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Originally Posted by spaniel
I have done some light Red Dot loads but I don't have them written down anymore. They were light on recoil but not accurate at all.
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The bane of trying to make "too light" of a load for a magnum revolver, in my experience.
I just finished a bunch of testing for a new batch of .41s. I need to load up several hundred and whenever I plan to load a quantity of something I haven't worked with for a while, I usually go back and double-check everything - just to be sure nothing has changed.
In my notes from the '90s, I had found 7.0 grs W231 was the best target load in my guns. In my current testing, that was confirmed. This time around, I compared 231 to 7625, AA5, and Universal.
In my 6-inch 57, 7.0 grs of 231 clocked about 960 FPS and 7.5 grs bumped it up to 1020 FPS. In both cases, ES was around 15-30 FPS for six rounds. The bullet was an H&G #258 220 grs, with Winchester cases and F150 primers.
This is faster than you are looking for, but my experience is that .41 and .44 loads running slower than this never seem to shoot as well. Either load is fairly mild in a 6-inch gun, and not too bad in a 4-incher.
The customary disclaimer: Use the usual safe reloading practices.