Lucked out on pistol powder

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Carol
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Lucked out on pistol powder

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Decided I wanted to start reloading again (used to do rifle and handgun loads but now only doing 9mm) New press and all the components except powder are sitting on my bench. I checked every local gun store and no one had any kind of pistol powder. Just on a whim, checked a little gun store in Norton that I had been too 20 years ago. They had lots of pistol powder. Managed to snag some of the new Hodgdon CFE pistol and some HS-6. Does anyone have a good load for the CFE for 115 copper plated Berry bullets? I believe it would be same load data as lead bullets but not sure.
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The German
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Re: Lucked out on pistol powder

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gives you a good idea for the CFE powder (4.0 to 5.4 grain at 1.100 COL). For plated bullets, I start with the mid range for lead bullets and work my way up - typically got good results with that.
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