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Reloading
Highly Reduced loads?
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<blockquote data-quote="hawlejr" data-source="post: 2540050" data-attributes="member: 86290"><p>For many years I shot "gallery pistol" at 50' indoors. Standard load for a .357 pistol was 3 gr. bullseye powder with a 141 gr wadcutter hard cast bullet in a .38 special case. Nice light load, shoot all day very accurate, very repeatable. Most of the risk of extremely light loads comes from the ranks of rifle reloads with very light loads of slower burning powder. This is where you can get into detonation. Stick with straight walled pistol calibers, and a "light" load of 3-4 grs of a fast burning powder like bullseye or a shotgun propellent, and you should be fine. Give it a try on some medium ....like 4x4 wood posts to see what the penetration looks like. As I recall, the light target loads mentioned above for the .38 would only penetrate 2-3" of wood, and the relatively flat bullet face is exactly what you need for skull cracking.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="hawlejr, post: 2540050, member: 86290"] For many years I shot "gallery pistol" at 50' indoors. Standard load for a .357 pistol was 3 gr. bullseye powder with a 141 gr wadcutter hard cast bullet in a .38 special case. Nice light load, shoot all day very accurate, very repeatable. Most of the risk of extremely light loads comes from the ranks of rifle reloads with very light loads of slower burning powder. This is where you can get into detonation. Stick with straight walled pistol calibers, and a "light" load of 3-4 grs of a fast burning powder like bullseye or a shotgun propellent, and you should be fine. Give it a try on some medium ....like 4x4 wood posts to see what the penetration looks like. As I recall, the light target loads mentioned above for the .38 would only penetrate 2-3" of wood, and the relatively flat bullet face is exactly what you need for skull cracking. [/QUOTE]
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