Any idea what volume of shooting you plan on doing in a year (1000/5000/10,000 bullets a year)???
Some of the bullets I use for full house 357's.
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Any of those will work, just depends on what you're trying to do. Out of those bullets pictured the green bullet in the top row and the pink bullet in the bottom row are more accurate with a wider verity of loads in 10+ 357 bbl's.
Actually that picture above represents some of the classics from the golden age of the 357 along with a new commer the 640 series/devestator design (green bullet)
There's:
Lyman 358156thompson gc150grhp/358439keith158grhp/358477keith138grhp
h&g #51150grhp
cramer 25158grhunter/26akeith150grhp(their version of the 358477)
swaged 147gr hp
Mihec custom 158grhp (640's)
Another mold that does extremely well in the 357's is the lyman 358477. It has a large bottom drive band and equal top (2 of them) drive bands that are the same size. They weigh 150gr as a swc and 138 as a hp. They have performed well in anything I've tried them in.
Anyway tons of molds & bullet designs out there. If you have the means, go custom. You'll get a better quality bullet. I'd spend the $$$ and get a mold that made hp's and solid nosed bullets like that mihec 640. I cast 158gr hp's or 170gr solid flat round nosed thumpers. You take a full house load of 2400 and that 170gr thumper and you end up with a load that will put the smack on anything it gets a hold of doing 1400fps out of 6" bbl's.
I've shot countless 1000's of hot 357's over the decades, most of them were with wc820 powder (used to buy #32 at a time) and of all things used the lyman 358311 rn bullet.