C5rider
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I've been saving up some brass to do some reloading and finally got everything to do it. My dad used to do a lot of reloading back in the 80s so I asked him to come over and help me get everything set up.
Everything went smoothly until we started measuring out the powder. I'm using Universal. We were loading up a few 38 spl. +P cases for use in my Dan Wesson .357s. (I've got a model 14 and a 15) I'll be shooting them through the 15 with an 8 inch barrel. My mixture is:
140gr. Hornady XP, 4.5gr (Universal), with a CCI 550 primer in a +P 38spl case.
when we measured out the powder, dad couldn't believe the small amount of powder that was used. We checked the Lee scale several times and it always came out the same way. I'm going to go and try out the 10 that we put together to see how it shoots.
I've got a few factory loads to compare it with. We'll see.
If i was only shooting 38s and 357s, I'd probably not get into reloading but, my goal is to load up some ammo for my 25 Krag. That ammo isn't available so, I've got to make it myself. I wanted to try on a more common round first. Thoughts?
thanks.
Everything went smoothly until we started measuring out the powder. I'm using Universal. We were loading up a few 38 spl. +P cases for use in my Dan Wesson .357s. (I've got a model 14 and a 15) I'll be shooting them through the 15 with an 8 inch barrel. My mixture is:
140gr. Hornady XP, 4.5gr (Universal), with a CCI 550 primer in a +P 38spl case.
when we measured out the powder, dad couldn't believe the small amount of powder that was used. We checked the Lee scale several times and it always came out the same way. I'm going to go and try out the 10 that we put together to see how it shoots.
I've got a few factory loads to compare it with. We'll see.
If i was only shooting 38s and 357s, I'd probably not get into reloading but, my goal is to load up some ammo for my 25 Krag. That ammo isn't available so, I've got to make it myself. I wanted to try on a more common round first. Thoughts?
thanks.