My scale is so old , that it did not come with a check weight... but,,, I did brush its teeth.....

BTW ,,,,, Happy new year....

I have started searching for the load that my particular pistol ''likes''...... I am using hard cast 180 gr. bullets.... and started working up from 6.0 gr. of blue dot... 1/2 grain at a time.... so far I have 32 rounds loaded.... 4 bullets in each baggie.... If it ever stops raining, I will set up a target at 60 ft. and my bench rest and start patterning the loads on paper... one very carefull round at a time.... 

Hmmm,,, mo good info...    I had about 1/4 in. space left with the min. load listed in the #14
speer manual.... so there aint no way to get 11 gr. in the case without it running over,,,, you would have to tamp it down first.... I like bulky powder because you cant double charge.... I got a feeling that these loads are going to work out fine...
The only experience I have had with blue dot was loading a .38 super a lot of years ago... and I dont recall having that issue with the super... but I do remember that it was a good accurate load....
Thanks for the info , guys....
Bullet,, I am using a old rcbs scale that I bought in the early 60's.... dont have another.... all my equipment is like me ,,, older than dirt....    I am using assorted once fired brass.... that is why I started way down the scale.... 

I started working up loads today, looking for the most accurate loads.... I will shoot mostly hard cast 180 gr. bullets except for the factory loaded 180 gr. jacketed bullets that I have...

The Speer book gives 10 grains of blue dot for a starting load........ that load is almost a case completely full.... and by the time you seat the bullet it is a compressed load.... I started with a 6.0 grain load and worked up in 1/2 grain increments to Speers min. load....  and stopped there....   

Makes me wonder what these people are thinking....  I fired some of the 6.0 grainers and they were mild but worked the action of the pistol very well....  I see this is gonna be very interesting.... 

Yep,,,,,,it would look like a war debt......  but dang, those are some good lookin bullets and in better weights than I normally see..... why cant we have something like that here....??

 here, lets try this,,,,,    www.targetbullets.it/hard-cast-bullets-lega_709223.html

may be yall can pull it up....

I am 72 but I still dont need no pill.....

Well,,, I went to 10mm hard cast bullets,,, then they popped up down at the bottom of the list....

Hey ,,, have any of you guys had any experience with Target bullet company ? I think they are in Milano ... ??..... 

They have  absolutely the best variation of and best looking of , any 10 MM hard cast bullets that I have ever seen.... but.... the site is written is Spanish, Portuguese, or some other language that I could only part of....and I could not find any way to get it in English....

Check this out... may be some one is smarter than me...and can get it in English....  

I agree with Gandog,,,    I intend to go for accuracy.... not speed,,,  I rounded up some blue dot and a couple hundred rounds of brass and some 180 gr. hard cast bullets... and when the dies that I have coming , arrive here , then I will start working up some loads... probably 5 at a time, increasing a tenth of a grain with each bracket of 5....looking at 8.2 grains of powder.... but the local guy reccomends to start with 5.2 gr..... ideas???

I have done a fair amount of long distance shooting with a pistol and the revolver,,,, the 10 is a excellent round and no doubt can shoot further than most think that it can.... but with only 4.5 in of barrel length, I would be more concerned with the realistic accuracy...
the weapons that I have used for distance have been at least 6'' barreled... all the way up to 10 in.... all that said,,, it seems to me that accuracy should be the most important issue...
Like the Indian said,,, ''any gun good , you shoot'em good''

That is exactly right,,,, having been a peace officer in Texas, our preference if we were knowingly getting into a confrontation was a shotgun or a rifle,,,,  most all of the Rangers carried spare bullets for their rifles in their belts...