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Art Eatman · January 29, 2014, 01:20 PM

Brian, when I first began reloading, my uncle had some swaged-down 80-grain .32-20 bullets lying on the desk. I asked; he suggested that I just use the 53.5 grains of 3031 that I used with the 110-grain Hornadys.

I could get five-shot groups of about 1.5 MOA. Enfield, K2.5.

So we go out one night to spotlight jackrabbits. I center-punched one at maybe 50 yards. Yuck. Pieces.

I've not used round-nosed 80-grain pistol bullets, but I figure they'd work.

Phil Sharpe had a load of a ton of 2400 behind an 80-grain pistol bullet which he claimed chronoed at 3,900.

January 29, 2014, 01:20 PM	#21
Art Eatman Staff in Memoriam Join Date: November 13, 1998 Location: Terlingua, TX; Thomasville, GA Posts: 24,798	Brian, when I first began reloading, my uncle had some swaged-down 80-grain .32-20 bullets lying on the desk. I asked; he suggested that I just use the 53.5 grains of 3031 that I used with the 110-grain Hornadys. I could get five-shot groups of about 1.5 MOA. Enfield, K2.5. So we go out one night to spotlight jackrabbits. I center-punched one at maybe 50 yards. Yuck. Pieces. I've not used round-nosed 80-grain pistol bullets, but I figure they'd work. Phil Sharpe had a load of a ton of 2400 behind an 80-grain pistol bullet which he claimed chronoed at 3,900.