Bill in Ky
07-04-2014, 04:37 PM
I had a couple hundred 358 105 SWC from COWW, that I had PCed with HF red, for my M&P 9. Well the Smith wouldn't shoot them, in spite of everything I tried. Now this little SWC is straight sided like they say it needs to be for the 357sig. I sized them to .357 without slugging my barrel.
In May I found 8lb of RedDot, which is about the only pistol powder I have. It would have worked fine in my 9mm and it does fine in my 45acp but what about a 357sig?
I grabbed up 10 range brass that had already been reloaded and prepped them. I used a 40S&W carbide die then the 357sig FL die for a neck die. I measured all the brass and trimmed any that needed it.
The pistol was a Glock 23 with a Lone Wolf barrel.
I really didn't have any loading data for RedDot in this round other than what tazman gave me out of an older manual. I started with 5.5gr and went up by .1 to 6.0gr. COL was 1.090".
I loaded the remaining 5 brass with 6.0gr of RedDot and they fired flawlessly. No signs of pressure, with the CCI primers, so I reloaded the same 10 brass and fired them, I'm lucky in that my range is off the patio.
I reloaded and shot these same 10 brass 7 times. None of them needed trimming, no neck splits, the primer pockets were a little looser but all in all no problems. Accuracy was very good.
On the last loading I shot them through the chronograph and came up with an average a little over 1300 fps with no leading....
I will probably cast more of these little pills for the big bad 357sig..
Bill
In May I found 8lb of RedDot, which is about the only pistol powder I have. It would have worked fine in my 9mm and it does fine in my 45acp but what about a 357sig?
I grabbed up 10 range brass that had already been reloaded and prepped them. I used a 40S&W carbide die then the 357sig FL die for a neck die. I measured all the brass and trimmed any that needed it.
The pistol was a Glock 23 with a Lone Wolf barrel.
I really didn't have any loading data for RedDot in this round other than what tazman gave me out of an older manual. I started with 5.5gr and went up by .1 to 6.0gr. COL was 1.090".
I loaded the remaining 5 brass with 6.0gr of RedDot and they fired flawlessly. No signs of pressure, with the CCI primers, so I reloaded the same 10 brass and fired them, I'm lucky in that my range is off the patio.
I reloaded and shot these same 10 brass 7 times. None of them needed trimming, no neck splits, the primer pockets were a little looser but all in all no problems. Accuracy was very good.
On the last loading I shot them through the chronograph and came up with an average a little over 1300 fps with no leading....
I will probably cast more of these little pills for the big bad 357sig..
Bill