GeoffC
Member
I'm loading trail boss powder in 38 special cases.
Today I stopped when I realized my barrel was filled with three bullets.
I was shooting a S&W Model 36 snub.
The loads were 3.7 grains of TB and a 125gr jacketed hp.
I might as well have just shot primers.
My loads that I was loading that were down bellow 2gr with a hbwc were firing just fine. Then I load these and total crap.
I came back home and loaded up 20 more rounds of the stuff and took the blackhawk and a friends chrono out with me... velocities were all over the place, some of the bullets you could watch go down range, other would go off with a bang.
out of that second 20rds I had to push a bullet from the barrel 4 times.
Today I stopped when I realized my barrel was filled with three bullets.
I was shooting a S&W Model 36 snub.
The loads were 3.7 grains of TB and a 125gr jacketed hp.
I might as well have just shot primers.
My loads that I was loading that were down bellow 2gr with a hbwc were firing just fine. Then I load these and total crap.
I came back home and loaded up 20 more rounds of the stuff and took the blackhawk and a friends chrono out with me... velocities were all over the place, some of the bullets you could watch go down range, other would go off with a bang.
out of that second 20rds I had to push a bullet from the barrel 4 times.