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Old 03-11-2013, 10:39 AM
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dig4gold
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I'd suggest sticking closely to the +P loads in your manuals and on line loading info.
If you go to http://data.hodgdon.com/cartridge_load.asp for instance, they don't even show a starting load for +P, just max.
I do see an advantage to +P over .357, it's still about half the recoil.
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