Just out of curiosity - there are a LOT of choices out there. What is your favorite choice?
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Just out of curiosity - there are a LOT of choices out there. What is your favorite choice?
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H&G # 503 and 4.8 gr WW231. A +P load.
Collector and shooter of guns and other items that require a tax stamp, Lead and brass scrounger. Never too much brass, lead or components in inventory! Always looking to win beauty contests with my reloads.
Been buying Hornady Critical Defense for my .38 and .380.
My H&G #503 mold is a 250 Keith Type 44 caliber mold.Originally Posted by FISH4BUGS
Actually I have two of them and both are different.
3.1 grains Bullseye & Lyman full wadcutter. Accurate, easy to shoot, and penetrates well. The big flat nose creates about the best possible wound cavity for a non-hollowpoint boolit.
Currently casting and loading: .32 Auto, .380 Auto, .38 Special, 9X19, .357 Magnum, .257 Roberts, 6.5 Creedmoor, .30 WCF, .308 WCF, .45-70.
Speer Gold Dot 135 grain short barrel +P.
https://www.speer.com/ammunition/han...9-23921GD.html
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My Straight Shooters thread:
http://castboolits.gunloads.com/show...raight-shooter
The Pewter Pictures and Hallmarks thread:
http://castboolits.gunloads.com/show...-and-hallmarks
38 special +P 158gr lead HP.
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I like your attitude, and since the .38 snubby is pretty much an "up close and personal" type of weapon, there is no need for any high powered loads.
For my vintage 1972 Charter Arms Undercover .38 2" I use 148 grain DEWS w/ 3.5 grains Red Dot. for 785fps. Pretty accurate. Plus those guys do a pretty good job of tearing up a wet phone book.
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Brassfetcher has some good data here for several of the loads already mentioned.
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I like a +p 158 grain HP. I have used Winchester and Remington, but lately I have been making my own, owing to the lack of product on the shelves. A 358-429 MP HP mold casts right at 159.0 grains and loaded on top of 4.5 grains of WW231 or 5.8 grains of Power Pistol makes for a good duplicate.
For my aluminum framed snubbies, I use a Winchester mid-range wadcutter. I bought a case of them years ago, but never got around to using them up and still have half a dozen boxes.
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H&G #50 WC, in front of 3. x gr. of Bullseye.
Pretty much the same here, except I run a clone of the SAECO 348 by MP.
Shoots to POA in my fixed-sight revolvers and I can practice all I want with my carry load.
Either a Speer 135 gr short barrel GDHP, or a 158 gr SWC over a +p charge of Power Pistol.
Wen or Rem 158 gr SWCHP +P in 2" barreled revolver. I\d like to ge the Speer 135 GD's to try and compare.
OOPS....actually #51. My bad
Collector and shooter of guns and other items that require a tax stamp, Lead and brass scrounger. Never too much brass, lead or components in inventory! Always looking to win beauty contests with my reloads.
Buffalo Bore .38 Special +P 158 grain SWC-GC HP. Over 1000 fps from a 2" snub and mid-1100s from a 4".
https://www.buffalobore.com/index.ph...t_detail&p=108
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPnCWwXHuIY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTJYsc6PdEM
3.5 of Bullseye with a Lyman 358432.
Both accurate and sufficiently powerful.
I use this in my 38 and 40 S&W.
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