Cast handgun bullets.

[PJgunner]

Hmmm. Lyma bullets. I'm guessing the 148 gr. is #358495, the 152 gr. is #358477 and possibly the 168 is either #358156 or #359429. The only one of those 4 bullets I don't have a mold for is the #358429.
For the 148 gr. bullet I like 3.1 gr. of either Bullseye or W-231. Bullets are sized to .359" as are all 3. Accuracy is superb, in fact outshooting some very expensive Winchester .38 Spl match ammo. I like 5.0 gr. of Unique with the 152 gr. bullet in .38 Spl. also very accurate. I use 14.0 gr. of Alliant #2400 with the 152 gr. bullet and the 168 gr. bullet in the .357 mag.
If you can find a mold, look for a Lyman #358430, a 190 (nominally) bluff round nosed bullet. Seat it over 3.5 gr. of Unique and that will duplicate the old long discontinued Winchester and Remington 200 gr. Police Load. It's a doozy. I loaded some up when I was loading ammo commercially for a sheriff's deputy many years ago for use in his snubbie BUG. he had to shoot a bad guy with them one time and he said it was a happy outcome. I've thought about loading some up for my snubbie and for my .357 mag. as well.
Some of us were discussing that bullet on another site a long time ago (couple or three years ago) and some of the comments were very interesting. One guy said he was using them in an S&W K38 for deer hunting and they worked just fine. I hae an S&W M60 with a 3" barrlel and adjustable sights that shoots that "police" load into tight groups and have carried it in some hiking areas where guns, while not verboten are severely frowned upon by all the ecofreak bunnyhuggers. It hid nicely in a pair of jeans I had that had deep pockets. I don't think I'd want to tangle with a Black Bear with that snubbie but I figure at close range it might do OK on a Mountain Lion. Now that AZ has liberalized their carry laws, I take either my 4 5/8" Ruger .44 mag. of a Single action colt with a stiff, for that gun handloaded 255 gr. Keith bullet. I get a few dirty looks now and then from the huggers but they've gotten used to me carrying. A lot of us are regulars on that trail and there have been lion problems off and on the past couple of years.
FWIW, I use my own home cast bullets 9in just about all my handguns and in rifles too. The only handguns that still get jacketed bullets are a Walther PP .32 ACP and a Walther PPK/s in .380 and that's because I haven't bought molds for them yet.
Paul B.
Paul B.