Cast handgun bullets.

[Adam Helmer]

I suspect most of us handload our handgun ammo. I have a box of jacketed .38 handgun bullets somewhere here, but exclusively I use cast bullets in all my handguns. The reloading manuals indicate cast bullets of the same weight as jacketed bullets go a bit faster with the same powder charges.

My favorites for the .38 Special and .357 magnum are Lyman 148 grain wadcutters, 152 grain SWCs and 168 grain SWCs. I drop my bullets from the double cavity moulds into a bucket of water for a quench. I lube with Aalox and never get leading. My bullets are made from wheel weights with a dash of tin.

After the snow leaves, I will chronograph all 3 bullets from handguns of various barrel lenghts to see what they deliver. Who else casts their handgun bullets?

Adam