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Amen!

I had a young lady friend in the early 80's that wanted to learn to shoot revolvers.

All I was shooting at that time was cast bullets from my two .44 Mag Redhawks (a 5 1/2" and a 7 1/2")...

Sorry I can't help you with DW's. Never had one.

In my limited experience, although my S&W's are smoother when new, I've always got my tightest groups with my Rugers.

I've had my .44 Redhawk...

I "discovered" Starline brass a couple of years ago.

Truly excellent sales and service!

Been doing a "torture test" on some .357 Mag cases from Starline.

The first batch of 50 cases had the...

My favorite ccw is an SP101, .357 Mag, 3" barrel.

Why? Because the one I found happens to shoot POA and POI at 25 yards with my favorite home-load (target, defense, and cottontail head-shot load)...

Sorry to hear about your problem.

alping45 -

You said that you have some IMR4227. Try that.

I get great accuracy with H-4227 and reduced "felt recoil" than other powders when loaded to the same velocity (per my chronograph)....

Butler Ford -

I have been using a RCBS, two-cavity, 148 grain, bevel base wadcutter (BBWC) mold since the 70's and have cast and shot many thousands of these bullets.

I mostly use Bullseye...

On my TC Contenders, the only scope brand that I tried that didn't shake apart was Leopold. I never had a failure with a Leopold scope.

Scoped hand guns were wonderful at the range.:smile:
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My favorite is old S&W revolvers because of their super smooth actions.

But I only recommend them for folks that don't shoot competition.

If someone is going to actually shoot a gun (as in many...

In the past forty years I've shot thousands of my cast bullets in .41 Mag and .44 Mag without leading problems --- but I only used enough H4227 powder to get 1,200 to 1,250 fps with #2 alloy and the...

Well, I got a complaint about RCBS stuff!

Although the RCBS press that I purchased new in 1972 is doing OK,

and all my RCBS dies and bullet molds purchased over the years have produced...

I tried a .431 sizer (just for the experiment) and got my best groups in a 5 1/2" Redhawk.

Took deer in SC and NY with that bullet (250 gr. Keith from RCBS mold) and used it on my back-yard...

Two weeks ago, I paid 40 cents per lb for a bucket with 138 lbs of "mostly wheel weights" at the local auto scrap yard.

I've bought wheel weights there before but that was the first time I found...

When I put my last stick of Javelina 50% Alox 2138 and 50% yellow beeswax into the sizer last week, I ordered a few sticks of White Label 50/50.

My order came today! WOW! Hey Mr. Larsen ---...

When I worked in a radiator shop in the early 70's, we mostly used regular solder, but for some jobs we used silver solder that takes lots more heat to melt.

I can't remember now why we used the...

Amen!

Last fall when I got a new 4" GP100 and discovered that target wadcutter bullets from it hit sideways at 25 yards --- I called and got the guy....

I was trying to get them to fix the gun...

At my favorite gunsmith's recommendation, I got my .38 Lewis Lead Remover in the '60's to clean the forcing cone area of a Model 14 S&W and it works great! Since then I got this handy tool in .41...

Finally got around to trying the BBWC bullets with only two grooves lubed. Accuracy appeared to be the same as when all three grooves are lubed. The soot seemed to be exactly the same as with three...

Hey waksupi...

Thanks again for the reminder that using softer bullets sometimes reduces leading. :drinks:

Shot 70 of the softer bullets yesterday (142.2 +/- .3 Gr.) and it really worked to...

OOPS...

Make that 142.2 Grains (+ or - .3) versus 139.5 grains.....

Much softer.....:-D

I'll try them on Friday or Saturday.

Shot a pile of the 139.5 grain bullets today and had only...

Have you tried cast bullets?

Please don't read all that stuff in the Lyman Handgun Reloading manual....:kidding:

I started casting bullets to save money --- then found out that my "home made"...

Thanks GoldenRoyBoy,

I have cast up anothe 300 or so RCBS 148 Grain wadcutter bullets. These come in at 141.5 Grains --- a little softer than the last batch....

I too don't care about the...

Thanks for the suggestion on softer bullets.

I cast about 260 "softer" bullets today. I'll give this lot a week or so to harden up, then see how they do.:-D

oops...

The book I was talking about is "Cast Bullets" by Col. E.H. Harrison....

I just noticed that it a "A Publication of the National Rifle Association of America."

One of my old books on reloading quoted an article from a 1957 American Rifleman which discussed improved accuracy with only one groove lubed. :-D