My Mak Brass Got Glocked
Posted: February 14th, 2015, 2:42 am
Shot my P-64 for the first time time tonight and really enjoyed it. Tried to scrounge up my brass for reloading, but the pistol was ejecting up and forward and into the shooting lane where it cannot be retrieved.
So I backed up about 3-4 feet so that the brass would land right in front of me. I managed to recover only about half of the 50 rounds I shot. But I walked out of the range with about 300 pieces of .380, 9mm, .40 and .45. There was an ocean of brass on the floor and nobody wanted it.
When I was sorting all the brass at home, I noticed that all my Mak brass had a big outward bulge on one side near the case head. Obviously, the case head is not fully supported in the P-64 (nor is it in many other handguns).
The bulge is not a gentle swelling or deformation like you see on a lot of .40 S&W, but a pronounced expansion with sharp creases at its perimeter.
I'm not sure my 9x18 resizing die is going to be able to normalize this brass back to its proper (and safe) dimensions.
Anyone else ever experience this? These were not hot reloads, just average PPU 9x18 store-bought ammo.
So I backed up about 3-4 feet so that the brass would land right in front of me. I managed to recover only about half of the 50 rounds I shot. But I walked out of the range with about 300 pieces of .380, 9mm, .40 and .45. There was an ocean of brass on the floor and nobody wanted it.
When I was sorting all the brass at home, I noticed that all my Mak brass had a big outward bulge on one side near the case head. Obviously, the case head is not fully supported in the P-64 (nor is it in many other handguns).
The bulge is not a gentle swelling or deformation like you see on a lot of .40 S&W, but a pronounced expansion with sharp creases at its perimeter.
I'm not sure my 9x18 resizing die is going to be able to normalize this brass back to its proper (and safe) dimensions.
Anyone else ever experience this? These were not hot reloads, just average PPU 9x18 store-bought ammo.