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Hello friends,
I recently got into reloading and it was in large part thanks to this forum that I finally cranked the lever the first time. I've loaded quite a bit of .44 magnum, .357 magnum, and .45acp since then with very good results.
In fact, earlier today I had the joy of firing my 6" GP100 equipped with a Jack Weigand No-Drill picatinny rail to which a Vortex Viper optic is mounted. The Ruger performed excellently, as did Mr. Weigand's mount and the Vortex red dot. It's a heckuva revolver and I couldn't be more pleased with the way the optic turned out performing and the quality of the mount.
I was shooting 158gn Speer JSP Plinkers, number 4217 in the catalogue, loaded to 1.59" COAL in mixed headstamp brass over 14.5gn of Alliant 2400 with CCI 500 small pistol primers (I loaded them long because my brass was a little long). The rounds were very accurate and gave no signs of pressure despite an impressive report and muzzle blast, for 357 anyway. I've only just started using 2400 and it's a hoot in 357 & 44. The GP100 has a hogue rubber monogrip that utterly tames any recoil the weight of the GP100 doesn't absorb even at this loading which is just shy of the printed 14.8gn maximum in my Speer #14 manual. I really enjoyed the load and will hope to shoot it again soon, probably at the full 14.8gn maximum once I get some more of those rounds to load.
The batch I describe above was my first 357 magnum "max load", and at the urging of this forum I chose to pick a premier manufacturer like Speer because they produce both bullets and manuals and it's not hard to discern the appropriate load for a Speer round. Wild to mild I can see exactly what the manufacturer recommends for a desired FPS- The Speer book even tested real guns instead of a universal receiver. I naturally gravitated to such a factory round/recipe combination for my first really hot 357 loads in the interest of safely gaining loading experience.
In the interest of saving money however I've just recently bought some MBC 158gn rounds, and that bullet doesn't have any specific data. I've looked at my Lyman book and found some similar looking bullets, but they're similar not same. Across all my books I've certainly established a range of possible loads with a general upper and lower limit so I figured I could start in the middle and work my way up like usual, but just now as I prepared to start loading a workup spread I got to thinking and I figured if there is a THR discount code I doubt I'm the only one loading these bullets and I might as well ask here as I get going...
Is anyone loading MBC coated lead, specifically the 158gn MBC .357 Action! - Hi-Tek bullets? I'd love some load data! I added a poll for kicks, too.
I recently got into reloading and it was in large part thanks to this forum that I finally cranked the lever the first time. I've loaded quite a bit of .44 magnum, .357 magnum, and .45acp since then with very good results.
In fact, earlier today I had the joy of firing my 6" GP100 equipped with a Jack Weigand No-Drill picatinny rail to which a Vortex Viper optic is mounted. The Ruger performed excellently, as did Mr. Weigand's mount and the Vortex red dot. It's a heckuva revolver and I couldn't be more pleased with the way the optic turned out performing and the quality of the mount.
I was shooting 158gn Speer JSP Plinkers, number 4217 in the catalogue, loaded to 1.59" COAL in mixed headstamp brass over 14.5gn of Alliant 2400 with CCI 500 small pistol primers (I loaded them long because my brass was a little long). The rounds were very accurate and gave no signs of pressure despite an impressive report and muzzle blast, for 357 anyway. I've only just started using 2400 and it's a hoot in 357 & 44. The GP100 has a hogue rubber monogrip that utterly tames any recoil the weight of the GP100 doesn't absorb even at this loading which is just shy of the printed 14.8gn maximum in my Speer #14 manual. I really enjoyed the load and will hope to shoot it again soon, probably at the full 14.8gn maximum once I get some more of those rounds to load.
The batch I describe above was my first 357 magnum "max load", and at the urging of this forum I chose to pick a premier manufacturer like Speer because they produce both bullets and manuals and it's not hard to discern the appropriate load for a Speer round. Wild to mild I can see exactly what the manufacturer recommends for a desired FPS- The Speer book even tested real guns instead of a universal receiver. I naturally gravitated to such a factory round/recipe combination for my first really hot 357 loads in the interest of safely gaining loading experience.
In the interest of saving money however I've just recently bought some MBC 158gn rounds, and that bullet doesn't have any specific data. I've looked at my Lyman book and found some similar looking bullets, but they're similar not same. Across all my books I've certainly established a range of possible loads with a general upper and lower limit so I figured I could start in the middle and work my way up like usual, but just now as I prepared to start loading a workup spread I got to thinking and I figured if there is a THR discount code I doubt I'm the only one loading these bullets and I might as well ask here as I get going...
Is anyone loading MBC coated lead, specifically the 158gn MBC .357 Action! - Hi-Tek bullets? I'd love some load data! I added a poll for kicks, too.