I picked up a 365 lately and shot it again for 25 rounds. I regularly used titegroup. Their minimum listing for powder is 3.8 grains on a 124 bullet. I would like to lower the powder so the recoil is not as bad on my wrists.
Does anyone have a starting load suggestion that would help?
Thanks,
Thom
Titegroup and a Sig 365
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Re: Titegroup and a Sig 365
I don’t have a P365 but I do have a P228 and a Glock 17. I recall going a little lower using Titegroup and if I remember correctly 3.5gr cycled both guns but one or both would not cycle with 3.4gr.thom wrote: ↑September 14th, 2021, 8:54 am I picked up a 365 lately and shot it again for 25 rounds. I regularly used titegroup. Their minimum listing for powder is 3.8 grains on a 124 bullet. I would like to lower the powder so the recoil is not as bad on my wrists.
Does anyone have a starting load suggestion that would help?
Thanks,
Thom
I hope this helps!
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Re: Titegroup and a Sig 365
Just drop it around 0.2 grains for around 10 rounds, then 0.2 grains less again for around 10 rounds until you either get the recoil you want or you start having failures to feed. If you have failures to feed, go back up 0.2 grains.
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That sounds about right. My experience was with 147 grn., but with a charge of 3.1, which barely cycled the Glock 19. So 3.5 under a 125 seems proper.High Standard wrote: ↑September 14th, 2021, 9:02 am
I don’t have a P365 but I do have a P228 and a Glock 17. I recall going a little lower using Titegroup and if I remember correctly 3.5gr cycled both guns but one or both would not cycle with 3.4gr.
I hope this helps!
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Thanks! My memory is not as good as it used to be. So I am pretty sure those numbers are accurate but it is always good to have someone else verify it when my memory comes into play.Suck My Glock wrote: ↑September 14th, 2021, 11:38 amThat sounds about right. My experience was with 147 grn., but with a charge of 3.1, which barely cycled the Glock 19. So 3.5 under a 125 seems proper.High Standard wrote: ↑September 14th, 2021, 9:02 am
I don’t have a P365 but I do have a P228 and a Glock 17. I recall going a little lower using Titegroup and if I remember correctly 3.5gr cycled both guns but one or both would not cycle with 3.4gr.
I hope this helps!
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Re: Titegroup and a Sig 365
I know it’s not the best time to experiment with new powders, but if you ever see a pound (actually 14oz) of Clays around somewhere I’d suggest picking it up and giving it a try. Titegroup is my go-to powder for practice rounds, but I think Clays does a lot better job at keeping semi-autos functioning well with soft shooting loads. It’s much cleaner than titegroup at the low end as well.
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Thanks for the info. I will start about 3.7 then and see what happens. I think it will save some practice ammo powder anyhow.
And thanks to The Accountant for the info on Clays powder. If I can find it I will try it also.
And thanks to The Accountant for the info on Clays powder. If I can find it I will try it also.
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Re: Titegroup and a Sig 365
Saw some clays yesterday at Healey's in Tempe.
Little guns with short barrels can be picky, I'd load 5 at 3.8, then drop to 3.7 and load 5, 3.6, 3.5, until the gun stops functioning.
Little guns with short barrels can be picky, I'd load 5 at 3.8, then drop to 3.7 and load 5, 3.6, 3.5, until the gun stops functioning.
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Re: Titegroup and a Sig 365
as noted Thom, thats how you work up loads, we generally do no more than 10 usually only 5, but what ever works, a lot depends on how many different gats we use, since we all shoot something different and own many platforms,we will at times once we get close to a reasonable load, load a gaggle more and test them on a half dozen or so platforms and barrel lengths. size does matter.
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