Any interest in a hollow base 9mm?
Kind of like the 359-125 but a little shorter and hollow base. Maybe 100-105 grains?
It would be nice for a light plinking bullet and for something fast and low recoil for steel challenge.
Any interest in a hollow base 9mm?
Kind of like the 359-125 but a little shorter and hollow base. Maybe 100-105 grains?
It would be nice for a light plinking bullet and for something fast and low recoil for steel challenge.
A link to some new NOE group buy designs was posted here last night. This one might interest you:
https://noebulletmolds.com/site/foru...-90-rf-hb-ch5/
The 9mm Luger starting load pressure would be 2 times a 38 special load, using a hollow base. See Hodgdon data. Compare.
So, hollow base 9mm, bad idea? The pressure would be to high? My guess.
May work with linotype ?
Last edited by 243winxb; 02-25-2023 at 12:30 PM. Reason: Added Luger
It’s common for 9mm. Keeping the long nose but moving the bullet weight down to 100 grain or so.
The hollow base isn’t the same as a swaged soft wad cutter. Picture more of a cup point but on the base. Just enough to offset 10 or so grains of weight.
It’s not designed to expand the way 38 special hollow bases do. Thicker walls will prevent that.
Ok, thanks.
BP | Bronze Point | IMR | Improved Military Rifle | PTD | Pointed |
BR | Bench Rest | M | Magnum | RN | Round Nose |
BT | Boat Tail | PL | Power-Lokt | SP | Soft Point |
C | Compressed Charge | PR | Primer | SPCL | Soft Point "Core-Lokt" |
HP | Hollow Point | PSPCL | Pointed Soft Point "Core Lokt" | C.O.L. | Cartridge Overall Length |
PSP | Pointed Soft Point | Spz | Spitzer Point | SBT | Spitzer Boat Tail |
LRN | Lead Round Nose | LWC | Lead Wad Cutter | LSWC | Lead Semi Wad Cutter |
GC | Gas Check |