Charlie98
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Judging by my avatar, you can probably assume I'm a big Unique guy... and I am. Except... there's always an exception... in 9mm. In my early years of reloading 9mm for my HiPower, I had issues with cratered primers and overpressure, so much so that I gave up on reloading 9mm altogether. I'm sure it had to do with bullet seating depth and poorly metered charges, but it freaked me out, enough so that I dumped all my 9mm components and only shot factory. Fast forward to today, and I'm back reloading 9mm for my Kahrs... and having better success. No, I still don't use Unique, but I have experimented with some of the newer powders... BE86 being one of them. In my case, with the short barrels of the Kahrs, I reached a point with BE86 where a higher charge weight did not produce additional velocity, and in fact, was dumping unburnt (or poorly burnt) powder on my shooting hand, but that is not to say you might have good success with a 5" barrel. I've pretty much abandoned BE86 in the 9mm, I have a few others I'm going to work with, mainly Sport Pistol and W244.