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February 21, 2011
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Here is the situation:
I’ve been gifted with a large “bucket” of components for reloading .38 Spl & .357 Mag. But most of them don’t really seem to go together, so I’m looking for a safe & reliable way of using the components.
I have:
.38 Spl cases (losta-lotsa)
.357 Mag cases (again lots of them)
All cases are once fired; the original owner was going to get into reloading & saved all his factory brass.
125 Gr Speer Gold Dot HP bullets.
140 Gr Unknown maker FMJ-RN bullets.
125 Gr Hornady XTP HP bullets.
Hard cast (can’t scratch them with a fingernail) lead:
135 Gr SWC’s lubed & sized.
163GR RN.
147 Gr wadcutters (no lube)
Win WSP (not WSP_M) primers.
A pound of (old but smells/looks fine) Unique.
A pound of (old but smells/looks fine) Bullseye.
Both in the old round cardboard containers.
A pound of “Titegroup” much more current production.
So here is my thought process to maximize the components, please air check me for sanity/safety.
Load the jacketed round in the .357 cases with the Titegroup, work up a load for somewhere round 7.0 grains for 1450FPS, but with standard primers. Adjust as needed for the gold dots, the XTPs & the 140 Gr RN bullets.
Use the Unique and/or as suitable Bullseye for loading the lead cast bullets to about 1,000 FPS in the .357 & about 900 FPS .38 Spl cases. I plan on starting with about 5.5 Gr of Bullseye & 6.5 Gr of the Unique. I intend to work the loads from there using a 6” DW & a chronograph.
Thanks guys & girls.
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March 2, 2008
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I am not looking at any reloading tables right now, BUT without any solid info on the Unique and Bullseye, and unknown age and storage, I'd start low at .38 Special loads, and evaluate based on results.
You probably can't break a DW on .38 Spl loads unless you are using TNT, but I'd start slow with those two.
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