With the shorter barrel, what is a good defense loading for the Glock 29? (blue dot) many bullet weights out there! (my Glock has a Storm Lake, 2 port bbl)
Any bullet 165 grain or heavier should work well depending on your situational sourroundings and climate zone.
It would be hard to beat the Performance of Speer Gold Dots, Winchester Silvertips loaded to performance levels.
I'm brand new to reloading. I just set up my Lee Classic Turret and after careful adjustment, cranked out ten virgin 10 mm rounds. I'm putting a Rainier 165 gr. FMJ over 10 grains of Blue Dot in Starline brass with CCI large/magnum primers. I've measured the final bullet every which way and it exactly mimics some Swampfox I had laying around. So tell me, does this sound like a safe load to you guys? I'm going to go fire em off soon, but I'm wondering if ill come back with a stub where my hand used to be. :o
Quote from: RagweedZulu on November 04 2012 01:54:22 AM MDT
I'm brand new to reloading. I just set up my Lee Classic Turret and after careful adjustment, cranked out ten virgin 10 mm rounds. I'm putting a Rainier 165 gr. FMJ over 10 grains of Blue Dot in Starline brass with CCI large/magnum primers. I've measured the final bullet every which way and it exactly mimics some Swampfox I had laying around. So tell me, does this sound like a safe load to you guys? I'm going to go fire em off soon, but I'm wondering if ill come back with a stub where my hand used to be. :o
They should be fine providing you and your scale are correct with the powder as measured. Velocity should be around 1050-1100 fps. I think you may find that load to be a little bit sooty but accurate. I would bump it up to 10.2 - 10.4 but not much more as those Rainier's are a plated bullets, which may not handle the stress of more velocity. Do not over crimp them either, as that can cut thru the plating or distort the jacket.
Examine you target for small holes where pieces of plating might have come of the bullet or for keyholeing where the bullet hits sideways. Given the load you should be fine and be quite enjoyable to target practice with to develop you shooting skills.
Best regards! ;D
A better choice in powder for a 1000 fps load for that bullet is probably Unique.
Last time out I ran 180 grain berry's plated TC over 6.7 grains of Unique loaded to 1.260" COL. In my Glock 29 that load delivered 967 fps average for 10 shots, 58 fps ES, with a 19.72 std deviation. It was a nice mild load. Case heads from my Glock measure an average of .431". This was used starline brass that had been push thru resized in a lee Factory Crimp Die set up as a bulge buster.
In my Witness and P16/10mm this load generaged 1040 fps.