What did you do at your reloading bench today?

[Vaquero]

With the weather we're having here, the desert sounds great!!

AMEN!!

RP

[Grunt67]

If this weather don't break soon, I'm going to start shooting down the hall.

[BigAl52]

I like my Chargemaster but like Jim says its slow. I use it for extruded powders more than anything. When loading 223 I use a ball powder and I have a Redding powder throw that is really a good one. It throws very consistent charges of ball powder.

[Hatchdog]

I like my Chargemaster but like Jim says its slow. I use it for extruded powders more than anything. When loading 223 I use a ball powder and I have a Redding powder throw that is really a good one. It throws very consistent charges of ball powder.

I found my Uniflow did a real good job with consistency a while ago when I was loading some 357 with Win 296. A ball powder as you said. Previously all my ball powder loading was done on my Lee Turret press using the Lee Auto-Disc powder measure which too did a pretty good job with consistency. When using the turret press I would do a powder and over all length check on every tenth round. For a cheap measure the Lee was pretty good. These were revolver loads and I wasn’t looking for super accuracy but the 357 loads I did recently are for my Henry rifle so I wanted better accuracy. Most of my loading is using Varget, an extruded powder and I’m looking forward to the Chargemaster running that powder.

[fortyshooter]

My long awaited 230 gr. 45 XTP bullets arrived this morning from Mid South Shooter's Supply. Now to load up a small batch and see how they shoot thru my S&W 25-7. Will save most of them for my SD .45 ACP loads.
For .45 Colt 9 to 9.3 gr. of Unique should have them in the 900 FPS range.

[Hatchdog]

^^^^^^^^^^

Blued, walnut (or other wood), double action revolver. Must be what Heaven looks like.

[NHshtr]

Very nice! Like the grips a lot!

[NHshtr]

Hornady XTPs perform very well. I've killed deer very cleanly with the 240 XTP in a .44 Rem revolver out to 75 yards. But the MV was more like 1300 fps to be sure they open correctly.
EDIT: Sorry, I should have added that it was a 7 1/2" barrel.

[RanchRoper]

Reloading 100 rounds of 45 Colt today. Might try some Unique.

[fortyshooter]

Hornady XTPs perform very well. I've killed deer very cleanly with the 240 XTP in a .44 Rem revolver out to 75 yards. But the MV was more like 1300 fps to be sure they open correctly.
EDIT: Sorry, I should have added that it was a 7 1/2" barrel.

Yes..I've had great results with the 250 XTP in my heavier Colt 45 loads and the 230's work very well in my 45 ACP guns.
This particular load is to be used in the S&W 25-7 or could be used in the Ruger NV and Colt clones as a good carry load for SD use.
For large 4 leg critters a 250+ gr. hard cast FP would be the choice.
The S&W 25-7 with 5 inch barrel feels well balanced and that grip fits nice in the hand. The action is very smooth and light.
My 200 gr. FTX loads I made up earlier work very well too.