Ok Heres A Onefor You Guys, Iv Ben Reloading For 6 Months Now And Im Still Learing The Ins And Outs Of This Art. Im Reloading .40 S&w With Cci,winchester, And Pmc Brass, I Like The Ccis The Best Because They Seem To Clean Up Better, Im Using Cci 500 Primers And Both Speer 155 Jhp And Horady 155 Jhp And Oading It All Up With Alli. Unique Powder. Im Shooting A Beretta P90-two With 5'' Barrel. Like I Said Im New To This And Im Looking To Optimize My Loads To Bring In My Pattern For Both Plinking And Hunting, Whitetails, Here Are A Few Things Im Looking At

Oal
Charge Weight
Bullet Weight
Case Leight
Bullet Seatng Depth
Different Primers
Different Poweders
Cases
Cheep Ammo
Ect. Anything You Guys Can Come Up With Will Help Me A Great Deal

You might check game regs. Many places the .40S&W is below minimums for deer..

Welcome to the forum rozzi. Rules are simple, be nice and join in.

I'm in the process of putting some 40's together this week. I'm using tight group powder and cast 155 grainers and cast 170 grainers. These are plinking and practice loads and are near the bottom end of the load group. I didn't even look at which brass I'm using, but I'm using CCI primers and they all shoot pretty good. When I'm loading for a new auto-loader I always just load a few to check if they work the action and how they group before loading a bunch.

There's lots of good powders out there. I try to select one that gives me a lot of loads for a pound of powder and is near the top of the load charts in the Lee manual. I usually don't load max loads as 10 percent under max usually gives better accuracy and usually only means a 2 percent drop in velocity.

You might check game regs. Many places the .40S&W is below minimums for deer..

no in east tennessee. ive ben caring for years during deer season but only as a side arm, for thoughs tuff situations like in a tree stand and ones right below me on the right side or for that walk to and from the truck. its leagle ive checked with the game wardens.

Stick with the published data for all the measurements you posted. I loaded 165 gr RNFPs with Bullseye powder, win cases, and CCI primers. They shot very well from my Beretta 96.

measure the length of your cases sometimes those autos are particular about
a certain case length

thanks guys for all your help the case length help alot some of them were off asmuch as .034! i get i now oal dosent meen anything if all the cases are different