I've been wanting a 357 lever gun for a while now, but can't find one in stock, and the ones I do find, are way over-priced so I've been thinking how to make a nice lightweight carbine that I can still use for a brush gun and to hunt whitetail with. And in comes the 10mm.
Since I'm wanting to hunt with it, I prefer to push the bullets as hard as I can.
Thankfully, I had some varying powders squirreled away that gave me the chance to try some different loadings to shake it out and see how it does.
Where I had the xd40, I had some 155 and 180 gr bullets that I could load and a die set. I'm currently going to order some various hard cast bullet profiles to see what I can come up with before deciding to get a bullet mold. Mainly to make sure they can handle the pressures and velocities that I want to run them, and of course, to make sure they feed reliably in my gun too.
But, here's the results of what I was getting from my first outing with it if anyone is interested.
The #9 powder with 155 gr xtp hornady was by far the most impressive speeds.
15.9 gr no. 9 powder
155 gr xtp
1.25" col
1748
1750
1780
1769 fps ave
1077 ft lbs
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155 gr xtp
7.2 gr titegroup
1.260" col
1511
1507
1504
1499
1483
1500 fps ave
774 ft lbs
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155 gr xtp
9.4 gr Longshot
1.260" col
1609
1616
1555
1576
1554
1582 fps ave
861 ft lbs
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180 gr armscor flat tip
8.6 gr BE-86
1.255" col
1444
1448
error
1432
error
1441 fps ave
829 ft lbs
Since I'm wanting to hunt with it, I prefer to push the bullets as hard as I can.
Thankfully, I had some varying powders squirreled away that gave me the chance to try some different loadings to shake it out and see how it does.
Where I had the xd40, I had some 155 and 180 gr bullets that I could load and a die set. I'm currently going to order some various hard cast bullet profiles to see what I can come up with before deciding to get a bullet mold. Mainly to make sure they can handle the pressures and velocities that I want to run them, and of course, to make sure they feed reliably in my gun too.
But, here's the results of what I was getting from my first outing with it if anyone is interested.
The #9 powder with 155 gr xtp hornady was by far the most impressive speeds.
15.9 gr no. 9 powder
155 gr xtp
1.25" col
1748
1750
1780
1769 fps ave
1077 ft lbs
----------------------------------
155 gr xtp
7.2 gr titegroup
1.260" col
1511
1507
1504
1499
1483
1500 fps ave
774 ft lbs
-----------------------------------
155 gr xtp
9.4 gr Longshot
1.260" col
1609
1616
1555
1576
1554
1582 fps ave
861 ft lbs
---------------------------------------------
180 gr armscor flat tip
8.6 gr BE-86
1.255" col
1444
1448
error
1432
error
1441 fps ave
829 ft lbs