Range report: Berry’s 38 caliber 148 grain HBWC

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As others have pointed out, these are much tougher than swaged lead HBWC. My pet load for swaged lead bullets is 2.8 grains of Bullseye and a standard primers. That load gives abysmal accuracy with plated HBWC Berry’s bullets. Went up with the powder charge of Bullseye in small increments. The 3.5 grain charge for these bullets was outstanding! My test guns were a 1984 vintage Ruger GP100 and a 1951 vintage Smith & Wesson K38. Both guns produced sub 1” groups off a pistol rest.
 
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