Precision Bullets out of Kemp TX., Bayou or X-treme bullets, are the best going. I have changed over to the X-treme plated for most all my different pistol calibers. Use W231 or the same HP-38 with enough to make major running about 170 power factor. Use a little less and have easy shooting paper puncher. I will use this with all 200gr bullets no matter RN, HP, or SWC. and they all shoot great.
I was into traditional lube for a while, but in all honesty tumbling makes more sense to me for use in handgun loads. Tumble lube also helps prevent oxidization in storage.
Tried many and settled on ACME. Hands above the rest. Plus I have now made myself a cubby hole cabinet with all the custom cut wood boxes they get shipped in. I am sure my mail lady hates them though.
Been using Precision Bullets out of Kemp, Tx for quite a few years. Have shot tens of thousands of them. I don't cast and these are the most accurate that I have tried and my PII really likes them.
Like cannibal and lightman, I cast my own 200gr. H&G68 clones. I'm using a Mihec 4C plain base mold, and alloy my bullets at about 9.5 BNH. Very accurate. Before my Mihec mold, I used plenty of LaserCast, but they got expensive and weren't as accurate as my own. Penn also makes good bullets, at least the ones I tried in .38Super.
If you haven't tried falcon bullets 200gr swc its definitely woth trying. I've had great experiences working with Stanley over there. Good prices and great boolits
I have a problem with almost all commercially offered 200 gr SWC bullets.
The lead used is WAY to hard. Normally 15-18 bhn. All that's required is an 8 bhn bullet. I've even shot pure lead cast and had no problems.
Bullet fit is key. I've started sizing almost all my .45 bullets to .453. I use a 50/50 mix of pure lead and wheel weights for ALL my pistol bullets. Even in the .44 Mag this isn't a problem.
Try and find a bullet caster than doesn't use such hard lead.
Sweged bullets by Zero, Magnus, or other quality bullet makers might be worth trying. Unfortunately, I do not know how much softer sweged bullets are, only that they are softer.
If any one would WRITE to any of the swaged bullet makers, you'd find that they use 96/4, 95/5, or 92/6/2 alloy. It isn't hard to find out.
Even if they used nearly pure lead, it would STILL work just fine for .45 Auto and .38 Spl.
Umm, not at the same alloy.
Sent out a post to various companies a few hours ago and have the following results (and, yes, the current commercial overly-hard cast bullets are harder than the commercial swaged bullets, but they can swage ANY lead alloy).
Magnus reports 97/3 alloy for 650-800 fps for 11 BHN.
Comment: This is hard enough in real life for .44 magnum, as all I ever cast were 10-13 BHN.
Precision Bullets uses 92/6/2 and report the bore-riding surfaces are 13-14 BHN. They also restrike after the coating process.
Hornady reports 95/5, for 13 BHN.
Those numbers are right where I cast all my lead bullets, for use in .45 Auto up to .30-06.
I second the ACMEs, the main reason my fat lazy mail lady won't look me in the eye anymore.
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