124grn bullets in a 38S&W

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Anybody here use 9mm 124 grain bullets ? Mine are powder coated and would probably work unsized in the .38.

Powders on hand Clays, Red Dot and HS-6.

Thinking I should start with Red Dot.

Or could be forced to buy Unique.
 
Unsized bullets are how fat? if they are around 360, that would be nice.

Of those powders, Red Dot would be an excellent choice. Just don't double charge it.

What revolver are you loading for? Have you slugged the barrel?
 
Britain's foolish choice of the 38S&W cartridge, typically uses bullets that measure .361.
Lyman's second edition of Pistol & Revolver reloading handbook shows a .361 121grain RN bullet behind 2.4-3.2 grains of RedDot.

LEE makes a .358-125grain RN bullet, mold #90306. Powder coating this bullet right out of the mold without sizing, might achieve the result you seek.
 
It's possible to bump up a bullet 1-2 thousandths but is harder to do with 38S&W because it's so underpowered. The best chance of making it work in 38S&W would be using the softest bullet you can make, with faster burning pistol powders like bullseye, 700X. Unique and most of the shotgun powders are probably too slow to bump up that light bullet.
 
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Some of the Victory revolvers were made with 38 Spl barrels, so slugging would be a good idea. It may take the standard bullets.

Also, if you are ever hard up for brass, you can use 9mm brass. It is a perfect fit.

DON"T use 9mm loads or 9mm ammo.
 
124 grains are too light for the sights on SW victory. You would have to aim well above target in order to hit anything.
Slugging revolver barrels is really useless proposition as you would be pushing slug from business end against bullets natural way of travel and all you going to get is diameter of forcing cone. Just measure the muzzle of the bore with inner jaws of your vernier caliper from land to land or groove to groove. This will give you exact diameter of the bore and idea of what diameter of bullets to use.
My previctory SW has 357 bore. So I use 158 grains. However even with 158 gr bullets you need to aim higher.
 
gewehr76 said:
124 grains are too light for the sights on SW victory. You would have to aim well above target in order to hit anything.
Slugging revolver barrels is really useless proposition as you would be pushing slug from business end against bullets natural way of travel and all you going to get is diameter of forcing cone. Just measure the muzzle of the bore with inner jaws of your vernier caliper from land to land or groove to groove. This will give you exact diameter of the bore and idea of what diameter of bullets to use.
My previctory SW has 357 bore. So I use 158 grains. However even with 158 gr bullets you need to aim higher.
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5 groove. Hard to measure land to land.

Funny thing is there is no commercial 200 grain bullets. Standard is 145 gen iirc.

I have 200grain bullets from Jet.

Just thought I could utilize some of the thousand of 9mm bullets ive cast
 
yomomma said:
5 groove. Hard to measure land to land.

Funny thing is there is no commercial 200 grain bullets. Standard is 145 gen iirc.

I have 200grain bullets from Jet.

Just thought I could utilize some of the thousand of 9mm bullets ive cast
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Well 124 grains will fly. its either Kentucky windage or front sight alteration. On 250$ dollar gun not a big deal. on something more valuable not worth it.
Load some and see. May be with your component combination it will shoot fine. You never know until you try.
 
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