...at least you made it through Gary to become the father of the .41 Special...where would we all be without you!!
Bob
...at least you made it through Gary to become the father of the .41 Special...where would we all be without you!!
Bob
ddixie,
Just so you know, those loads from G&A magazine were NOT Elmer Keith authored
I sure wish I could find that article
beltfed/arnie
somewhere I still have the old pamphlets that give load data for just about all handgun cartridges using bullseye, red dot, green dot, blue dot, herco and unique. of course these were all worked up by Hercules using copper crusher pressure test barrels.
here is a copy of that old data for anyone interested
https://www.castpics.net/LoadData/Fr...cules_1992.pdf
To be clear the .41spl had been around a long while when I discovered it. It was well enough known that I had been studying on a .41spl on a 41 frame and got David to build me one on a 686. But I wasn't looking forward to trimming brass for the rest of my life and having my .41spls say Magnum on the headstamp. I called Star Line and got them involved all it cost was money @7K for the run of brass and a few bucks for the headstamp and we were in biz.
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 |