Ring3
01-16-2017, 04:14 PM
It was suggested to me that this boolit might work well in my S&W 625-2. I casted a few hundred using ww, scrap and 2% tin. Nice looking boolits. Powder coated some and traditional lubed some.
Started looking in my books for data and found nothing specific. Decided to use the crimp groove for COAL and Lyman data for 200g Win231 powder. Started at the start and worked up. Accuracy was ok throuout, but what a mess. Unburnt powder in all cylinders and barrel. Enough fouling in the chambers that new loaded moon clips had to be pushed or lightly tapped in. I stopped at 4.8g. Chrono read avg ~665fps. I've done some searching on line without finding anything definitive. Not wishing to get into high pressures I wonder if anyone has any published data or experience they would share using this boolit in a 625 or other 45acp.
Another issue with the gun is the chambers. It seems all the cast and plated bullets I try sized to .452 must be pushed home in the cylinder after a few clips. Some worse than others. I sent the cylinder to dougguy here on the forum. He opened the throats to ~.4525, chamfered the mouths and found the chambers a bit out of round. He reamed each chamber taking out very little metal. (Great job and a pleasure to deal with Doug BTW). I thought this would do it but the problem persists. When the chambers became tight with my hand loads I put in a clip full of factory ball. They fell right in. I gather fouling is my issue clogging the chambers and not allowing the slightly bigger cast boolits to freely load. Question is, can anything be done to solve. Different primers, powder for cleanliness? Pre-treat chambers in some way? Etc....
i really like this pistol and want to hand load cast for it if possible. Appreciate any thoughts, data, experience.
Rob
Started looking in my books for data and found nothing specific. Decided to use the crimp groove for COAL and Lyman data for 200g Win231 powder. Started at the start and worked up. Accuracy was ok throuout, but what a mess. Unburnt powder in all cylinders and barrel. Enough fouling in the chambers that new loaded moon clips had to be pushed or lightly tapped in. I stopped at 4.8g. Chrono read avg ~665fps. I've done some searching on line without finding anything definitive. Not wishing to get into high pressures I wonder if anyone has any published data or experience they would share using this boolit in a 625 or other 45acp.
Another issue with the gun is the chambers. It seems all the cast and plated bullets I try sized to .452 must be pushed home in the cylinder after a few clips. Some worse than others. I sent the cylinder to dougguy here on the forum. He opened the throats to ~.4525, chamfered the mouths and found the chambers a bit out of round. He reamed each chamber taking out very little metal. (Great job and a pleasure to deal with Doug BTW). I thought this would do it but the problem persists. When the chambers became tight with my hand loads I put in a clip full of factory ball. They fell right in. I gather fouling is my issue clogging the chambers and not allowing the slightly bigger cast boolits to freely load. Question is, can anything be done to solve. Different primers, powder for cleanliness? Pre-treat chambers in some way? Etc....
i really like this pistol and want to hand load cast for it if possible. Appreciate any thoughts, data, experience.
Rob