I'm no help fore SD loads I use factory ammo. Carry a .38SPL as my primary. I expect IF I had to use it it would be a short distance shot. Factory +P SD ammo Hornady or Federal.
I should clarify that using factory/commercial ammo in my CC guns is also about not being challenged that I "made and extra lethal load" to insure bodily injury or death. As I'm sure some attorney/DA would attempt to show as 'intent' of some kind.
Looking forward to it. Go test already, collect as much data as possible including velocity.
Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience -- Mark Twain How easy it is to make people believe a lie, and [how] hard it is to undo that work again! -- Mark Twain
These 2 are from the 4" Left is 6.0gr of unique, seated "zee height" (seated flush) MV was 1108 from the 4" On the right is 17.0 of Li'L gun, seated long and they had a MV of 1250fps. Both dented the side of a fourth just and the faster one BARELY made it into #4
Same pic, with the addition of the Li'l gun load from the 6" on the top center. MV 1290fps. It made it into the 4th jug. The 6.0 unique load, from the 6" made it out of jug #3, dented and bounced off #4 and headed off to parts unknown
Here are the test platforms. Both 686-3's The 6" has been D&T'd for the scope base
Seven Habits of Highly Effective Pirates, Rule #37: There is no “overkill”. There is only “open fire” and “I need to reload”.
I'm impressed with the terminal performance. I kinda expected more petal shearing and loss of bullet weight but they held together really well.
I'm a little let down on the accuracy. Assuming you don't have a really long stride, 10 paces isn't too far. 5 inch groups, 3 inch groups. Any ideas why this could have happened? Shooter error or do you believe it's just the bullet?
Still, at bedroom distances, it would make a reasonable round. But I certainly would want to to see better accuracy.
Great info Knite. Thx. 👍
Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience -- Mark Twain How easy it is to make people believe a lie, and [how] hard it is to undo that work again! -- Mark Twain
Since the 6" has been tuned, coned, cylinder squared, and a detent added to the crane, I have to put it on the bullet.
Since they were experimental loads, I trickled and weighed each charge. I will say, at that distance, I probably had some parallax error in the scope which might be why the iron sighted one shot better
Since these bullets were sold as "seconds", something wonky in the manufacturing hurting accuracy could be why they sold them instead of loading them. Otherwise, they could have probably made more $$ selling them in loaded ammo instead
Seven Habits of Highly Effective Pirates, Rule #37: There is no “overkill”. There is only “open fire” and “I need to reload”.
Since 1K was my target velocity with unique, I'll probably load some at 5.5gr of unique and see what they do, though the 1100fps seemed to work well enough that I might just load up 40 more and call it good
Seven Habits of Highly Effective Pirates, Rule #37: There is no “overkill”. There is only “open fire” and “I need to reload”.
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I should clarify that using factory/commercial ammo in my CC guns is also about not being challenged that I "made and extra lethal load" to insure bodily injury or death. As I'm sure some attorney/DA would attempt to show as 'intent' of some kind.
I know it's been a while since I posted the ammo. Finally getting my stuff together to go test them.
Watch this space for results in a few hours
How easy it is to make people believe a lie, and [how] hard it is to undo that work again! -- Mark Twain
These 2 are from the 4" Left is 6.0gr of unique, seated "zee height" (seated flush) MV was 1108 from the 4"
On the right is 17.0 of Li'L gun, seated long and they had a MV of 1250fps. Both dented the side of a fourth just and the faster one BARELY made it into #4
Same pic, with the addition of the Li'l gun load from the 6" on the top center. MV 1290fps. It made it into the 4th jug. The 6.0 unique load, from the 6" made it out of jug #3, dented and bounced off #4 and headed off to parts unknown
Here are the test platforms. Both 686-3's
The 6" has been D&T'd for the scope base
Unigue load from the iron sighted 4" was ~3"
How easy it is to make people believe a lie, and [how] hard it is to undo that work again! -- Mark Twain
Since they were experimental loads, I trickled and weighed each charge. I will say, at that distance, I probably had some parallax error in the scope which might be why the iron sighted one shot better
Since these bullets were sold as "seconds", something wonky in the manufacturing hurting accuracy could be why they sold them instead of loading them. Otherwise, they could have probably made more $$ selling them in loaded ammo instead
Still pretty good for factory second bullets .