Mbc 158 action 357 loads

[remmag]

Gentlemen
i have a couple pounds of bullseye and unique and some mbc action 158 grain swc

i shoot a smith model 66 with a 5 '' barrel (i beleive its 5 '')

anyhow, do you guys have any good proven loads for the above, i do not want a hot load, i want to baby that forcing cone

thamks guys

 

[Walkalong]

About 6.0 Grs of Unique should do you well. It will baby that gun and still feel like something. Bump it up a little if it isn't enough for you.

(i beleive its 5 ''

Measure from the face of the cylinder to the end of the barrel.

 

[remmag]

thanks for the info

do you have any suggestions for bulls eye

thanks again for sharing your knowledge

 

[Walkalong]

No, not a bullseye shooter.

We have plenty here though. Hopefully they will come along and help out.

 

[squarles67]

I'll second the 6g of unique, great load. Gives me 1100 fps with 158g LRNFP out of my 6" bbl model 66

 

[rcmodel]

Try 5.0 Bullseye in .357 cases.
It will be about like a .38 Spl load.

rc

 

[remmag]

2 questions

walkalong , will cci 500 primers be ok or do i need magnum primers with that load

rc \
i found some old load data from 2010 i had written down for a bullseye load, i however did not document the source (lesson learned)

i showed a start load of 5.9 and max load of 6.5 , 1.580 coal and cci 500 primers, i have some i loaded at 6.2 grains and coal 1.602
should i pull these bullets or is that load data good,

thank you

 

[Walkalong]

Neither Bullseye or Unique need mag primers.