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Have been browsing the Internet, but haven't found more than a couple references for powder in this particular weight.
Any of you use these pills in 9mm? If so, what powders and charge weights are you using?
Thanks in advance!
I've read about certain brass having issues. I've got a bunch of bullseye, some unique, CFE pistol and a couple others but no tite group red dot or power pistol.@DizzyJ I load 165gr 9mm for my subs, love this round. Xtreme is the only one I know that has them, FMJ-RN. This is where mine comes from. For powder, it needs to be low volume as the 165 is a TALL* round that goes deep in the case for the proper OCL. I am using 3.0gr of TiteGroup and they run flawlessly.
*NOTE: The OCL is an issue with SOME headstamps when loading the 165gr 9mm bullet. Cases with thick webs in them will have chambering issues with the 165 as the deep/tall round will PUSH the outer walls outward as it seats to the correct OCL. This will lead to cases not passing a check gauge or thunk check in a chamber and can get "stuck" as the cartridge feeds not letting the gun go into battery. (Fun trying to then rack it out)
The problem headstamps are:
FC
RP
S&B (worst, very thick web)
A USA
Xtreme (yes the very brand of the bullet will not feed correctly with their own cases)
The cases I keep separate that work great for loading the 165gr are:
Blazer
WIN
Speer
Starline
This last group loads and feeds great. 165gr is a very soft shooting sub round very quiet and a nice satisfying "Thunk" downrange when it hits the backstop!
I've read about certain brass having issues. I've got a bunch of bullseye, some unique, CFE pistol and a couple others but no tite group red dot or power pistol.
Appreciate the info.Your CFE Pistol is probably the lowest density of bullseye and unique. Looking around at the load date for 147g with CFE, I see loads like 3.7g. Personally, I would translate that too 165gr bullet to be about 3.2 of CFE, of course starting lower and working up to that.
DG Bullets has 160gr coated lead, if that would work for you all. $.105-$.09ish/pp shipped, depending on quantity.I was doing 165 Xtreme plates round nose with 4.2 grains of BE-86 sat to 1.15 through my 8" CMMG and they were all at around 1000 fps. Great subsonic load.
Finding 165s though!?!? To be honest I haven't looked in a bit.