My son likes shooting my handguns, but he's small for his age (he turns 12 in 2 weeks), and it can hurt his hands with how my handguns snap. The powders I have on hand are for 45 and some 9mm are:
700x
800x
Titewad
Titegroup
Longshot
WSF
Bullseye
HS-6
Now Titegroup is a bit snappy for him as that's my main pistol powder. I've yet to load up any of the other powders for handgun yet so was wondering who might have used some of these, and which ones had less recoil, but still be accurate and cycle your gun. I'll be running 230 lead in 45, and 125 grain lead in 9mm.
That might be a tall order. It takes "X" amount of pressure to cycle the actions and that alone might still make either too "snappy" for your son. Is a Ruger or some other 22 semi-auto a possibility?
My son likes shooting my handguns, but he's small for his age (he turns 12 in 2 weeks), and it can hurt his hands with how my handguns snap. The powders I have on hand are for 45 and some 9mm are:
700x
800x
Titewad
Titegroup
Longshot
WSF
Bullseye
HS-6
Now Titegroup is a bit snappy for him as that's my main pistol powder. I've yet to load up any of the other powders for handgun yet so was wondering who might have used some of these, and which ones had less recoil, but still be accurate and cycle your gun. I'll be running 230 lead in 45, and 125 grain lead in 9mm.
I use 700X or PB for my .45ACP with good results. Not concerned with recoil, however my wife shoots them in her little Star .45ACP with no issue. I use the starting load data from Hodgdon.
My son likes shooting my handguns, but he's small for his age (he turns 12 in 2 weeks), and it can hurt his hands with how my handguns snap. The powders I have on hand are for 45 and some 9mm are:
700x
800x
Titewad
Titegroup
Longshot
WSF
Bullseye
HS-6
Now Titegroup is a bit snappy for him as that's my main pistol powder. I've yet to load up any of the other powders for handgun yet so was wondering who might have used some of these, and which ones had less recoil, but still be accurate and cycle your gun. I'll be running 230 lead in 45, and 125 grain lead in 9mm.
You can put together some really mild loads for the 9MM and the .45 with cast bullets and a smidgen of Bullseye. When using Bullseye be very careful you don't double charge a case, it could happen easily if you're not diligent.
Longshot in the .45 can work as well. I understand that you want to use what you have but you might consider some 200 grain bullets for the 45 if you can pick some up they're a lot easier on the hands.
I have used most of those powders older powders you mentioned over the 60 plus years of reloading. But all in revolvers and only one auto a Walther PPK/S 380 which will not cycle unless it is loaded near max. And like has been mentioned your autos may not cycle with reduced loads either.
Recoil is a part of shooting and 9mm and 45 ACP handguns need to be loaded high enough to make the gun function reliably. I love my .44 Magnums and especially my Ruger SBH, but with the square back trigger guard, I sometimes get a bloody finger. My fix; a shooting glove. Perhaps a shooting glove will help the boy deal with recoil easier?...
I think my new 1911 is really going to help out. The previous owner is a friend, and he's done work on it including a compensator and some other stuff, and I know he had ran light loads through it, and it did fine. So between the compensator and it handling light loads well I think next weekend at the range will be good.
get him a cheap 400$ rossi 592? ( 591? ) 6" 357mag, and then load up some 38spl lswc using trailboss.
Due to the mass of the gun and reduced loads, It will be like shooting a 22 lr revolver. yet, as he grows, he can scale up and have a real hairy chested mans revolver in full magnum power loads.
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