Preferred 9mm subsonic powders?

[dieselrealtor]

Going to start loading 147's.

What are your top 3 preferred powders & why?

Trying to figure out if what I have is going to work or if I will need more.

thanks in advance.

 

[ckcollins2003]

I prefer HS-6, but have used Titegroup when I couldn't find HS-6.

 

[dung]

I love sportpistol. It is consistent in my Dillon 750 and is gonna be an obvious double charge. It isn't smokey and works well for all my 9mm needs

 

[CB1911]

Bullseye, N320, and Titegroup. Have also used AA#2.

Bullseye just plain works and I have plenty of it.
N320 is super soft shooting but hard to locate and expensive. Titegroup I can take it or leave it. AA#2 is very consistent when charging and works great for me. All of these are fast burning and a light charge will easily get you a load to make power factor, be mild on recoil, and will be subsonic.

 

[Aszerigan]

CFE pistol. It's slow and very consistent.

Second choice would be Titegroup but I only use CFE pistol these days.

 

[turnandshoot4]

I love sportpistol. It is consistent in my Dillon 750 and is gonna be an obvious double charge. It isn't smokey and works well for all my 9mm needs

Love this. Titegroup is such a small volume charge it doesn't yield much confidence.

OP, have you considered the heavier grain bullets? I've loaded everything up to 165gr with amazingly quiet results.

 

[dieselrealtor]

Love this. Titegroup is such a small volume charge it doesn't yield much confidence.

OP, have you considered the heavier grain bullets? I've loaded everything up to 165gr with amazingly quiet results.

I have some 165's I plan to load as well, 147's are more common & will probably be my primary.

 

[Creedmoor]

With 9mm, we load with either Bullseye or Unique. Both are very diverse with hundreds of calibers and bullet velocity's across those calibers.
It also makes stocking pistol and cast rifle bullet powders easy.
I have many other pistol powders available, most have been sitting on a shelf quite awhile.

 

[DadSmith]

Going to start loading 147's.

What are your top 3 preferred powders & why?

Trying to figure out if what I have is going to work or if I will need more.

thanks in advance.

Don't forget to calculate in the temperature, and elevation where you will be shooting.

Temperature wise at 80 degrees speed of sound is 1138 fps
Now at 30 degrees it's 1084
I can't remember the elevation factor off hand but it plays a role as well. At sea level it's higher fps than say at Rifle, Colorado which is 5519 feet.
IIRC 1050fps and under will be plenty good around here unless it's cold outside. As in below 20 degrees or less.

4gr of CFE Pistol is well below 1000fps.
I don't have my information on hand right now but remember it was under 1000fps.

 

[efd1295]

Clays. Clean burning and consistent. I've tried others, but keep coming back to Clays.

 

[BackFromDC]

I used Titegroup, sounded ok but kind of dirty

 

[Gunmetalgray]

Settled in with Alliant Sport Pistol few years back, cleanish, consistent, 3.3 grns will push 147 grn to around 900 or so fps, for lipstick booolets anyway (coated ACME's or Summit).

 

[Rio]

Clays. Clean burning and consistent. I've tried others, but keep coming back to Clays.

Same, I just can’t get away from it!