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I've been using HS-6 since before the internet was a thing, and before people said "a thing." My first use of it was in 12 and 16 Ga field loads where it was perfect. I greeted the advent of longshot with a yawn, as if 1 1/4 oz of shot at 1330-1400fps couldn't kill it, nothing would. When I moved to grouse country, I got a little more interested in LS as it would push 1 1/8 oz of lead really fast and I hunted a lot of heavy cover sans canine. You couldn't kill them too dead, but 1 1/8 oz of chilled #6 at a high stepping velocity approaching 1500 fps came darn close to too dead! It did blow the patterns a bit, which was actually a bonus for the cover I hunted. Also did yeomans work on first shot pheasant loads when I visited the family back in MN. My can of HS-6 sat, long neglected in a dark corner, as my consumption of heavy pheasant loads was scant, and I'm still shooting loads from the late 90's.
Then, around 2010 I decided I needed to reload 9mm. Factory loads were experiencing a price spike and availability sporadic. My old steel can had a new use, and was quickly expended across the countryside pushing 124grain cast and jacketed bullets. When the last great powder shortage hit, H-6 was one of the ones I found to fill my bench, so I just kept using it.
Now I find myself in a position of once again needing a high velocity 1 1/8 oz 12Ga load. I also now load 9mm, .357/38 and .41 Rem mag. Data for longshot is quite promising across the board for those calibers. I am very familiar with the shotgun applications of both powders, but wondering from folks who have used one, the other, and hopefully both, what the results were in the above handgun cartridges. My uses would be primarily full power 9mm jacketed, .38 +P jacketed, .357 mid- power hardcast, and .41 mid-power hard cast.
Then, around 2010 I decided I needed to reload 9mm. Factory loads were experiencing a price spike and availability sporadic. My old steel can had a new use, and was quickly expended across the countryside pushing 124grain cast and jacketed bullets. When the last great powder shortage hit, H-6 was one of the ones I found to fill my bench, so I just kept using it.
Now I find myself in a position of once again needing a high velocity 1 1/8 oz 12Ga load. I also now load 9mm, .357/38 and .41 Rem mag. Data for longshot is quite promising across the board for those calibers. I am very familiar with the shotgun applications of both powders, but wondering from folks who have used one, the other, and hopefully both, what the results were in the above handgun cartridges. My uses would be primarily full power 9mm jacketed, .38 +P jacketed, .357 mid- power hardcast, and .41 mid-power hard cast.
Works great! From what I’ve read about 9mm major, HS-6 gets it done but Longshot is a little too slow of a burn rate. Longshot is better in 40,10mm and medium magnum revolver loads. I like Longshot in 357 and 44 magnum when I don’t want all out H110 loads.
