[Chris from Minnesota]

I was able to get to the local range on Wednesday and tried some hand loads with my vintage pistols. I cast my own lead bullets and am using a Lyman 9mm round nose 120gr mould. I just took my reloading equipment out of storage and had about 2500 small pistol primers and a pound of Unique not my favorite choice of powder but I'm having had trouble finding reloading components. I checked my email today and Midway USA has finally shipped my order for 8 pounds of Bullseye from three weeks ago, now I will have to make a new load for Bullseye.

I'm using 4gr of Unique (Unique does not not throw every consistently + or - .4gr) under a 120gr lead cast bullet with an overall length of 1.09. I've noticed some here on the forum are using an C.O.L. of 1.14 and 1.15 which I was concerned at first but if I go any further the first band of lube would be exposed.

Any way the load seems to work in my Luger I was able to shoot five fully loaded mags with only two failure to feed which I think is the mag (it's dented and old) I will find out when I get some Mec-gar mags. For the rest of the day I only used 6 in the mag and had no troubles for the rest of the day. My Astra 600 seems to like everything I feed it, I haven't had any malfunctions with it, my P.38 does not like the load, a lot of stove pipes I'm going to try 4.5gr and see if that works. All of the pistols have new standard Wolf recoil springs installed in them.