Been casting 105 gr, .358", SWC's from a Lee six cavity mold for a while.
They shoot very well in .38 spl and in a Ruger LCP .380 (shoot em unsized in the LCP). The LCP has fired 108 of these 105 SWC's perfectly!
OK, tired these little SWC's in a Beretta 92 FS and a Sig 226, both had functioning problems. The boolits were loaded so there was very little of the boolit front shoulder in front of the case mouth. The malfunctions were very consistent, the case mouth was stuck on the top of the chamber and the case head edge was about half way up the breech face. Note: these were loaded very light so the cases would just fall to the right of the gun. Perhaps the slide was short cycling but a few shots cycled in both guns. They did shoot very well for point and click shooting at self defense distances and the cases sure were easy to find.
Anybody get these boolits to work well in a 9mm? If so, how.
Just finished casting some Lyman 120 gr truncated cone boolits and will load some up tomorrow morning and shoot them for comparison. (Cast for a while and not many boolits to show for it from this two cavity mold.)
I did talk to a local pistol guru, his opinion was that nobody he knows shoots SWC's in a 9mm.
Maybe it takes a bullet looking boolit to make a 9mm work. (pun intended)
Any ideas here?