Solo 1000 and 140 grn LTC

[Brewski]

Anyone have a recipe for Solo 1000 and 140 grain hard cast lead bullets in .38 spl? I'm running 4.1 grains of Solo 1000 with a 147 lead bullet now, so I'm thinking maybe start at 4.1 and add a 1/10 of a grain and adjust accordingly? I'd like to get about a PF of 130.

[Brewski]

OK - so I loaded some of the 140 LTC puppies up over 4.1 gns of Solo 1000 and shot them yesterday. I set OAL at 1.485 so they'd chamber easily in my model 14 and used Federal SPPs and mixed brass. I wasn't able to chrono the loads as my POS chrono is back at PACT getting worked on. But I will say that felt recoil was noticably milder than 158 LRNFP bullets with the same charge weight of Solo 1K. The load also shows great potential for accuracy as well. As soon as I get my chrono back (or can borrow my buddy's sweet CED chrono), I'll see where these loads are at in terms of PF, but this might make a good ICORE load - the TC design in 140 seems pointy enough that it might work well enough with speedloaders.

[Brewski]

OK - so it looks like 4.6 grains of Solo 1000 will do the trick with a 140 grain lead TC bullet. My buddy Jim ran two strings for me today and here's what he got:

17.5 SD

937.3 avg

943

961

939

936

938

903

SD 20.5

929.6 avg

934

906

950

951

937

897

This was using mixed brass (fired 5X or so), Federal SPPs with COL 1.500 and crimped at .374 shot out of a 686-5 with a 4inch barrel.

[Brewski]

It also looks like I'm talking to myself....Hey, wait...I am!

[DWFAN]

Great data here. Thanks.