I know a lot of USPSA shooters who use it for their 9mm minor loads. Because it's a fast powder well suited to moderate-to-light recoil/PF loads, and because it is cheap.
This is the key of course, and more critical in some applications than others.I pay attention to what I am doing when I reload, and have a good scale, powder measure, and dispenser.
I have 30 or so powders to use, but TG isn't one of them for a reason.
I pay attention to what I am doing when I reload, and have a good scale, powder measure, and dispenser.
What I'm not excited about is it being used as a first-time powder by novices. I believe the load window is too narrow (~0.4gr for 9mm) for a beginner, who may be using a beginner scale that's only accurate to 0.2gr. Or worse yet, relying on scoops !
• The outcome with any powder is bound to improve with experience and refinement of your personal reloading process. Most reloaders past 2000 rounds have usually finished making beginner mistakes.
• Maybe some of you know, but the OP never stated his personal level of reloading experience. No dis-credit to him, certainly, but until stated, I prefer to err on the side of caution.
rfwobbly,
Thank you for your comments!
I have loaded 10,000 plus 9mm along with several thousand 380acp and 45acp.
I take the narrow range of TG very seriously and will check the powder weight dropped by my powder drop often.
I will use up the TG I have on hand and move on to other powders which do not have such a narrow range.
In my original post I listed the other powders I have on hand, I just picked up the TG during the "great shortage" then a week later found BE-86 and HP- 38 on the shelf.
This discussion has been great!
It drives home the necessity for paying close attention to every phase of our reloading hobby.
Thank you all for comments pro and con about the use of TG.
Very good discussion from the members or THR!!
JD
That's what I use Tightgroup for. I use it in 9mm with 115 grain plated projectiles. It works great for me.So my question is, should I use TG for target pinking 9mm rounds or use another powder?
PP metered as well as everyone says it does, fills up the case so double-charging isn't much of an issue, and produced great accuracy with 124g FMJs using a starting load of 5.6g powder (Win primers, ~1.140 OAL). Again though - the recoil impulse was more than I expected from what should have been a relatively light load. But I had only been shooting 115g factory ammo previously so don't know how much of a difference the bump in bullet weight made compared to the powder choice.
It was certainly advertised that way, but when I tested it the results as far as velocity loss when the powder was forward away from the primer was average. It does seem to burn cleanly regardless of position.because it was "position insensitive", in other words, small powder charges in large cases still provided consistent results compared to other powders that required a more full case to burn consistently.
Definitely right about that.I started with Power Pistol since it was available during the powder crunchm but switched to TireGroup because it was not as flashy or dirty.