I have a brass mould no marks, 113 grains 359 WC boolit. works great for plinking
load with 4,6 of 231 and is a sweet load to shoot
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I have a brass mould no marks, 113 grains 359 WC boolit. works great for plinking
load with 4,6 of 231 and is a sweet load to shoot
My load was with a wadcutter because I was shooting paper, but for plinking purpose, either one should work fine. I have both lube grooves and tumble lube Lee designs and both worked great. The tumble lube design would be the easiest to make. Just cast,tumble ,load and shoot.
When I was shooting Bullseye, Richard Lee was on the League for a season, and he had asked me what I was shooting. So I explain my load and also stated that the bullet was one of his designs. He asked if I had ever tried a lighter wadcutter bullet than a 148gr. I stated that I didn't know if there was anything lighter than 148. The next week, he brought me a single cavity 116gr mold and said give it a try and see how it works. If it doesn't work ,I could just toss it out rather than hand it back. I though to myself, even if it doesn't work, I'm not tossing it because as far as I know, it is a one of a kind mold given to me by Dick Lee himself. Any way,it worked better in a fellow shooters 38sp with his load than my load in a 357 case load. I still have the mold. My brother is using it in his 38sp case loads.
Right now I'm using 6.0 grs of Unique and the Lee 158RF powder coated in mixed 357 brass, mild and accurate. As to the original post wanting to use a small charge of H110 I wouldn't do that.
At one point I had a 113? gr 38 lee wc single cavity mold. It was so marked. I think I gave it away as a prize at a shoot. It did OK but I am beyond sc revolver or pistol molds. I don't know when it was made but am pretty sure it was factory and before Lee went to their numbering system.
Lyman #358477 cast of COWW in a tired .357Mag case over 3.5grs of Bullseye.
Just the thing to fit in the short Cylinder of a S&W M27/M28.
I have the Lee 105 swc and the 125 fp. Both work well for plinking loads. I've been using 4.8gr Unique with the 125 in 38 cases in my 20" Rossi 92. The same load with the 105 is louder and has a sonic crack that the 125 doesn't. Soots a little, but it's an easy clean-up. The 105 really stretches your lead supply. My Rossi likes the 125 better so I'm using it more lately.
One of the best plinking loads for me, after trying many things, is the old-fashioned wadcutter over about 3.0 grains of some fast-burning powder like Red Dot or Bullseye in a 38 Special case. That kind of thing has performed consistently well for me in every 38 and 357 gun I've had.
Lots of great loads listed here. One of my favorites in both revolvers and lever guns is the Lee 125 grain rf with 4.4 grains of Bullseye in a .357 case. It is quiet, mild in recoil, accurate in my guns, and pretty quiet in a rifle.
I'm with lowbudgetshooter.
125 gr bullets keep the lead costs down. 3-5 grains of Red Dot gives good accuracy and enough power to ventilate anything you want holes in.
Low recoil, low noise.
My .357 Handi rifle is one of my most accurate with 4.6 gr of Red Dot and a Cast bullet sized .358 or larger lubed with 2-3 light coats of BLL.
I started out with 158 gr round nose but quickly switched to a Lee 6 cavity 125 gr rf. Thrifty to load for and stacks them up nicely, puts them where you want them.
Thanks to a post some time ago by Mr.GhostHawk, I experimented with Red Dot.Found 4.6gr. behind the Lee 120 TC in a .357mag case is not only very accurate but also hit in the same place as my full power 158 gr .357 loads.At least as far as 25 yards.Talk about a convenient pair....
I use two, a Mihec 124 HC wad cutter over 2.8 bullseye and a Lyman 358665 with 6.0 of Unique in a 357 case.
For what you want, I'd just load up medium power .38Spec. wadcutters.
For them, I'm a big Unique fan.
I've always had a large enough supply of Lead and wheel weights, that I didn't need to conserve enough to
use the real light boolits instead of 148s.
Best accuracy with my Henry .357 rifle has been a 140 gr Missouri flat point bullet over 5.8 grains of Shooters World Ultimate Pistol. It makes under 1300 fps from a 20" barrel . Other good loads were 5 grains +/- of American select, WST, and Cleanshot. And Titegroup. I'd prefer to load the bulkier powders, but ultimate gets the nod in my case because of consistent accuracy. It is very fine and 5.8 grains is less than 0.5 cc of powder.