Gary Reeder
A 330 grain was never popular for several reasons
Friday, December 19, 2025, 16:08

The recoil is one reason. I had the SSK mold for a while but don't like tying myself to the whipping post. I put it on here and somebody who likes self whupping more than me bought it. I haven't mourned it's passing. There was a time that some shooters liked those SSK bullets. I was not one of them. It was always like shooting max loads in your favorite 454 Casull. No thanks.
Going the other way, the super light bullets had it's good points and it's not so good points. Lee Jurras, the proponent of the super light bullets was a good friend and would from time to time send me a CARE package
loaded with some of his favorite Super Vel bullets. Now they didn't have the hand numbing feature of some of the heavier bullets that some folks liked. But some of Lee's Super Vel bullets came out of my revolver's barrel like the well known bat out of Hell. They were known for a high pitch crack when that bullet would break the sound barrier that would melt your ear wax. But they would sure kill a 100 pound Corsican sheep.
Back in the late 60s I would book handgun hunts at Telico Junction in east Tennessee and some at other locations. I booked these hunts from around 1967 for almost 40 years for 15 to 20 handgun hunters. From time to time Lee would join us at Telico and bring me another CARE package of his latest Super Vel ammo at Telico Junction. I still have several boxes of the original yellow box Super Vel.
So there are pros and cons on ammo. Either the extremely heavy or the breaking the sound barrier would kill game. It is just what floats your boat.