Accuracy of heavy vs medium weight revolver bullets.

:coffee     I, too, would like some real-world answers on this. The lack of experience with the Blackhawk rather limits me in this area. I'm just starting with a 41 Mag and 6&1/2” barrel.  I do know that my TC Contenders tend to shoot the lighter weight bullets more accurately.  Granted, it isn't hunting but, target shooting.  The ability to do damage doesn't mean anything more than toppling a steel target in silhouette shooting.  The TC Contenders that I shoot are all 10” barrels. The best example that I could give you would be the load tests for the 32-20 WCF.  I used two production molds, the Lyman 225008 at 115 grain and the RCBS 32-98-SWC at 98 grains. Both are plain based, both with the same lube, same powder, same cases, same primers.  Neither did too shabby at 100 meters. The lighter bullet groups only somewhat smaller.  The larger of the two is more trustworthy as far as knocking down the ram but, the lighter one does it with enough gusto to equal that.  Here's a photo of the targets, sandbagged from the bench with Leupold 4-12 scope.

     I'm only relatively sure of this, within my own given abilities.  The pistol isn't isolated from the shooter and this isn't 100% scientific. Then there's the fact that I shoot enough to correct my own shots without forethought. However, it is done with an extremely light trigger and over-powered scope. I think it demonstrates that lighter bullets in a certain range are slightly more accurate, to the degree that I can do this on my own.

     The left one shows the heavy 115 with a larger group than the center target with 98 grain.  These are the smallest groups for each bullet, of a series.  And shows that it makes 1/10th grain of difference in powder to do that. Just ignore the right hand 7mm target and you get the experiment.

    Ron