Buzzard, just ordered 100 Beartooth GC WFN 250 grain boolits @ .431. I am going to work up a load with those for hunting I think, and leave the 240 LSWC for the Trail Boss loads for practice, friends and family.
The 240 grain LSWC bullet is a Missouri Bullet Company bevel base bullet. I feel that they are wonderful boolits, and I have not experienced any leading per-say that was significant enough to wobble or keyhole a bullet. Even after 100 rounds of full power loadings.
I am shooting off-hand, and I know that load development is a "tail chase" when shooting off-hand, but with my 9mm XD off-hand and handloads I can knock out an "X" ring at 25 yards. So even though this 240 grain loading showed promise. I think I am backing off it, and going with a .340 meplate (I like the big meplate) for my hunting loads.
Like I was saying it is 250 grains, and I thought real hard about the 300 grain WFN GC Bearthooth boolit, but figured it was a bit much for the whitetails around here, and I figure that the 250 grain with that huge meplate will do just fine for what I am going to use it for. Although in the back of my mind I feel that my gun likes heavier bullet/boolits because it shoots a 270 grain Speer bullet pretty darn good off-hand. Here is the kicker with that load though. The starting load is the most accurate. Both Alliant and Speer say that 15.5 is the starting load. I haven't chrony'd the load, but I figure what? 950 fps at most. I mean a 270 grain bullet at 950 fps is nothing to sneer at, but a magnum loading I feel it is not.
I am still in the works. I have another thread discussing my failures with 2400 and the MBC LSWC at full power loads, but have had great success @ 15 yards with Trail Boss, and the boolit loads easy, and I since they are reasonably priced, I will be going with this company for more of my plinking loads. I just hope the Beartooth bullets a .431 and a GC will load up to magnum velocities with accuracy out to 50 yards. I have a Weaver Stainless mount ordered, and a Bushnell Red Dot to put on the SBH. I don't have a revolver scope right now.
So in closing. I am crossing my fingers that the Beartooth flying tree trunk will give good accuracy with magnum velocity, and October gets here real soon!