9mm ?

[any ruger]

Does anybody use .358 bullets in their 9mm . Today I came upon a guy at my local range who had leading problems with his SR9 . After some research he tried some 158 gr bullets behind AA9 and he says they shot great with no leading. He also says he has had good luck with HS6.

 

[WIL TERRY]

YEP, NO BIG DEAL really as almost all the foreign have 9MM BBLs of .357"ID. We ran thousands of .358" lead SWC bullets through S&W M39 pistols and they had .355"ID barrels.

 

[Rick Courtright]

Hi,

My mold, a Lee 124 LRN tumble lube design, drops bullets at .357"-.358" using wheelweights. They shoot fine in my CZ, and don't cause any particular leading problem.

However, I size 'em to .356" to eliminate the "bulges" I have gotten in certain cases. Reason being if those cases are finished thru the Lee Factory Crimp Die, there's never been a feeding problem, but before I started using the FCD, I did have a couple of failures. So it's a "belt and suspenders" thing I suppose.

Plus lumpy ammo looks bad, and if it was supposed to be lumpy, the factory would have made it that way, right?

Rick C

 

[Clovishound]

I shoot .356 hard cast through my SR9c with only a small amount of leading. A quick run through of 8 to 10 swipes with a brass brush and Hoppes #9 takes care of it.

My barrel slugs at .3555 to .356 IIRC. I will be trying some home cast 9 as soon as I can get a mold. If they cast at .357, I will try them without sizing.

 

[stevemb]

Rick, you're a hoot ! stevemb

 

[Iron Mike Golf]

I size to .358 for my SR9c