357shooter
04-15-2010, 07:28 PM
Thank to theperfessor who sent me some 38 cal 125 FP boolits to try out.
I've had them for awhile but got sidetracked as I upgraded my press (went progressive) and am finally back online. So today I was able to take time to load and shoot them at my local range.
This is my first experience even seeing tumble lubed boolits, and these are sweet shooting and accurate. I don't know what the lead alloy is, but I loaded them over my favorite load of 700x, 2.8 grains and applied a medium crimp (everything in my Taurus 85 ultralite snubby take some crimp, at 17oz).
Wow, very clean, very sweet shooting and to the POA. I could have shot another couple of hundred or more. That's nice in a pocket carry snub nose.
The barrel was just as clean when done as when I started too. Gotta figure out how theperfessor applied the TL (I know, he tumbled them...). I decided to try it myself using some Alox, JPW and mineral spirits, but I may have gotten the mix a little off as there was some dirt in the barrel after shooting mine. It cleaned up pretty easily though.
Thanks to theperfessor for sending me the great boolits!
I've had them for awhile but got sidetracked as I upgraded my press (went progressive) and am finally back online. So today I was able to take time to load and shoot them at my local range.
This is my first experience even seeing tumble lubed boolits, and these are sweet shooting and accurate. I don't know what the lead alloy is, but I loaded them over my favorite load of 700x, 2.8 grains and applied a medium crimp (everything in my Taurus 85 ultralite snubby take some crimp, at 17oz).
Wow, very clean, very sweet shooting and to the POA. I could have shot another couple of hundred or more. That's nice in a pocket carry snub nose.
The barrel was just as clean when done as when I started too. Gotta figure out how theperfessor applied the TL (I know, he tumbled them...). I decided to try it myself using some Alox, JPW and mineral spirits, but I may have gotten the mix a little off as there was some dirt in the barrel after shooting mine. It cleaned up pretty easily though.
Thanks to theperfessor for sending me the great boolits!