DEWC and HBWC
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I would bump it up a tenth or two, but yes, you cannot hurt a DEWC with HBWC data. The HBWC is the one you have to be careful with. It cannot take what the DEWC can.
As always with light loads, make dang sure each bullet leaves the barrel when working up the load.
As always with light loads, make dang sure each bullet leaves the barrel when working up the load.
From personal experience, this is good advice.
moxie
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"Most" HBWCs are very soft lead that is swaged to form the bullet. DEWCs are usually cast lead that is typically quite a bit harder than swaged. When I switched from HBWCs to DEWCs many years ago I continued to use and still use 2.7/2.8 grs. Bullseye. Works for either. The DEWCs don't leave all the "splooge" around the forcing cone and in the throat that was a big fault of the swaged bullets, at least in my experience.
I think it would be the other way around. HBWC can't be loaded as high as a DEWC, because it's possible to "blow the skirt off"; base and body separation can leave chunks of lead in the barrel. Soft lead and bullet design keeps the HBWC loads low. BTW my "house gun" loads are DEWC cast of WW plus a bit of lynotype and loaded over a stiff load of W231. Works pretty good in my 2" .38...
moxie
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I think we're in violent agreement. You're talking hotter loads. I'm saying that with light loads, swaged HBWCs, due to the softness of the lead, smear lead around the forcing cone and in the throat. Thay are usually used with light loads due to the skirt issue you mention. But those same light loads can be used with the DEWCs for paper punching, with no lead smearing at all, which is responsive to the OP.
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I'll third that, also on personal experience. (always carry a wooden dowel in your range bag lol)
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