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Originally Posted by straight stick
Thanks for the replies, the requested information is as follows;
Manual- Speer Reloading Manual #14, page #883, 6.3 - 6.7 Grains of
HS-6, Standard Small Pistol Primer and a 158 Grain LSWC for a +P, 38
Special load. They do not provide any information for a standard pressure load with these components.
Hodgdon website lists 5.7 - 6.3 Grains of HS-6, Standard Small Pistol
Primer, 158 Grain LSWC for a Standard Pressure 38 Special load. They
do not list a +P load for that powder, primer and bullet.
Manual - Modern Reloading, Second Edition, Richard Lee, provides the same information as the Hodgdon website, again no +P load information provided for this load combination.
Has anyone had any experience with the above listed +P load or the Standard Pressure load??
Again, Thanks for your help!!
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For some reason all the current crop of reloading manuals use a standard primers in "standard" cartridges like the .38 Special with all powders and use a magnum primers in cartridges named magnum like the .357.
The use a standard primer in the .38 Special w/2400 powder and tell you to use a magnum primers in the .357 Magnum even though we all know 2400 works much better with a standard primer. The same holds true for Unique.
Hodgdon will show HS-6 with a standard primer in the .38 Spl and .38 Spl +P but then tell you to use a magnum primer in the .357 Magnum. Why not use a magnum primer with all HS-6 load because it's a hard to ignite ball powder?
Older manuals used to tell you to use a magnum primer with HS-6/W540, HS-7/H571, H110/W296 and a few others in any cartridge they were used. Same goes for slower ball powder used in rifle cartridges like H414/W760 and a few others too...
Magnum primers have very little to do with the pressure generated in a cartridge and a lot to do with the type of powder they ignite.