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Red Dot powder and The Load

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My Lyman cast bullet book suggests 8.5gr of Red Dot for 1390 fps, to 11.0 gr for 1615fps. with the 150 plain base round nose cast bullet. My experience would suggest less than the recommended starting charge through that amount for accuracy in the .35 Remington. I would start with 7.0 grains perhaps. I've used as little as 4.5 grains of Red Dot with a 150 gr. plain base, but don't know what the velocity was. My best accuracy with Unique, and plain base bullets in that weight range is 8.0 grains which is probably around 11-1200 fps.
 
+1 on 35 Remington's suggestion. He has a lot more chronograph data than I do, but I agree that the best accuracy will come under 1200 fps with plainbase. On the other hand I've had very good results with as much as 11.0 grains of Unique under the 358156 GC bullet in the 35 Rem.