Hi friends,
I ordered some 170 gr keith style bullets from Rim Rock. Loaded a dozen up and took em to the range. Fired 4 before the cylinder wouldn't turn. took it home and figured the cartridge oal length with this particular bullet was just too long. Did some reading and found a bunch of various forum posts mentioning that old timers like Elmer Keith and Skeeter Skelton would load full power .357 in .38 special brass. From what I read on various forums there is no real consensus on whether or not this is dangerous; some people say they've done it for decades with no problems and others wholeheartedly disagreeing.
I don't think bullet pull was the big issue here, when i first loaded them and dropped them in the cylinder I thought they seemed extremely long, like they were sticking out of the cylinder
I guess one solution would be to crimp over the highest driving band, but it seems like this would raise pressure considerably and require the use of less powder to safely shoot.
Anyone have experience loading this bullet? Any tips?
I'm shooting these out of an s&w m28 highway patrolman with 4" barrel. FWIW was loading 9.0-9.1 gr of blue dot under these.