Berry's Plated 9mm

[Walkalong]

I sent them an e-mail suggesting one with a smaller base cavity to give a 200 grain bullet with hardball profile

I hope they start making them.

 

[TennJed]

I personally love Sportsman's Warehouse but just an FYI you can get them for a good bit cheaper if you order 1000 direct from berry's website

 

[243winxb]

Plated VS Jacketed

Big difference in thickness.

 

[LiveLife]

HBRN-TP?

I get the HBRN (Hollow base round nose) but what's the TP?

When Berry's bullet type is followed by "TP", it means thicker plating has been applied and can be driven to higher velocities. Berry's regular plated bullets are good to around 1200 fps and TP bullets are good to around 1450-1500 fps - https://www.berrysmfg.com/faq-q12-c1-How_thick_is_the_jacket_on_your_bullets.aspx

How thick is the "jacket" on your bullets?
Depending upon the caliber, the thickness of the plating on our bullets ranges from 3.5 up to 8 thousandths of an inch of plating on each side. This is thicker than paper and ensures no lead in your bore. The bullets designed for higher velocities (45-70, 500 S&W etc.) have the thickest plating.

https://www.berrysmfg.com/faq-q21-c1-Load_Data_for_Berrys_Preferred_Plated_Bullets.aspx

Load Data for Berry's Preferred Plated Bullets
We recommend using hard cast load data or start with mid-range jacketed data. Make sure data is below 1250fps unless you are using a Thick-Plated bullet that we list a higher max velocity for like the 9mm 124gr HBRN-TP that can be shot to 1500fps in open class guns like a .38 Super. Keep in mind that since our plated bullet has the same pressure curve as a hard cast bullet, the published cast data will be very close to what you will get with our plated bullets. If you use Jacketed data with our plated bullets you can get from 5% - 8% increase in velocity using that data.

Other than the data from Western and Accurate for the 9mm and .40S&W there is no printed data available. If you have questions regarding loading for our bullets email us at - [email protected]

Here's a comparison picture of Berry's regular plated 124 gr RN, 124 gr HBRN-TP, 115 gr HBRN-TP and Winchester 115 gr FMJ RN:

 

[1SOW]

I prefer the Berry's 124gr HBRN-TP and the Zero 125gr JHP interchangeably for my primary loads. I have loaded a lot of various MG, PD, WIN and other FMJ bullets as well. I've tried an assortment of the 9mm bullets in Berry's "Sample Pack" available by request. I didn't like their 124 HP. I haven't tried the the 124gr FP-TP yet.

The Berry's 124 HBRN-TP is also the "longest" 124/125 gr bullet I've loaded--@ .619+" avg. This bullet will load at the same oal and charge as the shorter Berry's 124RN because of the hollow base. My short-chambered CZ will accept this bullet at well beyond SAAMI max length.

 

[Walkalong]

the Berry's 124gr HBRN-TP and the Zero 125gr JHP interchangeably

When Zeros got hard to find in stock, I tried the 124 Gr HBRN-TP in place of the Zero 125 Gr JHP in .38 Super, and it worked great.