The point is a low cost loadof mild recoil and quieter muzzle blast.
I will add one more thing to that, fun.
I have been working up a load using lead bullets and gas checks for an Ishapore 308 for the wife. I used several different pistol powders from the Lyman cast manual and got some real nice groups. Made the 308 feel like shooting a 223. I don’t do this with jacketed.
I don’t like reduce loads with rifle powders since many need some kind of filler. I have very little experience with these reduced loads and I have stayed away from them.
The best pistol load so far is using a Missouri cast 172 GR and I forget the Lyman mold number. Using Red Dot of 13 gr which was a mid load and 1600 FPS was accurate enough for her. 2 inches at 50 yards. 172 GR at 1600 is no slouch.
I wonder how many squibs one winds up with before finding a winning(?) combination?
If loaded correctly you can expect just as many squib loads as you get from your normal loading. This is not something I would do without some data to back me up on loads. There are a lot of “pet” loads out there listed for reduced rifle loads and I for one don’t trust a lot of other people’s back yard experiments.
That’s why I go back to the Lyman cast manual.
http://www.missouribullet.com/results.php?category=6
But if you must, here is a photo of your future.
If you’re going to post blown up guns like that you should put some history with that. I’ve had a gun blow up next to me and was hit by the parts. And it was loaded with pistol powder. But the load was the same amount in weight as the rifle powder he thought he was using.
Loading rifle rounds with pistol powder is just as if not more safe than normal loading since the pressure is in most cases less than 2/3’s. Again you must use documented trusted data.
P.S. you can tell from the primers that there is not an excess pressure but the case was clean which means the case sealed in the chamber.
