf with no problem, but I'm not shooting that any more now that I have a shooter.



I put 50 rounds though my Erfurt shooter and had no problems with feeding but I did have some problems with the breach block not going fully in to battery. When I would push the toggle closed I wouldn't be able to open it, I think the bullet is sticking to far into the bore. I'm going to back the OAL to 1.14 and see how that works.

Also my P.38 didn't fulling eject some casings so I'm going to up the change to 3.7gr of bullseye. Thanks for the pointers Sieger, I will get this work out soon.

[Neil Young]

I set my charger to throw slightly less than the desired weight and throw the charge into the scale pan. You can then trickle the charge up to specification very quickly. This works quite well for me.