Shrinkmd
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I'm working my way up the 44 mag, and I am comfortably shooting 240gr LSWC's with 10 gr of Unique. I'm getting ready to step it up a bit, and might even make up some factory equivalent with jacketed bullets.
Using new Starline brass, a near full charge of 300MP (around 24.5gr, our friends at Handloader used 25.0 as a max), and Hornady 240gr XTP bullets, how many of these factory strength loadings could the brass take? It would be nice to get 4 loadings, which would bring the pricing of this project down to about $376 per 1,000 rounds.
Which wouldn't be too bad compared to $929.50 for purchasing them! A $553.50 difference, although I guess you could subtract another $80 bucks or so for the price of the pile of once fired brass you would have from buying factory. It is still about a $470 "savings" (not that most people would ever pay to plink with fancy Hornady XTP factory ammo...)
So is four loadings at near max to duplicate factory achievable? I am curious to try this project out, but I'm wondering what other people's experience has been.
Using new Starline brass, a near full charge of 300MP (around 24.5gr, our friends at Handloader used 25.0 as a max), and Hornady 240gr XTP bullets, how many of these factory strength loadings could the brass take? It would be nice to get 4 loadings, which would bring the pricing of this project down to about $376 per 1,000 rounds.
Which wouldn't be too bad compared to $929.50 for purchasing them! A $553.50 difference, although I guess you could subtract another $80 bucks or so for the price of the pile of once fired brass you would have from buying factory. It is still about a $470 "savings" (not that most people would ever pay to plink with fancy Hornady XTP factory ammo...)
So is four loadings at near max to duplicate factory achievable? I am curious to try this project out, but I'm wondering what other people's experience has been.