Recent content by bearmn56

Nice piece. The 4040PD is a power house. Aside from the Scandium alloy frame, it is virtually identical to the 3914 LS and non LS. I picked up mine on Gunbroker. Mine came with an unmarked slide that appears to be stainless steel. I have tried bluing it, seeing if there is any plating etc...

Like one other poster, I favor the 4040PD. This pistol is the same size as the Ladysmith...AND a real powerhouse. Also, easy to carry. Mine is quite accurate as well. Bill, Montana Territory

the bulk GFL brass that I purchased was FL sized and pin tumbled and looked new. I reload on a single stage Rockchucker II press. I only had to prime, put in powder charge & bullet.....no case prep. BTW this load of 4.6gr CFE pistol and MT Gold 147gr fmc fp is very consistent over my Chrony...

Do it!! I purchased 300+ rounds of Federal aluminum cased 115gr 9mm on sale locally for 16 cents a round. I have shot it all up. It all went bang and made basic accuracy....BUT several loads blew primers and in one case, a spent primer cup got down into may CZ 75b's guts and caused a jam that...

My go to powder for the 44 Mag with heavy bullets is Lil'Gun and AA-9. I use CCI 350 primers exclusively. For lighter loads, the old standby Unique works well. However, I purchased a good bit of Blue Dot from an estate sale and it works quite well with 240s and up. I am not a fan of 110/296...

Like Gene L....I use 13.0gr of Lil'Gun behind the 224 34gr Dogtown bullets from Midway. These are made by Nosler. In my 22" CZ 527 Hornet, I am getting the same 3100fps. I started using small pistol primers many years ago in the Hornet. Extreme spread and accuracy both became much better...

Both of these cartridges are easy to load for. However, you might want to look at Hodgdon's data in their loading data center. The loads that you are looking for are probably in the rifle pressure range.... Here is what I use...327 Fed, 100xtp, 13.0 Lil'Gun, small pistol primer, Starline...

The HSTs that I acquired thru GB have been excellent. I have been loading the 147 9mm and the 40 165s (in the 40 S&W). Can achieve factory ballistics and practical accuracy is excellent out to 15 yards or so. My 147 9mm load, in my 3914 Ladysmith, gets 1000 fps out of it's 3.5" barrel with...

Quite possibly...

Sorry, this should have been posted under AMMO.....not sure how to move it. Bill Montana Territory

There is currently an excellent video on Youtube by the Lucky Gunner on handgun ammo and why ballistic gel is the "go to" standard. LG interviews experts from Speer and Hornady on why they use ballistic gel and why handguns generally produce less lethality/round fired than rifle rounds at...

The 147gr HST 9mm bullets that I purchased were on Gunbroker from Spectre supply....about $55.00/500 delivered. The bullets that I received did not appear to be pulled or seconds. All looked pretty much as new. They also have other weights like 124gr as well. Bill Montana Territory

In my previous post, I did not provide a COL for this load. My COL is 1.140". This length provides good magazine fit and flawless feeding. BTW...in my testing, I went all the way to 6.2 grains of Blue Dot (the MAX load in my LEE manual). This extra powder only gave me 45fps more and I...

Fastbolt, What a great post. I just ordered new recoil springs for my 909 and 3914 Ladysmith from Wolff. I ordered them 2lbs over stock. Also, I worked up a handload using the Hornady HST 147gr 9mm bullets using the nickel FC cases. I put all this in a post over in reloading. Bill Montana...

Lets talk pressure. Years ago, before ballistic software, the Powley Computer slide rule was the available tool. One of the rules of thumb published with it was the axiom: For every 10% increase in pressure, there was only a 5% gain in velocity. So, lets look at Underwood +P+ 147gr 9mm ammo...