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    Favorite reduced loads

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    What is your favorite reduced load?

    The ones you would put together for rifle or revolver?

    Bill

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    6.5 grains of Red Dot under a 250 grain keith boolit, in a 45LC.
    I shoot a thousand or so per year of this load.
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    ..............45-70, 12.0 Unique and either the Lyman 292 FNPB or the RCBS 300gr FNGC.

    30-06 is 8.0 SR7625 and the Lee C309-113F

    357 is 3.0 W231 and most any 140 to 158 WC or SWC.

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    .45-70 or .458 Win Mag -- .457 roundball & 9 gr Unique It's a real zipper, resonably accurate (enough for rabbits and coons), and quiet.

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    11 gr of Red Dot in basically any military cartridge of the 30 cal class with bullets up to 200 gr.

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    19.5 grs. of 4759 with 180-205gr. cast gc bullet in the .308 Win.

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    My Standard Loads, where typical means start one grain lower than shown:

    32WS is 30-33 of any of the H335/WC844 variants with the one and only RCBS 170 grainer.
    35Rem is 38-40 of any of the H335/WC844 variants with any of the 180 grainer boolits.
    308W is 23.0 VeeVee-N120 and the Lee C309-113F.
    22-250 is 15.0 VeeVee-N110, or 19.0 VeeVee-N120 and the Lyman 225646.
    222 is 9.0 BlueDot, or VeeVee-N105 and the Lyman 225646.
    357Mag is 13.0 WC820 or 13.0 AA-9, any boolit/bullet at or less than 165 grains.
    44Mag is 19.5 WC820 typical or 18.5 AA-9 for any boolit/bullet at or less than 250 grains.
    41Mag is 17.5 WC820 typical for any of the 220-230 Keith types.
    45Colt is a case full of RL7 or WC680 with any boolit heavier than 300 grains with zero compression, boolit just touching powder. This is NOT a cowboy load.

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    11.5 grs. of 820 with 115 gr. RCBS cast gc boolit in the M1 Carbine. Ron

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    30-06 - 20-22/4227 and just about any GC'd 165-200 grainer
    35 Whelan - 38-40/4895 or 40-42/4064 and 358009 (not really a reduced load)
    6.5x55 - 17.0/4227 and Ly 150 grainer (don't recall the #)
    32 Win Spl - what Felix said
    308 Win - 4895 and 311041 and push it as hard as accuracy allows
    30-30 - 16.0/4227 and 311041 (this is a very mild shooting and accurate load)
    .357 Mag - 10.0/HS7 and 358156 (nice medium load)
    35 Rem - 4895 and the RSBS 35-200-FN (you pick the charge/fps)
    44 Mag or 44 Spl - any of the Grn Dot cowboy loads (I prefer Lee 200 RF for the light loads)

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    5gr BP or Sub under Farina and a 180gr pure lead boolit in .38 or .357... though I may try 1gr Titegroup next...
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    357 Magnum 4 grains TiteGroup and any 158-160 grain cast bullet (cowboy load)
    357 Magnum 15 grains H110 and 170 Sierra JHC, 13-15 grains H110 and any 180 -200 grain cast bullet [Federal 205 primers] (full power loads)
    375 Win./38-55 23-25 grains H4198 255 grain cast bullet.
    44 Magnum 6.4 grains TiteGroup and any 240 grain cast bullet (cowboy load)
    45-70 25 grains H4198 & RBS 45-325-FN-U Plain Base
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    Most of my rifle CB loads could be called "reduced," being in the 1400-1800 fps muzzle velocitiy range. To avoid redundancy, I'll list only one greatly reduced load. Rifle and revolver .44 Magnum load: 7.0 gr. Green Dot/RCBS 245 PB SWC. This load is very accurate in a S&W 8 3/8" M629, mv 950. It also shoots about as good as any load in a Marlin Cowboy 24", mv 1200.
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    30 - 06 Reduced Load

    30 - 06 Springfield
    11.5 grs. Unique
    Cast bullet 160 - 200 grs. in weight.

    Always an accurate load in all 06's I've shot it in.

    Ben

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    Sticky!!

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    6 grains Red Dot under 150 or 170 grain gas checked in the 30-30 or 32 Special. Lobs them in slow and quiet.

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    10.0 grs Unique in .308 WCF under 100 grain Speer Plinker or 110 gr cast bullet, guesstimate it being about 1550 fps...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Buckshot View Post
    is 3.0 W231 and most any 140 to 158 WC or SWC.
    That's a sweet load. 3.0 grs of 231 (or HP-38-- same thing) is also fun under a 125 gr bullet in that caliber.

    .44Mag or .44 spl: 250 gr LSWC over 8.5 grs Herco. 950 fps, and very accurate.

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    reduced load

    My favorite reduced load for the 308 is 16grains of 2400 powder under the RCBS 30-180 bullet Bob B

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    30-30: 6 gr of 4756 under a 170gr cast bullet, with a GC it averages 980fps, plain base averages 1057 fps (not sure why that is..). Accuracy is very good out to 50 yards but requires moving the rear sight up three notches to be zero'd, minimal recoil and report. It shoots very clean too.

    45-70: 11gr of Red Dot under a 405gr cast bullet. averages just over 1000 fps in all of my 45-70s regardless of barrel length. Easy shooting and accurate out to 100 yards.

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    Trail Boss is your perfect reduced load powder. Designed for bulkiness to fill the case and still maintain the low pressures that are favored by Cowboy Action shooters. My 44 caliber loads (44 special and 44-40) really like 5.5 grains under a 200 grain projectile.

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