Racepres Posted April 1 Report Share Posted April 1 With the situation on Powder Availability currently.. I have needed a Substitution for win231, Unique, and Red Dot... The stuff I use Most Filling in the "blanks" with BE-86 and believe it or not...AA Nitro-100 NF If interested, I can Share some of my "tested" Cast Bullet loads...32S&W Long, 32H&R, 38SPL, 357Mag, 45ACP, 45 Long Colt, 45WinMag, 44Mag.....plus 300 Savage, 35 Remington, 7TCU, 222, and 221Fireball... working on 7X57, and 8X57 later... BTW; I rarely...almost Never, shoot Jacketed... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr.Hess Posted April 1 Report Share Posted April 1 Sure, I always like to see load data. I shoot cast in 7x57, 223REM, 45ACP, 300BO. Don't know if I can find that powder or not, though. My 223 load is with Unique at 2000FPS. I use it to shoot my plate targets in the back yard. Any faster makes bad divots in them. Even those at 2KFPS will dent them. The 300BO is a sub sonic 230GR with Win296. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Racepres Posted April 1 Author Report Share Posted April 1 1 hour ago, Dr.Hess said: Sure, I always like to see load data. I shoot cast in 7x57, 223REM, 45ACP, 300BO. Don't know if I can find that powder or not, though. My 223 load is with Unique at 2000FPS. I use it to shoot my plate targets in the back yard. Any faster makes bad divots in them. Even those at 2KFPS will dent them. The 300BO is a sub sonic 230GR with Win296. Where are ya Finding Unique these days?? or Better, What is the latest price?? OMG...have ya checked for Trail Boss recently???? Glad I never warmed up to that stuff!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr.Hess Posted April 1 Report Share Posted April 1 Well, I bought a pound of it a long time ago, so just loading what I have laying around. I haven't bought any powders or primers in a long time. Prices I've seen are just shocking. It's at a point that you can't load a bullet cheaper than you can buy one today, or the cost is virtually the same if you use a jacketed bullet versus home cast. I did recently buy a bunch of "factory blems" jacketed bullets from Midway. 7's and 30's. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Racepres Posted April 2 Author Report Share Posted April 2 Oh...I use a lot of Unique, so on the verge of being gone. I needed some, none around here, ordered was either Out of Stock, or Back ordered...or exorbitantly expensive, like primers were..in some cases still are. Same story with Red Dot...another powder that I use a lot of.. Found BE-86 available, and Reasonable, kinda, and use Grain for Grain replacement for Unique.. Nitro-100NF, being very fast...almost makes my Red Dot loads (not well), but got a Very good Price on some..so Trying it for Mild Loadings. Next I will run out of Bullet Lead!!!!! Yea I gots Problems...comes from Not Hoarding I guess!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr.Hess Posted April 2 Report Share Posted April 2 Yeah, bullet lead is another problem. Used to be you could get lead wheel weights anywhere. That's what I've been using for 50 years. Now, they've gone to zinc or iron. I have a hundred pounds, maybe, but 230 grain boolits go through it fast. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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