

Not a good place for the beginner to start. The fast powders, while making good powder puff target loads, don't give you much wiggle room from start to max loads and pressures can spike quickly with them. I'd start with one of the medium to slower burn rate powders. Thanks for the great info here everyone! You guys are awesome definitely one of the top notch forums on the web.


I am a new re loader so I wanted to stay away from anything not newbie friendly. I mainly wanted suggestions on powders so I can just try to find something in stock locally and hopefully have a few to choose from. Also looking at 165gr-180gr plated bullets for the. Right now I am just looking for components but already have a few 130gr 9mm and going to buy some berrys 124gr HBRN because they seem so highly recommended. I will be reloading for my 75b 9mm and my 75b SA. You'd really need to tell us more about how your loads are going to be used. Red Dot would work well if ultimate consistency was not important, say for "plinking". Although really good, something slightly faster than 231/HP38 would probably be better. Then you'd want a faster powder for minimum speed target work. That's also what your load manuals are going to recommend for general, all-around loading needs. That's for your heavy bullets (147grn for 9mm / ~165grn+ in 40) or SD loads (really high speed) in both calibers. If I was going to play with powder for dual caliber it would be IMR 7525 or Win WSF. It's awesome stuff, but these restrictions put it out of bounds for general "fun shooting" or "fun reloading". You can almost count on any Vit powder being $15 more per pound than your "typical" powder. Quote from: Wobbly on December 14, 2013, 10:16:32 AM -The Vit N300 series is typically too expensive and too hard to find to use for an experimental load powder. GENERAL > Ammunition, questions, and handloading techniques
