I'm gonna make a post here, just so I can find this thread in the future.
I've tried to sell all my BD at the last two gunshows (2018 & 2019), and only sold some, I still got a 5 lb'er that I guess I'll just save for Rifle plinking. I also thought about using it in some heavy bullet 9mm ammo?
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If you have a 9mm you might want to keep it. This past summer I read an article about Blue Dot in the 9 mm in the CZ Forum (
https://czforum.com/- don't go there.) You can find it on tap a talk. The article was by European competitive shooters and very detailed and Blue Dot always came out near the top in the powders discussed for competition shooting. My first 9mm was a Ruger P-85. Shortly after I bought it, I called Ruger to ask about a replacement, because I thought the barrel was bad. The snippy, customer service rep said it could not possibly be their product, and suggested it was the ammo or me, though the man never even asked what ammo I was using! I had tried Remington, Winchester factory loads with jacketed bullets standard velocity, and later including swaged commercial cast bullets with Bullseye at loads around 4.5 grains and working down to a load so mild it would put all the cases into a coffee cup on the bench 1 foot away from the ejection port. At least with Bullseye with the commercial target wadcutters, I could keep more than one shot out of 10 on a sheet of typing paper at 50 feet, shooting from a rest. CE Harris's article on cast bullets indicated that the P-85 cast bullet with 4.3 gr of Bullseye would keep tight groups of 2" at 24 yds. That was the last Ruger I ever bought as I also had a Mark 1 .22. It shot erratically even with match ammo at 21 feet. Something broke inside and it is now a paper weight. Ruger reply "too bad! don' t bother us again that model is 20 years old -- click!.". With quality control and customer service like that, I don't understand their reputation and can see why they are going under. If you know a BD load that works well in a quality gun let me know please! If I find one that will shoot well in the P=85 or my minty Walther P-38 AC 41 (stamped CCCP) small gravel chip in grip and another on the barrel (suspect never fired and only dropped once and bounced) please let me know. If I find a good load I will let you know on this forum. The Harris article can be accessed on Yah Hoo which I avoid like the plague. I think they are worse than MS, Google, for selling your info. Sorry about the typos and missing text in my original post. Have been having computer problems since the March update to Windows 10. Happens everytime the "improve" it. I am going to try the blue dot in my Minty 1950 Tula SKS paid $100 in 1992, saw one for sale on another site for $950. I'll give the Walther a try as well.
