Hello all,
I have been playing with a 38 Super 1911 with Cast lead bullets and was wondering if anyone else was or has been down this road. So far I have messed with 115 gr round nose bullet, 125 gr round nose bullet and 125 truncated cone bullet. I was using 700-X powder but was having pressure issues with it, and now I have switched over to Unique powder. I have not seen any stellar accuracy with any of my loads, the barrel has about 500 to 600 round though it so far, frame and slide has close to 1000 rounds fired through it. all of the bullet dia. have been .356". I seen some heavier bullets (example 147 gr. and 158 gr.) with dia. of .357" but I have not ventured down this path yet. So far with 125 gr. I have been up and down the whole scale with loads of unique and 5.6 gr. shot the best but it needs to be a lot better (note: loads were stepped in 0.1 increment) Also I have been very cautious about over all length (note: no to exceed 1.280").
Does anyone have any information or experiences they would like to share?