9 mm loads with Bullseye and/or Unique?

[J-BAR #18287]

Those of you who use Unique and/or Bullseye powders for 9mm cartridges,  what loads work well for you?  (Bullet weight and powder charge?)

 

Plinking, paper punching in a semiautomatic handgun, not for self defense or hunting...

 

Thanks.

Edited June 19, 2025 by J-BAR #18287

[Dapper Dave]

I'll have to look at my files when I get home, I used both powders with 124gr powder coated cast bullets as well as factory JHP stuff. I really liked Bullseye.

Both are a wee bit hard to find nowadays...

[J-BAR #18287]

2 minutes ago, Dapper Dave said:

I'll have to look at my files when I get home, I used both powders with 124gr powder coated cast bullets as well as factory JHP stuff. I really liked Bullseye.

Both are a wee bit hard to find nowadays...

I have plenty of each to use up playing with a new CZ 75.  I will appreciate your experience.

[Dapper Dave]

Ah, a CZ man, a man after me own heart. 

[J-BAR #18287]

6 minutes ago, Dapper Dave said:

Ah, a CZ man, a man after me own heart. 

 

 

[watab kid]

2 hours ago, J-BAR #18287 said:

 

 

used to be - had an 82 that my wife currently controls and a 75B that my godson is shooting these days - shot some three gun with the latter , 

[Dapper Dave]

Well, here's a few loads I've tried in CZ pistols.  All data provided for academic purposes only, like any academic would be caught dead in these parts...

124gr Winchester FMJ, 5.5 gr Unique, COAL 1.10, listed in notes as "good"

124gr Winchester FMJ, 4gr Bullseye, COAL 1.10, listed in notes as, and I quote, "hell yeah!"

124gr Lee cast RN, powder coated, 4.6gr Unique, COAL 1.085, listed in notes as "good!"

124gr Lee cast RN, powder coated, 4gr Bullseye, COAL 1.095, listed in notes as "SWEET!"

 

Hopefully that gives you a starting point?

[Dapper Dave]

Oh, and my EDC is a CZ...  

[J-BAR #18287]

10 hours ago, Dapper Dave said:

Well, here's a few loads I've tried in CZ pistols.  All data provided for academic purposes only, like any academic would be caught dead in these parts...

124gr Winchester FMJ, 5.5 gr Unique, COAL 1.10, listed in notes as "good"

124gr Winchester FMJ, 4gr Bullseye, COAL 1.10, listed in notes as, and I quote, "hell yeah!"

124gr Lee cast RN, powder coated, 4.6gr Unique, COAL 1.085, listed in notes as "good!"

124gr Lee cast RN, powder coated, 4gr Bullseye, COAL 1.095, listed in notes as "SWEET!"

 

Hopefully that gives you a starting point?

Thank you.

[The Original Lumpy Gritz]

Try Blue Dot. Meters great, burns clean.

BD is all I use in 9mm and .40 S&W.

[Dapper Dave]

Can you still find Blue Dot?

[Alpo]

11 minutes ago, Dapper Dave said:

Can you still find Blue Dot?

Heck, can you still find any Alliant powder?

 

 

Anybody besides me still wants to call it Hercules?

[Major Hazzard, SASS #23254]

4.5 grains of Bullseye under your choice of 115 grain FMJ bullets.  I've shot thousands of rounds of these through my Glocks and a Sig P226.  It's a good, solid performer.

[J-BAR #18287]

57 minutes ago, The Original Lumpy Gritz said:

Try Blue Dot. Meters great, burns clean.

BD is all I use in 9mm and .40 S&W.

Thanks, I'll remember that, but I have a lot of Unique to use up before I buy any more powders.

[Pat Riot]

I have never tried Unique or Bullseye in 9mm. 
If you ever want some good 9mm loads in W244, Universal or VV 3N37 let me know.

 

Basically I am posting to bump 

[Rooster Ron Wayne]

I have found over the years .

Unique can load just about anything. 

Unique will do everything good .

But nothing really great .

It's my #1 go to smokeless powder .

#2 Universal 

#3 H110

I just recently bought some

Alliant #2 & #7  to try out .

But I load APP FFF 99% of the time 

Rooster 

[WD Farren]

Speculating here, but guessing a pistol requires a powder that provides a higher chamber pressure level to properly cycle the action.

 

[Dapper Dave]

Yep. if'n it's one of them new-fangled "automatic" style pistols...

[Stump Water]

1 hour ago, bgavin said:

Speculating here, but guessing a pistol requires a powder that provides a higher chamber pressure level to properly cycle the action.

 

 

Yes.  You want a fast burning powder.

 

14 hours ago, Dapper Dave said:

124gr FMJ, 5.5 gr Unique, COAL 1.10, listed in notes as "good"

 

 

That's what I have in my log from many, MANY, years ago.  Same worked for 115 gr. also.

[The Original Lumpy Gritz]

5 hours ago, J-BAR #18287 said:

Thanks, I'll remember that, but I have a lot of Unique to use up before I buy any more powders.

Much better accuracy with Blue Dot 😉

[The Original Lumpy Gritz]

7 hours ago, J-BAR #18287 said:

Thanks, I'll remember that, but I have a lot of Unique to use up before I buy any more powders.

When I was load testing.  I tried Unique, Bullseye, ww231, and Blue Dot.

BD easily shot better than any other powder.

I load 5.5gn of BD w/124gn FMJ using the NATO C.O.A.L.