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Hello all and greetings from the drizzly Willamette Valley!
Been reading this forum for a long time, have picked up quite a tid bit of info here and there. Thank you to all who participate!
Among the guns I own is a Ruger GP100. I just got it back from Ruger with a new full under lug barrel on it and took it out to the range yesterday. Here is what I experienced with it. I fired 48 rounds of 158gr plinking reloads through it giving it a chance to cool every 12. I was putting loads down range with my snubbie no dash Model 10 while I was waiting for the Ruger to cool. After 48, I ran a couple swabs down the barrel. Then I ran 36 180gr bullets through it, 12 each with 4.5, 4.7, and 4.9 grains of titegroup. 10 shot average after eliminating highest and lowest was 945, 1000 and 1075 fps respectively.
So my question to you is are these speeds reasonable on a new barrel 6 inch gun? I know titegroup is not a great powder for magnum guns, and it will be relegated to the P95 and the taurus 9mm from now on. I do have W296 which I load my 180 grainers with and my accurate #5 which I load my 230 grainers with for bowling pin shoots. Any other thoughts on a good powder for the 230gr pin loads?
Thanks,
Eric
Been reading this forum for a long time, have picked up quite a tid bit of info here and there. Thank you to all who participate!
Among the guns I own is a Ruger GP100. I just got it back from Ruger with a new full under lug barrel on it and took it out to the range yesterday. Here is what I experienced with it. I fired 48 rounds of 158gr plinking reloads through it giving it a chance to cool every 12. I was putting loads down range with my snubbie no dash Model 10 while I was waiting for the Ruger to cool. After 48, I ran a couple swabs down the barrel. Then I ran 36 180gr bullets through it, 12 each with 4.5, 4.7, and 4.9 grains of titegroup. 10 shot average after eliminating highest and lowest was 945, 1000 and 1075 fps respectively.
So my question to you is are these speeds reasonable on a new barrel 6 inch gun? I know titegroup is not a great powder for magnum guns, and it will be relegated to the P95 and the taurus 9mm from now on. I do have W296 which I load my 180 grainers with and my accurate #5 which I load my 230 grainers with for bowling pin shoots. Any other thoughts on a good powder for the 230gr pin loads?
Thanks,
Eric
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