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As a pro carry law enforcement officer, I really appreciate the common sense oriented approach of dogs, lights, camera's, and only carrying if your willing to practice enough to know your...

I regret passing on an opportunity to aquire a S&W 610 I saw years ago. At the time I knew nothing about the revolver and passed on until I did the research on it. By the time I went back to buy it,...

My 1866 likes a shorter, round shoulder, flat nose profile. Such as the Lee 252 RSFP in either the 200gr or 250gr format. It does NOT care for any semi wadcutter design. If you are going to try to...

Me too!

Bummer, guess I'll order some see how they do.

So Doug, how did this experiment work out? Very interested in the OWC vs Thunderhead duel lol

I too started off with Lee liquid alox, it was ok, but didn't like the residual tackiness. Then I tried 45-45-10 which I really liked. Put it on as thin as you can, add a second thin coat if needed....

For those that don't like hotter than average burn temp of TG, I read that True Blue has one of the lowest burn temps. I tried it and found it to work really well for me, just took a coyote a few...

If you go with black powder then it's however much fits under the bullet with light to moderate compression. You don't want an air pocket because that will cause erratic ignition/combustion.

I...

I love nickle for 2 very different reasons.

1 I am a Law Enforcement Officer in a salty coastal area. Due to budget reasons we are issued nickol plated duty rounds that we do not use for practice...

I always water dropped since I burned my fingers once or twice on boolits I thought we’re cool and turned out not to be. I don’t use wheel weights or chilled shot so don’t think mine have the arsenic...

Well since the Lee molds are inexpensive, get both and see which one your gun likes. I have the Lee TC, and RF designs. I preferred the RF for the 45 colts, and the tc for my 45 acp.

Oh and I agree with the other fellows that suggested bulky powders in the big revolver cases. I think Blue Dot is somewhat bulky, and 12.9 gr of it under a 250gr cast boolit is listed by Alliant as...

Accurate (now Western Powders I believe) had midrange 45 Colt data loaded to about 20k PSI until last year when they upped their data to 30k psi to compete with Hodgdon's data. The older data is...

Anybody have a chance to try any of this data yet?

Very curious about the Blue Dot load in particular, planning on loading some up tomorrow.

Lee load Manuel is awesome, in addition to loads of cast load data, it also has some great articles on casting, lubing, gas checks, and blending for hardness.

Also never just buy one Manuel, buy...

Your awesome! Thank you very much.

I figured 2400 was going to be the powder to come out tops given these parameters. Blue Dot was one I hadn't thought about in this caliber but good to know.

John can I ask a favor? (Or anyone else...

Amazing that you didn't notice a massive increase in recoil. I would think going from 14k to over 60k psi would have resulted in an immense difference in recoil...

Wonder if maybe you short...

I have both and prefer the 357 over the 30/30, it's just easier to knock out a bunch of straight walled pistol ammo for range use. I did load light plinking ammo in 30/30, but it's more trouble, and...

Any results with this powder in the 500 yet? Waiting anxiously lol...

I am glad you brought this up, I immediately jumped on this load data awhile back when I first saw it for the 500 S&W. However no one around here stocks this powder and didn't want to pay hazardous...

Bighorn armory makes a dandy if you have the money.

You know what powder has me exited about in the 500? CFE Black, if you look at the Hodgdon's Online reloading data, it has good velocities with low pressure, and you can't overfill and it's...

Nice gun by the way, I desperately wanted one of those and almost pulled the trigger on it but had my second baby on the way and decided not to buy it at the time. Still want it but I already have a...