gamestalker
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If your one of us old school guys and like wheel guns I have a method to increase the effectiveness of your's. I have a S&W .357 mag with a 4" barrel. I lapped the barrel and reloaded my factory brass.I use 23 grains of H110 with a 110 grain JHP and its delivering just over 1830 fps on my chrony. No high preasure signs and accuracy is absolutly unmatched. My son has a used, or rather unusable kevlar vest I"ve been testing my reloads on, and these reloads are blowing right through it. These projectiles are nothing special, they are out of the box speer 110 grain JHP. I also did the same thing with the 9 mm and it as well is delivering velocities of well over 1600 fps and going through the vest as well. Oh, the point I was making here is the factory loads for both of these weapons do not accomplish this task at all and perform poorly in comparrison. Lapping the barrel in my opinion is a major factor in achieving accuracy and increased velocities of this magnitude, and as well reduce the barrel wear by decreasing friction. Prior to lapping I was geting 110 FPS lower velocity +/- 10 fps. Its not that I'm trying to build bullets capable of penetrating a vest, its just a way for me to evaluate the effectiveness of my gun and reloads in addition to using my chrony. All the reloading data I use is authorized data from my reloading manuals. Reloading is only safe when performed by individuals who take the time to learn and use the entire process as written in the instruction manuals and one should never step outside of those guidleines, ever!Relaoding is not childs play. Approach what you are about to do, not with aprehension, but with respect, and a measure of caution, and you will not go wrong. And please don't just flip to the max loads, work up to those loads using the lighter charges listed until you have reached the max or desired load whileobserving preasure signs as you go, and you'll have no problems or dangerous out come. I say this because of the numurous individuals I've knownpersonallywho have distroyed thier guns and injured their selves over the years. When done correctly, reloading is a very rewarding and cost effective measure in the shooting sports. It can also produce some of very finest ammo you'll ever experience.
There is still a lot of us experienced reloaders out there, so please feel free to post your questions and one of us old timers, or young guns,will do our best to help you with problems, or what ever it isyour wanting to know.
gamestalker
If your one of us old school guys and like wheel guns I have a method to increase the effectiveness of your's. I have a S&W .357 mag with a 4" barrel. I lapped the barrel and reloaded my factory brass.I use 23 grains of H110 with a 110 grain JHP and its delivering just over 1830 fps on my chrony. No high preasure signs and accuracy is absolutly unmatched. My son has a used, or rather unusable kevlar vest I"ve been testing my reloads on, and these reloads are blowing right through it. These projectiles are nothing special, they are out of the box speer 110 grain JHP. I also did the same thing with the 9 mm and it as well is delivering velocities of well over 1600 fps and going through the vest as well. Oh, the point I was making here is the factory loads for both of these weapons do not accomplish this task at all and perform poorly in comparrison. Lapping the barrel in my opinion is a major factor in achieving accuracy and increased velocities of this magnitude, and as well reduce the barrel wear by decreasing friction. Prior to lapping I was geting 110 FPS lower velocity +/- 10 fps. Its not that I'm trying to build bullets capable of penetrating a vest, its just a way for me to evaluate the effectiveness of my gun and reloads in addition to using my chrony. All the reloading data I use is authorized data from my reloading manuals. Reloading is only safe when performed by individuals who take the time to learn and use the entire process as written in the instruction manuals and one should never step outside of those guidleines, ever!Relaoding is not childs play. Approach what you are about to do, not with aprehension, but with respect, and a measure of caution, and you will not go wrong. And please don't just flip to the max loads, work up to those loads using the lighter charges listed until you have reached the max or desired load whileobserving preasure signs as you go, and you'll have no problems or dangerous out come. I say this because of the numurous individuals I've knownpersonallywho have distroyed thier guns and injured their selves over the years. When done correctly, reloading is a very rewarding and cost effective measure in the shooting sports. It can also produce some of very finest ammo you'll ever experience.
There is still a lot of us experienced reloaders out there, so please feel free to post your questions and one of us old timers, or young guns,will do our best to help you with problems, or what ever it isyour wanting to know.
gamestalker