{"id":12913,"date":"2021-04-27T07:53:01","date_gmt":"2021-04-27T14:53:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/?p=12913"},"modified":"2022-12-10T06:36:38","modified_gmt":"2022-12-10T14:36:38","slug":"a-model-625-load","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/2021\/04\/27\/a-model-625-load\/","title":{"rendered":"A Model 625 load…"},"content":{"rendered":"

When I first posted about the Model 60 load development plan and the Altamont grips I bought from good buddy Paul, the cover photo showed my recently-acquired Model 60 snubbie and a Smith and Wesson Performance Center Model 625 I’ve owned for years.<\/p>\n

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The Model 625 and the Model 60.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I like that photo because the two stainless steel Smiths look great on the wild boar skin.\u00a0 That skin is from a pig hunt Paul and I did in Arizona a few years ago.<\/p>\n

The earlier blog was about finding an accuracy load for the Model 60, but a few people wrote to ask if I had a favorite load for the Model 625.\u00a0\u00a0I do: My usual accuracy load for the 625 is a cast 200-grain cast semiwadcutter bullet (sized to .452 inches) over 4.2 grains of Bullseye.<\/p>\n

When I went to the range to run a few rounds through the 625 I picked a box of ammo I had reloaded in 2014.\u00a0 It was different than my usual accuracy load.\u00a0 I used the same bullet (a 200-grain cast semi-wadcutter), but instead of Bullseye I had loaded these over 6.0 grains of Unique.\u00a0 And instead of .45 ACP brass in star clips, I used AutoRim brass.\u00a0 This is the load I fired that 6-shot group you see in the cover photo above for this blog, and it’s a honey.\u00a0 The group, that is…not the photo (it’s hard to get true colors when using an iPhone in the shade).\u00a0 I shot at 50 feet while standing…there’s no rest for the Model 625 or the weary.<\/p>\n

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.45 ACP cartridges in star clips for the Model 625. These are loaded with 230-grain cast roundnose Missouri bullets.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The .45 ACP cartridge (left) and the .45 AutoRim cartridge (right). The AutoRim cartridge is designed for use in the Model 625 without star clips. The ACP cartridge has a 230-grain roundnose Xtreme bullet; the AutoRim cartridge has Missouri’s 200-grain semi-wadcutter.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The AutoRim brass is in the tumbler as I write this and when I reload it I’m going to go with the same load: The 200-grain cast semi-wadcutter over 6.0 grains of Unique.\u00a0 It seems to be working for me.<\/p>\n

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When I first posted about the Model 60 load development plan and the Altamont grips I bought from good buddy Paul, the cover photo showed my recently-acquired Model 60 snubbie and a Smith and Wesson Performance Center Model 625 I’ve owned for years. I like that photo because the two stainless steel Smiths look great … Continue reading “A Model 625 load…”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12958,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[2005,2008,87,2007,2006,2009,684,1528,1949,168,189,1311],"class_list":["post-12913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-guns","tag-45-autorim","tag-200-grain-semi-wadcutter","tag-45-acp","tag-accuracy-load","tag-autorim-brass","tag-bullseye","tag-cast-bullets","tag-model-60","tag-model-625","tag-reloading","tag-smith-and-wesson","tag-unique"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/20210426_0004-900-1.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12913"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20187,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12913\/revisions\/20187"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}