Anyone load 95 grain for 9mm?

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I am thinking about working up some 9mm loads in 95g FMJ bullets. Does anyone load this light of weight for 9mm? What experience do you have with it? Any special warnings or considerations? What powder do you have the most success with?

The only commercially made 95g for 9mm that I can find sold is Magtech in JSPF. It seems to get great reviews. I think it would be a kick to push a bullet almost 1,400 fps form a 9mm.
 
I load some 80-95 grain 9mm for my KT Sub2000. 1800-1450 fps are the velocities. I use a medium burn pistol powder, WSF, with the longer barrels. If you are loading for an auto-pistol, I would like go with a faster powder.
 
Most 95 grains 9 mm bullets are used for the 380, while it might be a kick for target shooting, I think you would be better served using 124 grain bullets in your 9 mm.

Just my thoughts.
Jim
 
Might be a kick for target shooting, but not even close to accurate. Think they were cast 90's that I tried long ago. Only did so because I was running late and need ammo for a match. Absolutely horrible results. Mind you, my Inglis isn't up to any kind of accuracy.
 
I attempted to use 95's and 100 grain .380 slugs in 9mm for "light recoil" loads and I was not successful.

When I made them light enough for "reduced recoil", they didn't function 100% across many 9mm handguns. When I pushed them hard enough for better function, the recoil was not lightened and I simply ended up with a silly load that didn't shoot as well as my 124's.

Can it be done?
Surely. Just not worth pursuing (IMO) unless you got a screaming deal on a huge load of them.
 
Thanks for the advice, all. I did not think accuracy would Be that bad, but that's way I asked. I will still try to work some up. Would these be tumbling?
 
What I meant ask was would these stabilize out of a carbine more and and be more accurate than a semi auto? Why would accuracy be worse from a 9mm than a .380? Too much velocity and cause tumbling?
 
.380 bullets are often sized smaller than 9mm bullets. They are also shorter.

You will just have to be prepared to test a few types in your gun to see what works well for you. I have been able to shoot 2MOA with 90 grain slugs out to 100 yards in my carbine, most were around 4-5 MOA and some were over 10 MOA.
 
my most accurate 9mm to date is the Hornady 90gr XTP with max capacity of HS-6. maybe it's the lessened recoil that made it so accurate for me, not sure. I really like them though, that and 147gr XTP with same powder. I have 5-600 Sierra 90gr loaded as well, not as accurate as the XTP but generally well. I would just stick with the 90gr data, which there is plenty of out there, and maybe reduce 10% when you work up from min, if you are wary of the weight difference.
 
I tried it about 15 years ago.
Waste of my time.

I went back to 120-130 grain bullets as 'standard' and haven't looked back. There's still the rare 147 gr load, but 120-130 gr is much easier to work with.
 
The first pistol cartridge I reloaded for was 9mm. This was in 1976. I saw a hot load in the Speer manual, 100JHP, on Blue Dot.

I was loading for a Browning High Power, a VN capture with Chinese Armory stamp.

The 100grJHP's I had loaded, I couldn't hit a thing with them. I friends wife had brought a box of generic 147gr FMJ factory loads and was shooting great!

I next tried to reproduce the factory load that had shot so well. I didn't try to load it hot and was encouraged to be able to at least compare with factory ammo.

I don't know if it was my poor reloads, or, just that it wasn't compatible with this pistol, but I stayed with heavier bullets from then on with more satisfying results.
 
I loaded some up years ago with my 380 bullets, since I didn't have a 380. Mine shot fine other than they were very low on the target, and I was shooting a S&W 39 with fixed sights. I don't remember the load but it was probably out of a Speer #9 manual, which I don't have in fornt of me.

There is plnety of published data, so I suggest try it out and draw your own conclusions.
 
Most 9mm pistols have a twist that is too slow for anything under 115s which is why some folks have accuracy issues.
 
Sig and Taurus use a 1.98 twist for their pistols in .380, 9mm and 38 super. Colt, AMT, Walther use a much slower 1:16 for .380, but they also use that for their 9x19 and .38super, I don't see .357 Sig on here, but I'll bet the companies stay uniform for those too.
 
5.5/Red Dot/95 FMJ or 6.3/Unique/95 FMJ. Those are max loads, so start lower. We shot them in a longer barreled beat-to-heck (but still wicked strong) P-08. We didn't get to shoot any over a chronograph, but they felt very snappy, and next to no elevation was needed to hit gallon milk jugs and 7" gongs at 100 yards.
 
LW bullets in 9X19mm

I have loaded 88g to 95g bullets .380ACP bullets for many years in both the 9X19mm and .38 Special...

Remington used to make a 95g JHP for the .38/.357 also. Have not been able to find any of these for over 15 years so went back to the .380 bullets...

These bullets were and are excellent for making light recoil and low muzzle blast loads for children, women and other people who are extremely sensitive to these...

T.
 
tim, not sure if you just don't like cast bullets, but many companies sell 95gr .358 boolits, bayou etc. magtech sells a 95gr as well, but it's a solid and 50c a round.

my wife doesn't like recoil much either, I like the 110gr Gold-Dots for her, even at a +P load, they are gentle, not quiet though
 
"tim, not sure if you just don't like cast bullets, but many companies sell 95gr .358 boolits, bayou etc. magtech sells a 95gr as well, but it's a solid and 50c a round."

Yes, a lot of companies sell these lighter cast bullets but at the time I did not cast my own. Have moulds for a 105g .38/9mm and a 230g .45 bullets but with limited time available, currently I use that time to reload and just buy bullets.

In addition to using these LW bullets for practice, I kept them loaded in the guns I had my wife use (4" Colt Trooper Mk3). Once she was used to a light 88-95g bullet I'd slowly increase the load to maximum.

When she was used to this I would switch to a lightly loaded 110g (.38) or 115g (9mm) bullet. Again I would increase the load until at/near maximum. At this point I would switch over to 125g bullets for the .38 and work up to a +P. In the 9mm I usually stuck with the 115g.

No heavier loads would be loaded for my wife.

T.
 
Just got done with a run of 300-400 95 Gr FMJ for 9mm with 6.2 grains of Unique. Got a good deal on them from one of the forums. It was a huge pain to find data for them but they worked out great in the end. I've shot half of them out of my 226 and was happy with the accuracy and had no FTF or eject.
 
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