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What other colors does he have?

Many thanks for your dedication to this science. Chas III

Well that's good news! I hated to think I was looking into a deep mystery. Thanks,

Has anyone experienced heavier bullets grouping or hitting higher than lighter bullets. I shoot an XDm 9mm with 4.5 barrel. The following three loads were used in the discovery. 1) 115 grain factor Blazer Brass and Winchester white box hit red dot dead center to a 1/4 inch high at ten yards. Advertised 1145 fps. 2) 124 grain Bayou Bullets over 4.4gr. of W-231, oal 1.145, .377-.378 crimp, chrono’d 1080fps are hitting about 1-1/4 inches high of dead center. 3) 135 grain Bayou Bullet over 3.9gr. of W-231, oal 1.145, .377-.378 crimp, chrono’d 998 fps are hitting about 2 inches high of dead center. Shots are from bench rest at ten yards. I first discovered this about two months ago when myself and a friend were shooting at 100 yards, mostly for fun and the 135's were flying over a full size silhouette target while aiming at center mass. In the past I have shot the 115's several different times and consistently had 18 inch groups centered around my point of aim. I had to aim at the bottom of the target, about 24 inches below point of impact. Groups were about 24 inches. There seems to be a consistency here, anyone had any similar experience? Over,

I pay three dollars a pound from the local range.

Very interesting, Thanks,

Nice looking brass! Ten pounds of what kind of "pins"? Over,

Thanks guys

Greetings fellow reloaders, I'm loading 9mm 135 Bayou Bullets with 3.9gr of W-231, .377-.378 crimp and 1.140 OAL. from a mixed bag of cases using Winchester small pistol primers or CCI spp. They run between 980 and 1000 fps over a chrono. Unable to find any small pistol primers, I bought a 1000 Federal "magmum small pistol primers." Last box on the shelf. With all things kept the same, what will most likely happen using the "magnum small pistol primers?" Can the mag primer spike the 231? I'm going to back the charge down .2 grains and rechrono, but I'm hoping someone else has some experience with this. Best regards, Over,

I bought the Ruger 22 45 in a 4.5 inch barrel with threads for a suppressor. I had the trigger pull increased to about 6 pounds to match my XDM 4.5 9mm. After 10,000 rounds, I'm very happy. Save up some patience for the day you first reassemble it.

Sooner or later I'll catch them during business hours.

I have been watching Zero for 9mm 125gr JHP for a couple of months now and have noticed that there isn't much of anything in stock. Anyone have an inside scoop on this? Thanks,

Thanks for the heads up. I have been looking to pick up some of those.

My wife has the same issue. She could not and I mean no way could rack my XD. So after a bunch of pistol squeezing we settled on the H&K P-30. It racks so smooth and easy you would think it was broke. The grip has multiple backs and side panels to fit any hand. In fact, I think there is no other plastic pistols with a better feel to the grip. Not saying other are not as good. There's almost to many trigger variant options and we have the double action/single action version, but I would get the version that is closest to double action only, if I could do it over. One draw back is the cost, of course she did't care about that. It went something like " all the pistols you got!!, cough it up sweetie." ( She doesn't know the half of it.) I still shoot and carry XD's, but for her, it's a prefect pistol. Good luck,

The gun: XD-9 service model bought in 2006. I had run 15,000 + or - factory rounds (Blazer, winchester, remington, speers, etc.)and not one failure of any kind. Then I started to load my own and around 17,000 (mostly 4.2 to 4.4 W-231 with MG or zeros) i started to experience FTE. Went back to proven factory loads and still one to two FTE's per 50 rounds. After checking everything talked about here I called Springfield and they happily sent me a free trip to their facility to inspect having told me they will replace the extractor. Now the reason I write. Shortly before this experience I had taken about a dozen+ empty casings with primers (casulties of a new loader), hand feed them into the chamber and let the slide slam shut like I was loading a round feed by the mag. I now wonder if the extractor slamming over the case head may have damaged the extractor. Facts for thought. Happy trails,

Interesting test. Just curious, what pistol did you use. XD9 Service and an XDm-9

