Looking for a .40 S&W mouse fart load

[Pablo 5959]

Does anyone have a favorite mouse fart load I can load for my wife's .40 cal?


231,
Bullseye
Unique
AA5
Titegroup
Autocomp
Bluedot


Are some I have to work with.
I'll be using the Lee .401, 175 TC, powder coated.
Thanks


Pablo

[ipijohn]

Firearm? My fav low recoil load is the Lee 145 TC.

[tazman]

I agree that a lighter weight boolit will give less felt recoil.
That said, if you are stuck using a single weight boolit for everything, the only alternative I can see is reducing your powder charge until your pistol just barely does function properly.
It isn't going to matter a lot which powder you use for this. You can do a ladder test in reverse. Start at your normal load and work down until the pistol stops working right or the powder starts getting things dirty(incomplete burn).

[garym1a2]

The lightest loads used in Action shooting like USPSA and IDPA tend to be a small charge with a heavy bullet. Myself have fired over 12K loads of the Lee 175gr TC in my Glocks(22/35). Most of it in the range of 4 to 4.2 grs of either WST or Bullseye. My recommendation is you start with a 4gr load of Bullseye and function test it. Than look at reduce loads if you want lighter recoil. My light loads are much softer than the typical 9mm round in a Glock.

[62chevy]

The Lee 452-160-RF was a light recoil with 5 grains of Bullseye in my 45 acp. But a 200 grain boolit with 3.5 grains has a bigger recoil, not a lot but my Wife won't shoot it anymore. Try the 145 grain from Lee or see if someone has something lighter.

[prs]

My family LOVES to shoot the Glock 23 with the Lee 401-175-TC traditional lube groove boolits when propelled by a charge of Trailboss that is just NOT compressed. Cycles every time and rings steel with authority. Sweet shoot'n load!

prs

[Jupiter7]

I have run some low loads with aa5, expect unburnt powder to be most everywhere. I still load about .2grn below for competition and it performs excellent.

[Doggonekid]

I agree that you can drop your powder charge but you would get a bigger drop in noticeable recoil with a lighter boolit.

[ioon44]

I have been working with light loads in .40 S&W in a Gen 3 Glock 22 with 170gr SWC and 140gr SWC. Trying to stay in the 130,000 power factor range for IDPA.
One problem with the 170gr is a lot higher point of impact, so have started working with the 140gr which is a lee 145gr alloyed to 140gr using Red Copper HI-TEK coating.
So far no problems with function and the barrel is running pretty clean with WST powder.

[sandman228]

an easy shooting load that I always loaded for my wife to shoot out of her Taurus millennium pro 40 is 4.5 gr of win 231 with the lee 175 gr bullet . same load also shoots well out of my s&w sigma . but I like 5.6 gr of herco in my pt100 . the only difference is I use the lee 175 swc bullet tumble lubed .

[taco650]

What pistol will you be shooting these loads out of?

[Pablo 5959]

what pistol will you be shooting these loads out of?

hk, p2000.

[cajun shooter]

Try 4.3 gr. of your Titegroup with a 155 gr. bullet
135 gr. with 4.1-4.5 Clays Clays powder will give you very light recoil when compared to the other powders. It's also one of the cleanest powders made. I use it for loading light loads in 38 spl. for the Lady SASS shooters. I know these are with lighter bullets but if you want to lighten your recoil you have to lighten the bullet fired. It's just plain old physics. Best of Luck David
PS The 4.3 load of Titegroup with a 175 gr. bullet will give you a load at around 945 FPS

[flounderman]

I tried to load some lighter recoiling loads for a small 40 and all I had was Blue Dot and 155 grain. It caught the emptys in a Tarus PT 100 until I got to 10 grains. It wasn't a low recoil load. It might be a heavy bullet with a light charge would work the slide with less recoil. I loaded some with 11 grains, which according to the internet were over 1200 fps. I thought a light bullet was the way to go but you have to operate the slide. I would try reduced loads with the heaviest bullet and see how it works.

[62chevy]

I tried to load some lighter recoiling loads for a small 40 and all I had was Blue Dot and 155 grain. It caught the emptys in a Tarus PT 100 until I got to 10 grains. It wasn't a low recoil load. It might be a heavy bullet with a light charge would work the slide with less recoil. I loaded some with 11 grains, which according to the internet were over 1200 fps. I thought a light bullet was the way to go but you have to operate the slide. I would try reduced loads with the heaviest bullet and see how it works.

I believe the reduced recoil works better with a powder like Bullseye.

[fredj338]

The only powder you have that is really suitable is TG & BE, I hate TG with lead bullets. Any really soft bunnyfart load will require a spring change to be 100% reliable in most guns, especially if you drop bullet wt. I run a 175gr RNFP over 3gr of RedDot or 3.1gr of WST to make minor in my XDM5.25. I had to drop to a 14# spring to get 100% reliability @ 745fps. It is softer shooting than 9mm WWB in the same size gun.

[Horseman1]

The lightest loads used in Action shooting like USPSA and IDPA tend to be a small charge with a heavy bullet. Myself have fired over 12K loads of the Lee 175gr TC in my Glocks(22/35). Most of it in the range of 4 to 4.2 grs of either WST or Bullseye. My recommendation is you start with a 4gr load of Bullseye and function test it. Than look at reduce loads if you want lighter recoil. My light loads are much softer than the typical 9mm round in a Glock.

My records say the workup for the 175gr bullet ended up exactly the same way in my stock xd40 with WST. 4 gr was a little light, but cycled. 4.2 was reliable and accurate in my gun.

H1