What's your favorite mild-to-medium .357 load...

I use 7.2 grs of BE-86 for my medium loads. Most accurate I have found yet. I ditched Unique a long time ago. It doesn't match my life style, don't have time to hand weigh my loads and it won't run accurately through my powder measures, any of them.

tightgroup tiger said:

I use 7.2 grs of BE-86 for my medium loads. Most accurate I have found yet. I ditched Unique a long time ago. It doesn't match my life style, don't have time to hand weigh my loads and it won't run accurately through my powder measures, any of them.

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BE-86 looks to be a solid powder. That's on my list to try next.

Starline is great, I use it across the board.

I had a lot of Federal .357, so most of those loads are in Federal cases.

Winchester occasionally has thick rims in .44 Spl and Mag, .38 and .357 and .45 Colt, making it tough to fit into shell holders. Because of that issue, Winchester are my least favorite cases for rimmed handgun cartridges. I haven’t had this issue with W-W .45/70, .30-30 and a variety of rimless rifle cases.

Stay safe.

desmobob said:

Great. I'll stick with Starline. I have a mix of .357 brass, and not very much of it. Lengths are all over the place. My PMC and R-P is good, but I'm starting to wonder about the condition of the original Super Vel cases I'm still using...

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I had a few original Super Vel .38's I shot on Friday...along with some Speer Lawman, Winchester Silvertip and Remington 125 gr "scalloped" JHP in .357...I had to clean out the dregs from a bunch of mish-mosh boxes.

Stay safe.

3.8gr WST behind MBC 158gr LSWC HiTeck bullets (12 BH) yields 760 fps out of my 6" Python. Very clean burning powder at the low end and below.

Walkalong said:

I stole that from TT, except I use 7.3 Grs, with a 158 Gr plated SWC or coated 158 Gr SWC, and it is a great midrange load.

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I usually call it 7,3gr,
7.2-7.3gr with the normal powder measure inaccuracy of about a .1gr.
Damn good load, and I also use the extreme 158 gr plated SWCs with it.



https://www.thehighroad.org/index.php?threads/be-86.760289/page-3 post 74 of the BE-86 thread in Reloading library of wisdom.