MG 124 CMJ's w/ 4.4gr. of W-231, oal of 1.140 and crimp of .378 repeatedly gave me a fourteen foot groups at 100 yards. THAT'S FOOT AS IN FEET. MG 124 JHP's w/ 4.4gr. of W-231, oal of 1.140 and crimp of .378 repeatedly gave me an sixteen inch groups at 100 yards. Repeat inches. I went all over the place with powder load, oal, and crimp to no avail. I believe it has something to do with the little incert at the rear of the bullet. I never noticed much difference at 10 or 15 yards but at 25 yards there was a difference. I used up the 3750 CMJ's and have since purchased over 10,000 JHP's. I still use the MG JHP's and think the Montana Gold people and products are great except for the 124 CMJ for accuracy. Best regards,

Good evening, My XD-9 service had fired over 15,000 rounds flawlessly. No failures of anykind. Then I started reloading. With a softer than factory load the gun fires, the slide cycles, the slide picks up the next round and the next round slams into the just fired casing that is still in the chamber. This has happened 6 to 7 times out of a thousan reloads. I go back to factory stuff and never a problem. Between 15,000 and 17,000 I ran 1500 or so reloads that were factory equivalent and no problems. A few of the FTE casings were bulged out at there base and would not go into the chamber. A couple were a little snug but would tap out. I visually inspected the extractor and it looks fine. My reloads are zero 125gr. over 4.15grs. W-231 power with mixed brass. OAL is 1.400 with a crimp of .377. What's your best guess why the extractor doesn't pull the casing out? Best regards,

Well Thrusday has come and gone with no joy. I've been stuck at work all week and it's going to be a long one next week. Thanks for the info and hope to take you up on your offer this Thursday. Best regards,

Greetings Darrell, Three or four weeks ago you let me shoot your M&P 9 and 45. Very nice M&P's. Thanks for the response, I'll give you a shout next Thursday at Nick's. Charlie

Your nick reminded me of something I learned years ago. Roger, roger?

I'm not planning to go that low. I just don't want to change the pistol. At least not yet but that racin fever can get cha.

Greetings Storm52, The accuracy was fine at 10 yards for me. About 2 inch groups shooting two hand free style. I try to do a local match every Thursday night in Garyville, La and recently squeezed in a run-in-gun match a few Sundays ago. I always use factory ammo, mostly Blazer Brass. I shoot B class Production with an XD-9 or XDm-40. So, now that I'm reloading, I wanted to see what the talk was all about with soft loads. Hence I loaded some by reading these threads and a fairly safe guess to see for myself. And like I said, I had to laugh they were so "soft." I loved 'em. This stuff is really fun. Now I want to try them at a match. At this match there is no mimimum power factor that I know of, so I don't think I'm breaking any rules. Anyway, tomorrow I hope to shoot my first soft loads and see what happens. I hope my scores improve. It seems a little like cheating because I started these matches to improve my defensive shooting ability, BUT I seam to be getting a little caught up in the racing. So maybe I'll go back to heavy loads that equal Speers Gold Dot + P's and there 40's or Federal HST's, but this week it's off to the races. Also, the main reason for the post was to capitalize on others experience with my exact load and pistol to possible save me some time and money in determining at what point I'll have trouble cycling the slide. By the way, thanks for the response and what's a "Right hand pillar?" Top of the evening to ya Storm,

Greetings everyone, I'm new to reloading. Being accustomed to the likes of W white box, Blazer Brass, Rem and stuff I buy at Walmart, I have never known a "light load." So, after first loading up some 9mm to match factory loads, I decided to load some 40 lites. I used 4.2 grains of Winchester 231 behind a 180 Montana Gold CMJ to an OAL of 1.128-1.130. On Sunday at the range, I stacked four 40 lite's under four Blazer B 180's (BB 180's chrono'd at 965 fps average a few months back) in a mag, stuffed the mag in my XDm-40 and fired away. Well, after reading a lot of these threads about "soft" loads, I'm telling you I was outright laughing. These suckers are close to a 22. I loaded a full mag of lites and half way through i had to stop shooting to laugh some more. I loved it. I was thinking if these worked out, I would try them in a production match, now I can't wait. Of the twenty-five 40 lites I fired, all fired, the XDm cycled perfectly and the slide remained open after the last round. The angle that the cases ejected was different but all ejected. I'm going to load some more and try them in my XD-40 service model next. Here's my question. Is there anyone loading a soft 180 gr. round using W-231 less than 4.2 grains of powder and shooting an XD that cycles reliably? Or, how low can I go and still cycle reliably? Best regards, XD-9 S XD-40 S Black XD-40 S Dark Earth XDm-40 XD-45 S

Thanks for the recipe rstandley. I'll be loading some this week.