I'm blaming my casting habit for making me pull old guns out of mothballs.

[Ole]

I got a new 359RD190 grain mold last week. I originally bought this mold for a myriad of uses.

*Heavy bullet for my GP100
*GP bullet for my 14" .357 Max T/C
*Plinking bullet for my .358 Winchester

So after making my first batch of bullets on Friday, I did some research on what people were getting out of the 14" Max contenders with this bullet and the results were impressive!

20-22 gr of H110 running this bullet out to 1800-2000fps. That's close to 35 Remington performance using 10 grains less powder! Where do I sign up? So this inspired me to dust off my .357 Max barrel. Up until today, this barrel had open sights, but I robbed the 2x Lepould scope off of one of my other TC barrels.

http://i258.photobucket.com/albums/hh280/Ole1830/Bullet%20making/IMG_5385.jpg

Can you say versatile?

http://i258.photobucket.com/albums/hh280/Ole1830/Bullet%20making/IMG_5386.jpg

L--->R

850fps 38 special 158 load
1400 fps 125 JHP load
1900 fps 190 RD lead load

Anyway I haven't shot this thing in forever and dusting off old guns out of mothballs is kind of like getting new guns for free. [smilie=2:

I'll report the results once I get this thing out to the range here in the next few days.

Take care.

Matt

[Jack Stanley]

So now you're blaming your use of firearms to your lead addiction huh? :p

Having a blast ain't ya ??

Jack

[rintinglen]

Dang I hate when stuff like that happens. I had a similar problem. I mean, I had all these light bullet, 311 molds. So I just had to get a 32-20 to use them for.

[missionary5155]

Good morning
Oh the fun .... Being able to feed those unique and often forgotten chunks of wood & steel.
Long live the 44-77 ! And 45-60 !