confused on oal on 9mm bullets

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Dr_Mitch

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Don't worry about it. Just load them to an OAL at or slightly under the standard of 1.169". Loading shorter just gives you more pressure and higher velocity, and it isn't worth blowing up your gun on your first recipe. I always loaded to 1.160" for 115gr and 124gr, to keep things as close to spec as possible, and never had any problems knocking down full-size steel poppers.
 

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