snozzberries wrote:
Shit I'm not liking the way these primers look. They look flat to me. Pressure warning signs?
Forget about the primers, they're not a reliable indication of pressure.
I do see pressure signs in your pic though, and you really should back off that load a bit. Look at the straight lines imprinted on the case heads - that's from high pressure forcing the brass back into the extractor cut in the slide. Brass marks from extractor and ejector cutouts are often a sign of high pressure, or excess headspace in the case of bottleneck rounds.
You've also got indentations in the brass from the ejector, which is an indication that slide velocity is pretty high for that gun. That's another indication to back off the load a bit, or tune the gun for hotter loads.
Personally I don't care what Quickload predicts for a load like this; if you see pressure signs on the brass like that, the load is too hot and it's time to back down.
5gr of Titegroup is a bit hot with that bullet IMO. If you want hot loads, you need a different bullet and different powder. That bullet and powder are both intended for lower velocity & pressure, and you'll find better accuracy if you back off the throttle a bit. I'd back off to 4.5gr or maybe even down to 4gr for that combo.