Due to the gun being so new, there really aren't too many reloads out yet for the Rossi Circuit Judge. I myself was having trouble finding reloading data on the gun and really didn't want to pay $1.00+ a round! So I went about finding a load that wasn't +P but just about and safe to fire out of the firearm. I am hoping to hunt with the reloads mentioned below so the loads are about as high as I will go without chronographing them. IF YOU DO NOT HAVE EXPERIENCE IN RELOADING, FOLLOW THE DATA GIVEN! DO NOT ATTEMPT TO INCREASE POWDER CHARGES WITHOUT THE PROPER KNOWLEDGE AND EQUIPMENT TO DO SO!
Powder being use: Unique
Bullets being used: Hornady 230 grain Jacketed Hollow Point
Using a sierra reloading manual from the '80's I used the data from the book for the powder I had most of on hand- Unique.
Hornady 230 gr. JHP reloaded with 11.5 grains of Unique going about 1,200 FPS out of an 8" barrel
I used an equation given in the book that is supposed to give you the correct FPS and found it was supposed to be going at around 1,600 FPS. How accurate that is I am not sure. I do not have a chronograph and don't know of anyone that I could have borrowed from.
I was getting about a 2" group at 50 yards free handing it. I was just shooting the firearm for fun and teaching my girlfriend how to shoot so this is not an official report. I will post one later on.
The load mentioned above should be safe to use! The rounds were all shot out of 2 different Rossi Circuit Judges. My brothers and mine. Again, these aren't official reloads- meaning they were not actually chronographed and they were not tested by anybody else besides myself and my brother. I plan on hitting up the range this spring to get accuracy tests. Again, I do not have a chronograph so I have no idea how fast these rounds are going.
I am planning knocking it up a notch and using 12 grains of HS-6 for the Hornady 230 grain Jacketed Hollow Points.
Any questions, comments or anything of the sort are welcome!
Good luck and have fun reloading! :38: :machinegun:
Powder being use: Unique
Bullets being used: Hornady 230 grain Jacketed Hollow Point
Using a sierra reloading manual from the '80's I used the data from the book for the powder I had most of on hand- Unique.
Hornady 230 gr. JHP reloaded with 11.5 grains of Unique going about 1,200 FPS out of an 8" barrel
I used an equation given in the book that is supposed to give you the correct FPS and found it was supposed to be going at around 1,600 FPS. How accurate that is I am not sure. I do not have a chronograph and don't know of anyone that I could have borrowed from.
I was getting about a 2" group at 50 yards free handing it. I was just shooting the firearm for fun and teaching my girlfriend how to shoot so this is not an official report. I will post one later on.
The load mentioned above should be safe to use! The rounds were all shot out of 2 different Rossi Circuit Judges. My brothers and mine. Again, these aren't official reloads- meaning they were not actually chronographed and they were not tested by anybody else besides myself and my brother. I plan on hitting up the range this spring to get accuracy tests. Again, I do not have a chronograph so I have no idea how fast these rounds are going.
I am planning knocking it up a notch and using 12 grains of HS-6 for the Hornady 230 grain Jacketed Hollow Points.
Any questions, comments or anything of the sort are welcome!
Good luck and have fun reloading! :38: :machinegun: