Any good cast 40 S&W loads?

The lee 175 TC boolit is a good one for 40 S&W.





These were tumble lubed, as I don't have a H&I die yet for my Lyman 450. I may not get one, as the TL works just fine. Those loads use WW 231, I'll look up the details if you want, CRS attack! I shoot these out of a stock M-22 glock!

180 grain hard cast bullet over 4.4 grains of 231. Pleasant to shoot and 100% reliable in my M&P40.

cast load

I use 4.4 grains of VV N320 in my cast loads.
Larry Burchfield
SEABEES/VIETNAM/67/68/69
DAV

Cast bullet loads for 40 S&W

180 grain Mid-States cast truncated cone bullet
3.3 grains regular Clays
Small pistol primer

SW40VE pistol

Accurate. Relatively soft Clean. I REALLY like clean.

I coat all the cast bullets I use with Lee Liquid Alox. It seems to help reduce leading regardless of the lube already on the bullet. Good, cheap insurance.

This same charge under a 170grain LSWC is a real powder puff load that has proven quite accurate and reliable in the same pistol.

All the Best,
D. White

Tell me gents, if you tumble lube, do you still run the slug through a sizer die?? I always ran my cast slugs through the sizer/lube die. This was a desirable step in my opinion as it provided a much more uniform finish and size to the slug's OD.

When I stopped casting, and bought my slugs, I made sure they came from a company that sized the slugs after casting.

TIA

To answer both steely and RDF, I load and shoot these as cast. The lee 6 banger drops them right at .402, and they load easily and feed well through my glock 22. I'm going to get a .401 sizer from lee, as I see no need to lube them conventionally.

As for the lead alloy, it's quite hard, it has to be to use them in a stock OEM glock barrel. They're not kidding when they say a soft lead boolit will build up leading quickly in the polygonal rifling. These read at 16 on the BHN scale,(lee hardness tester.) Even after 100 fast and furious rounds, the fouling is light. A pass with a solvent soaked patch and a couple strokes with a brush cleans the barrel spotless. I was mixing 17 pounds of lino with 3 pounds of nearly pure lead. If you're using WW/lino, I would go 15-WW to 5 pounds of lino.

Here's the mold on midway;

http://www.midwayusa.com/viewProduct/?productNumber=569185



You'd also need the handles;

http://www.midwayusa.com/viewProduct/?productNumber=117892

Oh yeah, my load is 5.2 WW231. Lyman says top load is 5.8 for a 175 lead.

4.5 to 4.7 gr VV N340 with a 180 gr hard cast truncated cone boolit. Is a major load in a 5" barrel, around 925 fps. Is about 75 fps slower in a 4" ? CZ-75

Any Bullseye or Power Pistol loads over a 180 gr lead flat point bevel base?

Funny you ask about loading for the .40, this has been a recent ongoing project of mine. My foundation is a CZ SP-01/40 and I have found a couple loads that have worked really well, and there were a bunch that didn't work so well. These are very mild plinking loads that I use to improve my trigger control. These were the best out of my CZ:

3.0 VV N310, Missouri 170 LSWC, Wolf SPP, 1.125" OAL
3.0 Bullseye, same as above
3.5 WW231, same as above, pictured below.

Right side is my best group @ 25 yards, typical on the left is 2.0-2.5" from a sandbag rest (for 6 rounds out of 8). Hope this helps.

170 Lead TC, using 4.2gr W231 w/mag primer. Very accurate in my weapons.

For my IDPA loads I like 4.5 gr of power pistol under 180 Rainers.

What Snuffy said.

However, I'm adding 1oz of 95/5 (tin-antimony) to W/W. My bullets are running ~16bhn (Lee hardness tester).

My load is 4.0gr of Bullseye with the Lee 175gr TC (not tumble lube version). But I do tumble lube it and DON'T size it for Glocks. You need the larger bullet diameter for tight bore fit.

It's VERY accurate through my G22. Runs a little over 800fps.

7.6 gr AA#7 with 180 gr Magnus truncated cone. 180 gr Missouri truncated cone bullets give the same accuracy and cost less.

5 shots from the bench through my P229. Group size is ~0.95".


Try out the AA powders, they've been quite accurate in the two 40's that I've owned.

dwhite said:

180 grain Mid-States cast truncated cone bullet
3.3 grains regular Clays
Small pistol primer

SW40VE pistol

Accurate. Relatively soft Clean. I REALLY like clean.

I coat all the cast bullets I use with Lee Liquid Alox. It seems to help reduce leading regardless of the lube already on the bullet. Good, cheap insurance.

This same charge under a 170grain LSWC is a real powder puff load that has proven quite accurate and reliable in the same pistol.

All the Best,
D. White

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l was wondering what OAL you use on the TC bullets. I'm having trouble with some Magnus .40 cal 180-TCBB. The problem is the land just before the cone starts is to large of a diameter. When I use my go to 1.125 OAL they won't chamber. For a test I wanted to see what it would take to load and fire these.I would have to go down to 1.108 with a light Lee FC added. Just looking for what other guys specs are. I testing in the same S&W pistol you listed.
Thanks
maxx

Its funny you guys have brougt this up,I have been fighting a good,accurate,clean load for my XD.So far lee 175TC over 5.5 grns of AA#5 coal of 1.09 seems to be about the best so far.I have also tried Power piston 5.7-6.2 grns not so good accuracy.Keep us posted.

180 gr tc from MO bullets, 4.4 gr bulleye, Wolf SM Pistol primer, works very well in my XD/M 40....

-dave

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snuffy where do you still find good amounts of linotype?