This is a great powder for use in the .30-30 with cast boolits. Have any of you used it in .250 Savage or .308 Winchester, or?
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This is a great powder for use in the .30-30 with cast boolits. Have any of you used it in .250 Savage or .308 Winchester, or?
So far only 30/30 but as it's tad slower than varget should be OK. Larry Gibson has experimented in other cal. maybe he'll chime in. IIRC some cals didn't work as well as expected.
I found it to be an exceptional powder in .32 Win. Special hard cast G/C 170 gr. @2000 FPS and excellent accuracy.
In my 30-30, it would have 200fps extreme spreads, until I got into max pressures, which gave me 2300fps with a 150gr bullet. Then it shot wonderful... of course, then the pressure was too great, and after a few shots I would have to full length size my cases. So I don't use it, I use Varget or IMR 4064.
I've been loading it behind 70 gr Speer semi pointed in my 1-8 223,and I love it .Of the loads I worked up 25.5 gr was the keeper.
I also load it in both my .32 Winchester Special Model 94, and my Model 8 Remington in .32 Remington calibre. I bought it on recommendation of a close friend for the Remington auto-loader and, as they say, "never looked back." That it shoots better than I do (as, sadly, many other firearms ;) ) in the lever action is a big plus, too.Quote:
Originally Posted by Randy Bohannon
Does it have an application in .38-55?
Not looking for accuracy only at max loading though. This is for a high wall clone fun shooter.