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I think its reasonable to expect coated bullets to shoot a little dirtier than plated or fmj, but a lot cleaner than bare lead. My brazos are .3575 and still leave a little leading. I don't know if this is solvable, or honestly is an issue at all in need of solving. Saves a ton of money at the expense of cleaning a little bit more. You might find that slugging your barrel and swapping around a bunch of brands for larger diameter ends in the same result. If this is unacceptable, plated is the answer.

Alliant says reduce by 10% for a start load... But also be mindful of the oal listed for that data. Also keep in mind that max for 9mm (and 9mm only) is saami max. Almost every single gun is built and sprung to shoot at least +p, if not +p+. Still follow good load development practices, but your min charge is 4.2gr and max is 4.7... I'd load 4.4 without so much as a second guess, so long as you're meeting oal mins. For 9mm the only time I would use min data is when my oal is shorter than published data.

My April order arrived late last month too. These really are well made bullets. Brazos are cheaper in every sense of the word. If bayou can actually get items in my hands, I don't think id mind paying more for them.

I've shot hundreds of hitek/244 rounds this year. Maybe 800ish. Bayou and brazos. Also a bunch of plated Xtremes and some XTP's. It leaves some residue in the barrel, but it's certainly not leading like what I got shooting bare lead, where i often had large heavy deposits that needed removal. Are you actually getting heavy lead deposits? From a Glock, XD, and a sdve, none of my guns have had any sort of problem with hitek.

Local shop sells "freedom" plated bullets, $50 for 100. Said they hadnt sold a box yet.

Your velocity is sufficient to not keyhole. It's usually the 147+ grain bullets that have issues. How's your barrel? Clean with a good crown? Weird buildup or damage can keyhole. Or crimping/shaving issues.

I found 700x to be intolerably bad. That kind of awful metering might be ok in a single weighed precision rifle case, but not for a pistol loaded out of a volumetric dispenser. I was getting a full grain of variance. I really like autocomp for making full power loads. Don't try to reduce it, it's great full strength. Power pistol too, it's a fun powder that's loud and flashy. Clays seems to be a popular light load powder, but I haven't used it. Titegroup is massively popular. One of the most common powders for minor. It's hot, flashy, messy, and economical. I can't say I love it, but it has proven results and it'll do the job well enough to win.

Flat points work poorly in many 9mm guns because they need to be unreasonably short. It's a better 357sig bullet. It's not the diameter.

Wow, thats messy data. Sierra 125's at a weird short 1.090 and 4.8 grains of 231 show 28kpsi and over 1000fps! I know haps run short, but that's really really short. Even with that profile I'd want them closer to 1.090. That's basically an uncut xtp, and 147 xtp's show a higher 3.4gr max at 1.100. I think you can safely extrapolate some data if you run those haps way longer. Even for a cz, that seems unreasonably short.

That's definitely not corrosion. It sounds like melted floor goo. I can't think of any brass corrosion that isn't chalky, dry and thin.

I had to turn off discord notifications because they were beeping all day long. Big week for primers last week. If you get the notification and the site says sold out, click refresh for up to 20 minutes. I got 2 boxes this way. It's bots filling carts and not checking out.

Got federal spp's from powder valley for $60. $89 shipped with hazmat. Next day got cci spp's for 75, $110 shipped from Brownells. That's enough overpaying for now. Primers ARE back, the market is just very very slow to cool back down. Bass pro and sportsmans often have primers for 30-50 but in store only.

Got 15lb, or 572 .400 bullets from brazos for $49 shipped. Showed up in a week, shockingly fast! Going on 10 weeks wait from bayou.

Is that really 1.200?? I'm impressed anything plunks that long!

Just for follow up, I tried 244 under a 230gr 45acp load at 4.3gr and it was a horrible mess. Arm covered elbow to wrist in black soot. Shot and felt ok, but it clearly wasn't burning it all. I think this powder might be best for making HOT .40sw. It's ok for range fodder in 9, but it's not good for shooting as fast as possible.

Going from 180's to 155's was a big difference to me. I did up the charge, and it's a LOT more flip. Lowering the charge tended to be unreliable, but I didn't mess with it much. My 180's with below min charges of WST was extremely fast to get in target! 155's are not.

Even if they were over crimped plated, I'd shoot them. Not from a comped gun, but I'd shoot them!

Minimags are great and all, but it's a 22lr. Kinda defeats the purpose if it won't run on cheap garbage! Not quite the same, but I have an advantage arms kit that would jam 2-3 times per mag running cheap bulk ammo. I filed the feed ramp where it meets the chamber very very slightly. I fine sanded and polished every single surface that touched anything, including the recoil guide rod and rails. Jams maybe once every 100 rounds now, often not jamming at all for a range trip running. The basic function is all the same. Id take that thing apart and start looking for any sort of sliding grit and friction in the slide. Bet you'll find some, and I bet fixing it will improve reliability.

It used to be pretty decent non stepped nato spec stuff. Walmart had it for absolutely dirt cheap, and then it was gone and came back months later as stepped garbage at twice the price. Too bad!

I liked cfe pistol quite a bit. 4.1-4.2gr is close to max and it'll get you about 140pf with the 147. I don't know about using it for major, but it does great for warmer loads in the middle or upper end of it's data. 244 seems to struggle to get speed in 9mm while making more recoil than necessary. I think I'll move it over to .40sw, it makes major at min loads. Seems perfect there!

4.1 with 124gr is technically max, if using .356 bullets at 1.125. The data on 244 is a little weird with big jumps depending on oal and diameter. Max load with an xtp is only 136 pf. Im sort of mixed on 244 for 9mm so far. Maybe it's a better .40 and .45 powder.

ALL my titegroup loads have always charred the case. Low charge is worse, but 4ish grain still did it and blasted crap all over my gun. I know tg is massively popular, but it's so messy and I really dislike it. Lead/coated will be a little faster, but you're above max charge velocity, and .2-.3gr under actual max. Curious what other people think, as I have no chrono experience. Are you flattening primers or anything? Heavy recoil?

I don't find 9mm to be too much of a pain. For my guns, it's the opposite of 45. 45 can't be too short, 9 can't be too long. Just find a workable length, and you're good. Straight wall cases are nice and straight forward (even if it's a tiny bit tapered). I like my Lee dies. The ones I bought 10 years ago are better made than the new ones, but they're all fine. I rechamfered mine for my Lee progressive and they function much smoother now, but they never were an issue in a single stage.

I bought media that is finer than the flash hole (walnut). Since I don't decap first, if any loose walnut does happen to be in there, it gets pushed out by pin when decapping. 100% clean flash hole every time without checking individually. Why do you do all that? That's so many steps.

This year I've ran a whole brick of spmp's. I have a sd40 with the apex trigger kit. The light striker spring wouldn't set off the mag primers. Stock spring was reinstalled and now it runs fine. In my cz75 I used them too without issue with whatever springs came in the cgw kit.