Unclenick,
I originally thought both were possible.
The loads are 158gr SWC with 3.5 grains of Bullseye. My friend said this was sort of a middle of the road load.?
As far as the recoil issue, my snubby .38 is an Taurus 85UL model, its ligth frame packs a heafty kick for such a small caliber.
Yesterday's test round verified that it is the spent rounds primers that are causing the binding. So I am going to ask him to step up the load a bit & see what that does.
I really consider myself pretty lucky to have a reloader at my disposal!!
My apologies fishhead1, I kind of feel like I highjacked your post. But I thought it may be related.