bullseye vs reddot - cleanest with 148gr HBWC?

[hangnoose]

I'M ON THE SAME PAGE AS TROYSTAT.

If you are using a cast bullet, it's kind of academic. You WILL get a sooty, black powder type dirt from the cast/lube, luckily it's easy to clean. YES some powders burn cleaner than others, BUT you will still have the smoke/soot from using cast no matter what powder you use. IMO use whichever you can get that gives the best accuracy.

 

[sellersm]

I have also noticed that hotter loads are cleaner using Bullseye in 45 ACP. For example: 4.8 grains under a Berry's 230 GR RN was pretty "sooty," but increase to 5.1 or 5.3 and it seems to clean up some. I am not sure why.

Mike

I've found this to be true as well. And as also mentioned, the HBWC is a 'dirty' bullet all by itself, as are many of the cast bullets but the HBWC is kind of its own animal with regard to 'cleanliness'. Depending on the batch, some can be downright filthy, sticky, and smoke quite a bit.

However, I've found that Bullseye and Red Dot offer very similar performance in accuracy, so I don't think either has an advantage.

 

[johnjohn]

I use R Dot,B Eye and Unique and have never found any to be real dirty, but I kinda' enjoy cleaning.

 

[PERAZZI]

2.7 WST, 2.5 GR clay dot, 3.1 ww231/hp38

25 yds

 

[FTR]

I use Red Dot. A few days ago my brother remarked that he could tell which brass I reloaded at the range because my brass was not dirty and scorched. We put a few rounds downrange and took a much closer look and compared Red Dot to factory loads and the Red Dot was IMO, a lot cleaner.

 

[John R]

I've found WW231 to be quite dirty.
I gave away the last pound I had.

 

[AveragEd]

231 is dirty in revolvers as is AutoComp but both are very clean in autoloaders. Spherical powders are traditionally slower-burning and I think the sudden pressure drop caused by the barrel-cylinder gap lowers pressure enough to reduce combustion heat and retard a complete burn. There are a lot of powders I won't use in a revolver that are great in a 1911, for example.

Ed

 

[DWalt]

I use Bullseye for virtually every handgun caliber I load, and a little smoke doesn't bother me. It's the most economical powder on the market, and in times of scarcity and high price, I'll stay with it as it goes a lot further than any other propellant.