![]() There’s a good selection of 9mm/.35-caliber jacketed pistol bullets, but because they’re typically launched at 900 to 1,300 fps, they’ll likely not be strong enough to effectively drop a deer or a hog.Īlthough the project started out with a scarcity of suitable bullets and encountered a couple of hitches along the way, I’ll still say any time spent at my reloading bench or at the range is a good thing. Winchester is already shipping at least two bullets packaged for sale to reloaders. I’m hoping Hornady and Federal add their bullets to the product mix. I had samples of Federal’s 180-grain JSP and 160-grain Fusion bullets, (and factory load data), but they’re not yet available for the handloader. I lubed, sized, and wiped the rest of the batch clean before expanding/belling the case mouths. The expander die was already set, so I didn’t pay close attention to how much it flared each case mouth. I recharged all but five cases with 23 grains of the recovered but “unverified” powder. I loaded those five with the same charge of Lil’ Gun right out of the bottle so I could, hopefully, satisfy myself when firing them over the chronograph that I had loaded the “right” powder to begin with. ![]() When I attempted to seat the first 145-grain FMJ bullet, it snagged on the inadequately flared case mouth and crumpled the case wall. I emptied the charged cases, readjusted the expander die, and repeated processing them-again!Įverything went well at the range. ![]() Based on the recorded velocities, the 23-grain charge essentially duplicated the ballistics of the Winchester 145-grain factory load. ![]() That’s 5.5 grains less (19+ percent reduction) than Hodgdon’s data shows as max for the 9mm jacketed pistol bullets. Once again, I’ve learned you can’t be too careful when reloading a new cartridge or a new component. In a previous Shooting Times Quick Shot on the Ruger American Ranch. 350 Legend bolt-action rifle, I concluded it was, at best, a 2-MOA combo suitable for taking deer and hogs at ranges up to 175 yards with selected ammo. The Ruger AR-556 MPR autoloader performed similarly for this report. ![]()
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