Wheelguns 1961, I got one of the NOE moulds in that design (from a group buy) and mine drops bullets cast from COWW + 2% tin at very regular 125 grains. A Star 313 sizing die just “kisses” the high spots to make a beautiful, if heavy for caliber, bullet. When I first got my 327s I loaded it in FC marked brass over a heavy (dangerous, therefore unpublished) load of Accurate #7. I’m going to start working up from about 9 gr of non-canister Accurate #9 which I have in abundance. I hadn’t thought of using 2400, but I still have some of that from my old 44 Mag days, so that is an interesting possibility (along with the Unique charge for the H&R). Those loads are long in my S&W chamber, extending to within a sixteenth inch of the cylinder face. Should be accurate though, with that little bullet jump!
Mobilemail, I’m trying to acquire a good DEWC mould in 32 now. I’d planned on using those bullets in S&WL brass, but it would be handy to have a good 327 FM loading for it as well. Two questions; do you seat them flush, or does some of the bullet extend out in front of the case mouth? Also, have you developed an accurate target load for that bullet and the 32 H&R length brass? As for those brass coated Ranier bullets, I have a small stash of them too, but have so far hesitated to spend time and effort developing a load for them out of fear I couldn’t get more.
your “hot load” with Accurate #9 and the XTP bullet sounds interesting. I wonder how much I’d have to back off on the charge to use it with a 100-105 gr PB lead bullet(?) that’s an interesting line of experimentation I’ll want to try. I have some 105s with aluminum gas checks I got from beagle; they may work nearly as well as the XTP for hot loads.
*JohnH, does the 2R indicate a round nosed bullet? I’ve been avoiding those for most of my cast bullets, preferring SWCs and FRNs. Do you think the accuracy you’re getting is a function of bullet shape or the match up of weight and powder charge? Longshot will be a new powder for me, but it sounds like one I ought to seek out if you’re getting this kind of performance from it.*
To all: this thread is beginning to turn out just as I had hoped. Thanks to those who have responded so far, and as they used to say back in the pre-digital days, “Keep those cards and letters [and posts] coming in!”
Regards,
Froggie