Recently I posted a thread about "Grains on Unique and OAL" and received advice that led to me loading Berry's 124 gr RN with 5.1 grs of Unique at 1.165 OAL for my Glock 17. These bullets performed remarkably well. During that thread one poster mentioned that the OAL he told of was for RN ammunition! I hadnt really thought of varying OAL because of bullet shape, but as he pointed out, "HP bullets have the tip cut off" and this makes perfect sense. I have 500 X-treme 124 grain hollow points, and I would like to try the "recipe" out on them.
Now the Berry's RN I used, when placed in my digital calipers measure .592", while the 124 grain X-treme HP bullets measure .535".....I guess I cant use the same 1.165 OAL without changing the powder load? Or do you just set the HP bullet shorter by the measured difference in the 2 bullets? I hope not as this OAL is really working in the Glock!
Thanks for any clarity on how these bullets loading OAL should vary from my RN load.
Russellc
Now the Berry's RN I used, when placed in my digital calipers measure .592", while the 124 grain X-treme HP bullets measure .535".....I guess I cant use the same 1.165 OAL without changing the powder load? Or do you just set the HP bullet shorter by the measured difference in the 2 bullets? I hope not as this OAL is really working in the Glock!
Thanks for any clarity on how these bullets loading OAL should vary from my RN load.
Russellc