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Originally Posted by J-FRAME
Do any of you really shoot your 329 with 240 gr hard cast bullets/ reloads maybe 7.5- 8.0 grs Unique as a practice round/ range gun?
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Good question. I used to. In my case I used 9.0 grs of Unique and a 250K, but essentially the same thing as you are asking about - light practice-target type load. The barrel on my 329 is so atrocious that I quickly discontinued the practice. It appears to be one of those lovely ECM barrels (may or may not be, I said "appears"
) and it leads so horribly that I was concerned about that and changed over to all jacketed bullets.
The gun is very tough to shoot well anyway, to say nothing of not too much fun to shoot, so I suppose it is no big deal, but I wish it had a barrel comparable to my other S&W 44 Magnums.
I wouldn't worry about breaking the gun with target loads. If yours is OK with lead, then I would use lead bullets, but my gun accumulates so much lead in the first inch of the barrel it is scary. The gun is meant to be used. Use it and if something tragic does befall it, decide then whether you want to replace it or buy something different. You won't know for sure until then. I doubt you will be disappointed. The guns seem to be holding up pretty well, from what I can tell.