9mm deer load

[Rule3]

It's all a matter if you LOOK good while shooting a Sten!! Who cares about the deer?



You can kill this size deer with a 9mm. (Fl Key deer)

 

[Mark_Mark]

It's all a matter if you LOOK good while shooting a Sten!! Who cares about the deer?

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You can kill this size deer with a 9mm. (Fl Key deer)

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them “Shorts” lol, more material on the top then bottom. has to be from the 50’s in South Africa

 

[milsurpguy]

I loaded some up possible deer loads.
Fired it at a 1/2 gallon juice jug filled with water in front of 2 more milk jugs full of water. The sig 124gr bullet jacket separated, fragmented and the core fragmented. I recovered the core just barely sticking in the cardboard bullet catch. Found fragments and jacket bits in the milk jugs. Recovered several peices weighing a total of 111gr, the core weighed 77gr. There were frag holes in the back the first gallon milk jug the bullet encountered.
Not posting the load as it exceeds the max load a bit, the load is compreseed and its swapped up to a magnum primer, plus the coal length for that bullets ogive won't fit most guns any ways as the sten has good bit of free bore. But no scarry pressure signs. Velocity was a little over 1,500fps.
Holey crap it exploded the juice jug and the first milk jug like a rifle.

Yeah should probably switch to a 147gr.
Go with standard primer and a 9mm major load of AA7 or HS-6, probably load it in shellshock cases.

 

[Bfh_auto]

I loaded some up possible deer loads.
Fired it at a 1/2 gallon juice jug filled with water in front of 2 more milk jugs full of water. The sig 124gr bullet jacket separated, fragmented and the core fragmented. I recovered the core just barely sticking in the cardboard bullet catch. Found fragments and jacket bits in the milk jugs. Recovered several peices weighing a total of 111gr, the core weighed 77gr. There were frag holes in the back the first gallon milk jug the bullet encountered.
Not posting the load as it exceeds the max load a bit, the load is compreseed and its swapped up to a magnum primer, plus the coal length for that bullets ogive won't fit most guns any ways as the sten has good bit of free bore. But no scarry pressure signs. Velocity was a little over 1,500fps.
Holey crap it exploded the juice jug and the first milk jug like a rifle.

Yeah should probably switch to a 147gr.
Go with standard primer and a 9mm major load of AA7 or HS-6, probably load it in shellshock cases.

That's what we've been saying. The 124 would make a legitimate varmint/predator bullet.

 

[milsurpguy]

The hot 124gr load cyles the sten well.
Priming up some shellshocks right now for 147gr bullets.

 

[milsurpguy]

My 9mm major HS-6, 147gr loads are going over the chronograph at 1,200 to 1,230 out of the 9.5 inch barrel sten and 1,130 to 1,150 out of the extended Beretta 5.25 or so inch silencerCo barrel.
Need to load some 147gr bullets over some AA7 to take advantage of that extra 4 inches of barrel.

 

[milsurpguy]

147gr hornady xtp 357sig ballistic gel, luckygunner dot com. The 9.5 inch barrel sten firing 147gr XTP bullets on top of a "9mm major load" will at least exceed the types of velocity you see in a 357sig pistol. I have lots of these already loaded as 9mm major and as loose projectiles.
I don't think they'll frag.
All hail sectional density:

 

[milsurpguy]

I saved up 3 gallon milk jugs and blew them away with the 147gr XTP, HS-6 major load. The first jug was ripped apart, as expected, second jug was ripped open and the third jug was punctured through. I think the bullet bounced off the card board back stop and was lost. Which is unfortunate because I did find some fragments. I'll retest with 2 milk jugs and I should be able to catch the bullet next time.

 

[Bfh_auto]

I saved up 3 gallon milk jugs and blew them away with the 147gr XTP, HS-6 major load. The first jug was ripped apart, as expected, second jug was ripped open and the third jug was punctured through. I think the bullet bounced off the card board back stop and was lost. Which is unfortunate because I did find some fragments. I'll retest with 2 milk jugs and I should be able to catch the bullet next time.

That will be sufficient for deer at bore hunting ranges.
You proved it will penetrate enough to make 2 holes most of the time.

 

[milsurpguy]

Yeah the 147gr XTP expanded to half inch and went in ballistics gel nearly 2 feet with both the 9x19 loading and the 357sig loading.
I'll probably develop a high subsonic, 147gr XTP sten load with HS-6. Which is take my 147gr 9mm major load and back it off 0.3 to 0.5 grains.

 

[milsurpguy]

Got some 3N38 from midwayusa.
Curiosity got the best of me. $45 for a pound, plus $12 hazmat, with tax, probably came in about $60 for a pound.
Limit of 1 per person, so if you need it, like your are running low, have loads developed, have primers, wait till they have the kegs in stock.
I don't know if I can improve on the "about 2 inches at 50 yards" I get with HS-6 but I'll try.