Cast 9MM

[MGySgt]

This is what I will be doing shortly--in 9mm, 40 S&W/10mm, and 45 ACP. Life is too short to mess with balky, recalcitrant tooling.

[Combat Diver]

Only have one cast 9mm mold. A 2 cavity Lee 124 gr TC tumble lube. Feeds in every 9mm I've fired it in. Need to upgrade to a six banger some time.

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[Gamsek]

MP 359-125 could be one of the best bullets ever with excellent expansion



I had great success with MP clone of HG#275, but switched to 357-130 NLG because I powder-coat.

If you want to make copy of Federal Syntech PC ammo, thats the one. It drops .357” so its easier to size after PC and can be used in 38/357 too.

[MGySgt]

Some great looking boolits here in multiple posts. I have never been this wishy washy about a mold before. Must be my old age creeping in.

[Kylongrifle32]

Another vote for the Lee 356-120 tc like it so much I had to get it in a 6 cavity mold. The Lee 356-124 rn works well in all my handguns. No luck with the TL 356-120 tc

[Kylongrifle32]

Another vote for the Lee 356-120 tc like it so much I had to get it in a 6 cavity mold. The Lee 356-124 rn works well in all my handguns. No luck with the TL 356-120 tc

[FergusonTO35]

Most for your money: Lee 6 cavity 356-120-TC. Been using this one for years and never met a pistol that didn't like it, I seat 'em to 1.055. The tumble lube version is just awful, never could get it to work well. You can tumble lube the standard version just fine, I've done it with good results.

My favorite overall: Arsenal 359-130-RF. Just got this one a couple months ago and am having lots of fun with it. The longer ogive lets me seat them to 1.075 and shoots just as well as the Lee.

I size to .357 with Randy Rat's Tac-X and find that 3.8 grains of Bullseye, HP-38/231, or Titegroup with either one is always more accurate than I can hold.

[LAH]

As you can see many will work. My most used is the Saeco 928 with the Lee 38-125-RF next.

[MUSTANG]

I am partial to the RCBS 9MM-124-RN 401. It's a nominal 120 Grain boolit. Works well in my Lugers, Beratta, and a 30(+) year old Bersa .380. I have used it exclusively with Lyman Super Moly Lube in my Lyman Lube Sizer; but this winter intend to cast a few hundred to a thousand and see how it will work Powder coated next spring. I find it feeds well in a variety of 9mm pistols.

[asmith80]

After I bought the MP 359-125 HP I sold off all my other 9mm molds. It's a fantastic bullet, the molds are the easiest I've ever worked with, and the ability to choose whether you want HP or solid is really nice

[Love Life]

I use the NOE 124 TC gas checked in a 5 cavity. I get better accuracy from gas checked boolits in my 9mm pistols.

[Forrest r]

Had a little free time today so I went to the gun club and did a bunch of test loads. Some of the test loads were 9mm's. Been meaning to run some loads over a chronograph using the power pistol/Taurus pt111g2 9mm combo.

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I did a 20-shot stings in that 3.2" bbl'd pt11g2 9mm.
The 110gr bullet is a cramer gallery bullet designed for "parlor" loads/shooting. They ran at 1300fps & change.
The 125gr Mihec hp's did 1130fps & change.
The 140gr mihec's did 970fps & change.

Those are some pretty solid #'s considering they are from a short bbl'd 9mm pistol.

There's a lot of good molds out there. Nothing wrong with the lee 120gr tc bullet, have a 6-cavity mold that rains bullets. For some reason I just never could get the accuracy out of that lee tc bullet that I do out of the mihec 125's. But that doesn't stop me from casting piles of the lee's for general range play/plinking.

[bob208]

I have one 9m/m mold a rcbs 124 gr tc bullet it works in all my 9's a luger a star largo astra in largo also my high-power. it also works in my destroyer carbine. I could not ask for better.

[Walks]

I've used the Lyman #356402 & #356242 for 50+yrs.
But lately I find myself using a Lee 356-125-2R, just because it's got 6 cavities. It's got a nice long round profile nose that feeds in anything. Add the Lee .45 RN in 6cav and you can turn out a LOTTA bullets Fast.