Quote Originally Posted by ReneeMicelli View Post
According to Hodgdon's site 5.3 gained of CFE is the starting load for 115 grain bullets. I suspect that the blackening is caused by the lighter load not giving a solid seal of the case wall against the chamber. I have the same issue with the .45 acp loads that I run for IDPA. In my 9mm I run near max loads and nickle cases. I don't see any blackening of them. Your results should be similar.
I got the data from the new hornady book, it was a mid load for fmj. In going to check out Gordon

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