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by MoJo
Sat Dec 17, 2011 11:16 am
Forum: Reloading Forum
Topic: First 50 (Range update!)
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Re: First 50

Seriously, you need to be behind the sandbags. Alliant's online data states for a 200 gr jacketed bullet 16.0 grains of Blue Dot is max!
I would seriously consider breaking them down and go to a starting load of 14.4 and work up from there. There have been numerous reports of guns being blown up using Blue Dot so much that Alliant stopped publishing Blue Dot data for .357 Magnum 125 gr JHP and all .41 Mag Data. A guy I know Kaboomed has .357 using Blue Dot. Based on Alliant's recommendation and what happened to my acquantence's gun I do not even keep Blue Dot any more. There are other powders that work as well or better without the Kabooms. Please be careful you only have two hands and two eyes and one life.

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