cast boolit and the 9mm

[Kuyong_Chuin]

I fixed one of the reasons to hold off yesterday while in town. Up till now I have only been loading the bare minimums when it comes to the 9mm because the only die set I had for the 9mm was a "wack-a-mole" die set for them and it was just a pain in the rear end to load them that way. Alright in an emergency or out in the middle of nowhere and have to work up a load on the fly so to speak, but not something you want to load up hundreds of rounds at a time with that is for sure. Stopped by one of the LGS yesterday and he had one 9mm die set left in stock so I picked it up. More that what I wanted to pay of a set it I would have had to pay about the same amount if all I was going to order was the one set of dies. So I now have a deluxe edition die set in 9mm to use on my challenger SS press. With the cost of the dies and a couple of packages of surplus 7.62x54R rounds I am again broke till next month. With my high school reunion coming up in August I'll need to save every penny I have left over after the bills are paid for the next two months before anything else is bought for my reloading "hobby". This includes cast rounds for the 9mm. I'll load up the 100 bullets I have left for the 9mm as well as the 250 Nosler JHP rounds I have to work up for my 40 S&W. By that time I'll also be out of primers so I will be at a standstill at least September. I'll also have the dentist paid off by then so I can use that extra money to go towards reloading supplies. Anyone know off hand what size lead egg sinker you use to slug a 9mm with? We have three 9mm here but I will not be shooting reloads through one of them. In fact that one never gets shot at all really. It is a family heirloom and rare so it just gets taken out to clean any dust off it might get on it over time and reoiled up and put back I the safe till next time.

 

[greyling22]

be advised that there are 2 types of lead sinkers. soft ones and super hard ones. Be sure you get the soft ones.

 

[Kuyong_Chuin]

be advised that there are 2 types of lead sinkers. soft ones and super hard ones. Be sure you get the soft ones.

Yeah, I learned that the hard way when I was not paying any attention and bought steel sinkers by mistake. I got all the way home before noticing they were steel sinkers and just gave them to my Dad and picked up the correct type the next time I was in town. I just need to know what size to get since I am not going to carry the gun or the barrel with me to the store to find out the right size. My 40 is all I carry till I get a backup pocket pistol and I am not pulling that out inside the Wal-Mart ether.

 

[moonman16]

A friend gave me some BLUE BULLETS from a new company in NC.
They appear to be POWDER-COATED, and NOT a HI-TEK type coating.

These are different than the HI-TEK coated projectiles from Bayou Bullets, SNS Casting, Gateway Bullets and BBI presently in the marketplace.

Some of these projectiles have had molds made WITH NO CONVENTIONAL LUBE GROOVES IN THEM as they are NOT NEEDED, the coating is the lube.


No experience with the BLUE BULLETS yet but they are sponsors at shooting competitions.

I've been coating and purchasing commercially coated HI-TEK process projectiles for a few months now.

I like them, CLEAN, NO LEADING (with proper bullet fit to barrel), lower to NO SMOKE.