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I use your Cowboy 120 Gr RNFP in a 32/20 rifle. The rifle is a BSA Martini built for Australia in the early 1900's. Original caliber was .310 Greener but the chamber has been recut for a 32/20. On first firing the shoulder of the brass is fire formed forward slightly, so after that I only neck size when reloading. Your bullet, Starline brass, and 4.2 Gr of Unique are giving me 1 to 2 inch groups at 100 yards. Eight out of ten shots will be in that grouping with the other two inside of 4 inches. The two that expand the group are because of me, not your bullets. I am over seventy years old and am shooting iron as issued sights and my eyes get tired by the end of a ten shot string. Great bullets, very accurate, and well priced. Thank you for providing these to the shooting community. PS: I use the 100 GR RNFP in pistol loads for a Colt 32/20 Police Positive Special that was built in 1935 with the same quality results. Soda cans at 25 yards are no problem.LutherLove the Keith style .45 SWC, 255 gr. coated bullets.Use them in my Ruger SBH 454, 6.5 in. barrel With starline brass, CCI 400 small rifle primers, and 26.0 gr. Vihtavuori N110, nice groups and about 1,500 + fps. No signs of wear on the brass or gun. I also use same setup with AA#9, slightly lower load about 25.0 gr., but more recoil. Kevin Chrono results for 5.5" Ruger (old model) Vaquero and 20" Henry Big Boy Steel
I've been using Missouri Bullet's 230 gr. Softball in my .45 ACP for a couple of years now. I recently purchased the 185 gr. "Button" SWC with the Hi-Tec coating. I was lured by the description "A classic, very accurate". Wow - these bullets are scary accurate! After experimenting with different loads and overall length, this is what I ended up with:
185 gr. SWC Hi-Tec bullet
5.4 gr. Hodgdon's HP-38
Cartridge overall length 1.190"
Winchester Large Pistol Standard Primers
Mixed Brass
With this load at 7 yards using a 2 hand grip, my 8 shots left a jagged 1" hole at point of aim. I'm not that good -- these bullets are!
Came off the range today with some data for the 38 S&W .361 145 Grain RN, plain without any Hi-Tec coating. Very pleased with the overall performance. Not much barrel metal other than normal shavings hanging around here and there -- pretty low smoke.
Rounds were made with Hodgson Universal, new Starline brass, and WSP. Final OAL was 1.20" with cases untrimmed and new out of the box. Early production S&W "38/200" Victory (Model 10) with a pristine 4" barrel. SWFL location pretty close to sea level in early summer morning with light wind.
Based on these data, and some of the (apparently bogus or galactically stupid) load data I've seen out there with Unique and other powders for the 38 S&W, I'd be very careful working up loads with your specific powder. The Lee die set has two powder loads listed for W231 and HP38, and my velocities are coming in about about 200 ft/sec higher than their two powders with similar weight loads. With both their listings they are drawing a MAX load line of about 2.5 grains, and I'd have to agree with that for Universal.
I have bought several cast hi tek coated bullets from Missouri bullet company and have been very satisfied so far. The first ones were the .44 300gr Hammer which I have been loading at 1.650 with 20gr of H110 they shoot well in my ruger super blackhawk hunter with no leading issues. I've also been loading the 45-70 buffalo .459 405gr bullet crimped at the crimp groove they come out to a coal of 2.53 which cycles well I'm my Marlin and even with 55gr of 4064 no leading but it is a compressed charge at 55gr so don't go higher than that. They are a little more comfortable to shoot at 50gr for target practice. I will be trying some of the 165 gr 30-30 bullets with the hi tek coating next. Thanks for making such great bullets!
I wanted to share the great performance I got from the .44 ElmerK this weekend. The attached pic is a 120lb Boar that strolled up near my stand on Saturday evening. The bullet went in between the eyes and exited behind his jaw, continued on through and left a perfect 1/2 inch hole in front left leg. Great entry and exit. He dropped right where he stood. Marlin 1894 .44 magnum rifle.
.44 ElmerK
23.5 grains of Hodgdon H110 powder
Winchester Magnum Pistol Primers
Starline Brass
Using Missouri Bullet Company's 180 grain RNFP Cowboy # 7 - I put together some .44 specials with Unique in loads varying from a low of 5.5 grains to a high of 9.0. CCI 300 primers were used in Starline brass.
