Check out Rocky Mountain Reloading. They make in house a 124g and a 147g jacketed flat point in .38 cal for 11 cents each, DELIVERED. I've shot thousands of both in my pair of Ruger stainless black hawks and my Henry .357 lever rifle. H110, W296, N110 all work great for stout loads. Was using N105 but my supply of that is gone and it's no longer made. Accurate #9 works well and I've used Autocomp and CFE Pistol for less than max (plinking) loads. I've always used a mag primer in .357
Any .357 handgun/rifle accuracy nuts on this forum?
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Forgot, not a huge fan of lead bullets if pushing them fast it leads to lead fouling issues. I've always bought jacketed bullets.
Roger that!
The only time I had trouble with lead was when I tried factory HBWC's. Too soft and not enough lube. Properly lubed lead alloy bullets are good for around 1100fps. Add a gas check and you can go into higher rifle velocities. If you don't like the lube then powder coated stuff works even better.
New to this but if you can get Jacketed bullets for under 15c why mess with lead? I bought 1000 Win 158gr JHP for 14c.
I don't mess with lead anymore 
I stopped casting last year when tremors made it not very safe
I usually just buy the cheapest I can get, plated most of the time, since I only load for my 1911 these days. If I want 'serious' stuff I buy it off the shelf. Buffalo Bore or Hornady Critical Duty.
I stopped casting last year when tremors made it not very safe I usually just buy the cheapest I can get, plated most of the time, since I only load for my 1911 these days. If I want 'serious' stuff I buy it off the shelf. Buffalo Bore or Hornady Critical Duty.
I agree, why mess with lead. Guess some reloaders like to melt and cast their own bullets but I have no interest in doing so if I can buy from RMR at great prices.
It one of the few things I have never done. Last year I even bought a complete 1970's RCBS Swager setup with all the goodies from an octogenarian, but never got around to doing it just to have actually done it. In reality it makes as much sense as making your own peanut butter in 2025.
Good luck on the pursuit. We quit full time just before the COVID thing. It checked off a bucket list thing for us and we learned where we didn't want to live
I will take some hardships over freedom, changes of scenery and ability to follow our preferred temperature gradient! I plan on holding the record for having the most amount of country shooting range memberships because most have rv parking!! Now I can even roll up some 357's on my dining room table with morning coffee and a view of a mountain lake! I am able to fit my 75lb shooting bench in the front pass thru and my Co-Ax bolts to it for rifle loading. Got it all figured out lol. 70 psi in the airbags compensates for the additional 900 lbs of guns, ammo, tools and paraphernalia ! I don't want to 'live' anywhere permanent anymore. I am 65 and seeing the proverbial light at the end of the tunnel. Not wasting anymore time waiting out cold and wet winters or hot summers to be outside. Maybe we will eventually find a cabin in a remote mountain area to base out of and then drag the rv to nicer climes in the winter. But the fun will be in the hunt and that will take time! And a big thanks to Elon and his Starlink for making this all possible!
In revolvers, my lead bullets shoot better than any jacketed bullets I have tried. If you are getting leading then you are not doing something right. Size matters in the cylinder and in the barrel. If your cylinder throats are too small you will get leading.
If you seen how the cylinder is sized you would see why all of them are not the same size. They use a multiple post reamer setup so not all the reamers are not the same size. It is usually 2 or 3 post reamer fixture. They ream then rotate the cyl and ream again. Not one reamer doing all holes the way it should be.
If you seen how the cylinder is sized you would see why all of them are not the same size. They use a multiple post reamer setup so not all the reamers are not the same size. It is usually 2 or 3 post reamer fixture. They ream then rotate the cyl and ream again. Not one reamer doing all holes the way it should be.
lol i didnt see that! that was at the cat scale on virgin trip. phew we made it... well kind of!Chris,
Your Starlink looks muchly different from mine. That must get a helluva strong signal!
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Casting for me is one of those getting in the zone and clearing my head things. No it doesn't make much sense to cast as free/cheap lead is drying up, but I enjoy it the every now and again I get to do it. I can buy good quality coated cast for about what it costs me to do it myself.
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