This is one of the truly great bullets of all time and a long favorite of mine.
Elmer Keith was having a very good day when he designed this slug.
I have shot literally many tens of thousands of these cast from the Lyman 358429 Mold. I probably have 10,000 in the basement right now.
My favorite recipes:
7.0 grns of Unique in a .357 Magnum Case
5.0 grns of Unique in a .38 Spl. Case.
I have won matches with these loads.
About the only legitimate complaint about this design is that in shorter cylindered N-Frame Smith Magnums such as the 27, 28 you must crimp over the front driving band. If you use the crimp groove the resulting round is too long for the cylinder. This due to the original intended use being the .38-44 round. In K- Magnums, no such issue is encountered.
Drew
Elmer Keith was having a very good day when he designed this slug.
I have shot literally many tens of thousands of these cast from the Lyman 358429 Mold. I probably have 10,000 in the basement right now.
My favorite recipes:
7.0 grns of Unique in a .357 Magnum Case
5.0 grns of Unique in a .38 Spl. Case.
I have won matches with these loads.
About the only legitimate complaint about this design is that in shorter cylindered N-Frame Smith Magnums such as the 27, 28 you must crimp over the front driving band. If you use the crimp groove the resulting round is too long for the cylinder. This due to the original intended use being the .38-44 round. In K- Magnums, no such issue is encountered.
Drew