American Handgunner Jul/Aug 1981 - Jeffersonian

HANDLOADING
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the 4.4-grain charge that gave a five-shot
center-to-center of 1.305" was fully a tenth
ofan inch tighter than the 1.405" spread of
the 6.2-grain Herco loading.
I have used 230 with the same 2oo-grain
Hornadys in myoId Colt Gold Cup (Old? I
bought it new for $125-that's old!) and
have had five-shot, 25-yard machine rest
groups that measured an inch or less from
center to center. Some of these involved
4.2-grain charges with the use of a moderate
taper crimp. The object of all this is
simply to bring light to the fact that
different guns often seem to have different
"appetites" when it comes to digesting a
particular load combination.
Don Ingram, of Winnemucca, Nevada,
isa member ofthat state's National Guard
Pistol Team. He writes that he has been
using 228-grain Lee round-nosed bullets,
cast from wheel weights only, and propelled
by 5.5 grains of Green Dot. Ingram
comments, "This load shoots the same
point of impact as .military hardball, and I
have experienced no leading."
Then, he adds, "We are issued 1500
rounds of hardball a year, which is hardly
enough to stay on the team, so I load about
8,500 to 11,000 rounds per year, and have
had no problems getting 15 to 20 loads per
case."
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Accuracy is stressed by a report from
Paul McCollum, of Lewiston, New York.
"Some of the most accurate loads l have
.developed for use in my LW Colt Commander
are: 3.6 grains of Bullseye and a
H&G No. 78 bullet. The same bullet and
4.5 grains of Bullseye is also extremely accurate.
The Zero 200 grain SWC with 4.2
grains of HP38 is another very accurate
load for this particular gun.
"I find that the LW Colt Commander
will shootjust about any kind ofbullet that
is available for the .45 ACp, including the
Speer 250-grain SWC-without jamming.
It is quite an accurate and dependable
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"My most accurate jacketed bullet load
is the Hornady 185 grain JHP with 5.0
grains of Bullseye."
McCollum goes on to portray the
"Bullseye scare" as a purely transcendent
issue. He expresses his belif that the 2.7
blow-ups reported by Jeff Cooper and me
might well be taken with a gr~n ofsalt.
"Nlaybe," he insists, "in many of those
cases where a revolver was damaged by the
so-called 2.7 Bullseye load, the gun was
ready to let go with anything."
The foregoing suggestion is plausible.
However, the blow-up I mentioned involved,
not a gun, but the .38 Special
handloaded cartridge itself. The injured,
his hand bandaged and his arm in a sling,
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