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Anyone care to share reloading recipes or at least preferred powders for 40 S&W? Pistol will be a G23 with factory barrel (at least initially)

1. self-defence (for duplicating factory ammo for practice. I am not recommending the use of handloads for carry, nor am I recommending against it. IANAL, YMMV, etc)

2. casual target practice

3. competition target practice (IPSC, IDPA)

Yes, I'm searching the internet for data in the usual places, but I trust the input of fellow CHLers on this forum :-)

thanks.

For both casual target and for IDPA, I have been using the following:

Barry's 180g FP plated bullet, 5.5 grns of Unique. This has produced lower recoil than factory but has cycled well in my Beretta 96. It has also proven to be extremely accurate for my weapon. The only problem I have run across is a batch that I loaded with inadequate crimping led to the last round in the mag not feeding (since been corrected). NOTE: I'm fairly new to reloading and those with more experience can probably help you more, I have been happy with this recipe though.

I haven't reloaded any PD ammo for it, I don't shoot enough hollowpoints to make it worth it from a cost perspective in my case.

My IDPA load with my XDM has been 2.6 gr Clays with 180 gr cast lead loaded to .125 making a PF 0f 135ish.

4.0 gr Tite group 180gr lead out of my G23 for last 10yrs

Alliant Blue Dot 8.4 gr, Hornady 155gr XTP

For practice...

thanks.

I'm trying some loads with Blue Dot, Power Pistol, and SR-4756