Frontier 9mm CMJ 115gr + Unique?

[lord1234]

Anyone have a good load for this? Alliant's website says 6.3 gr of Unique is the max load. I'm at 5.4 grains currently, but since it's CMJ, I'm not going to push 6.3. Even with 5.4, it feels like I'm just "cramming" a bullet ontop of it, and I'm worried about dealing with compressed powder and such...

Thoughts? Suggestions? I can't find load data in any of my books/sources for a CMJ bullet, and frontier's site is useless.

 

[rcmodel]

I'm guessing these are South African Frontier CMJ plated bullets?

I know nothing about them at all and had to go find the website to find out what they were.
http://www.frontierbullets.co.za/index.htm

Still don't know much from what they had to say!

If they have thin plating like Berry or Ranier bullets here, you want to use lead bullet or mid-range jacketed data.

If they have thicker plating like Speer Gold-Dots & TMJ's, you can probably use that data.

At any rate, 6.0 Unique with a 115 is a good load in my guns with either plated or jacketed bullets.

rc

 

[Nate1778]

9mm reload confirmation

Deleted, sorry meant to have new thread

 

[D. Manley]

Frontier 9mm CMJ 115gr + Unique?

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Anyone have a good load for this? Alliant's website says 6.3 gr of Unique is the max load. I'm at 5.4 grains currently, but since it's CMJ, I'm not going to push 6.3. Even with 5.4, it feels like I'm just "cramming" a bullet ontop of it, and I'm worried about dealing with compressed powder and such...

Thoughts? Suggestions? I can't find load data in any of my books/sources for a CMJ bullet, and frontier's site is useless.

Frontier is a plated bullet and have a very good reputation. They are similar to Rainier & Berrys but do have some differences. Some of their bullets are swaged and some are cast...and, the two have different plating thicknesses. They also have a competition series which has a thicker plating than either. The information is on their website, just have to dig around a bit.

Bottom line is, treat them as you would any typical plated bullet...avoid heavy crimp, keep loads in the mid-range for similar jacketed bullets of the same weight and you should be fine.

 

[lord1234]

5.8 seemed like a comfortable load as I went up from 5 towards 6. 5.8 was the biggest i brought with me, but it was pretty accurate.