Home Forums Reloading Bullet Casting 9mm 135gr hollow point for subsonic loads

Thought I'd share a quick pic of this one. I bought one of the 125gr 9mm HP molds from Mihec a few years ago. Good mold, but it has deep lube grooves that often hang up when ejecting bullets from the mold with the Cramer style hollow point pin system.

I cast some with it this weekend, and finally had enough of the bullets hanging up, so I stuck the mold in the mill and bored out the lube grooves. I powder coat everything anyway, and don't intend to ever wax lube these again. Also opened up the size from .357" to .359". It casts easier, and bullets just drop out of the mold when it's flipped over now; most of the time I don't even have to tap the pins. It also gained about 10 grains, final weight is 135.7 - 135.9 gr with wheel weight alloy.

I'm loading these over 3.3gr Bullseye for 1,000 fps.




I don't place a whole lot of credence in weight retention as a measure of a bullet's effectiveness, but that's 100% weight retention of the bullet in the pic above, fired into water jugs from about 10 yards. The extra weight of the no-lube-groove version helped penetration slightly too. The alloy is clip-on wheel weights, air cooled.

Just a handful for initial testing, got to go coat the rest now.

Just dam!!! Now that is cool. I'll bet it shoots good at that weight and velocity. What are you shooting it in and how is the accuracy?

Mostly using it in a Glock 19 with a suppressor, over 3.3gr of Bullseye for 1000 fps. Accuracy is pretty good, about an inch at 10 yards which is about as good as I can hold freehand.

I size all of my 35 cal powder coated bullets to .3595" though, so I may use this in a 35 Rem and 35 Whelen for lightweight subsonic/suppressed shooting as well.