Current plinker/target load is 6.5 TRAIL BOSS and a 215 gr. cast SWC. Can't tell you much more about the bullet, I bought 1500 of them at a gun show for $50.00.
Hunting is a 245 gr Gas Checked...
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Current plinker/target load is 6.5 TRAIL BOSS and a 215 gr. cast SWC. Can't tell you much more about the bullet, I bought 1500 of them at a gun show for $50.00.
Hunting is a 245 gr Gas Checked...
Here in Michigan Handguns are legal. "Zone 3" which is roughly the southern half of the lower peninsula is limited to straight case/no bottleneck .35 cal. or larger, the rest of the state does not...
I have used jacketed bullets many times. Have always preferred the so called "Premiums" (NOSLER Partitions, HAWKS etc) even for situations that may not "call" for it, at least in many person's...
Using 7.0 grs. TRAIL BOSS for practice.
Having trouble deciding between 2400 and H110 for hunting load, both good. Decision often made by which one closest to front of shelf.
I have always thought that some variation of the "SMLE" would be great for this but never have figured out which one.
I always preferred the 140's to the 130's but for your wife the 130 may be better recoil wise and certainly just as effective in most situations. In my experience with anything between 130gr and 150...
HODGDON #26 (1992) lists it between their 4350 and 4831. #27 (1998 ) does not list it, so that gives you an idea of when production probably ended.
In #26 they say it was developed to give a...
BP | Bronze Point | IMR | Improved Military Rifle | PTD | Pointed |
BR | Bench Rest | M | Magnum | RN | Round Nose |
BT | Boat Tail | PL | Power-Lokt | SP | Soft Point |
C | Compressed Charge | PR | Primer | SPCL | Soft Point "Core-Lokt" |
HP | Hollow Point | PSPCL | Pointed Soft Point "Core Lokt" | C.O.L. | Cartridge Overall Length |
PSP | Pointed Soft Point | Spz | Spitzer Point | SBT | Spitzer Boat Tail |
LRN | Lead Round Nose | LWC | Lead Wad Cutter | LSWC | Lead Semi Wad Cutter |
GC | Gas Check |