power pistol: 9mm, 40sw, 380

[trigga]

it could just be thin brass too. i am reloading recovered range brass. two cases out of the 115 gr loads has slight bulge. i seated them at 1.10 and that should be fine. the .40 i could tell had a lot more recoil.

 

[breacher]

I finally got a chance to go test the loads on Monday. To start out all the 9mm worked out fine. I think I'm going to stick with 5.4gr for both the 124 gr and 115 gr. I did load some 5.6 gr in the 115 gr hp and noticed a slight case bulge. the 5.0 gr loads worked but seems to just barely "drop" the cases on my feet. (just enough to cycle the slide)

The 180 gr 40 sw however, I did notice a lot more blast that what I have been using (AA no. 5). the 6.4 gr loads worked fine. the 6.8 gr slightly started showing bulges with the factory glock barrel. I finished the 6.8 gr loads in my 6" storm lake barrel and no more bulges. It definitely felt like a hot load. I wish I had a chrono to measure it. will be sticking with the 6.4 gr.

Your 6.8gr Power Pistol loads are pretty hot. I've done some work with PP, 180gr plated bullets and a chronograph. Out of my Glock 22 with 180gr Berry's 6.0gr of PP runs about the same as factory WWB, 980 to 1000 fps. I like 5.0gr or less (as low as 4.4gr) for light plinking. 4.7gr runs about 800fps and is one ragged hole accurate from my pistol so yes, PP does load down pretty well.

Unique? That's another story. Horrible results when I tried to load that down to 800fps. Very erratic velocities and bad accuracy.