Bayou bullet reload data

[Mrron]

I have several calibers (38sp, 40, 45c, 45acp, 9mm) that I reload and get fairly accurate w most reloads. I am curious, since there is so many different powder and weight choices. I've seen some reload data on the 9mm, but has anyone or the company started a reload manual for all calibers of Bayou bullets? They seem to be quite popular, I get confused sometimes with the over whelming variables in OAL and specific manufacturers choice of bullets. I'm just now getting back to this forum any guidance would be wonderful. Thanks!

 

[noylj]

It's not needed. COL depends on your gun as much or more than it depends on the bullet. Load data, as long as you start with the starting load, is good for all similarly constructed bullets (basically, lead, jacketed, monolithic, and frangible--with plated being lead).
Bayou are lead bullets, so lead data is used. Lyman is a great source for lead bullet data. Most powder manufacturers have lead loads on their sites.
Keep notes so you know what you used for those variables.
Besides, the only ones you should trust for that data would be Bayou or other certified test facility and not some yahoo on the 'net.

 

[Mrron]

Thanks I appreciate it

 

[Dirtchevy841]

I have several calibers (38sp, 40, 45c, 45acp, 9mm) that I reload and get fairly accurate w most reloads. I am curious, since there is so many different powder and weight choices. I've seen some reload data on the 9mm, but has anyone or the company started a reload manual for all calibers of Bayou bullets? They seem to be quite popular, I get confused sometimes with the over whelming variables in OAL and specific manufacturers choice of bullets. I'm just now getting back to this forum any guidance would be wonderful. Thanks!

I've been using donnys bullets for a while now. Mostly 45 now 230 gr coated. Best load I've set on coming from a lot of competitive shooters using his bullets also is 3.8 -4 grains of Clays. Doesn't get better than that. As for other powders I've tried all and the charges in most books are pretty close. But if u want a great target and comp load clays is the ticket. I do not use anything else for 45 anymore. Very clean also.

 

[scooterj]

Start low with the coated bullets. They are much faster.
A 124gr TC Bayou Bullet takes 9.5gr of a certain powder to get 1350fps while a 124gr JHP Precision Delta takes 10.5gr to achieve the same velocity.

 

[gwpercle]

Start low with the coated bullets. They are much faster.
A 124gr TC Bayou Bullet takes 9.5gr of a certain powder to get 1350fps while a 124gr JHP Precision Delta takes 10.5gr to achieve the same velocity.

It's not just the coated bullet that requires less powder, that fact is true of conventional cast and lubricated lead bullets also. They and the coated bullets are softer, hence easier to shove down the bore. Use cast bullet data for coated and you will be fine. Jacketed bullet data is not 100% interchangeable with cast-swaged-coated bullets.
Seems like nothing in reloading is simple anymore , but at least we have sites that we can exchange information from. Load safe.
Gary

 

[noylj]

The Black Magic of reloading:
A lead bullet will often achieve a higher velocity with a lighter charge and the lead bullet will achieve a higher pressure at a lower charge weight than a jacketed bullet. I would think that if the bullet went down the bore "easier," then the load should be able to go to higher charge weights before reaching the same pressure--yet this doesn't happen. I wonder if the pressures are quite comparable for the same velocity?