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4.6 gr Titegroup 4.0 gr Clays 200 gr SWC Bear Creek Both Loaded at 1.235 (My chamber is a tad short) Both are excellent out of my 1911s

9mm-Titegroup .40 .45 - Titegroup and Clays .38 Special A few years ago when everything was hard to find I also worked up a few loads with Universal and CFE Pistol. CFE Pistol worked well in 9mm and I found a nice medium load in .357 Magnum load with it.

Have you tried CFE Pistol maybe? Not quite as slow as H110 or 2400 but may give you the velocity you are looking for.

Titewad would be up there. my charge weights with Clays have been fairly low as well.

I had to use 4.4gr CFE Pistol to make PF in a CZ 75, OAL was 1.060 Bear Creek 125 gr Moly coated bullets.

I would hope not, personally I pull them down.

I was pulling some 45 rounds that I found at the range and ran into this: The powder was all yellow and corroded looking, anyone run into this? This is the reason I pull down range finds, the round looked fine from the outside but never know whats inside.

Where did you see that on Powder valley? I bought 5K S&B Small Pistol and a couple K Small Rifle locally about 6 months ago. This would make sense though as my LGS had a bunch of them and now all they have is Large Rifle on the shelves. I have been buying Fiochhi Small Pistol lately, another LGS has them for 25.99 per 1500.

I had to go to 1.060 using 125 gr RN Bear Creeks with a CZ75. Short bullet and short chamber.

I did not but I saw it when I went back and looked at the site again just now. They also had a combo pack that looked interesting. https://ballistictools.com/store/reloading-products/case-and-ammunition-gauges/three-gage-pack

I just ordered one of these yesterday, looks like it will be really handy. Looking forward to trying it out!

Glad to hear they worked out, I have shot a bunch through a CZ 75 too and they run great.

Just curious - Why the powder switch? I just started to reload this year and wanted to go with Tite Group from the start but CFE was what was available locally since it always seemed Tite Group was out of stock. Now it seems to be the opposite and I can get the Tite Group. Another reason Is I can usually buy Tite group for about $4 - $5 less than CFE per pound. I found them same thing. I picked up 4-5 pounds of CFE Pistol a few years ago when that's all I could find. Now that Titegroup is available again I've been running that. Haven't seen too much CFE Pistol, at least not locally.

I haven't used any of those powders but I like faster powders in 38 Special like Titegroup and Clays. With the powders you listed I would try Bullseye, 231, and Unique in that order. I bet you can find some nice shooting loads with Bullseye. http://www.alliantpowder.com/reloaders/Powder.aspx?powderid=1

I like Win, Fed, Speer, PMC, RP for match loads. All my Winchester is mostly a little older brass, have heard some QC problems with newer Winchester brass but haven't run into any problems myself. All the foreign stuff goes into my practice or plinking loads, CBC, PPU, Fiocchi, etc. Scrap any AMERC, LY, Ammoload and IMT brass. I'm about to the point of scrapping Tula brass as well, too many case gauge failures and one of those locked up my friends Glock 19 tight.

I would think 3.6 - 3.8 of Titegroup would get you right where you want to be.

I ended up with 3.8 also for 230 gr loads at 1.255 and 4.0 with 200 gr SWC loaded at 1.235 OAL with Clays. Those seemed to be the most accurate with both out of my gun but haven't had a chance to chrono them yet. Mine was with the newer Canadian Clays.

I've loaded a bunch of 125 gr Moly with 3.6 of Titegroup, makes power factor and is a nice shooting load. Hodgdons load data seems to start at 3.6 for the 124 gr bullets as well, I would start there and work up, chrono them if you have the ability. You should be able to find a good load fairly easily with that combo I would think.

90% of my case gauge failures were from CBC and Tula. Culling those two headstamps alone boosted my efficiency exponentially. Regarding S&B, it seems to be very high quality brass provided you ream or swage. Exactly this. Jacketed bullets in particular with Tula would bulge so bad they have locked up more than one gun where I couldn't rack the slide to eject the round. I had to use the end of a table to push the slide against to eject the round. I started case gauging after that and tula almost 90% of the time wouldn't gauge so I started culling them out. IMC has stepped cases and I had them split in half at the step more than once. This. I use Tula and CBC for practice ammo batches only but even then it locked up my friends Glock 19. Turned out to be a Tula case. Went home and case gauged the rest and found some more that wouldn't gauge. Thinking about scrapping Tula in the future as unusable even for practice. Also had issues with the Chinese LY brass, had a small batch and half of them the primer pockets were so loose that the primer would fall right back out after priming. On the rest the primer would move with minimal force with a paperclip. Went ahead and just scrapped all that Chinese junk. I actually happen to really like S&B brass. Once the pockets are reamed its easy to load and seems to be good quality brass.

Here's my results with the Wolf 55 gr. 16" Rock River Chrome lined, 1 in 9 twist. H335 2.240 OAL 23.0 23.5 24.0 24.5

Interesting, I had not heard of them before. Do you know what kind of coating they use?

I just picked up 6k since the price was right. Havent had a chance to shoot any yet but have primed up some cases with them, I am sure they will do just fine. Don't anticipate any problems as these will be mosyly used in 1911s and a CZ 75

I had good luck with 4.4 gr of CFE Pistol with 125 gr moly bullets, had to load them short at 1.060 for my CZ due to the short chamber and profile of the bullets. I would have to look at my notes but I think I got 1030-1050 fps out of these.

Looking to pick up a few more for my Rockchucker that I recently set up. Been looking mostly at RCBS and Hornady, anybody prefer one over the other? Or just whatever happens to be the best price?

Interesting info, I wouldn't have thought that would make as big of a difference. I sort out all my 45 SPP and use them for practice, I might have to load some up and chrono them just to see. Although I would imagine it would not make as significant of a difference using Titegroup.