I cannot find any of the old threads on this subject, so I thought I'd start a new one. I remember several of our illustrious members have at one time or another extolled the virtues of this combination.
I cast a bunch last spring, ACWW, PC'd with Smoke's Carolina Blue, and sized .358. Final weight 127ish. They are a little tight going into a case after going thru a Lee powder thru die and seating with a flat seating stem. They are loaded over 3.7/BE and flare is straightened with a light taper crimp. These shoot very nicely at 7 and 15 yards. Ejected brass is fairly well behaved. Next up is a 25 yd test when it cools off a little.
Just for grins I going to size a few to .357 and see if seating will be a little 'mo betta' and accuracy is retained. My concern is how squarely the boolit is seating, although the proof was on target. I even tried seating a few with a .357 Sig seating die with a different nose configuration -- could not tell a difference on target. I do not even know why I have a set of .357 Sig dies, go figure.
This appears as though it will be a very economical training/plinking round, and easy to make.
I'm using older stock primers and powder, range brass, and 'free' WWs. Cost per round is negligible - for the time being anyway.