Anyone else running CFE Pistol?

[ViniVidivici]

Just curious. Got some as the LGS didn't have my beloved Titegroup.

I'm really starting to like it. Seeing great results in 9mm with 5.3gr under a 124gr FMJ, and in .40, 7.0gr under an Everglades 155gr plated FP.

It's on it's way to becoming one of my "preferred".

Wondering what others' experiences are.

[revchuck38]

I went through a pound of it and liked it. It’s like Unique that meters well. I had a box of 1k 180-grain RNL .40 from way back and decided to load them with it. 5.8 grains gave 979 fps from my M&P40; 180-grain HSTs run 980 fps, so I figured I had my practice load. :) It’s very close in burn rate to BE-86, which I settled on because I could get eight-pound jugs at that point in time.

[BigT]

I like it for the PCC and comp gun loads, has worked well in 10mm too.

In normal loads I don't like the recoil impulse of slow burning powder like it

[Olim9]

Its the only powder I've ever used but 3k rounds of 9mm loaded, I'm happy with it. I'd just like more load data like TG has but I know it's a fairly new powder.

[JM Campbell]

5.4gr and 124gr projectiles run in every 9mm I own including my cz scorpion.


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[BehindBlueI's]

I've used it quite a bit and like it for smaller cased cartridges, say .45 Auto and under. It's not bad for .38 wadcutters, but was position sensitive for SWC. Too much case volume to too little powder volume, although of course there are work arounds for that if you've got to adapt.

[Jim Watson]

It was all a friend could find in the previous political shortages and now he prefers it to 231.

[Dave Williams]

It was all a friend could find in the previous political shortages and now he prefers it to 231.

For what caliber? I have used it a bit in .45, and the recommended starting grain recipe for 200gr LSWC, 7.4gr, is quite hot to me.

[Jim Watson]

He loads 9mm with CFE-P
I hadn't looked at .45; a starting load at 1000+ fps, good grief. Note that Hodgdon shows a jacketed 200 gr with much lighter loads and lower velocity.

[revchuck38]

The factory-equivalent load I used for my .40 S&W practice ammo (5.8 grains under a 180-grain RNL) is .1 grains under the recommended starting load. I’m using lead projectiles, but that’s still some pretty stout data from Hodgdon.

[Dave Williams]

He loads 9mm with CFE-P
I hadn't looked at .45; a starting load at 1000+ fps, good grief. Note that Hodgdon shows a jacketed 200 gr with much lighter loads and lower velocity.

I have 300 loaded up, they are flinch inducing lol.

[ViniVidivici]

Did some more shooting with it yesterday (.40, G23, my 155gr load), and it does seem a hair snappier than wheeln running TG or HP38.

Really flinging my brass into orbit. Damn shame I don't have access to a chrono.

Doin' all right though, shot a BILL Drill with one shot out of the -0 in 2.82.

[Daauto]

I think CFE pistol is fantastic for the 9mm , I use HP-38 for low range to mid-range velocities and CFE for mid-range to high range velocities loads and gives the best deviation between shots on a chronograph than any powder I have used . Burns clean and meters very good .
I tend to shoot either plinkers or all out loads in the .40 and 10 mm so it's HP-38 and Longshot for me . I think CFE is a little too fast for the .40 and 10mm as I once was coronagraphing 10 mm and I went WHOA before even looking at the coronagraph from a spike in pressure . So when I use CFE with .40 or 10 mm I keep a 3 or 4 tenths below Max.