Got an LCP, that was easy, finding ammo was harder.
First up: some Serbian "hollow points" with a big flat nose. They looked like they couldn't work but they did, 6+1 twice with two different mags. Next: American Eagle ball, 6+1 with both mags, again flawless operation.
Note here, the slide velocity is pretty high and the cases went to the right, to the front, to the rear and sometimes to the left after bouncing off my hat. The little gun felt like it was taking a beating.
OK, now I had some brass to load....if I could only find it. .380 brass is very elusive on dried grass that is the same color as fired cases.
The boolit: 105 gr SWC from a Lee six hole mold, cast from range lead and lubed with Liquid Alox. These were air cooled and maybe cast a bit cool.
The powder: 2.2 gr of Win. 231.
Seating depth: just a bit of boolit shoulder in front of the case mouth.
Back to the range with high hopes and some doubt. (Last night I found a link to a Kaboomed LCP, some things are better off not explored.)
I loaded up 6+1 and approached the silhouette.......bam, bam, bing, boom, WOW, boy did these shoot nice. These loads give the LCP a reasonable slide velocity, function great, hit the target where you want without even aiming and all things good and truth and beauty and Jessica Alba!!! The reload brass flew into the air, had a lot less hang time and dropped to the right of the shooter where they could actually be found.
Well, that's the deal, based on very limited shooting the LCP just seems to be just made for reasonable cast boolit loads.
Now, it I could just turn 9mm brass into .380 brass.........................................
Edit to add: about stopping power, the boolit loads stopped a grasshopper just fine, one to wound him and a second to put him away. (He was about an inch long.) "The .380, now that's a real stopper."