9mm Lead Bullet Blue Dot Recepie Help

[Just-in]

I have some 125GR lead bullets I picked up, however I cannot find data for the blue dot powder I have... Can anyone point me in the right direction? I asked before leaving the store for recommendations on a suitable powder, they sold me the bullets as well at the same store.

Thanks

[J-cat]

What lead bullets? There are different shapes: TC, RN, FP...

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Truncated Cone


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[ptmn]

Hornady 8th has BD data for a lead round nose, but nothing for a truncated.

For the 125gr LRN, it shows 4.8 to 6.6gr, Hornady/Frontier cases, Winchester Small Pistol primers and a COAL of 1.090"

Use the above data at your own risk, the truncated bullet may result in different COAL's and pressures than the lead round nose bullets

[J-cat]

This is from an old Handloader article. Test gun was a Beretta 92F. OAL was 1.1".

6grs of BD 895 FPS
7grs. 967 FPS
7.5grs max 1067 FPS

[J-cat]

Hornady tested swaged bullets. They are soft and coated with some sort of powdered lube and have to be kept under 1000 FPS. The Handloader article had hard cast bullets. Different animal.

[Just-in]

Thank you.