I love reloading and have reloaded thousands upon thousands of rounds over the years. But, I’ve never carried my reloads in a semi-auto pistol. I’ve been getting into revolvers over the last year and have found a couple of loads that I like using a 158g XTP. I’ve run a bunch of them and they are accurate out of my S&W 66.
Question for the group: Do any of you roll your own SD ammo for revolvers? There’s a lot less going on in a revolver and feed issues are pretty much non-existent. The main reason that I wonder is that I generally don’t carry the 66 with factory .357 SD ammo because I’ve had an occasional failure to fire that took a second strike. I’ve never had that happen in any of the reloads I’ve done using CCI 550 primers. The performance of the reloads is better than I’ve seen with factory ammo on that particular gun.
I really do need to get that gun to a qualified revolver smith that knows the innards of a S&W. The gun is stock with the exception of having an empty primer cup over the strain screw. It’s an ex MCSD gun that I’ve had for a while.
Question for the group: Do any of you roll your own SD ammo for revolvers? There’s a lot less going on in a revolver and feed issues are pretty much non-existent. The main reason that I wonder is that I generally don’t carry the 66 with factory .357 SD ammo because I’ve had an occasional failure to fire that took a second strike. I’ve never had that happen in any of the reloads I’ve done using CCI 550 primers. The performance of the reloads is better than I’ve seen with factory ammo on that particular gun.
I really do need to get that gun to a qualified revolver smith that knows the innards of a S&W. The gun is stock with the exception of having an empty primer cup over the strain screw. It’s an ex MCSD gun that I’ve had for a while.