Got a bunch cast up and sized .359. Anyone have any favorite loads to share?
Got a bunch cast up and sized .359. Anyone have any favorite loads to share?
Paper targets aren't your friends. They won't lie for you and they don't care if your feelings get hurt.
In .357 4.0 to 4.5 grains of Bullseye, Titegroup or Trail Boss.
The ENEMY is listening.
HE wants to know what YOU know.
Keep it to yourself.
If they are plainbase I use 8.5 gr of Accurate #7. Approx. 1300 fps.
My 180gr GC bullets get 12.5 gr of 2400. Approx. 1500 fps.
Both are very accurate in my microgroove JM Marlin.
The 2400 load shoots into a 2"-2 1/2" circle at 100 yards routinely. (I use a 4x scope)
Best of luck,
Steve in N CA
They are gas checked
Paper targets aren't your friends. They won't lie for you and they don't care if your feelings get hurt.
I don't post loading data on open forums, but I can tell you that with that bullet I get about 100 fps more using Hodgdon Lil'Gun than I do when using Winchester 296/Hodgdon H-110. It also produces the tightest groups with the heavier bullets in .357 Magnum. My load gives me an average of 1,710 fps with the 180 gr. RNFP-GC bullet in one of my Marlin 1894's.
Hope this helps.
Fred
After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it. - William S. Burroughs.
11.5 gr 2400 =1250
fps in my trapper .a 5 shot ragged hole at 50 meters.
BP | Bronze Point | IMR | Improved Military Rifle | PTD | Pointed |
BR | Bench Rest | M | Magnum | RN | Round Nose |
BT | Boat Tail | PL | Power-Lokt | SP | Soft Point |
C | Compressed Charge | PR | Primer | SPCL | Soft Point "Core-Lokt" |
HP | Hollow Point | PSPCL | Pointed Soft Point "Core Lokt" | C.O.L. | Cartridge Overall Length |
PSP | Pointed Soft Point | Spz | Spitzer Point | SBT | Spitzer Boat Tail |
LRN | Lead Round Nose | LWC | Lead Wad Cutter | LSWC | Lead Semi Wad Cutter |
GC | Gas Check |