I have a recipe I really like a lot with the Nosler 135 grain 40 S/W round. Trouble is I had 150 grain coming to me before I found out the 135 was so good. I'm using Bullseye powder.
I checked the Nosler manual and the Alliant powder website and neither one has a combination of a 150 grain bullet with Bullseye powder.
I checked for similar bullets and loads, and as near as I can figure I should probably be using 5.6 as a starting load for a max of 6.2 grains. This was derived using what I thought was a similar powder, at least from comparing the 135 grain recipe powders, and also comparing a Bullseye 155 grain recipe.
Question is, would it be safe to do that in the absence of an actual published recipe? The original Bullseye 135 grain combo was 5.4-6.4 with a 6.1 working the best.
I checked the Nosler manual and the Alliant powder website and neither one has a combination of a 150 grain bullet with Bullseye powder.
I checked for similar bullets and loads, and as near as I can figure I should probably be using 5.6 as a starting load for a max of 6.2 grains. This was derived using what I thought was a similar powder, at least from comparing the 135 grain recipe powders, and also comparing a Bullseye 155 grain recipe.
Question is, would it be safe to do that in the absence of an actual published recipe? The original Bullseye 135 grain combo was 5.4-6.4 with a 6.1 working the best.
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