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Thread: Brass with carbon deposit

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    Brass with carbon deposit

    My brass has carbon soiling or deposits on outside of brass. This usually runs about one half the case length on one side. My load for years is 200 FP Berry 45 ACP with 4.9gr Titegroup. Some say my load is too light. What say you? I run a GC SS Trophy.

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    I say if your load hits the targets and cycles the action that you are just searching the internet for something to worry about.
    I load .45 ACP even lighter than that these days and a little smoke mark is routine. I have even seen such smoke marks on factory loads.
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    That is a light load for that powder. The carbon deposits indicate that your load doesn't develop enough pressure to expand the brass and seal it to the chamber as the bullet leaves. If the blackening of the cases is a problem, try increasing the load by a tenth or two. Since you've been using that load for years, it would appear that perhaps it's not that big a problem.
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    One thing that might help the case make a better seal with the chamber with a light load is to leave the case mouth as large as possible - so it just barely plunks all the way into the chamber - perhaps about 0.473" OD.
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    Accuracy is more important.

    Does it group well?

    Leave it alone and clean the brass.
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    Everything I load with Titegroup leaves the brass sooty. I don't worry about it. They function with good enough accuracy for me.

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    I agree with the above. Titegroup is a fairly sooty powder. I load mine toward the mid range and still find I need to clean a lot of soot out of the pistol. The brass itself always gets tumbled anyway, and id doesn't take extra time to clean Titegroup as opposed to other powders. The "cleanest" powder I have found is AA No 5, but that still isn't "clean." I look at cleaning up as a part of maintaining my skills at the range.

    Wade

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