Re-seating LAX reload 9mm

[gemini1]

I found a round on my LAX reloaded 9mm ammo that was seated too deep. I tried to use my bullet puller to drive a slug out to the same length as the others, but I've smack the puller a little too hard and the bullet came off, I also felt some powder spilling out the top of my puller (note to self: cover the freakin hole on bullet puller).
I have the dies for 9mm but I haven't tried pistol reloading yet. I also do not know the type of powder LAX Reloads uses for their 9mm rounds. The ball type powder I got out the puller measures 4.30 grains, and guessing a couple of grains spilled out from smacking too hard.
The bullet is 115 gr FMJ, my Lyman 49th shows OAL at 1090" but for HP only. The other reloads I have were at 1140". So should I seat a little deeper than 1140" if I consider that the actual powder load was more than 4.30 gr?

[Bill Steele]

If you spilled a couple grains the OAL (seat depth) won't be real critical. If you have any powder that has a load in 9mm, I would use fresh powder instead, but really the downside of re-using is limited to a squib and maybe a stuck bullet (which if they are jacketed can be a major pain to pound out), but nothing catastrophic.

If you meant you spilled a couple "tenths" of a grain, then I would just seat it to 1.140" and call it good..

[chknlyps2]

Pull a good one and weigh that powder to see how much was lost, or just toss the powder from the one that came apart and save the components for later... it is only one round.

[jeremy69]

Don't bother with one round. You are asking for trouble if you don't yet understand what you are doing. The correct thing to do would be to dump the powder you have, recharge with the correct amount of a specified propellant.

[Colt562]

Don't bother with one round.

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[EL_NinO619]

Don't bother with one round. You are asking for trouble if you don't yet understand what you are doing. The correct thing to do would be to dump the powder you have, recharge with the correct amount of a specified propellant.

+1, why bother, unless you have fought a long hard fight and gave everything you had and there is still a hoard of zombies and you need that one round to take the easy path out... Really though, pull the projectile weight it and next time you run that weight, load it up.

[J-cat]

If you reseat without resizing you'll get bullet setback because the neck tension has been compromised.

[johnny1290]

Thanks for the measurement of the powder! I remember thinking they were a bit hot...

burn the powder on the sidewalk to see what the rate is. Burn some powder of a known rate to compare, then report back

I suspect its pretty fast.

maybe I'm the only one that burns powder from pulled rounds?!? iff I don't know what it is.

[gemini1]

Thanks for the advice/comments guys. I've decided to pull one of the other reloaded ammo, The powder measures 5.76 grains. So that means the spilled one was 1.46 gr short.
I'm not really trying to save this ammo, its more on curiosity. Since the load is 1.46 gr lighter, I was wondering if seating it deeper to increase pressure will compensate for the lost powder weight.
I read online that bullet seating on pistol is a little more complicated than rifle reloading (pressure issues)?
I do have Accurate#2 and will just replace the spilled powder if what I'm thinking of doing is risky.

[Bill Steele]

I think I would just load the new #2.

[gemini1]

Thanks Bill, I'll go with your advice then.