CamPro bullets and magnum loads?

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Anybody doing this and how are the bullets on top of magnum powder holding together in accuracy/retention?Their website says you can load their bullets at magnum velocities same as a jacketed bullet.Right now I use CamPro bullets on top of W231 powder for target loads in .357 and .44 Rem. Mag. and use jacketed bullets on top of W296 for full house loads.If I can use CamPro that would be alot easier/cheaper for basic range use in my handgun/rifle shooting.I like CamPro very much in the couple of years I've been using them but would still use a Hornady or Sierra for actual hunting in my Henry .44 Rem.Mag.:confused:
 
i have loaded and fired close to 1000 rounds of 44mag using campro 240gr fcp tc over 23.0gr h110. just make sure you put a heavy roll crimp on it.
 
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No problems with the cam pro's in my GP100 with full loads. Pulled the last shot, was getting excited. 15 meters
 
In 44 mag, I've had problems. I can't tell that there's a problem at 25m, but when shooting revolver or lever out to 200, not only was the acciracy gone, but you could hear the bullet "fizzing" on the way to the target. I'm guessing that the jacket is shedding. 24gr h110. Hornady xtp's shoot awesome with the same load.

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Just bought 2 boxes of that exact bullet for my lever rifle.I figured a coated bullet might have issues at speed from a long barrel.Handgun might be a different case.Will experiment this summer for sure.
 
can't complain about that group.Never check a group till you are done if you can't see any in the white.Guaranteed to mess up a group if you are in the "zone" and can't believe it to check.:bangHead:
 
Smcx said:
In 44 mag, I've had problems. I can't tell that there's a problem at 25m, but when shooting revolver or lever out to 200, not only was the acciracy gone, but you could hear the bullet "fizzing" on the way to the target. I'm guessing that the jacket is shedding. 24gr h110. Hornady xtp's shoot awesome with the same load.

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Crimps need to be less on the Cam Pro.
 
I have had good results with full-tilt .44 Magnum loads using Cam-Pro bullets. I concur that you definitely don't want to crimp too heavily, so as to keep from cutting through the plating. Just enough to roll the case mouth down to the bottom of the cannelure is all that is necessary or desirable.

Jacketed bullets in .357 or .44 are awfully expensive to just punch paper.
 
pffft, weak loads here... get a box of the hornady 180gr XTPs, put in 31gr of H110/W296 and use Winchester large pistol primers. heavy crimp and 1.6 OAL... now that's a proper load. :)
 
I run 23.5gr WIN 296 under a heavy crimped 240 Campro FCP-TC for my .44 magnum handloads. I've shot craploads of this combination in Super Blackhawks and Redhawks as far as 200m with good results.
 
They're CamPro bullets. Inexpensive and great for plinking. I shot them out my .357mag carbine (20" barrel) with H110, and they hit the target. But if you want accuracy, they're absolutely the wrong projectile for the job.

Here's what I mean: Same cases (win fired once), same primer (CCI 550), same powder (H110), same charge weight (15.0gr), same COAL (1.590"), shot at 100m on the same day:

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LouF said:
Hornady XTP seem to be the bomb from those target pics!Just bought 2 boxes from Cabelas.:rockOn:
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It is, it's just that with their price (about $0.35 per bullet) they wipe out most of the economy you make by reloading. *shrug* Well, I always knew the shooting sports was a case of "you get what you pay for". :d

I just got myself some lead bullets from the Bullet Barn, I'm really curious to see what kind of accuracy I'm going to get with them. Fun times ahead, that's for sure! Did the groundhog see its shadow?
 
Grawfr said:
It is, it's just that with their price (about $0.35 per bullet) they wipe out most of the economy you make by reloading. *shrug* Well, I always knew the shooting sports was a case of "you get what you pay for". :d

I just got myself some lead bullets from the Bullet Barn, I'm really curious to see what kind of accuracy I'm going to get with them. Fun times ahead, that's for sure! Did the groundhog see its shadow?
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I reload because I enjoy it.Some calibers make no sense at times, like 9mm,economically to reload but I do them anyway.I started this thread to get this info and it pretty much informed me what you said...get what you pay for.I use cast bullets at range competition because that's what is required.This particular shoot has "no jacketed bullets" in the rules primitive.I will use CamPro for general plinking and letting people shoot my Henry for fun but for actual groups to see what it can really do I have Hornady,Remington jacketed bullets to burn off.
 
Grawfr said:
It is, it's just that with their price (about $0.35 per bullet) they wipe out most of the economy you make by reloading. *shrug* Well, I always knew the shooting sports was a case of "you get what you pay for". :d

I just got myself some lead bullets from the Bullet Barn, I'm really curious to see what kind of accuracy I'm going to get with them. Fun times ahead, that's for sure! Did the groundhog see its shadow?
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I'm curious if you used the same crimp on the Cam Pro as you did with the Hornady
 
serbinator said:
pffft, weak loads here... get a box of the hornady 180gr XTPs, put in 31gr of H110/W296 and use Winchester large pistol primers. heavy crimp and 1.6 OAL... now that's a proper load. :)
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That's actually a pussy load in the 44 RM..........I won't even publish my loads with 300 gn Sierras or XTPs but I can tell you it equals a 454 Casull load from the same length barrel.
 
c-fbmi said:
That's actually a pussy load in the 44 RM..........I won't even publish my loads with 300 gn Sierras or XTPs but I can tell you it equals a 454 Casull load from the same length barrel.
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I like my redhawk to spit fire hence the 31gr of h110.. spooks everyone at the range and wows the newbies.

why not? 300gr bullet? jesus, the recoil must be retarded.
 
I use Campro for mid grade .357M and .44M - good for plinking grade at 20M or less or for introducing new folks to those magnum calibers. For hotter loads I use 300gn Sierra's and 200gn XTP's. Everything is through a 7.5" Redhawk. For some real fun, I have some Buffalo Bore 340 grain +P+ in reserve - my handloads, even 300 grain XTP's are nowhere near as wild.

A deconstructed 340gn BB round next to 300/240/200gn Sierra/Campro/XTP bullets.

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