Sig [Sierra] 'V-Crown 124gn JHP over Win 244?

[markr6754]

Just saw your banner. My aunt lived in Levittown. Spent some time there. Had three cousins from her, and now one of them inherited the family home. I was last there in 1971 after I graduated from HS and traveled to visit relatives and friends I hadn’t seen in ages.

 

[lordpaxman]

no, waiting for another powder

Interesting! Care to share? W244 is a mid to fast burn powder and in my testing produced excellent results, for me. Slower powders should be able to get you higher velocities if that’s what you’re after. I’m an ecumenical powder user so I just test ‘em as I get ‘em.

 

[GeoDudeFlorida]

Interesting! Care to share? W244 is a mid to fast burn powder and in my testing produced excellent results, for me. Slower powders should be able to get you higher velocities if that’s what you’re after. I’m an ecumenical powder user so I just test ‘em as I get ‘em.

Same here. I can take me most of a pound with pistol powders and a whole pound with rifle powders to learn a new powder's "personality." I don't just test it for "a" load, I test it for every "possible" load. Because, you know, sometimes a fast rifle powder makes the best slow pistol powder.

 

[1911in9mm]

For what it’s worth, Midsouth Shooters still shows Vihtavuori N330 1 pounders in stock. In my opinion you’ll be very hard pressed to find a better powder to push 115,124,or 147 grain self defense hollow points to their intended velocity windows any better than 330 will.
N330 offers low flash, good SD velocities, good case fill, and burns clean. And to me the single base Viht powders aren’t nearly as temperamental as the high Nitro content double based powders are, YMMV.

 

[lordpaxman]

N330 offers low flash, good SD velocities, good case fill, and burns clean.

VV claims N330 was made for 9mm. It just happens to work in other calibers as well. I do like the VV powders and have tested 330 and found it to be excellent as well. It just is a bit slow for my competition loads but fits nicely in the mid range. If you order a pound of that, and can get 320 and 340 they are nice additions to the list.

 

[Walkalong]

N-330 is good stuff in 9MM, N-340 and 3N37 will get you more velocity, but N-330 does just fine with 124s.

 

[wis bang]

Interesting! Care to share? W244 is a mid to fast burn powder and in my testing produced excellent results, for me. Slower powders should be able to get you higher velocities if that’s what you’re after. I’m an ecumenical powder user so I just test ‘em as I get ‘em.

Should get to test the244 with 124 gn XTP next weekend. I have some Accurate#7 coming.

 

[wis bang]

Managed to test my reloading functionality Saturday while my wife's godson broke in his new AR.

Hornady XP 124 gn and 3.7gn win 244 worked well, nice group [for me] with no failures or bulging primers.

Sig V-Crown [Sierra] 124 gn and the listed 6.1 gn for Acurate No 7 also worked the same.

I was a little high trying to catch one of the sig 124's so it didn't mushroom.

The factory 147 gn was on the money and looks just like the mushroom on the box.

 

[TransAmConvert]

Though not 244, but I’m using Sig 124 gr V-Crown over 5.9 gr of BE-86 for my short barreled 9MM’s.
Bad thing is, BE-86 is almost impossible to find right now….

Can you give any more details on this load? Length, velocity, gun used? I also like BE86 for this but stopped at 5.5gr.

 

[Lennyjoe]

Sig P365 and Springfield Hellcat both shoot it well. I used the data from Alliants website and it shot great out of both. I haven’t chronographed the loads yet to get tru fps.

 

[markr6754]

Don't have anything to contribute to this thread except that it opened my eyes to another powder option for my 9mm luger loads. Consequently, I dropped into my local Cabela's on a whim, last night. To my surprise, they had powder on the shelf. Only one....6 1lb bottles of Win 244. I'm always open to adding components as I find them...so 2 bottles came home with me. With my veteran's discount they were $30.39/lb plus tax. Can't say when I'll get to make up some rounds for testing, but happy to have another powder on hand.

 

[BC17A]

Managed to test my reloading functionality Saturday while my wife's godson broke in his new AR.

Hornady XP 124 gn and 3.7gn win 244 worked well, nice group [for me] with no failures or bulging primers.

Sig V-Crown [Sierra] 124 gn and the listed 6.1 gn for Acurate No 7 also worked the same.

I was a little high trying to catch one of the sig 124's so it didn't mushroom.

The factory 147 gn was on the money and looks just like the mushroom on the box.

Why so light on the AA#7 charge? I'm surprised they'd cycle the action at 6.1gn. I load the 124 gold-dot, XTP and V-crown and none are anything to write home about until at or above 7gns.

 

[wis bang]

Why so light on the AA#7 charge? I'm surprised they'd cycle the action at 6.1gn. I load the 124 gold-dot, XTP and V-crown and none are anything to write home about until at or above 7gns.

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