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Hey at .468 I do not need any additional expansion.
The trick is getting it through a .358 barrel undamaged.
Forgot I had posted here and just stumbled over my error this morning.
Of course as some have surmised, it is .368, BUT still too big.
Found the issue when I went to size them and thought I had some kind of super duper hard alloy.
Seem like perfect plinker projies for a 9.3 of some ilk.

Until I get off my duff and work this out with Lyman the 358156 is my projie of choice, though I do not like the hassle of adding a gas check.

I haven't tested for expansion.

Loaded seated in the crimp groove for my blackhawk, I'm getting good accuracy with 14 grains of 2400 and Federal 100 primers in WW brass. This load is too long for my GP-100, the bullet protrudes past the cylider mouth. For the GP-100 I back it down at least 1/2 grain. I haven't gotten good accuracy with these crimped over the shoulder in either gun. I also haven't gotten good accuracy with them in .38 special cases. So far, my only success has been seated out to the crimp groove for the blackhawk only.

That was the first mold I got back in about 1970

I'm currently renewing my love affair with the .357 and since I've realized I have lots and lots of fast burning powder, I'm using it. Earlier this week I grabbed a can of IMR-Target, which is pretty much a twin to Bullseye, and dropped 6.0 gr. under a 173 gr. 358429. Velocity was right at 1100 fps from my 4 3/4" Uberti and my 12" gong at 75 yds. was stupid easy to hit.

I also have NOE's version of this that casts a gas-checked HP.



I cast s bunch of these several years ago from 20/1 alloy and tested them at .38 Special velocities in a water tub-



I probably need to stiffen that alloy up a bit for .357 velocities.

Nice pictures.

Indeed, very nice bullets, pics, and report.