Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Handguns 158 gr. SWC Load With Unique

Good stuff, also, in these component challenged times, I just loaded another 300 rounds of 38 Special with the hardcast 158gr Keith bullet, it actually weighs 164 grains, that said, 6 grains of Longshot with Remington small pistol primers and mixed 38 Spec cases averages a very nice to shoot 988 fps out of my 4 inch barreled Colt Trooper, not a wiz bang load or fancy bullet, but I think it'd be a hell of a defense load for the 38 Spec revolvers, it's the load I've been handing out to old scared folk that cant buy ammo, I damn sure wouldn't give them something I wouldn't use myself.

Don't think a man could hold one, from any angle, with any type of clothing, it's going to break bones and punch holes.

There's a LOT of junk out there.

I use BlueDot for two loads. 8.2 grains under a Sierra 140 grain JSP for full size .38 revolvers, or 7.2 grains under the same bullet for my snubs. I mark the base with a red marker for the 8.2 grain loads.
Blue Dot is a good powder for zippy loads in the .38 and the .357. Red Dot and Green Dot work well also.

Loading some 358156 gc swc right now with 6.7 grs of Unique in 357 cases. Don't need them real hot, will try the hollow point version also. Mb