What's your favorite powder for 9mm ???

[BHP9]

My fav is/was Unique. Not the cleanest but gave me the power factor I like (137000) and there was a lack of felt recoil. My late wife never had a problem with my load.

 

[6BRA]

Power Pistol is great. But the best 9mm load comes from an early 70s Sierra 1st edition reloading manual.

 

[jds holler]

Anybody using AutoComp? jd

 

[Springer2]

I had used 9mm in precision pistol so I did a lot of accuracy testing at 50 yards from a fixture. Power Pistol was the clear winner with WSF a pretty distant second. I think that is also what David Sams had used which was good enough for me to try it.

 

[kenhwind]

BE 86 makes a good load imo.

Anybody using AutoComp? jd

I have. Power Pistol, WSF.

 

[Steve Donlon]

WSF with 147's because WSF is good in 45 acp also. But it's been years since I reloaded 9mm.

 

[ELR LVR]

Haven't loaded any 9mm for about 30 years. What's your favorite powder? I think I used to use 231. Thanks Jim

Titegroup or W-231 is what I pretty much use,
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Edit:
What the heck??? 13 yr old thread? I need to start watching the dates on these more better

 

[358WCF]

W231 works fine with 115s which all I load, but it's been a while since the closet is full & price of loaded beats the hump of loading 9mm.

W244 is virtually the same as W231, just a touch slower so you need a 10th or 2 more powder for equal velocities, but I've only compared 231 & 244 in the 45s.

 

[bozo699]

I was thinking it just hadn’t said anything.
Wayne

 

[GetReal]

CFE pistol

Titegroup

All 147 grain subsonic.

115gr at 2Sixty dolla per thou is so cheap that I would lose money reloading it when you factor in my time

 

[fatelvis]

HS-6 and Be-86

 

[Oklahoma Jim]

I like VV N330 and CFE Pistol.

 

[323]

Nothing wrong resurrecting an old thread but when times were tough few yrs ago ie powder shortage I could find ramshot silhouette all day long. Works great in 115,124,135 loads. I do have power pistol to try out one of these days.

 

[Aaron23]

CFE pistol

Titegroup

All 147 grain subsonic.

115gr at 2Sixty dolla per thou is so cheap that I would lose money reloading it when you factor in my time

How much for a case of gold dots in any weight???

Or what if I am loading for something with a compensator and want to choose a powder that produces the most gasses possible to actually ‘work’ the comp?

Rolling my own is always cheaper when loading anything good.

 

[DogBuster]

Too many to mention

AA5….Titegroup….Bullseye….just to mention

 

[GetReal]

How much for a case of gold dots in any weight???

Or what if I am loading for something with a compensator and want to choose a powder that produces the most gasses possible to actually ‘work’ the comp?

Rolling my own is always cheaper when loading anything good.

I bill out my time at $250 / hr.

I can't hand load a thousand rounds in an hour. Prolly more like 3-4 hours. Thats $ 750 - 1000 forfeited.

$150 min for boolits. Throw in $85 for a thousand primers and probably $100 for powder And even if I get range pickup free cases I'm way upside down. Thats some $1,100 per 1k rounds. Multiply that by 3 - 4 ( thousand rounds fired per year 9mm ) $4,400 for 4k handloads

Versus $1,200 for 4,000 factory rounds.

Easier and cheaper to buy factory 115 / 124 gr. And I really dont enjoy loading 9mm, like I do rifle rounds..

But do what you want.

 

[GetReal]

My fave 9mm powder is whatevers in the 2k factory rounds I just ordered. $600..

 

[Rwfish]

Wow. 13yr old thread.

 

[6BRA]

I bill out my time at $250 / hr.

I can't hand load a thousand rounds in an hour. Prolly more like 3-4 hours. Thats $ 750 - 1000 forfeited.

$150 min for boolits. Throw in $85 for a thousand primers and probably $100 for powder And even if I get range pickup free cases I'm way upside down. Thats some $1,100 per 1k rounds. Multiply that by 3 - 4 ( thousand rounds fired per year 9mm ) $4,400 for 4k handloads

Versus $1,200 for 4,000 factory rounds.

Easier and cheaper to buy factory 115 / 124 gr. And I really dont enjoy loading 9mm, like I do rifle rounds..

But do what you want.

Factory rounds will never group like a handload. No comparison

 

[GetReal]

Factory rounds will never group like a handload. No comparison

Were talking handguns here. 115 gr training ammo.. I *always* handload my rifle rounds.

At 15+ yards, its ** me** thats grouping poorly, not the ammo. I dont compete Bianchi cup anyway.

At 7 yards my factory rounds group 1 ragged hole. Good enuf for me.

$4,400 vs. $1,200 for 4k rounds ... Im good with a 15 yd 2" group vs. a 1.5" group. Esp. in training ammo..