These suckers are Leady as hell. Pistol cleaned up nice though, and after a hundred rounds I didn’t find any velocity/pressure spikes.
Fuck, that’s ugly!
Reminds me of a time when we were out training, a buddy was shooting lead out of his M&P 9, he was producing crazy clouds of smoke.
These things always remind me why I stick to plated & jacketed, even at slightly greater expense.
Yeah. No clouds at all, but I looks like a hazmat scene at the muzzle. I just have no reference to know if this is normal.
I definitely took care not to shred the coating, and the accuracy of the bullets is very acceptable.
Might be a Glock thing. No issues with residue from SNS or other coated bullets from my standard cut barrels.
However, i did fire over 100 147 gr FN coated SNS bullets from my last Glock today. (G19-3).
I fired what was hopefully my last Wolf (15 rds) and a couple mags of Freedom steel case plated 147 gr too, today. Didn’t clean it yet because it’s a dirty whore. I’ll take a look at it tomorrow & check for residue. Original barrel.
I’m trying to finish the ammo i don’t want to fire through my AP5-P. The Wolf i found already in the G19 mag. The only other 9mm i have is an Astra 600 9mm Largo / .38 acp. I fired 50 through that the other day. It’s quite accurate!
I wish my AP5-P was .40. 
It’s all new to me. The CFE powder, the 40 hand loads, and the bullets. Function and clean up was fine, so I’m going to keep on. I did drop the output charge .2 to 5.9 gr for the next batch. 1050 fps was matching factory ammo. I’d like to be slightly under for a safety cushion.
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5.9 gr of CFE with the 165 gr SNS Coated bullets is a nice blaster load. Shot 1029 fps today with a 7.6 S.D. on a dozen rounds.
I can crank it up a little if I want, but it’s just under factory and running great.
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Thanks.
I plan to buy 165 gr in the future. My carry loads will always be 165 or 155 gr.
These coated bullets are affording me the ability to shoot much more. I’m actually enjoying pistol reloading so much that I de-capped and tumbled my brass as soon as I got home yesterday.
My 38 spl ammo, on the other hand is running an S.D. of 40 based on over a dozen rounds. Terrible stuff.
If you’re using cfe-p in .38 spl it needs to be near full or full load. Cfe-p wants pressure.
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I checked my G19/3 after 100+ rounds of sns red powder coated reloads.
No residue whatsoever in polygonal bore beyond the usual carbon that i could see. Not on feedramp, either, per usual.
Being so light, through, i got lots of BTF. All Glocks do that to me except this one, which still does it on light loads. (Blazer, etc
These were 147 gr FN with 3.0 Tightgroup IIRC.
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Thanks. We’re really just burning up the pull down bullet ammo to make brass for the coated bullets now.
Probably 150 rounds to go. Kinda sucks shooting such bad ammo, but pulling it down would be worse.
I did a powder lot change over in CFE pistol. I ran a small test in 147 gr 9mm, and the new powder shot 30 fps faster.
But when I put my 40 cal tool head on my dillon to run 10 rounds to chrono, the beam scale weight was WAY higher than the 5.9 gr I had settled on.
It got me thinking that the new lot has a different bulk density, and that my 9mm test was flawed because the faster speed on the new lot may have actually been a heavier weight charge. I made the assumption that the same powder bar setting would be the same weight.
I check weigh every single time I go to load, even if I know exactly what I was loading last.
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Same here. I know I can’t trust myself. And It’d drive me nuts to just start cranking out ammo. The measure is always on the money, but the one time you don’t check…
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I ended up correcting the actual weight charge back to match my existing 5.9 gr of CFE for 165s, and the velocity was Actually about 40 FPS slower.
Bumped it back up to 6.2 gr. Interestingly, I can’t FEEL the difference in recoil on my G22 between 1087 and 990 FPS at all. Without the Chrono, I’d be flying blind.
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I got a shipment of the 165 gr Blue Bullets, and directly subbed them into my SNS bullet settings.
The Blue Bullets picked up about 40 fps on the same load 1068.4 fps.
I’m at the end of my batch of Rem 1-1/2 primers, so I tried some Win Small Pistol. They shot 1044.5 fps (24 fps slower)
The Garmin Chrono is amazing. There’s so much info gathered that I’d never have taken the time to get if we ran the old sky screen chronograph.
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Yeah a buddy has one of those Garmins.
Puts my old fashioned Caldwell to shame. Pretty awesome.
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I continue to run the same brass over and over with no issues. It’s just impossible to sort brass by number of firings with the chaos that’s our shooting.
It’s interesting how, like rifle, the primers play a real role in the velocity. I ran some Ginex on the same load and lost like 30 fps.
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The way I mark my rifle brass is, sharpie marks, on the case head, one mark for each loading. Makes it easy as hell, when policing up brass from multiple shooters.
I guess doing that with .40 would be cumbersome, not really room on that case head for 9 or 10 sharpie swipes…
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I don’t try to keep track.
I take a quick look for bulges, chewed up rim, and headstamp condition after tumbling before i load it.
And i only reload auto brass mild to lightly.
Long term i may phase out .40 in favor of .45 if ranges don’t have fired .40 brass to sell cheap. Yes i buy some used, cleaned brass, too. When it’s under $30 shipped for 500 pcs that means alot of time under the sun and wear on my back picking it up from the ground among a sea of 9x19 and .380.
.45 is easy to find on the ground among 9, .380, and .40. Usually my own. Just gotta watch out for other shooters small primer stuff.
New guns with features i want are made in 9, .45, and 10mm. .40 isn’t doing well in 2025.
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