Reloading for the 9MM

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Can someone please give me a good website to got to for reloading pistol ammo. I'm thinking of reloading for my 9mm. I've been doing a lot of reading on it and have some concerns.
I've loaded rifle for years but never pistol. To many questions to ask. Please give me a good website for reloading for pistols. I DON'T want a BOMB to go off in my hand or my wifes hand.

Thank you,

Tony
 

Go here http://www.hodgdon.com/ and follow the links to the
"Data Center". Work the loads up from the min powder charge,
and you should be fine. One other note, carefully inspect
cases, when pistol brass is cracked or stresses at the
case web, one can have a bad day. If case expansion looks
excessive, there is a fine line in the case web area, or just
plain anything looks "wrong", recycle the case. I once missed
a case web crack, in a 9mm case, and had the brass blow out,
take out an extractor, and trash the mag follower. Best if
you catch these before that happens.
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With carbide dies, loading a pistol is easier than rifle reloading. Use the Hodgdon Data Center info and go on. You will find that handling the tiny cases take a bit of getting used to and having a max load of less than 6 grains of powder sounds puny.

I didn't load for 9mm until the Obama ammo crunch. We bought the WalMart 100 packs for $12. Reloading didn't seem worthwhile. Now it is different. I ran into some good deals, like 2000 Remington 115 Hollow Points for $100, 2500 Fiocci primers for $30, and 8# of HP-38 for $50.
 
Originally Posted By: ackleymanTony, what kind of 9mm do you own?

The wife and I each have a Ruger P95DC. My biggest concern is COAL after loaded and seating depth of the bullet as going to deep drastically increases pressures. I'm wanting to load 115gr or 124gr bullets. With such a small case capacity, the seating depth has me worried a bit. I may be overthinking it a bit, but better safe than sorry.

Thanks,

Tony
 
If you've reloaded rifle for many years you must have invested in reloading books like Hornady, Speer, Nosler, Lyman, and others. in these books it explains everything you'll want to know. They especially, i know as i have read 4 of these including Richard Lee's, have devoted time to the reloading of the 9mm. The hazards of this short cartridge. It would behove you to expend a small amount of resource for one of these. They truly are excellent resource as I am going to start reloading the 9mm myself. I do a lot of reading before i begin loading a different cartridge. While they all place warnings the depth of seating as it is a small cartridge and a tapered cartridge. Speer and Lyman especially address placing a tapered crimp on the 9mm so it has no problem feeding. I don't own a 9mm but am looking to purchase one now.

I wish you well and above all have fun. I love it.
 
Take your gun apart, and start seating bullets long. Drop the bullets into the Barrel's chamber. If they are too long, the case will protrude from the back of the barrel. You will figure out what is a max seating depth.

Next, what is a Max OAL for magazine feeding issues.

0.005 change in OAL can dramatically change group size in these rounds, play with that also.

I shoot 4.5g of Power Pistol with a 115g NOsler HP and 7.8g of R#7 with a 124g HP. These are two legged varmint loads.

I really need an accurate plinking load.
 
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