I bought a thousand of these berry's hybrid hollow points last year with hopes that they would shoot great in my ACPs. As it turns out, they run thick and shave even with proper belling and a light chamfer. If I heavily chamfer each piece of brass they're workable but I digress. They didn't shoot as well as hoped either, so I thought why not load them into Colt brass and see how they shoot?
Typically my six guns like the slightly over sized bullets and actually shoot them a little better. Normally I would be cautious about the 230gr bullet but the Hollow point profile is wider than a primer, so I'm confident to load them up knowing they will see some action in a lever gun too.
Usually I'd do a bunch of homework and work something up from the low end. As it happens I've done so much work with unique and plated bullets before I pumped out 50 all over 8.3gr. I know that's mild enough even for my cimmaron but punchy enough to shoot well in the rifle. I may even do a second batch at 8.5 and chronograph them both.
Anyhow I felt it was worthy enough for its own thread. I'm hoping a few a you guys have already gone down this road and can share some knowledge too. I've gone the other way with great success and actually have a mild shooting 200gr rnfp load for the ACP using Colt lead bullets already. Here's a picture of the first batch...
Typically my six guns like the slightly over sized bullets and actually shoot them a little better. Normally I would be cautious about the 230gr bullet but the Hollow point profile is wider than a primer, so I'm confident to load them up knowing they will see some action in a lever gun too.
Usually I'd do a bunch of homework and work something up from the low end. As it happens I've done so much work with unique and plated bullets before I pumped out 50 all over 8.3gr. I know that's mild enough even for my cimmaron but punchy enough to shoot well in the rifle. I may even do a second batch at 8.5 and chronograph them both.
Anyhow I felt it was worthy enough for its own thread. I'm hoping a few a you guys have already gone down this road and can share some knowledge too. I've gone the other way with great success and actually have a mild shooting 200gr rnfp load for the ACP using Colt lead bullets already. Here's a picture of the first batch...