Any non corbon 125gr 9mm JHP?

Black Hills does a 125gr Honey Badger load. $$ and not street proven though.

Is there a specific requirement for 125gr?

Seems to be a lot of 124 gr. around. Speer Gold Dots, Hornady XTP, Federal Hydra-Shok and HST, to name a few....

I've shot a lot of the above mentioned ammo and never had a failure.

Find out what the cops in your AO are using, as those folks tend to be serious about that sort of thing.

I am in the process of shooting up my Cor-Bon 9mm. The only cartridge my 92 choked on was some old stuff from 1990’s. The Cor-Bon I have/had changed it’s style of bullets and head stamp on the brass three times.

I think that about any 124 gr. JHP will beat Cor-Bon nowadays. I particularly like Hornady XTP.

I am looking to try some 147 gr. to see what I have I been missing out on. Which means I probably have not answered your question.

Super Vel has a good assortment of all copper HPs that should certainly do the job. Some of us had the original Super Vels back in the 1970s.

124 or 125, there is no difference.

Speed used to load a 9mm 125 gr JSP with a huge amount of exposed lead.

Federal HST and Remington Golden Saber are the choices for me. I like the 9mm +p GS in 124 grain personally above all else. Heard good things about Gold Dots too. If you like to spend money Barnes TAC-XPD are about as good as can get. In 9mm in that 124/125 grain range there’s a lot to choose from.

DustyGmt said:

Was just curious if there were any street proven 125gr 9mm factory loads out there worth looking at. I did a quick search a while back and corbon seemed to be the only option for a 125.

I dont buy anything corbon because I got 2 dud rounds in the one and only box of corbon I ever bought and after doing a lil research I found alot of material on cor bon failing in QC in general with dud rounds being almost the best case scenario.

I was just curious if anybody has or carries a 9mm with a factory brand 125gr?

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Well DustyGmt Cor-Bon QC went "down hill" because the company is no longer in the Pi family hands, Peter Pi Sr. is a stickler for QC.

I have alot of opinion data on the credibility of 125 Hornady XTP's, they shoot great out of my Springfield XD 4" service pistol and they perform well when they impact a racoon or groundhog.

Each of the major manufacturers makes one, but because of the added expense of the projectile they aren’t often found in wallly world.

I think if you buy a box of 124 grain bullets and measure each of them, or buy 124 grain ammo and pull the bullets, there are likely to be some closer to 125 than 124.

Outside of reloaders, few people understand how small a measure a grain is, particularly when it comes to something like lead.

Lots of quality and tested 124gr offerings, but not a lot of 125gr fodder. Dunno if it really makes sense to differentiate between 124gr and 125gr, tho..

ATLDave said:

I think if you buy a box of 124 grain bullets and measure each of them, or buy 124 grain ammo and pull the bullets, there are likely to be some closer to 125 than 124.

Outside of reloaders, few people understand how small a measure a grain is, particularly when it comes to something like lead.

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7000 grains to the pound for all materials. Lead is has the same mass, just less cube.

Texas10mm said:

7000 grains to the pound for all materials. Lead is has the same mass, just less cube.

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Right. A dimensionally tiny piece of lead.

DustyGmt said:

Probably right. It's interesting that there would even be a distinction. Are there any other calibers out there that even exist that come within a grain of each other?

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Buddy, buy a box of cast or polycoated bullets. You can find a spread of 1 or 2 grains without even having to buy something with a different number on the side!

But, yeah, plenty of common calibers have offerings that come in closely-spaced weights. For instance, in .223, Accurate lists data for 30, 34, 35, 36, 40, 42, 45, 50, 52, 53, 55, 60, 62, 65, 68, 69, 70, 75, 77, 80, and 90 grain bullets. And they probably missed a few.

In the .355/.356/.357 diameters, it is common, though not universal, that the 125's were designed for 38 super (and, then, later for .357 sig) velocities. This isn't always true, but is a little bit true.