Ive worked through this issue and my answer for you is.......it depends. Namely being you are powder coating. Example, I started with the lee 125 grain round nose bullets and I PCed them. Thet jammed up something feirce in all my 9mms. As well as friends autos. The problems was the PC would hang up in the throat of the barrels, when a loaded round the PC would basiclly be jammed into the throat and would jam up the gun, if "motar-ed" the gun would yank the bullet out of the case, leaving it in the barrel, all of this no matter how short I made C.O.A.L. I tried the same roumd nose as lubed bulkets and the ran great, but, lube sucks, smoke etc. I then went with a 124 grain truncated cone bullet with much better results but still not ideal, now both molds serve as 38/357 fodder. So the point is, try to see what people are using with success in the gun you have.