Found a load!

[Texas10mm]

I went to the range today to dial in a couple of handguns and test a couple of loads. While loading the truck this morning I noticed a 50 box of a load I had loaded several months ago and never shot.

I got the Canik SX dialed in with a NOE ELCO bullet, 151 grs, over 2.8 gr Ramshot Competition. I got the RIA 9mm 1911 dialed in with a load of the MP 125 gr RNFP bullet over 4.2 gr WST. Both these load are very accurate and very soft shooting.

I then went to work on my XDM 45. I tried four different loads and none of them really thrilled me. Then I remembered those 50 rounds. I went to the truck and got them. Loaded up 10 in the mag and proceeded to cut one large hole on the target. Loaded another 10 and the same thing.

I shot all 50 and it's the best shooting load I've tried in the XDM. RCBS 201KT bullet over 3.8 gr IMR Red. Very soft shooting, scary accurate. Now I need to load up 500 or so of this load for upcoming matches.

 

[Dudedog]

Nice when things work out

 

[BC17A]

Nice work! No better feeling than to load rounds that are far superior to factory ammo, and at less than half the cost.

 

[VoodooMountain]

I can't count how many times I've heard/read that pistol reloading is pointless because the shooter won't be good enough to notice any accuracy difference unless he's jerry michalek or alike.

I don't think those people shoot enough.

 

[tightgroup tiger]

I shot all 50 and it's the best shooting load I've tried in the XDM.

I know how that feels, I stumbled on one with my .357mag and 41mag both. Extremely good, accurate, loads.
Good for you, it's really fun when you find one.
It's also a good thing you keep records so you knew the recipe after they sat in your truck for so long!

 

[murf]

you hit the jackpot. thanks for publishing the load. it's very difficult to come up with a "one holer" load for any handgun.

can you share your o.a.l. for that load?

murf

 

[Dudedog]

What everybody is not telling you is on order for them to work that well they need to be properly aged like whiskey. You seem to have done the ones you shot the other day just right.
So you will need to try to duplicate the exact storage conditions, run over the same pot holes/ruts on the way to shoot, leave them in the truck the same amount of time etc, to get the next batch to work as well.

Hitting the same pot holes is important! ( so the powder gets settled just so)

 

[Texas10mm]

you hit the jackpot. thanks for publishing the load. it's very difficult to come up with a "one holer" load for any handgun.

can you share your o.a.l. for that load?

murf

That I can't really tell ya. I did the standard thumbnail thickness above the case mouth.

I have a SWC seating stem in my Dillon seating die. It indexes on the shoulder of a SWC. I can use it with any of the dozen or more different SWC bullets I can cast and it seats them all to the correct depth.

 

[murf]

good to know that the thumbnail method still works for swc bullets.

thanks,

murf