My favorite load is 4.0gns of Bullseye with a 225 gn hardcast round nose bullet for 10 to 25yd matches. What's yours?

I generally use 185- or 200-grain semiwadcutters with around 4 grains of Bullseye, Red Dot, or 700X. All work pretty well.

Hey Packrat. Welcome to the forum. I'm down the I5 outside Albany. Shoot at ARPC. I like some 200 gr swc from a guy out of Sweet Home. T&B bullets. Good product, good price and a very nice local couple own the business.

My standard .45acp has been 200 gr swc over 4.0 Clays. I've been reducing the powder a bit since I don't need to cycle the action on a revolver. 3.7 seems nice in my 25-2s.

This thread might get moved to reloading section.

My 5 screw 1955 model shoots great with 200 JSWC and 4.8 Bullseye. It's well inside 10 ring at 50 yards.

I have been on something of a jihad this winter to find a good-shooting lead-bullet load. I have had two guns to monkey with - a late '70s 25-2 and a 1955 from probably the late '50s. Both guns shoot best with the H&G #130 design, by a considerable margin. I have tried both bevel- and flat-base designs. Both seem to work about equally well. That is where the similarities stop.

Most of my shooting has been done with AA2 and WST. As you might expect, one gun seems to prefer one powder, the other, the other. Other powders would probably work well too, but I haven't tried many. I wanted to stay with either AA2 and/or WST if possible.

The 25-2 seems to prefer a slightly faster load. The 1955 shoots better with a slightly slower load. Of the two, the 25-2 leads badly. Accuracy will fall off if the barrel is not kept clean. The 1955 does not lead nearly so much and can be fired quite a bit before accuracy deteriorates.

Since all my shooting has been indoors, I have been limited to 25-yards. Hard to say what the loads would do at 50. Now that the weather is getting nice, I need to check into that.

When I shot bullseye whether in my Clark Long Heavy slide 1911 or my Mod 25 I used my own cast bullets, a H&G #130 [the mold number not the weight of the bullet] with 3.5gr of Bullseye at 25 yards and the H&G#68 over 3.8gr of Bullseye at 50 yards.

I can also say my Mod 25 shot great with Match Hardball as well.

The swc hardcast with 6.5 gns of unique is pretty good at 50yds, however i get some hot blowback and some lead when I push the 225gn rn . Jacketed bullets do much better at a higher velocity at 50yds with my m25 than cast.

Missouri Bullet 185 SWC "Button" with 5.3grs. of HP38. Very accurate in my 25-2 revolver.

I have used 6 grains of Unique with a 200 SWC for many years...might work for you as well.
Randy

230 grain berry's plated RN with 4.4 grains of bullseye works very well in my 25-2, and also cycles and shoots great out of my HK USP Compact.

Was a bullseye shooter way back in NJ. Even shot on the NJ Natl Guard team for three years.

Shot a late 60's 25-2 but used slightly oversized 200 gr H&G #68's sized at .453" over 4.5 of Bullseye and a CCI 300 primer in GI Ball Match cases. A combo with 200 gr #68's that I load to this day...and it's still very accurate.


We had a few 25-2's that had oversized throats and leaded badly. Whenever LEADING is mentioned I think ; Oversized throats/bullet doesn't match the gun...or TOO hard an alloy.

FN in MT