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February 9, 2009
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As mentioned in the firing range yesterday I went to the range for some R&R. It was time to exersize the .375's for an afternoon. My daughter and I had built many different loads for the day, about 60 to be precise. My son joined us at the range and spent some time with the .44 before he finished with the DW .375.
Note to Jody, hang in there those little ones grow up and make it more fun when they can help out with the range time! We took the .375 Seville along and tried the identical loads in both the Seville and the DW for comparison, interesting results followed. The seville seems to have very tight chambers yet. JD Jones already reamed them some but I had to remove the cylinder four times to unstick cases loaded at only moderate levels, more reaming I guess. No stuck cases in the DW. The Seville's favorite load was a shot of 2400 powder topped with a Hornady 220GR bullet. target below at 50 yards benched, 1-3/8" group, I managed this. My sone put together the best attempt in the same fashion with the DW shooting the same bullet backed up with a moderate load of WW296 powder, target below.
The DW keyholed many of the bullets with this custom 1-14 twist barrel except for the 296 loads? The factory 8" barrel was always flawless, puzzled by this one
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January 24, 2009
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Supermagfan said:
My daughter and I had built many different loads for the day, about 60 to be precise.
You guys made 60 different loads?You must have a pretty good system, to keep track of all those.
That's odd that some of those bullets keyholed. These darn guns can be tempermental, I guess. Thanks for the nice range report & even more, for the...
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60-rounds, 4- different loads, sorry about the confusion.
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January 24, 2009
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Woops, I guess that would me more realistic, my bad.
I was gonna say...60 different loads? You da MAN!
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November 17, 2008
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Cool report and AWESOME pics, I didn't see a target from your daughter shooting so she either is to young or she whipped the guys.
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April 25, 2008
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Excellent report! I need to have a .375 Supermag day myself, hopefully sometime soon. Were any of those loads with H-4227 powder? That is what worked best in my Dan Wesson, that and the Hornady 220 grain FN.
My first Dan Wesson was the 740, and I had only fair accuracy with W-296/H-110. Two things cured that problem: The first was switching to IMR-4227. The gun really loves that one. The second thing was the crimp. I went to a Redding Profile Crimp die and that tightened up those 296 loads nicely. Factory crimp dies just don't do as uniform a job as you need. Look at some crimped rounds someday, you will find individual rounds that have a heavier crimp on on side of the case, and the other side is lighter.
The Redding Profile Crimp die means an extra step in the reloading process, but it reaps benefits far beyond the extra work. I have one for ALL of my revolver calibers.
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