Handloading: Make Your Own Jacketed Bullets???
[…] but the .580 worked best for me. I used my Hornady Lock-n-Load Iron Press and a Lyman Universal Press Stand […]
[…] but the .580 worked best for me. I used my Hornady Lock-n-Load Iron Press and a Lyman Universal Press Stand […]
[…] delivers 1″ groups from the 4″ Bulldog. Both Speer and Hornady offer self-defense loads for the .44 Special, with the […]
[…] on paper that afternoon using Penn’s handloads with 265 grain Hornady Flat-Points and was well satisfied with the accuracy of […]
[…] handguns. For my 2nd Gen Colts I buy Speer and Hornady round balls for the .36s and .44s and actually […]
[…] out at 758 fps with four shots going into 13⁄8″; Hornady’s 255 Cowboy RNFP, 788 fps and 11⁄2″; and Winchester’s […]
[…] 0.57″. What I came up with were 0.490″ ones from Hornady, weighing 177 grains. Being pure lead (i.e. dead-soft), they […]
[…] standard loads using jacketed bullets Sierra offers the 240-gr. JHP, Hornady’s standard .45 Colt bullet is a 250-gr. XTP-JHP and […]
[…] the next range trip, I shot heavier defensive rounds — Hornady 135-gr. Critical Duty, Speer’s new 135-gr. Gold Dot Carry […]
[…] at 25 yards from the Ransom Rest, using mostly hollowpoints. Hornady XTP loads averaged about 1 3⁄4″ at 25 yards, […]
[…] delivers 1″ groups from the 4″ Bulldog. Both Speer and Hornady offer self-defense loads for the .44 Special, with the […]