Patmarlins™

I love the 9mm and cast my own for it, making it dirt cheap to shoot. This is a good thing as I tend to run 400-500 rounds through my various 9’s in a week.

I recently got a custom mold made from Accurate molds, as I had plans of switching all my various cast 9mm to this prefered bullet shape and weight (preferred by me).

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The Checkmaker arrived just in the nick of time, as I had over 4k bullets cast up and several AZ iced tea cans all ready (.004 thickness).

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The checkmaker is very easy to use, but it helps to have a good papercutter to cut the cans into strips.

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Once cut into strips, the process is easy to make the disks.

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The photo doesn’t show it, but it seems to cut nicer with the painted side of the can down.

After a few hours, I was ready to put them on the boolits and size and lube.

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Here is a fresh boolit. I made most with painted side in, but here in this photo you can see the painted side on the outside.

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Boolit weighs in at 126.5 with check and Thompson Blue hard lube.

I loaded up several hundred rounds and hit the desert with my CX4 9mm carbine.

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The launching platform:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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I fired the first 35 round magazine just testing for accuracy. It was excellent.

I then fired off 4 35 round magazines as fast I could pull the trigger. That carbine got HOT!.

First the last mag checking for accuracy again. No POI change and it was as good as when I had started.

Broke the weapon down and looked down the barrel. It looked as though it had just been cleaned. Not a sign of lead anywhere.

Picked some of the lead out of the burm, and it did just what I wanted. I had used pure linotype before, which naturally did not deform.

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To say the least, I’m pretty darn happy with this checkmaker. I put those rounds over a chrono and they were pushing right at 1500 from the carbine with a standard deviation of 18.

Now I have to go and drink a lot more AZ iced tea.