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Originally Posted by danski
I hope you have a good scale to check your loads and that you are religious about checking them.
WW 231 is an excellent powder for the .38 Special.
I suggest you lower your load from 4.8 to start with and see how things work out. With a 125 grain bullet, less powder is needed to achieve
a decent velocity, than with a heavier bullet.
Hard cast bullets do offer a bit more resistance, hence a need for more powder, than a swaged soft formed bullet. But still, I'd recommend you start at 4.0 grains.
I'm sure you have good loading manual, such as Speers, but if not run don't walk to getting one.
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I do have a speers manual but they did not list w231 for 125 gram bullets. I have a $35 electronic scale to weight the powder etc. I was thinking also about getting the lee reloading manual since my equipment is lee stuff. Thanks for your input! BTW I will be loading 9 and hopefully 40 also.