I have probably 1300 "New England Casting 124gr Hard Cast" projectiles. They have the crayola type wax in the lube groove, half of it falling out.
I figured these would be an easy way for me to load some 9mm since I have several guns in that caliber, one of them a short AR-15 with a 10.5" barrel.
I also scored a bunch of Power Pistol and Red Dot. But when I looked at my primer stash I was horrified to see that I have only a few thousand SPP.
So I put together a short series to work up a load with Power Pistol. My goal was to get these as fast as possible while still maintaining accuracy. I want these as plinking loads which I could use as defensive loads if I got real desperate.
The 5.8gr load was the most accurate, but I went all the way up to 6.7gr. At about 6.2gr I started noticing smoke coming out of the muzzle.
So I was thinking maybe I should set up my chronograph (it has not been easy to get it to work at my local indoor range) and load up a larger series of maybe 5.8gr, 6.2 gr, and 6.7 gr. I could also work up a series with Red Dot. But my main concern is that I don't want to use up my relatively scarce supply of primers for testing a load like this.
I'm also wondering if I should scrape out the crayola wax lube and run these through the lubrisizer with something better in it, so they are more consistently lubed.
Do any of you more experienced folks have any ideas?