I've been shooting X-treme Copper plated bullets in my .40 cal pistol at competition (I'm new to this sport). I've reloaded lots of rifle cartridges in the past (near the dawn of time ) but never shot pistol reloads.
Anyhow I've reloaded 180g HAP, 135g JHP and 155JHP and played around with the loads. It's one of the great things about reloading, finding the right load for a firearm, caliber and bullet. I've also reloaded the Copper plated bullets 155g with 6 grains and now 7 grains of Unique. The round seems to perform well.
Just out of curiousity I called X-treme and talked with this lovely young lady who shoots IPSC and she said that they recommend following the Speer reloading guide for 155g FMJ. The problem I have with that (even though it works fine so far) is that .002" of Copper plating is not the same as .010-.020" of swaged Copper. I emailed Speer and they responded very courteously that they could not recommend a load for someone else's bullets (makes sense). The Speer reloading guide says you can load to 8 grains of Unique but that seemed a bit high for just pistol competition.
I also bought a pound of "Titegroup" as it was recommended as being a little less "dirty" than the Unique. Can any of you recommend a load for the 155g Copper plated X-treme bullet in Unique and Titegroup?
Really appreciate it. I've read through this board many posts and there seems to be a lot of very experienced shooters and reloaders on this site.
Thanks!
AZ
Anyhow I've reloaded 180g HAP, 135g JHP and 155JHP and played around with the loads. It's one of the great things about reloading, finding the right load for a firearm, caliber and bullet. I've also reloaded the Copper plated bullets 155g with 6 grains and now 7 grains of Unique. The round seems to perform well.
Just out of curiousity I called X-treme and talked with this lovely young lady who shoots IPSC and she said that they recommend following the Speer reloading guide for 155g FMJ. The problem I have with that (even though it works fine so far) is that .002" of Copper plating is not the same as .010-.020" of swaged Copper. I emailed Speer and they responded very courteously that they could not recommend a load for someone else's bullets (makes sense). The Speer reloading guide says you can load to 8 grains of Unique but that seemed a bit high for just pistol competition.
I also bought a pound of "Titegroup" as it was recommended as being a little less "dirty" than the Unique. Can any of you recommend a load for the 155g Copper plated X-treme bullet in Unique and Titegroup?
Really appreciate it. I've read through this board many posts and there seems to be a lot of very experienced shooters and reloaders on this site.
Thanks!
AZ