Starline Brass has a series videos that provide reloading advice. These short videos, which are primarily geared towards pistol cartridges can help anyone learn how to reload metallic cartridges. This video series will be especially helpful if you load pistol cartridges on a progressive. Hunter Pilant is the on-camera presenter. He is the son of Carroll Pilant from Sierra Bullets. Double charges are preventedTip: Use a powder that is bulky and will fill your case more than halfway with the correct charge. Double-charging will cause the case to be overfilled, making it difficult to seat bullets. Toss the new brass before loading for the first time
Use used media to tumble new pistol cartridge brass for 30 minutes prior to loading the first time. This will add enough carbon residue (graphite) to smooth the case entry into dies. You can also use spray lubricant or graphite to lubricate the mouths of the cases. Powder Through Expander – How to eliminate hang-ups
Tip: When loading pistol cases with a progressive presses, the powder-through expander can be difficult to remove, particularly with short cases. You can fix this in two ways. First, you can try to deburr the inside of your case mouth. The radius of the powder-through expander plug can also be adjusted to improve entry and exit. Starline will perform this modification at no cost.
