I'd be interested in seeing how it did with other pills too.

Subscribing to this topic for sure.

That looks great.  I would've thought it would've been factory machine cut.

Great job !!

Great news.   I'm happy for you.

I've been loading with about 2.8-3.0 gr of titegroup with the 158 and 165 pills.

They sound great with a good suppressor.  Depending on barrel length, they're generally in the low to mid 900's.  Which is a good plinking and showing off load.

I do have a 9mm mold, but I seldom ever use it anymore.  It's a 6 cavity 125 gr lee. 

As for primers, I'm pretty good there, but could use some large pistol if anyone knows who may have them in stock pretty cheap.

OK, this may cause some people to develop a case of the uncontrolled twitches but I'm going to post it anyway.

I do know there are a few 147 gr 9mm bullet molds out there, but I don't like them. 

I shoot a lot of heavy subsonic 9mm stuff.  Matter of fact, that's almost exclusively all I do shoot these days.  Mostly because it's quiet and uses very little powder.

In taking a pointer from what the israeli's did to keep the longer barreled uzi's subsonic, they started using 158 gr bullets.  Since there are no 158 gr bullet molds for 9mm, I did what I thought was a good idea and started using my 38/357 mold for them.

And obviously run them all through a 9mm sizing die and then powder coat them.

They sound as good and load exactly the same as the 165 gr bullets that I've been making and loading for a couple of years now.

Just throwing it out there for anyone else that may be interested.

I think mine is an old mr coffee.

I like mine black.

And hot.

Duramag (C products) is making a 400 legend double stack magazine but so far, only 5 and 10 round straight bodied mags.

I have bought a couple of them, and they work great, but I'm using them in a 9x39 integrally suppressed upper I made 5 or 6 years ago and not chambered in 400 legend.  Since I made the 10mm upper a couple of years ago, I didn't see the need to make the 400 legend at the distances that I use it with.

Cproducts website says more capacity choices coming soon but they haven't updated that since last year.  I would be very happy with some 20 round straight bodied mags.  Very happy indeed.

But for now, the 10 rounders are working well for me.

As for 400 legend barrels, there's multiple choices out there now for that if anyone is still interested.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=400+legend+ar15+barrel&t=newext&atb=v251-1&ia=web

Quote from: sqlbullet on April 05 2025 03:01:25 PM MDTThe pawn shop I use for my FFL was a block away so rather than sit in the tire waiting room I went down to check out what was at the pawn shop.  You might see where this is going.

Say no more.  I do see where this is going.

Just sitting there at the garage is boring.  Plus, exercise is good for you.

I have one of the first xd-40's.

I tried to get one of the HS-2000's, but there were none to be found anywhere at the time. 

Been a good gun.

Yeah, tariffs are gonna suck for everyone.  I understand with all the trade deals and stuff that screws us, why he's doing it. And I hope it helps turn things around, but it seems that we're pissing up a rope.  Every time a new president gets in, they undo all the progress of before.

But, it's gonna suck for all of us poor folks. 

As for buying powder locally, I have only a few ffl's in my town.  And none of them carries powder. If they do, it's stuff no one wants and sits on the shelf forever because they don't know really what they're ordering.

There is a new shop that's opened locally.  I keep meaning to stop in there, but haven't yet.

Very good.  Hopefully will see a larger influx once the search engines start seeing more traffic.

If I'm not mistaken, there are ways (or companies) who can automatically bump search results more towards the front.  if that's an option you're interested in.

After all, the more people know about it, the more are liable to join and participate.

And there seems to be a pretty sizable interest in 10mm right now.  Hope it takes off.

I have a 365.

Don't really like it much.

And I certainly don't think it's a $500 gun either.

mushy trigger and striker.  While I've never had a light strike in that gun, it's amazing that some of them haven't considering how lightly dimpled the brass is.  I've chambered 223 brass in AR's before that have left deeper indentations in the primer of some of those 9mm bullets.

Also noticed several times after getting the gun out of my pocket, the safety is off and the gun is ready to fire.

I really don't care for it to be honest.

I've been around a few 5.7's but never have fired one to the best of my recollection.  I always thought they were more akin to 22 magnum magnums 

I'm glad you were able to join the forum buddy.   

As we've talked about in emails, the magpul afg seems as though it would be comfortable and a pretty good choice. 

I'd wait to shoot it first to see what you thought about the sights.  They'll probably be OK at the distance you'll be shooting the gun.  Plus, the other advantage to irons is the batteries don't ever go dead on them. 

Unsure at the distances you'd be shooting, or the lighting around where you may be using it.  A red dot may help in very low/no light if you think you may be using the gun in that manner.

Myself, I'm just using a set of backup irons with a small 1.5x prism sight on my 10mm carbine since I don't see myself shooting long ranges with it. You already know that I don't get long shots so more magnification is a handicap for me.  Almost all of my guns these days if they have a scope on them, are all low power 1-4's and the like.

But I do like the 1.5x prism because it does have backup illumination for night on a small circle dot but the reticle is etched for use in the day like any traditional scope so no illumination needed for that.  They also offer 2, 3, and 4x prisms if you think you may need an occasional longer shot.  The modern prisms these days are not much larger than those 30mm red dots from just a few years ago so they don't take up much rail estate.

If it's going to be one of your first grab for bumps in the night.  Maybe a low/lumen light just for target ID, but I'm not sure if that's one of the guns that are earmarked for that purpose because like most of the guys here, you probably already have a dozen others that you've been relying on for that for decades.  I don't have a light on a woods gun or truck gun.  But that's just me.  Only the guns I'd grab in the middle of the night get lights.

Of course, ammo and mags are never a bad choice.  But since you already have the 10mm glock, I'm sure you have several to swap out between them. 

How does it shoot?

Just curious because everything I have seen from bear creek are luck of the draw.  Some have good experiences with them, some are just terrible if you look at their BBB rating.

One of my sons tried one of their uppers and even the replacement they sent was wrong.  So my opinion of them is dismal.

But if you got one of the good ones, it should do well.