Hornady 210XTP over Win 296 for a full power hunting load. I am embarrassed to say I haven't done much plinking with mine so can't speak to a more moderate load. A friend uses Unique.
That 210 XTP is an excellent bullet, fired one with a full power H-110 load into a sandbank @ 15 yards. It held together & looked like a 50 cent piece.
The Lyman 410459 220 SWC (wheel weights and 2% tin) over 7.5 grains of Unique or 19 grains of 2400 or a 265 grain LBT WLN (50/50 WW/Linotype) over 20 grains of H110.
Chronographs, bore scopes and pattern boards have broke a lot of hearts.
That 210 XTP is an excellent bullet, fired one with a full power H-110 load into a sandbank @ 15 yards. It held together & looked like a 50 cent piece.
41
2 years ago I shot a whitetail buck quartering slightly to me at 42 yards through both shoulders. The bullet stopped just against the far side hide and still weighed 208grs but had expanded nicely. While I prefer 2 holes it is hard to complain about that performance out of a 4 inch barrel.
165 gr cast flat point......5.7 gr Universal at 1.482 " COAL Berry's 210 gr FP...........12.0 gr sr 4756 at 1.590" COAL hard cast 250 gr FP.......20.0 gr H110 or Win 296 at 1.698" COAL 210 Hornady XTP...........21.0 gr H110 at 1.590" COAL 165 gr cast FP................5.0 gr Titegroup at 1.415" COAL 210 gr Hornady XTP......12.0 gr Blue Dot at 1.585" COAL
Note that several of these are reduced loads and will not function properly at standard 41 mag COAL.
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My fav's are 8 grns unique with a 210-215 SWC, 17.5 grns H110 with the Cast Performance 250 WFNGC, and I just started playing with IMR4227. 18 grns with a 240 grn Rim Rock "Keith" bullet shows great promise. I also really like the 210 Hornady XTP with 22 grns H110.
Thanks but even after 25 years of casting for revolvers, I still have a lot to learn. I like both the classic Keith SWC bullets as well as the LBT bullets. I think there is room for both in one's arsenal of choices. I wish Lyman would recut their 41 magnum mold, the 220 grain 410459, to more closely match Keith's design with the three equal bands and square lube groove. Mine is the more modern version with front driving band narrower than the two below it and a round lube groove. In all honesty though I cannot fault the bullets that come out of my mold. They seem to shoot very well.
Chronographs, bore scopes and pattern boards have broke a lot of hearts.
8.0 grains of Unique duplicates the original Remington and Winchester 210 grain LSWC Police load at 950 fps from a 4" barrel...most accurate combination I have found for target work. One can use any 200-230 grain jacketed, plated or lead bullet....8.0 grains of Unique works with all of them...
If you want a real Keith bullet, look at NOE Molds...they have both the original 220 design from the 1960s and the improved 230 grain version that Keith updated with the help of a couple of friends not long before he died...
Bob
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Thanks. NOEdoes makes a good mold. I have two or three of them. I don't have the 41 mold but will check it out. I might go that way as my Lyman 41 mold is a two cavity and I've about replaced all my favorite two cavity molds with four plus cavity ones to speed up bullet production.
Chronographs, bore scopes and pattern boards have broke a lot of hearts.
Used to run this 250 grain LBT on top of a near maximum charge of Hodgons Lil' Gun & a Remington 2 1/2 cap as my carry load in big black bear country. POW Island to be exact.
Guess the powder has fallen out of favor due to its high working temperature & possible flame cutting. I never shot enough rounds to really heat my 657 up, the emptys would just drop out of the cylinder & primer edges were always rounded.
Hornady 210g XTP over a book max of AA #9. Clean pass thru breaking both shoulder blades of a medium sized doe at 49 steps (I'm 6'3") so right at 50 yards. DRT.
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Used to run this 250 grain LBT on top of a near maximum charge of Hodgons Lil' Gun & a Remington 2 1/2 cap as my carry load in big black bear country.... Guess the powder has fallen out of favor due to its high working temperature & possible flame cutting. I never shot enough rounds to really heat my 657 up, the emptys would just drop out of the cylinder & primer edges were always rounded. Good load IMO 41
i still shoot lil gun as my main .41mag powder in .41mag contenders; have 9 and 14" pistol barrels, and a 16.5" carbine.
In revolvers, i have gone back & forth between 2400, H110, and Blue Dot over the years, although i seem to recall Alliant saying to ignore all the previous data posted & stop using blue dot....
for hunting loads, i have used the now-discontinued Rem 210 JSP and the Speer 220's in the carbine barrel, and mostly used the Hornady 210XTP and the Hornady FTX in the pistol barrels. ...the 9" barrel also likes the sierra 170gr.
i've shot assorted critters with the 210XTp's and had fine results with speeds ranging from 1000fps up to 1750 (.414supermag).....great deer bullet...
i have a limited number of those half jackets loaded up, but kind of hate to fire them, not knowing where i can get replacements. Not 41 related but 45. I have some empty jackets for .45acp kind of like an extended gas check. I assume they were used to put a partial jacket on a cast lead bullet. Got them in an estate sale, and need to fool with them sometime. it's pretty rare i shoot any jacketed bullet in 41, having moulds from 170 grain up to 250grain, it pretty much covers all the territory. i finally bought some .41special starline brass last year and discovered what the fuss was about. I can push one of those heavier bullets at around 1000fps, which to me is just about ideal.