30 Cal Luger DWM / First Time Range Report

[Sieger]

Originally Posted by mrerick

Hi Patrick,

Excellent... Glad you had a good time. The Luger is a particularly fine pistol to fire.

On 9mm LRN that I cast I also had a couple of tumblers. I was using pure tire weight lead, and think it was a bit hard for a pistol, so am going to blend in some pure lead next time. I was using 4.0gn of Titegroup behind a 130gn LRN. Perhaps adding a bit more - 4.2 - will make it more accurate.

Marc

Marc:

Actually, hard bullets are usually better shooters in a Luger.

Here, it looks like your charge is a bit too high, as Lyman's latest Cast Bullet Handbook gives a maximum charge of 3.8 grs. of Tight Group with a 124 gr. bullet and that at 1,103 fps.

You might try backing down to 3.4 grs. or so, and working up, or better yet, changing your powder to a medium buring one like Alliant's Power Pistol or IMR's SR 4756.

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