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I picked up some Hornady Bullets 45 Caliber 200 Grain Total Metal Jacket Combat Target bullets and want to hand load them using Winchester 231 powder.The powder charge listed in Hornady's handbook suggest 5.7 light to 6.8 high power.I am thinking of 6.0 to 6.2. I crossed checked it on...

What brand of digital scale do you use?I need something that gives me .01gn+/-

What is your best 50S&W reload. Lead, Plated, Mankiller or Tyrannosaurs killer

Thank all of you for your input.My method for loading 500 rounds.I weight the empty brass then charge it then weight it again then the bullet then weight it .Could I have screwed up sure. Did I NO. If I assumed this was my problem I would stop handloading. I have involved S&W and they have been...

switching powder I maybe over reacting but I am changing powder.No more 500 to fill so I am thinking about 231 for 45acps.Any thoughts?

My last 6 guns were 3 Kimber 1911 and 3 Sigs 9mm,40cal and357sig I like the quality and fit of these. No more gun toys.Unless of course Smith would like to steep up and take one in the name of customer relation. One can hope.

I am writing this as a warning to my fellow handloaders. Be careful using TiteGroup powder in large cases (16 gns) .I used to own a Smith 500.Now I own about a $1000.00 paper weight. It blew up. The general conscience is it was my luck to be a victim of detonation. What doses this mean...

All I care about is some data strat81 I just don't care if they steal copyrighted information f.As A manufactuer of bullets the should data about their product.And where are they getting it from ?

I pulled a few bullets using a hammer type puller and noticed the bullet had a grove in the bullet. Is the bullet trash?

I am new at this so please excuse me.I have a press with 4 holes in the turret so in only makes sense that there is a 4th die.Is it possiable to overcrimp a round?

I picked up some Ranier bullets from midway .Then went to their site for reload data---Zip.Is there a source for data that is reliable

rcmodel yes split the cylinder in two and pealed the top strap back.This my 20 or 21st load at this spec I shot with this gun.I have shot s&w & corbon rounds belive me this is a light load by comparsion.Kimber1911 Idon't like the taste of lead that is why I choose Rainer.Starter 52 Thank you...

Smith 500 had a bad day I need to take some pictures and post them. the 500 is rated at more than a ton and a quarter of muzzle energy and the cylinder is proofed to 71,000 psi.I am trying to figure how a light load can generate that much juice.

don't use Titegroup I had bad luck with a smith 500 and Titegroup powder.16.5 gr Rainer Ballistics 335 grain FMJ-Flatpoint bullets .2.035" OAL.

Has anyone had a problem with a Large gun and light powder charge?