Here is a picture of the various bullets I use in my .30 Lugers. Left-to-right, they are:
60 grain .312" Hornady XTP HP. I haven't actually shot any of these yet and I want to review Hugh's loading data that he gave in an earlier post. The 60 grain bullet can be pushed to exceptional velocities if desired.
86 grain .308" soft point. I bought these from Midway as "seconds" but they seem to shoot just fine. They're in a white box but I suspect they're Hornady bullets.
85 grain Hornady .312" XTP HP. This is the bullet that replaced their 85 grain exposed lead HP some years back. It's worked fine in my DWM and Erfurt commercial pistols but gave me a single jam in my 6" rebarreled pistol. I swage these to suit.
75 grain RCBS roundnose cast bullet. It said it was an 85 grain bullet on the box so I wrote to RCBS and they replaced the mold with one of the correct weight. They told me to keep the 75 grain mold. Great people to do business with.
My own design custom mold bullet of 95 grains. The mold was made by NEI and it's excellent. It feeds reliably and is accurate.
The 85 grain RCBS replacement mold bullet.
90 grain Sierra .312" "Powermaster" JHC with an exposed lead tip.
90 grain Sierra .312" "Powermaster" JHC bullet after being swaged to .309" using a #311 top punch to form the nose.
A cartridge loaded in 1994 using the .312" Sierra bullet above but without swaging or reforming the nose. This load works fine in the Erfurt. The case is a factory Winchester-Western and the load is 8.5 grains of Accurate Arms #7.
