Author Topic: 41 mag pattern (Read 425 times)

Gallahad · « **on:** September 06, 2004, 03:03:48 AM »

I posted awhile back about leading in this revolver, and found (with the advise of one of you guys) that 2400/ slower burning powder lessened my problem. I had to reduce the load, and am getting bettween 1000-1100 fps now with minimul leading.(comes out with four strokes of a wire brush) bullets are 115 gr. swc HARD cast. They have a beveled base, which ost thought was a problem, and now I think I agree. I know this sounds kinda backwards, but by reducing this load to 1000-1100 fps my pattern got a lot bigger. I still got some h110 I havent tried, but at this point I dont know if it would do any good? Id try a diff. bullet, except for the fact that I have 900 of thease guys sittin on my reload bench. Im stumped on how to get thease bullets to work good.Iv'e been able to put all six in a paper plate at 60 yds, with every revolver ive owned, and this is annoying the heck outa me. :cry: Anybody know how to load thease right? :roll:

Reed1911 · « **Reply #1 on:** September 06, 2004, 05:55:02 AM »

You could try to seat a gascheck on the base. A gascheck is a small cup of copper that scrapes the lead off as it travels down the bore.

ajj · « **Reply #2 on:** September 06, 2004, 06:22:26 AM »

.41 mag? You do mean 215 gr bullets, don't you? The best load I've found to throw these accurately at 1100 fps is 11.0 grains of Blue Dot. I don't recommend that powder for maximum loads.

Leftoverdj · « **Reply #3 on:** September 06, 2004, 11:09:02 PM »

Try putting a coat of Liguid Alox on those bullets. Bottle will cost you $3 should stop the leading. No need to remove the lube already there. That Blue Dot load sounds reasonable, too. 7.5 to 8.0 grains of Unique should work if you have that around.

Commercial bullets tend to be too small, too hard, and have lousy lube. I had more than my share of trouble with them before I switched to shooting all homecast. Magically, my troubles went away when all my bullets were cast of wheelweight + 2% tin, sized a thou or two over nominal diameter and lubed with a decent soft lube. I still sometimes have trouble finding an accurate load or a bullet that a gun likes, but I don't have leading, keyholing or sudden accuracy problems, and I have put as many as a thousand rounds down a bore between cleanings. (That was a two day binge of shooting up my years old supply of unidentified .38 Specials.)

warf73 · « **Reply #4 on:** September 07, 2004, 01:46:48 AM »

Gallahad

I had same problem with my 44mag. but with slow loads(bad leading) so I melted off the lube and lubed all the bullets with my lube I made. Got rid of most of the leading 90% of it. But still had accurace problems.

Well to say the least I only had 300 or so out of a box of 500. They made a great flux for the melting pot(high dollar flux).

I started melting my own and all of a sudden I went from paper plate size groups to pop can lid size groups at 25 yards. That was with the same everything other than I was using my bullets.

I know you don't want to hear that, but you could always sell the othe 900 bullets on Ebay.

Warf

Gallahad · « **Reply #5 on:** September 07, 2004, 05:21:47 AM »

ajj,

Yes! 215 gr. swc. :-D :-D sorry about that. And thanks for the help everyone!

dakotashooter2 · « **Reply #6 on:** September 07, 2004, 08:18:44 AM »

The allox will help with the leading but I'm not sure anything will help (those bullets) in the accuracy dept. My gun also likes bullets slightly oversize. I've had two rugers in 41 and neither liked the bevel base bullets. Had a local guy doing cast 41s for a while. Even though they were hard and sized right to .410 they had a flat base and shot better than anything else I could find at the time. Now I cast my own. My accuracy still isn't what I'd like but the only sizer I have is .410. I just picked up a .412 on auction so I'll see what happens now.