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  1. There is no shortage of them at my LGS. I went in to buy one, and someone had just came in and grabbed it. So they ordered me another, which I bought, and few weeks later I sold off a different 9mm I owned and grabbed a second Brig. The one I shoot most often now has a D spring and VZ Golfball grips but both are excellent shooters. It'd be neat to see what a good Beretta smith could do to this gun by polishing the correct surfaces regarding the trigger, a little dehorning, etc.
  2. How much wider are the Brig slides than the standard slides on the M9, 92, etc...? Would a Brig fit in a Safariland 6004 made for a M9? They have both blued and stainless ones 5 minutes from where I work.
  3. Finished re-testing my loads today. I shortened the COAL to 1.235, and loaded three set of 10 in charge weights of 5.2, 5.4, 5.7. 5.2 grains of CFE averaged 1091.4 fps with a standard deviation of 24 fps. 5.4 averaged 1111.7 with a SD of 17. 5.7 averaged 1129.5 with a SD of 15. I'm going to try a few different bullet weights later this month and see if there's anything that CFE Pistol likes better, but it'll work for now. It seems to like charge weights either at the bottom or the top of the ladder best. Does Autocomp act the same way?
  4. Got out and tested my loads today. My previous benchmark was with my tried and true HS-6 loads. 6.8 grains of HS-6 pushing the aforementioned 147 grain Berry's bullet loaded to 1.23-1.24 COAL. This gave me an average velocity of 1123 FPS with very little deviation. It also seemed to shoot as well as I could possibly hold the pistol. Today's CFE loads were 4.8, 5.0, and 5.2 grains lit by a Federal Small Pistol Match Primer, COAL of 1.25. I know the COAL is a tad bit longer than the previous load, but that's where the die was, so I went with it. Anyway, here were the results: 4.8 grains gave me an average of 949.6 fps with a SD of 15 fps. 5.0 grains gave me an average of 968.8 fps with a SD of 13 fps. 5.2 grains gave me an average of 1005 fps with a SD of 21 fps. I would really like to see my previous load matched, just because it's worked so well for me shooting 3 Gun. Next, I'm going to to try shortening the COAL back to 1.23, and do some test loads of 5.2, 5.4, and 5.6 grains. Depending on how this powder acts, I might try picking up some of the Berry's 124 grain RNHB-TP bullets and see how they work with the powder. I would think that this powder, being slower than HS-6, could safely reach the same velocities, but I'm certainly not a reloading expert.
  5. I loaded three batches of ten using the following data. Federal Small Pistol Match Primers COAL of 1.25 Mixed Federal, Winchester, and Remington brass CFE Powder in charges of 4.8, 5.0, & 5.2 grains I'll chronograph the results and post them in case it could help someone out.
  6. I was hoping I could get a few people to chime in on their data on a safe starting load. I have run out of HS-6, but happened into an eight pounder of CFE pistol that I got for $140 out the door. I have had great luck with using HS-6 to push a Berry's 147 grain bullet to about 1080-1100 FPS using the 2014 Hodgdon reloading manual and going off of the data listed for a 150 grain cast LRN bullet. The problem is that nothing is listed under that bullet for CFE Pistol. I look at the manual and see this: 147 grain XTP- HS-6: 6.3 grains=997(24,500CUP) 7.0=1106(31,900CUP) CFE Pistol: 5.0grains=1000(23,600CUP) 5.5=1105(31,200CUP) 150 grain Cast LRN- HS-6: 6.4 grains=1078(25,400CUP) 7.1=1175(30,900CUP) Seeing how HS-6 goes up 70-80FPS when going up only .1 grains, I'd think that 5.0 CFE pistol would equal about 1060-1070 on paper when pushing the 150 grain Cast LRN. I am thinking that 4.8 grains of CFE Pistol under the 147 grain bullet might be the ticket I'm looking for as a starting safe load, with a increasing the charge to reach 1100 fps safely. Any advice is welcome, and thanks in advance.
  7. Thanks for updating! I intend to try averaging 790-810, so your results sound promising.
  8. Any updates to how it has been working for you guys? Especially in comparison to HS-6, if you have ever used that powder before.
  9. Color me super interested. I just ran out of the last pound of HS-6 I have been using for 38 Super, and am about to run out of the pound of HS-6 I've been using for 45 ACP. I have 2 pounds of CFE pistol on the shelf, and I'm wondering how it compares. The CFE Pistol is cheaper and more common around here as well.
  10. I reload for 45, 9mm, and 38 Super. I'm about to run out of Winchester Small Pistol (WSP) Primers, but I have a couple thousand of the Federal Premium Small Pistol Match Primers. Has anyone used both and compared them side by side? My loads are fairly mild, and I keep them on the low end of the Hodgdon 2014 manual recommendations. For example, my 38 Super load is a 147 grain Berry's bullet pushed by HS-6 to 1075 FPS. Any feedback is much appreciated.
  11. Any issues with the tungsten guide rod? I thought I was reading that they break often.
  12. My understanding is that the stock spring is 15-16 pounds. I may be wrong, but I want to say that I've seen this stated several different places. Either way, I think I'm going to continue experimenting back and forth between springs for the next 1000 rounds and see how it goes, reporting in every 250 rounds or so. This is really just an experiment to see if one thing works better than the other or if I simply end up liking one spring weight better.
  13. That's exactly the type of info I'm looking for. I'll note that anytime I test, I split my ammo between a couple of my other buddies to see if the results are repeatable and to ensure I'm not having an off day. For the purpose of disclosure, I have about 3500 rounds through 9mm M&Ps and my primary shooting buddies have at least twice that through Glocks.
  14. I'm actually quite convinced that it was the ammo, but I thought I'd ask. The case mouth felt sharp all the way around like it needed slightly more crimp. My notes showed the ammo being from spring of 2006 from a set of lee dies, so it certainly wasn't the best ammo I've ever made. Did the 17 pound spring make the return to battery seem a little sharper?
  15. I have an M&P9 I decided to do a little it of experimenting on. I am curious to see if going from a 15 to a 17 pound recoil spring will affect anything, whether it be groups, POI, etc. I made sure the pistol had at least 500 rounds through it before trying this in case "breaking it in" could affect it.The pistol has an Apex extractor, USB, Hard Sear, Poly trigger, and 10-8 sights. At 580 rounds today, I switched the stock recoil spring out with a non-captured guide rod and an ISMI 17 pound recoil spring (and I immediately wished I'd bought the captured version of the guide rod). On the last round in the mag, at round 596, the pistol had its first and only malfunction. The case mouth was caught on the top of the feed ramp as though it had a burr on it. I looked at it for a minute, ejected the round, couldn't find a burr, made that round the second round in my next mag, and kept on taking turns shooting the pistol with my buddies. I finished with a mag of Hornady Critical Defense, put the factory recoil spring assembly back in, and called it a night. The ammo we were shooting was 115 grain XTP traveling 1140ish FPS loaded to the Hornady manual specs, and I concluded the case mouth might not have been fully crimped back to spec. My two shooting buddies are competent shooters, and each of us shoots a few thousand rounds a year, so I'd like to rule shooter error out of the equation, leading to my question. Has anyone ever bumped up the recoil spring to 17 pounds and found it to cause issues?
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