Nonsense.

Other than extractor marks, you'd never be able to tell the difference between my reloads and factory, except they shoot better

Your talking out of your ass

 
If you're priming with a hand primer or on a single stage check the primer after you seat it with a quick swipe of a finger. If you're loading on a progressive it's a good idea to put your rounds in a box upside down and give it a glance.


The major MFGs have sensors that do this. We have to use what we have.

I have a single stage press. After I realized my mistake I started visually inspecting the primer pocket for any carbon. After re priming I rub my thumb across the head of the case before placing the case back in the reloading tray. Also a once over as I am wiping off the case lube. Its all time consuming but I havent had any issues since.

The ammunition I produce is better then factory.

You spend $1000+ just on ammo for your average training course?

This

I use WSF exclusively for 9mm. My pet load is 5.3 gr of WSF for 115gr and 4.8 of WSF for 124 gr. Been shooting these combos in IDPA and classes for over 10 years. It's a great powder.

OP, you'd be wise to post these issues on the reloading section and get the hell out of GD!

This, my class had a guy shoot his own reloads. He bragged how meticulous he reloaded.
He also had a ftf that turned out to be a squib load. Took barrel to range gun store to clear.

 

And neither of you are the OP.

I've used WW 9mm NATO for practice. To me it mimics duty rounds pretty well. Before panic it was only
a couple of dollars more a box.

Crap...

I don't know when the last time I bought factory ammo was.  Mine gets cranked out on a Dillon xl650.

Nobody wants a kaboom on their watch.

OP, where are you getting your load data from and how did you determine that those charge weights and OALs were what works best?  



There's nothing wrong with using reloads in a class once you spend the time to become a competent reloader.  Right now, I'd recommend you pick up a few manuals, spend time in the reloading forum, and improve your skill level.  Until then, use factory in classes.

Agree 100%. I don't mass produce ammo at home, I buy in bulk for stuff I want mass produced (223/9mm). My hand loads are absolutely reliable. They are each individually weighed and made in a single stage press. I don't reload for bulk quantity, I reload to make precision high performance ammo and because it's fun. Ymmv depending on your goals

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Everyone seems to use reloads at pistol comps.  We shoot an easy 2000 rounds a month each. A side from the rare bad primer my only prob was a bad mag follower.

these posts were addressing the posters saying that all reloaders are lazy and all reloads are crap, and reloads CANNOT be as reliable as factory.

 
Frankly, I don't think you know what you're talking about; but, what the hey, this is the Internet.  (Even worse, this is an Internet gun forum!)    

 
I'm glad you got that off your chest!    

You know what else Pennsylvania's, 'hunting camp tourists' used to do?  If you were real nice to them they'd give you, at least, $50.00 before they left camp; and, back in those days, I really needed the money.  

 
THAT is a wonderful IGF myth!    

I was trained a little bit different.  My instructors expected me to be able to fight effectively with whatever I was able to get my hands on - Period!  It truly - truly - doesn't matter to me what's inside the gun.  I shoot, and have always shot, everything in the same way.  I'm reading this thread; and (fortunately) only some of the comments make me wonder, 'Whatever happened to what we used to call, 'combat focus'?'*  

I'll tell you something else:  I've always had more ammunition problems with commercial Winchester, 'White Box'; and CCI, 'Blazers' than I've ever had with my own reloads.  I made very good (nice 'n shiny) ammunition.  I only stopped bringing it to matches when I realized that every time I opened one of my plastic 100-count boxes I attracted way too much attention with what was inside.  

The end result?  I use to, 'lose' a very high percentage of my fired cases - Even when I marked big red X's across the heads, they still, somehow, managed to quickly disappear!  So, one day, I finally got smart and began shooting only aluminum-cased, CCI, 'Blazers'.  Man, that was real, 'crap ammo'; but ...... I never lost another shiny brass case!    

'Train with what you are going to fight with.' is an amateurish remark.  'Train with what you've got.  Whether it's your weapon, the other guy's weapon, his ammo, or yours:  Use it, and use it well.'  



*  The kind of, 'hard focused attention' that you almost never read about on anybody's IGF.  The kind of, 'hard focused attention' that precludes all the pseudo-physiology about:  loss of fine motor control, tunnel vision, auditory exclusion, time compression, et al.  As far as this old gunman is concerned:  Anyone who doesn't know what I'm talking about doesn't (really) know how to fight.  

For example:  Whoever heard of a Japanese Ninja warrior with, 'tunnel vision'; or a, 'loss of fine motor control'?  Once today's (presumed) autonomic combat responses are placed in a different socio-intellectual environment, they may quickly become as ridiculous as they really are; and, in fact, always have been!  As far as I'm concerned all of this excessively touted, modern-day, combat physiology is preposterously symptomatic of the same effete moral decadence from which the entire world presently suffers.  

(Everywhere it seems except, of course, inside the Levant!  There they still know how to fight; and THAT does concern me.)