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Slims · 08-01-2003, 08:39 PM

I mostly load .45 long colt and .40 s&w, but I am experimenting w/ loading for .270 (If I can't do it well, I will quit).

My favorite load for .40 is: 155 gr. hornady xtp bullets (or speer gold dot) w/ 5.6 gr. of Hodgdon Titegroup w/ an OAL of 1.126 inches.

The titegroup isn't the cleanest, but it fills the cases up nicely and it seems to be very consistent.

Reloading 500 rounds w/ a single stage press can take forever....probably six hours or more if you are anal.

The fancy super duper presses out there can turn out finished bullets as fast as you can pull the lever.

Edit: And if anybody needs a reason to reload, let me give you a couple:

A box of cowboy loads for .45 LC costs about 25 dollars per box of fifty. When I reload I end up paying about 2 dollars per hundred primers, probably about 10 dollars/thousand rounds for powder, and 20 dollars/500 bullets.

Which means I can reload a box of fifty bullets for about $3.50 (big difference).

The same is true (for a lesser extent) to .40. My price per box (when I load lead bullets) drops to about 3.50 as well.

for .270 my total cost for 100 rounds is about $20 (compared to $20/20rounds). And that is loading top of the line hornady ammunition.

08-01-2003, 08:39 PM	#7 (permalink)
Slims Eccentric insomniac Location: North Carolina	I mostly load .45 long colt and .40 s&w, but I am experimenting w/ loading for .270 (If I can't do it well, I will quit). My favorite load for .40 is: 155 gr. hornady xtp bullets (or speer gold dot) w/ 5.6 gr. of Hodgdon Titegroup w/ an OAL of 1.126 inches. The titegroup isn't the cleanest, but it fills the cases up nicely and it seems to be very consistent. Reloading 500 rounds w/ a single stage press can take forever....probably six hours or more if you are anal. The fancy super duper presses out there can turn out finished bullets as fast as you can pull the lever. Edit: And if anybody needs a reason to reload, let me give you a couple: A box of cowboy loads for .45 LC costs about 25 dollars per box of fifty. When I reload I end up paying about 2 dollars per hundred primers, probably about 10 dollars/thousand rounds for powder, and 20 dollars/500 bullets. Which means I can reload a box of fifty bullets for about $3.50 (big difference). The same is true (for a lesser extent) to .40. My price per box (when I load lead bullets) drops to about 3.50 as well. for .270 my total cost for 100 rounds is about $20 (compared to $20/20rounds). And that is loading top of the line hornady ammunition. __________________ "Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery." - Winston Churchill "All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act out their dream with open eyes, to make it possible." Seven Pillars of Wisdom, T.E. Lawrence Last edited by Slims; 08-01-2003 at 08:44 PM..