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I've loaded thousands of rounds, almost all cast bullets, for my M-25-5 with pretty consistent accuracy. By that I mean 2.0 - 2.5 inches at 25 yards offhand. For me the best loads with 250 - 255...

IMR (DuPont) used to recommend 17.7 gr of IMR-4227 as a top load with 250 gr bullets. Hodgdon said 20.0 gr with the same bullet. I had good results with 18.5 gr under a 255 LSWC with a CCI or FC...

I don't have a mini-revolver, but I have this little nugget for the same mission. It's a nickled Davis D-32 in .32 ACP. After a trip back to the factory, it can reasonably be relied on to go bang...

Using the old HP-38 formulation (before Hodgdon started just labeling 231 as HP-38) I liked 3.8 gr of HP-38 under a 158 - 159 gr cast SWC, WSP, and just about any brass. It made a nice light,...

For what it's worth, I loaded 5.0 gr of HS-6 in FC brass with FC100 primers under a 120 gr SWC bullet for my S&W M 16-3. I have no idea what the pressure on that load was, but it's a fair bet it...

Thanks for finding a file. It had to be out there somewhere!

Red Dot and IMR PB were my go to powders for ordinary 45 Colt loads. I got interested in the subject of powder density (or otherwise) as a result of PB being discontinued.
That's what got me...

If you know which powder charge will have the greatest volume, do you really need to know the percentage of the case it takes up?
Assuming of course you are not overflowing the case?

There is a table in my copy of Modern Reloading by Lee, must be first edition, copyrighted 1996. On pages 162-163 are tables that list powders by their volume in CC's by grain. His description of...

Some powder tables include a factor like "density per cubic centimeter" or the opposite, "Volume per [weight unit]" but I've never seen that systematically presented and used. It's in _Modern...

Yes. The 46th Lyman handbook has loads for 169 & 170 gr cast bullets in .30-30 and 240 & 250 gr J-bullets in .45 Colt.

I agree. I use it for just about everything I load, .32 S&W Long, .32 Mag, .38 Spec, .357, .44 Spec, .45 ACP, .45 Colt.
When I started handloading, the highest velocity loads in .45 Colt with the...

There was AA#2, and then some time between 1991 and 1996 there was AA#2 Improved. Don't know if that coincided with the end of surplus and beginning of contract produced powder or not. I remember...

I have this info, BF, just wanted to know what people's experience was.
Wadcutters, plinking loads, target loads, full power, hunting loads, +P or -- what? Anyone have pet loads with Nitro 100...

What have you used it for? You don't have to give exact loads -- although I don't mind if you do -- but what bullets, what power levels?

Have I stepped through a time warp? Anybody know about this?

http://www.accuratepowder.com/products/shotshell/?view=2&product=Solo1000

It's still in their load data too, at least in 2018.

I found this on AA's website. Looks like they're making it to me. Yes?

http://www.accuratepowder.com/products/shotshell/?view=2&product=Solo1000

Good to know Western/AA no longer recommends XMP-5744 for .38/.357.
The Reloaders Guide I have is from 2001, and it lists 4 loads for .357, although the data is from a 10" H-S Prec barrel. It...

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Our job is to get in tune with that Power, individually.
Didn't Jesus say, "Resist not evil?"

Has anyone had any experience with Accurate Arms shotshell powders in handgun cartridges? I mean Nitro 100, Solo 1000 or Solo 1250 -- and while we're at it, how about XMP-5744? I load the .32s, .38...

I own a .45 Blackhawk Convertable (.45 Colt & .45 ACP) made in 1999, which I bought new. I bought it for .45 Colt which I shot a lot and didn't much care about the .45 ACP cylinder. Never fired...

I followed Marshall back in the 80s and his numbers did change over time, ending up with the publication of their book. Sanow I always had less faith in, but he may have been part of the book deal....

Yeah I've read this too. I don't think this is the thread to discuss this though, so I won't. Thanks for the link.

I followed the evolution of Marshall's writing, as well as the criticisms of it, for several years before that book was published. His book didn't come out of nowhere, and it wasn't put together in...