9mm vs 380

[JRB 50]

Can you reload 380 with 9mm dies

 

[Jackie Graham]

No the .380 is a straight wall cartridge and the 9mm is tapered.

 

[kf4zht]

http://www.saami.org/PubResources/CC_Drawings/Pistol/380 Automatic.pdf
http://www.saami.org/PubResources/CC_Drawings/Pistol/9mm Luger - 9mm Luger +P.pdf

Maybe you could use the bullet seater but the resizer would not work. 9mm tapers differently over the length and 380 is slightly smaller

380 goes from .3731 at the mouth to .3739 at the base. 9mm goes from .3811 to .3910. I would guess that most sizing dies wouldn't even contact the 380 case.

 

[Jackie Graham]

I have decapped some .380 with a 9mm die but the 9mm die will not resize the correctly. The bullet seating die will seat it but it will not crimp it correctly. I am not sure it the flaring die will even flare the .380 case enough to accept the bullet. Best choice is to get a set of .380 dies.

 

[noylj]

You know, I think that this question comes up about once every three months on every single gun forum.
EVERY reloading manual, which every reloader should have, will show the case drawing and you can determine for yourself if the cases are dimensionally similar enough.

 

[Clarke123]

You know, I think that this question comes up about once every three months on every single gun forum.
EVERY reloading manual, which every reloader should have, will show the case drawing and you can determine for yourself if the cases are dimensionally similar enough.

You may be right ...
... Wish I had a nickel for every ".... thinking about getting into reloading" post on here ....
ALL with just about the same answers as posted in the forum's header ....

BTW: I don't know about the rest of you but I tried .380 in a PPK (as a potential CCW) and found that my Kahr in 9mm
had less "snap" and much more of a "push" in terms of recoil ... This, in the 9 mm Luger which is a much more powerful, prevalent, and inexpensive round to obtain, reload, and shoot ... just my experience, yours may be different!