The Firing Line Forums

Go Back   The Firing Line Forums > The Skunkworks > Handloading, Reloading, and Bullet Casting

Reply
 
Thread Tools Search this Thread
Old April 18, 2012, 12:04 PM   #1
nikdfish
Member
 
Join Date: August 17, 2007
Posts: 97
Just checked out my first 9mm reloads...

I've just recently started reloading. I've built up a stash of brass & dies over the years, but had not gotten around to really getting started. The impetus for finally diving in was ordering a 300 BLK upper. It is still on BO, so I've only done a few sample rounds and have started doing some pistol calibers.

The only loads I've tested so far have been a couple of loads for the 9mm using the 125 grain, 18 BH Missouri Bullet Co. "small ball" LRN.

I found the ogive on those is so rounded it was necessary to load them pretty short to keep the bullet off the lands. I tried a few depths on various gun chambers until I got drop in chambering on all I checked and found I needed to keep the OAL down in the 1.106 - 1.11 ballpark to make things work right. This is still not so short as to compress the Bullseye loads I've tried so far.

The two charge weight I've tried are 4.2 & 4.4 grains of Bullseye. Function with both charge weights has been fine with a Ruger P95, a Keltec PF9 and a Keltec Sub2000 16" carbine.

I just picked up a CE ProChrono Digital this week (figured I needed to if I was going to be serious), so I gave it a test with these two loads. The 4.2 grain load showed an average vel. of 1091 fps with the 3.9" P95 and 1315 fps with the 16" Sub2K. The 4.4 load yieded an average of 1126 fps with the P95 & 1356 with the Sub2K.

So far I'm pretty happy with this. No pressure signs & a better velocity consistency than the commercial Winchester & Remington 9mm that I had also run across the Chrono (commercial ES of 35 & 36 fps, reloads ES of 5 & 8 fps with the P95). No info on accuracy just yet, I've only done the function & velocity testing.

The next trip I'll try the starting loads I've done with .38 special LSWC & .45 ACP FMJ using Bullseye & the .357 JHP load with H-110 (same as I'm using for 300 BLK).

Nick
nikdfish is offline  
Old April 19, 2012, 03:48 AM   #2
mumbo719
Senior Member
 
Join Date: June 27, 2008
Location: Tampa Bay, FL.
Posts: 346
Just starting with LRN myself. Order from Z Cast arrived yesterday afternoon and haven't had the chance to play with them yet.

Hopefully this weekend.
__________________
CZ 75 P-01 . CZ-75B . CZ 912 . CZ 920 . Glock 26 Gen 3 . Kimber Pro Crimson Carry . XDm 45 3.8 Compact . Ruger 22/45 MKIII
mumbo719 is offline  
Reply

Thread Tools Search this Thread
Search this Thread:

Advanced Search

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

BB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off

Forum Jump


All times are GMT -5. The time now is 07:14 AM.


Powered by vBulletin® Version 3.8.7
Copyright ©2000 - 2024, vBulletin Solutions, Inc.
This site and contents, including all posts, Copyright © 1998-2021 S.W.A.T. Magazine
Copyright Complaints: Please direct DMCA Takedown Notices to the registered agent: thefiringline.com
Page generated in 0.04836 seconds with 10 queries