Well I've run out of my beloved Remington 148 HBWC and need to restock . Can anyone recommend a current best hbwc brand ?
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Well I've run out of my beloved Remington 148 HBWC and need to restock . Can anyone recommend a current best hbwc brand ?
"if it was easy we'd let women do it" don't tell my wife I said that!
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While I always liked the Hornady HBWC, they are twice as expensive as Powder Valley's ZERO company bullets (on sale today). However, I have never loaded them or shot them.
Or you can borrow my mould and make your own.
FWIW
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Thanks for the offer but I'm being lazy and just wanna buy some. I saw the Zero bullets but not sure as I've seen no feedback.
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If you go to the Powder Valley site, they have a 4.8 out of 5.
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Precision Delta are affordable and accurate, but cannot be used with full charges. Best not to exceed 3 grains of Bullseye or TiteGroup in .38 Special brass.
73 de KE4SKY In Home Mix We Trust From the Home of Ed's Red in "Almost Heaven" West Virginia
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thx,I'll look them up. I was gifted 1000 38 Special Handloaded with 148 Speer that had 3.5g bullseye. They produce two holes.😀
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Layne Simpson has a good right up on 38 wadcutters. Remember he was a match shooter. He covered a good many of them with loads and groups. Ironically, if I remember correctly, one of the best was pc coated.
When I use to shoot them I shot Hornady and Speer. I preferred the Hornady and their dry lubricate was messy like Speers sticky stuff. For me 2.7 grains of Bullseye produced a dime size hole at indoor range of 50 feet for a cylinder full. Time after time. Revolver was a 4 inch Model 19 S&W. Didn't see to make a difference if I used 38 Special or 357 Mag cases. No leading what so ever.
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I think my loads ok,this is 50 yards with a 10-5 with 6" pencil barrel today.I just need a quality replacement for my Remingtons.
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I know that those Remingtons were good, but in Simpson's shooting they weren't the top. He did a bunch of brands. Zero was included. I make my own hollow base swaged wadcutter. I even shoot them from my 38 Super 1911 and they/it are very accurate.
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Firing from test barrel at Ruger in the 1980s Winchester HBWCs were best, Remington next. Accuracy was better with slight increase in powder charge to improve stability. 3 grains of Bullseye or 3.3 of 231.
73 de KE4SKY In Home Mix We Trust From the Home of Ed's Red in "Almost Heaven" West Virginia
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Firing from test barrel at Ruger in the 1980s Winchester HBWCs were best, Remington next. Accuracy was better with slight increase in powder charge to improve stability. 3 grains of Bullseye or 3.3 of 231.
Ed not to argue with you, but that was best out your particular barrel. Doen't mean they would automatically be the best from the wide variety of different guns to shoot them from. A person has to try a bunch of different brands and see which shoot the best from their guns. Linoww got the best in his gun with the Remingtons.
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Firing from test barrel at Ruger in the 1980s Winchester HBWCs were best, Remington next. Accuracy was better with slight increase in powder charge to improve stability. 3 grains of Bullseye or 3.3 of 231.
thanks for the data. My dad has boxes of Winchester factory wadcutter match ammo he hides from me .I believe it's late 70's or early 80's.
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Test barrel was 18-3/4" twist SAAMI dimensioned industrial test barrel, exactly the same as used by the ammunition companies. Best ten-shot fifty yard groups firing in a tube were in the order of 1-1/4" to 1-1/2". A Ruger PPC revolver built by Jim Clark with Douglas 14-inch twist was consistently under 2 inches and a Bill Davis Ruger with 10-inch twist 9mm barrel shot as well as the SAAMI accuracy test barrel.
73 de KE4SKY In Home Mix We Trust From the Home of Ed's Red in "Almost Heaven" West Virginia
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Second for Precision Delta they are equal to Hornady and Speer in accuracy and easier to get . My preferred powder is American Select but if I can’t find it I use Bullseye, Titegroup , 700X or W244 . Primers are whatever I can get my hands on currently using Servicios Aventuras SP .
Fred Honeyager
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Thanks for the feedback on those primers,I had wondered how they were. Precision Delta is currently out of stock. But I think I'm going to give them a try. I'll see if I can backorder.
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The only issues I have heard about are form guys shooting PPC and lightened springs. They have a little harder cup than Federal 100's, about like WW small pistol magnums.
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Layne Simpson has a good right up on 38 wadcutters. Remember he was a match shooter. He covered a good many of them with loads and groups. Ironically, if I remember correctly, one of the best was pc coated.
When I use to shoot them I shot Hornady and Speer. I preferred the Hornady and their dry lubricate was messy like Speers sticky stuff. For me 2.7 grains of Bullseye produced a dime size hole at indoor range of 50 feet for a cylinder full. Time after time. Revolver was a 4 inch Model 19 S&W. Didn't see to make a difference if I used 38 Special or 357 Mag cases. No leading what so ever.
Less than a minute of angle with a cast bullet in an 8mm Mauser at 465 yards. 6 shot dime sized groups with a Mdl 19 at 50 feet time after time! Man I think you should be teaching Layne Simpson not quoting him.
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Those small pistol Servicias Aventura primers have been working perfectly for me in a wide range of revolvers - S&W 1903 Hand Ejectors, Colt Police Positives (and PPS's), S&W K's, and Colt Officer's Models - all with factory springs. Only complaint is that the "bang" has kind of a Latino accent.
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Less than a minute of angle with a cast bullet in an 8mm Mauser at 465 yards. 6 shot dime sized groups with a Mdl 19 at 50 feet time after time! Man I think you should be teaching Layne Simpson not quoting him.Layne Simpson has a good right up on 38 wadcutters. Remember he was a match shooter. He covered a good many of them with loads and groups. Ironically, if I remember correctly, one of the best was pc coated.
When I use to shoot them I shot Hornady and Speer. I preferred the Hornady and their dry lubricate was messy like Speers sticky stuff. For me 2.7 grains of Bullseye produced a dime size hole at indoor range of 50 feet for a cylinder full. Time after time. Revolver was a 4 inch Model 19 S&W. Didn't see to make a difference if I used 38 Special or 357 Mag cases. No leading what so ever.
Let's clean your post up. The 8x57 was 2 inches, not minute of angle at 469 measures yards. The particular Lyman 8mm bullet I was using has over a .400 BC. It's an excellent bullet especiall for long distance. It's 213 grains so it carries well at distance.
Now as for the dime groups at 50 feet. Sounds good with the "50" in there, but that's only 16.66 yards. As for Layne no thanks. The man can shoot and his 38 wadcutter article was shot at 25 yards. Layne isn't a bad writer like some other's that we have come to know.
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"Remember I told you my 8x57 Mauser will hold less then minute of angle at 469 yards with the Lyman 3234700"
Just pointing out what you said in a previous thread.
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"Remember I told you my 8x57 Mauser will hold less then minute of angle at 469 yards with the Lyman 3234700" Just pointing out what you said in a previous thread.
Well pat i, either I wrote the mould number down wrong, or you copied it wrong, but anyways the mould number is 323471. Yes the group was less then minute of angle as I don't use the minute of angle nomenclature.
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