Loading 9mm on Hornady Ammo Plant

After cases are deprimed, wet stainless pin tumble cleaned, Rollsized to remove lower case bulge then sized using Hornady Titanium coated sizing die. Cases are then ready to be fully loaded. Cases are kept sorted to brand names or case weights for more consistency in velocity. This machine is a Hornady LNL Progressive reloading press with the addition of Hornady case feeder mechanism and collator. The bullet feeder also uses a Hornady collator but has a Mr.Bulletfeeder bullet feeding die used in preference to the Hornady bullet dropper dies.
The Hornady dies are designed for copper jacketed or copper coated bullets and are not effective at all with cast bullets due to minor differences in bullet diameters. The cast bullets shown here are 135gr Round Nose design sized to .3565"while the Hornady bullet dropper dies are designed for a .355"diameter jacketed bullet.
Powder used is ADI APS450 (Australian) dispensed through the case activated Hornady powder drop in a relatively light load using 2.7-2.75grains of powder. The overall cartridge length with this bullet is 1.110" and this provides a velocity average of 840fps with excellent accuracy from a Colt 1911 Gold Cup Trophy with 5"barrel.
Stations used on the press are as follows...
1) Case mouth flare to accept bullet.
2) Priming.
3) Powder drop.
4) Bullet drop.
5) Bullet seating.
6) Taper crimp to close case flare and secure bullet.