Favorite reduced loads

[West Creek]

My Favorite are as follows:

45 colt reduced - 200 RFNP over 231 or Red Dot in the 750-800 fps range.
45 Colt - 250 WFN at 800 FPS is anice shootin all day load and VERY accurate out to 60 yards

32-40 - 14 grain of 4227 under a 170 LFN from Veral gives 1385 fps in my 1893 marlin and shoots 1.5" at 100 yards with original buckhorn and Williams Bead. 15.3 grain of 4198 does even better with nicer groups but I weigh each of those. 4227 meters nicely and easy to load to provide nice plinkin shootin with excellent accuracy to limit my desire to measure each load.

45acp and 5grain of bullseye under a 200 SWC is my favorite load - sooner or later I'll have my shootin facility done enough I can cast up some of the modified BD45s to try.

[quack1]

My favorites- all shoot pretty well in my guns.

357- 358271 13gr/2400 ; 4gr/bullseye
358429 6gr/herco ; 3.8gr/PB

30-06- 311291 19gr/4198 ; 16gr/5744 ; 16gr/2400

35Rem- 358430 8.5gr/herco ; 11gr/2400 ; 15gr/4227

45-70- 457121,457198,Lee 457340f 22gr/2400

9x18 Makarov- Lee 365-95-1r 4.2gr/unique ; 6.2gr/HS-6

[AZ-Stew]

.357 Mag. 358429 3.5 Bullseye

.41 Mag. 410459 6.7 SR7625 ~900-950 fps

.45 Colt 452424 8.0 Unique

.223 Rem. Hornady 50gr SX 6.0 SR7625 ~1800 fps (Bolt action load. Very accurate.)

Regards,

Stew

[357maximum]

Pick a light charge of an alliant shotgun powder and pick a few light wadcutters for the 38 j frames..normally greendot..I have lots of it.

I do not download any other pistols

I only shoot one cast rifle with "reduced" charges, everything else is shot just like them red pills at full throttle.

35 rem 1953 marlin 336RC Straight stock

9.0 700X over a cci 200 and under a 357446, and shot in match prepped range brass or oddlot brass. never chronied it, lyman claims just above 1400....
all I know is that all boolits seek the same hole at 50yards, and like to form tight "schools" at 100, and still has "ENOUGH" to knock fourlegged furballs into their next life.

[EMC45]

11 gr. Unique under a 160 gr. Lee GCRN in .308 (kicks like .22 mag and clocks at 1500 fps)

3 gr. Bullseye under a Lee 158 gr. RFN

[pinshooter]

For .38 spl., 1.8 gr WST under any 148 gr WC. Great for indoor PPC (50 ft.). Recoil like a .22 lr. Great for teaching a new shooter. Not so good for outdoor PPC (50 yds.) but if the target backers are thick enough you can salvage your boolits without having to bend over!

A while back, (before I started casting) someone gave me half a coffee can of 110 gr. wc, lubed & covered with dirt. Being thrifty (read CHEAP) I cleaned off the lube and re-lubed with liquid earwax and loaded over the same 1.8 gr. Accurate enough at 50 ft. and recoil was less than a .22. But after around 50 rds. the chambers were so crudded up that loaded rounds had to be pushed in. Looked like not enough pressure with the 110 gr. load to swell up the case. Fired cases showed soot for about half their length where they are clean with the 148 gr. load.

[scb]

Reduced loads for my Springfield 1898 Krag rifle
10 gr. Unique
311284
Shoots into about 3" at 200 yds.

[Marlin Junky]

Has anyone tried WC-820 in the Whelen with 250+ grain boolits? I was also thinking about trying 35 grains of AA2200 under a 260 grain SWC in the Whelen.

MJ

[JSH]

30-20 BF
Lyman 31141/ 3.0 of bullseye

I have a friend with a 35 Whelan. He is using 7383 and a Lyman 204. Not really reduced, but shoots very well , at or below 1" at 100.

Jeff

[8mmFan]

Just a quick thanks to everyone who contributed to this thread. I had never used Bullseye for reduced loads before. In my Yugo Mauser 8x57, my young sons and I tried 2.5g and 3.0 of bullseye behind the Lee 175g RN. It was a blast, pardon the pun! I didn’t chrono the load, but the 3.0g load drove the bullets completely through a semi-rotted 8-inch diameter piece of maple (from the firewood pile) at about twenty feet. We grabbed a different, thicker piece, and turned it end-wise and shot into the cut end of it. After splitting the piece and digging out some of the bullets, we found they’d pentetrated roughly five inches, with no deformation.

The point of it all is that my boys and I had a bunch of fun with an inexpensive load that trains them on the 8x57 and which, when taken to the range and scope adjusted for drop, we can probably use at 150-200 yards for extensive, cheap practice.

Thanks to all, and here’s to all of those that we memorialize on Memorial Day. Thanks to them and those of you who fought alongside them, my sons and I enjoy these rights and freedoms that are virtually unknown elsewhere on the globe. God Bless America, and God Bless the fallen.

Sincerely,

8mmFan

[robg]

7gr true blue 158 gr Lee pb boolit in 357 mag
20gr 2400 Lee 405 g boolit in 45-70
25 g tac 150 grgc boolit 30/30
18gr 2400 under 150/160/180grgc boolit in 308 win

[waco]

19.5 grs. of 4759 with 180-205gr. cast gc bullet in the .308 Win.

This one is hard to beat here! Glad I still have 12-13 pounds of it.

[waco]

165gr RD boolit with 6.2gr Redot in my Savage 340 30-30 shoots real well with no GC and PC boolits.

[BloodyO]

Been searching for a couple of weeks for reduced loads for my 44 magnums and found several and tried these below out so far. I have a couple of powders available so tried some of the loads I had found and can verify they were safe in my pistol:

Ruger Redhawk 4" barrel
Mixed brass, Rem and Starline 44 Mag cases with Lee Factory Crimp Die crimp default OAL
240gr SWC from Acme Bullets - tried both the coated and lubed ones
4.0 gr of Bullseye with Winchester Large Pistol Primer
5.0 gr of Bullseye with Winchester Large Pistol Primer
6.0 gr of Bullseye with Winchester Large Pistol Primer
5.7 gr of HP-38 with Winchester Large Pistol Primer
6.7 gr of HP-38 with Winchester Large Pistol Primer
The 4.0 gr of Bullseye felt like a 380 or 22mag coming out of that Redhawk
None of the loads felt anywhere close to my 357mag Ruger SP101 with 2" barrel. Even the 6.x ones felt like a Ruger LCP 380.