Well...clay dot freakin' rocks!

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9mmSkeeter

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:confused:Beautiful sunny 44 degrees here today and got a chance to go out and shoot. I have been cooped up doing reloading waiting for this day to test loads for a few weeks.

Clay dot has by far been my favorite. Among my loads tested were 9mm and 380 with various powders. Guns tested today are the Beretta PX4C, Smith 39-2, and Smith Bodyguard 380. Here's my scribbled research :

(Sorry for incomplete thoughts) :

"380 - autocomp 3.5 under 95 gr. acme lead bullet is winner
Titegroup 2.7 too spicy
Unique 4.0 spicier yet

9mm w. 115 gr - titegroup 4.0 is nice
Tula primers work good
Longshot 5.3 is a little spicy with Smith, great in PX
Z13 TiteGroup 3.7 124 gr. great in smith

115 gr berrys :

3.4 clay dot is most accurate in smith
3.0 is a good soft load for smith
Px4 choked on everything except 3.4
2.8, 2.9 did not cycle slide
3.0-3.3 stove piped

2.8 definitely too light, stove piped smith second time thru
3.3-3.4 seems to be most accurate
I really love this powder


Red dot is a hot powder. Not much difference across the spectrum but cycles reliably in px4 if a little snappy.
3.7 seems to be good because it cycled and used less powder. No accuracy difference. Try a little lighter load too.

Px4 likes 124 gr z13 better than 115 gr
Smith is the opposite
Both shoot fine. Try loading down the z13 a tenth of a grain or so. Maybe 3.5."

Z13 is what I call lucky 13's zombie 13 green bullets. Green polymer coated.

I may order more clay dot, it's only 17.99. The red dot I picked up I was not too impressed with. I'm getting lots of powder in my arsenal now, maybe 12 lbs now. I used to have maybe 1 or 2 on hand. I feel I'm getting obsessive?
 
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9mmSkeeter

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I picked some up at my local gun shop. They were limiting it to a couple lbs unfortunately but I got my limit of it and glad I did when I did. I really enjoy it. I wish I could say the same about red dot but maybe ill find a use for it.

And yep, "spicy" was the best way to describe it!! Had a bite to it!! :eek:
 
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Nick_C_S

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I wish I could say the same about Red Dot but maybe ill find a use for it.
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Old Timers with their 38 wadcutters like it. It behaves well with 45 ACP, 230g RN's too.

Spikey stuff though. It definitely prefers to reside in the shotgun realm.
 
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