Need load suggestion

[chemist308]

I need a suggestion for a 9 mm load using Bullseye or Unique pistol powder for a wheel weight boolit. I believe the mold target weight is 124 grains--I have no idea what the boolit really weighs. The 9 mm mold I'm using is Lee's TL356-124-2R. It can be found here: the mold (http://www.midwayusa.com/viewProduct/?productNumber=141131)

My gun is a Smith and Wesson Sigma (SW9VE) if it makes a difference.

[vincewarde]

I just worked up a load using a conventional lube Lee of the same weight. 5gr of Unique on top of a CCI 500. COL 1.095 inch. Cast of Linotype alloy. Moderate crimp.

This load may work for you - but be very sure to back down at least 10-15% and work up slowly. Remove your barrel and check to see that loaded rounds easily drop into the chamber to the same depth as factory rounds. Check to make sure that the bullet cannot be pushed further into the case. Speer found that with one load, pushing the bullet in an additional .03 inch caused pressure to double. Recoil can push bullets further in if they are not crimped firm enough.

Good luck and have fun!

[Will]

I use 5gr Unique or 4 of BE

[Shiloh]

I've used Unique. The same 5.0 gr for 125 gr LRN. Never used Bullseye.

Shiloh

[lwknight]

All in 124 grain cast TC
I tried 5.0 g'ns of unique. It uses all the case cap. So its pretty much maxed out.
It was a medium-light load and did not work all that great in my P-95.
I ended up going back to WSF.
4.3 of BE worked out OK for a med load.

[Edubya]

Copied and paste from one of our good people here on our forum:
"1.115" OAL, 124 grains lead bullet of .610" length (Lyman mold), 5" bbl. My previous calculations were for jacketed bullet.

1.5 grains - 496 fps, 4636 psi/13% of the SAAMI max
2 grains - 636 fps, 7437 psi/21%
2.5 grains - 768 fps, 11181 psi/32%
3 grains - 894 fps, 15965 psi/46%

4" bbl calculates muzzle speeds to about 6% smaller than the 5" in all of the above. Jacketed bullet adds less than a percent to the muzzle speed. OAL, adds about 1% per .01" shortening. Obviously, having bullet longer by .01" for the same bullet weight is the same to pressure and muzzle speed as having OAL shorter by the .01"."
http://castboolits.gunloads.com/showthread.php?p=736686#post736686

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