kmw1954
03-05-2020, 04:35 PM
I cannot believe it has taken me this long to get back to the range and test these loads. This is a followup to; http://castboolits.gunloads.com/showthread.php?395989-New-Lee-200gr-452-rnfp-mold ,,, so I appreciate everyone's patience.
I was able to load up 2 separate loading of this, one with COWW alloy and another with very soft range scrap alloy. Otherwise all was the same. to refresh I had to load these very short, 1.110" to get them to chamber in my Witness. The cases are R*P large primer loaded with S&B LPP and charged with Accurate AA#2 at 5.0gr.
The quick short overview, the Witness loves these and the XD Mod2 hates them. 1st thing I noticed was I think I have to charge these down a good bit. Only the 5.0gr charge is the closest I could come to for a starting point and that was with Western Data. For a starting load these were quite stout and that could be because of the severe depth I had to seat to. Now I did just find data for a Lyman 225gr ACP using AA#2 with a start load of 4.0gr... The XD Mod2 once again didn't do well. The very first round stove piped up against the top of the chamber and then pushed the second round nose down into the magazine. After that they cycled fine but the grouping was more like a shot gun pattern. I believe these loads are just too short for the XD.
So I'm not sure what I am going to do about the XD, go back to Plated maybe as I don't want to load up 2 of the same loading only to different length. But next I believe is loading some up/down with 4.5gr od AA#2.
I was able to load up 2 separate loading of this, one with COWW alloy and another with very soft range scrap alloy. Otherwise all was the same. to refresh I had to load these very short, 1.110" to get them to chamber in my Witness. The cases are R*P large primer loaded with S&B LPP and charged with Accurate AA#2 at 5.0gr.
The quick short overview, the Witness loves these and the XD Mod2 hates them. 1st thing I noticed was I think I have to charge these down a good bit. Only the 5.0gr charge is the closest I could come to for a starting point and that was with Western Data. For a starting load these were quite stout and that could be because of the severe depth I had to seat to. Now I did just find data for a Lyman 225gr ACP using AA#2 with a start load of 4.0gr... The XD Mod2 once again didn't do well. The very first round stove piped up against the top of the chamber and then pushed the second round nose down into the magazine. After that they cycled fine but the grouping was more like a shot gun pattern. I believe these loads are just too short for the XD.
So I'm not sure what I am going to do about the XD, go back to Plated maybe as I don't want to load up 2 of the same loading only to different length. But next I believe is loading some up/down with 4.5gr od AA#2.