The 5 shot tests of each load were done offhand with a S&W 629 with 3 inch barrel. The low end was so mild that hardly any felt recoil. The upper end was still easy to manage. The optimum range seems to be in the range of 7.0 to 8.5 grains. Click for pictures.
I bought 300 of the .475 Thumper Hi-Tek 340gr coated bullets. I'm blasting them out of my T/C Encore 13" MGM .475 Linebaugh barrel at 1708fps average (extreme spread was 24fps) over my chrono. This is over 2100ft/lbs of energy. At this speed there is minimal leading in the barrel and it's only at the last inch or two.
Accuracy is great. I can hold 1" or smaller at 50 yards when shooting off of my truck's bed. Put a better shooter behind the trigger and I'm sure it would tighten up. Current load is 30gr W296 in Hornady brass with a Fed 155M primer. I tested the slug against a jug of water and 10" of wet, compressed paper. It ripped apart the water jug and penetrated 5-6" into the paper. Retained weight was right at 90.3%. Observed size after firing was .638" on the thin side and .686" on the thick side. This was collected from a downward angle shot.
Overall I was amazed at the integrity of these projectiles! They dump energy like a hollow point but penetrate like a solid. But hey, what do I know? I'm just a kid from South Louisiana! I'll be shooting a lot more of these in the coming months.
Tried the 180 gr WFN (Pugnose) .358 bullets in my Smith & Wesson 686 Plus 7 shot .357 Magnum. I tried several different powders and combinations and they only shot so so for me. I was about to give up on them until I stumbled onto IMR 4227 powder with CCI 550 Magnum primers. Boy does it shoot!!! I am an accuracy nut so takes a lot to impress me but the 180 grainers came alive. I shoot 15.0 gr IMR 4227 & can consistently shoot 3" or less (7 shot) groups at 52 yards from the seated position resting on my arms on my knees using a 3 MOA Holographic sight with no magnification. Can't beat these bullets with this combination and they are half the price of my favorite jackets bullets. Love them! WILL BE ORDERING SEVERAL THOUSAND MORE.
1SG K- .358 MBC 180 Pug nose with star line case, win spm primer and 12 grains of AA#9. Chrono graphed at 10 feet 1235 feet per second. 2 inch group fired from standing two hand grip at 30 yards. My new hunting load. No leading at all. Shot from a Ruger gp100 4 inch.
Worked up a couple of .357 loads for my lever rifle (92 action Rossi) with the ranger. I wasn't sure about pushing it to the velocities I wanted without gas checks, but I had great luck with the #1 Buffalo, which averaged 1668 fps in my Marlin (48 grains of Benchmark) and grouped at 1.75" at 100 yards with iron sights. Did I mention no lead left behind? I decided to give it a shot, literally.
I tried a couple of powders I had on hand, and finally settled on 8.7 grains of blue dot using a standard small pistol primer. (There is no published data I could easily find for blue dot with this type of bullet, so as always, this load is MY workup, and I found it safe for MY gun, so use this data at your own risk, and remember to start lower and work up. I have NOT shot this load from any of my handguns as of yet).
Just got back from testing my first loads of the Missouri Bullet Co plain-base, coatedbullets in my .25-20. These were loaded with 9.2 gr of 4198, 0.2 dacron filler toposition the charge, and NECO P-Wads. I got an eight shot group in 0.79 in only 4 holeswhich means the ammo and weapon exceed my shooting skill. No vertical velocitystringing at all, so I expect shot to shot variance to be low. I calculated that thiscombination would deliver 1427 fps out of my rifle, and that seems to fit within theparameters of my ballistic computation. I still have to shoot over the chronograph tovalidate the velocity, but this confirms 35remington\'s estimate of 1400-1450 fps with9.0 gr 4198, and meeting my expectations for initially duplicating current factoryloads. I\'m on this load until further notice. Will post results after chrony.
I might add that my son and I took initial sighting strings with factory Rem 86grjacketed SPFN. We both experienced vertical stringing, indicating velocity variations.Looks like their powder (described in previous post) is position sensitive as well. Theconsistency I attained confirms me as a believer in dacron filler to keep the powderpositioned. I suggest that you try it as well. At least now, I have the factory brassthat can be filled with a REAL load.
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