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I can understand wanting free reloading data, and it is out there. Hodgdon, Speer, reloadammo.com, Xtreme bullet co, Alliant, and a few others provide 100% free load data. You have to be careful with websites that promise to offer free downloads of copyrighted load manuals. Most of them are...

Well alright then. I’ll kindly take my leave. Please ignore everything I have ever said on this forum.

I‘m not an industry expert, but I’ll try to give an explanation. As others have alluded to, each company’s testing is done independently of the others. The results they get are what is reported with their testing equipment under their specified testing conditions. Hodgdon and Lyman use...

Update: I was able to locate some 170 gr .357 hollow point bullets in current production at Hawk Bullets, but they are expensive. $43 plus shipping for 50 bullets. I guess that’s still a little cheaper than the Hammerdown, but I think I’ll hold off on this project and just load up some heavy...

Where do you get yours? I looked on Speer’s website, and they only list a 158 gr deep curl.

Yeah, I don’t think I could do it with 180 gr bullets either. Speer and I believe Sierra used to sell 170 gr hollow points, but they’ve been discontinued. The only alternative I’m seeing right now, is maybe gas checked cast bullets.

I was looking at Federal’s Hammerdown .357 ammo today, and was pondering how to replicate it at home. I think I could get to 1700 fps with H110 or Lil’ Gun from my Henry, but I don’t know where to find a bullet similar to the 170 grain Jacketed hollow points. Does anybody know of a company...

It takes some time, experience, and reflective thought for all the information to congeal into understanding, and even then there are things you will continue to learn for a long time. Anyway, 38 special is probably one of the best learning tools there is for reloading. There’s tons of data...

Grafs actually has Starline 32 H&R brass in stock right now. I’ll bet that most of those intermittent runs go to fill orders for distributors.

Seat the bullet and crimp in the groove. That’s the way these bullets are designed to work. There may be minor differences in the seating depth between this particular bullet and the ones published in the manuals, but unlike 9mm, the 38 Special is a particularly forgiving round to load with...

According to SAAMI, both are 17,000 for standard 38 Special. https://saami.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/SAAMI-Z299.3-2022-Centerfire-Pistol-Revolver-Approved-12-13-2022.pdf Page 14.

You have been given some very good information here. One thing that has not been mentioned though is barrel length. You have the same powder used with three arguably similar bullets that yield similar velocity with different ranges of powder. The Hornady book lists a 4” test barrel while...

Federal sells (or at least did sell) .223 commercial ammunition with either crimped or staked primers. I have run across lots of it with pick up brass. It doesn’t seem as heavily crimped as military brass, but the crimp’s presence does indicate that it is once fired rather than reloaded brass.

After I’m done wet tumbling and rinsing, I toss my brass back into my tumbler with a handful of paper towel strips, tumble about five minutes, replace the paper towel, and tumble about five more minutes. Small bottlenecks like .223 might need a third go. This gets almost all of the water out...

I bout a bunch from Diamond K a couple years back, and they were truly once fired. I know because I had to swage all of the crimped primer pockets. Up until then I thought they only crimped 5.56, but some companies crimp .223 as well.

Could be too much crimp. The bullets could be a little oversize too. What kind of bullets are you using? Jacketed, cast. plated? Have you miked the bullets? Could also be the seating depth.

What brand of dies and what type of crimp are you doing?

One last update and then I’m done. After much simulation on GRT, I decided on 4.5 gr Titegroup to replicate 32-20 in my 30-30. They had an average velocity of 1256 fps with a SD of 17 fps on 18 rounds, and very accurate. I made up 20, but the .312“ bullets must be on the verge of being a...

Of the powders you have listed, Unique would yield the highest velocities, but not by much. Bullseye, Tightgroup, and 231are in the fast pistol powder range and Unique is in the fast side of medium powders. In handguns, you won’t see much difference in velocities because of the short barrels...

I never even thought of that. I have Ideal #40 from 1955. I’ll look it up. … I just looked it up, and it looks like an 87 grain with 4 grains of Unique is 1100 fps. Mine is just 7 grains heavier, so it looks like I’m in the ballpark. It doesn’t say what length barrel though. I guess I’ll...