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[Mortblanc]

What I have found when using .38/357 in the same barrel is that the .38 load is not just low, it is low and off center. That makes doping the poi more difficult than just holding a half mill up. I am holding two full dots up and 1 1/2 left @25m, or some such nonsense.

Trail Boss is as close to black powder as a smokeless can get. Over here we use a "different" method of loading that particular powder. You fill the case and deduct enough to allow the bullet to seat while just barely compressing the charge. That is your maximum safe load. In fact, that is how the mfg. recommends loading TB.

Then you adjust your measure to throw that charge and start loading.

That normally means that an empty .38 spl case would throw the exact charge needed for the .357.

A .38spl case cut off about 3/16", with a tube cutter, would throw about the correct charge for a .38 load.

Wind a bit of heavy copper wire around the rim groove and form a handle and you have a new set of measure in each caliber.

I have a number of the Lee powder dippers that I have trimmed down for exact loads of specific powders. In fact, I have used the same Lee plastic dipper trimmed down for 4.5 grains of Unique in .38spl loads for 40 years. I think it still has the same piece of duct tape on the handle I used to mark it as specific to that caliber and powder all those years ago.

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Now, as for piggy backing red dot and Trail Boss ????

I fear I must refer you to your own signature line for that reply!