Good reload for a 4" P08

[Sieger]

Hi All:

Here is an outstanding lead bullet load for you.

First, remember that "they" say that a 9mm will not shoot lead accurately!!!!

I'd just about given up hope of finding a good combination with my FMJ bullets and Accurate #5 powder.

I'd just about given up hope of finding a good combination with my RCBS #9mm-124-CN (truncated cone design) lead bullets and my usual favorite powders for the 9mm.

Well, sometimes 0+0 does equal 100!

Here is the load:

WCC Military Cases (Western Cartridge Company, a Winchester Company)
Tula Small Pistol Primers
RCBS 124 gr. Lead, Truncated Cone Bullets
Cartridge Over All Length: 29mm (1.14 inches)
Charge: 5.4 grs. of Accurate #5

The results were six touching (out of six) at 25 yards.

Used military cases are "cheap" and softer than commercial cases, thus, they expand to the chamber wall fully and at less pressure. Mine were, headstamped: NATO Cross in Circle, Last Two Numbers of Year Produced and WCC.

The Tula (Wolf) primers were also "cheap", but gave only about 98% reliability (two duds out of 100 fired). The Russians need to take another look at the design of their new boxer primers, as something is a miss, though I might add that the ones that did fire were very consistant.

Sieger