H110 and powdercoated semiwadcutters// I shoot so I can cast.

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Hello. Tonight I have been a casting machine. I might even dream of brass bullet molds tonight.

My favorite subject about reloading ammunition is casting and coating my own bullets.

Tonight I made two full one quart freezer bags of bullets. The first is a deeply hollow pointed 358429 bullet made in a four cavity brass mold. This is my favorite mold and produced very few rejects. I powder coated them with ultra durable clear powder coat from Powder by the Pound.


The other is an eight cavity aluminum flat point 358429 mold. These I have coated with Ford light blue, also from PBTP.

I then sized all the bullets 358 using my Lee Hand press while I was watching Clint Eastwood antagonize Robert Duvall in Joe Kid.

Tomorrow I will start the brass prep for what will eventually be fuel to feed a Ruger black hawk old model 3 screw. Click click click click BOOM!

I shoot so that I can cast.

[Mike / Tx]

Sounds like what I've been doing. My oldest grandson has been getting brass ready and I sized and lubed a couple hundred of the MP 359-640 with the LG hp. Plan is to load them over around 13gr of AA-9.

I worked up the load a while back and it really shoots well from the GP100'S. I had initially hoped to get a hog or coyote with one but so far only paper.

Maybe with this cool front it'll bring something into one if the feeders we can try them out on.

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Here is an interesting picture I made of the bullet.

[Mike / Tx]

Good looking batch. Merry Christmas and good shooting....

[Unclenick]

Great Christmas stocking stuffers featuring a cast of thousands. Good shooting!

[Mike / Tx]

Well I was gonna take a pic of some like I loaded, but they all are mostly hiding in brass now. However, I did find this pic from Feb that has has some of the 454-640 HPs in it that i managed to get loaded up in 45 Colt...they would be in the green box.

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I like those Great Value ziplock bags, available at WalMart, cheap.

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[Mike / Tx]

Good looking rounds...

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Some different powder coated bullets for y'all to see. The hollow points inside the Elmer Keith bullets go all the way to the crimp groove.

[Mike / Tx]

Good looking bullets, what mold is the Keith HP ?

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https://www.mp-molds.com/product/358...4-cavity-mold/

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That bullet is designed for heavy loads in 38 special brass. Depending on your gun it may poke out the front of the cylinder when loaded in 357 brass @1.64" overall cartridge length.

[Mike / Tx]

Well I have a few MP-MOLDS (and might even have that one) I really like them.

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I trim some 357 brass to 1.22" and load these deep hollow point Elmer Keith bullets heavily crimped over fifteen grains of hodgdon h110 and fire for effect.

Went shooting with a buddy, we were shooting at a twelve inch ar500 at about thirty yards. He had a rock island 45 and I had a snub nose j frame. My shots rocked it more

[Unclenick]

More clang in your bang, so to speak.

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Originally Posted by Unclenick

More clang in your bang, so to speak.

Yes, the lab radar showed an average 1,100 ft/sec velocity with that 2.25" barrelled 60-9 357 snub with 170 grain Elmer Keith bullets.

Interestingly the 155 grain deeply hollow pointed e.k. bullets went the same speed with the same powder charge.

It's spicy with the hogue bantam grips and I am the only person I know who is willing to fire it more than once.

It fits my hands perfectly and my self imposed limit is about a hundred rounds at a time before the shell shock from the ridiculous muzzle blast from that noisy cricket starts affecting me.

I've shoot thousands of these and now the gun needs a refit.

I load these now to feed a Ruger black hawk. I want smaller grips for the gun so as to better manage recoil, the smooth wood grips slip in my hands under heavy recoil.

It is a pretty gun and am glad I finally found one in good mechanical condition. It is a three screw with the four clicks and pleases me to shoot it.

The lab radar for some reason?? was not picking up readings when firing the 77/357 so I have no idea of velocity or velocity gain from the foot and a half longer barrel. It felt like 2000 ft/ sec from the shoulder dynamometer.

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Crimping some cartridges I just assembled.

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It's raining and too cold to fish.

It may be time to determine the separation between operator error and equipment malfunction.

There's five twenty shot groups in that box under the hand press. Just gotta start the truck.

Mnmmm I love coffee

And the indoor range is only twenty minutes away.

[Unclenick]

You can consider one of the inertial switch adapters for triggering the Labradar, but you do have to stay in it beam, of course.

For recoil, on my Blackhawk in 41 Rem Mag, I switched from the wood grip panels to a Pachmeyer rubber grip. It's no smaller, but it did stop the slipping problem nicely.