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I've been actually weight them. Its not the greatest scale but I have some calibration weights and it's within a tenth or so. I loaded a few rounds at 5.1 gr of Unique and shot them yesterday. It seemed a lot more like factory 38s. I also took some of the above advice and picked up some...

I see that the Berry's don't have a cannelure in them. I'm looking online and it looks like you can just put a real light roll crimp on those and they'll be ok for 38 special loads. Does that sound right?

I struggled in my selection of bullets. The range isn't super strict, so I'm sure I could get away with lead, but the rules do say FMJ so I was trying to follow them. I selected the 125 gr Speer TMJ over the Berry's because I wanted to be able to used them in 357 Magnum loads as well which...

Ok great. I couldn't imagine why 5.0 grains wouldn't work since everyone but Speer says it's ok. Only because it's their bullet did it give me pause. Thanks so much!

The Speer data I'm using is from here: https://www.speer-ammo.com/downloads/speer/reloading-pdfs/Handgun/38_caliber_357-358_dia/38_Special_125.pdf It says its for the hollow points as well as for the TMJ. I know the Speer manual has more information such as barrel lengths they used. Honestly...

I'm new to the forum, and to reloading and I'm looking for a little advice on 38 Special loads. A little background. I'm just getting started in reloading so I wanted to buy limited supplies. I wanted to be able to load 38 Special and 357 Magnum for my 6" GP100. My range requires FMJ ammo...