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Larry Gibson
“Deficient observation is merely a form of ignorance and responsible for the many morbid notions and foolish ideas prevailing.”
― Nikola Tesla
My bad, a couple folders were full.....sent again.
Larry Gibson
“Deficient observation is merely a form of ignorance and responsible for the many morbid notions and foolish ideas prevailing.”
― Nikola Tesla
In the 20 some odd years that I've been reloading, I've never messed with Blue Dot. Ever since I first got into the gig I was warned about Blue Dot being temperamental. This was enough for me to find a different powder. Although, I do hear it is a fantastic powder for Shotshells. Something I don't load much of. With that said, I never have been in a situation where I needed a powder, and that powder just happened to be Blue Dot. Bullseye, Unique, Red Dot, one of the Ramshots, 2400, 4227, and H110 pretty much cover all of my needs for pistols, and some rifles. Of those, I probably use more Unique, Red Dot, and Bullseye than anything else, and in that order. The rest are for specific purposes, though I'm getting more and more fond of the Ramshot powders...
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GOA and FPC have done more in the last decade than your NRA has done in it's entire existence... Support the ones that actually do something for you.
Blue Dot is GONRA's standard powder for .44 mag, .44 AUTO MAG, .45 Win Mag. semi auto pistols....
Since we have already some substantial thread drift......Larry, have you ever tested .22LR and/or .22 Magnum factory ammo?
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Blue Dot used to be my go-to powder for jacketed bullet .357 Mag. Specifically, 140 grain jhp using the top load listed in Speer No. 11.
ive used unknown pounds of blue dot and never had a problem in 44 special and 44 mag loads before BE86 or 300 MP were invented but these days those are the two powders I use quite often in 357 and 44. I keep the few pounds of blue dot I have left for 1 1/4oz 12 gauge loads
BP | Bronze Point | IMR | Improved Military Rifle | PTD | Pointed |
BR | Bench Rest | M | Magnum | RN | Round Nose |
BT | Boat Tail | PL | Power-Lokt | SP | Soft Point |
C | Compressed Charge | PR | Primer | SPCL | Soft Point "Core-Lokt" |
HP | Hollow Point | PSPCL | Pointed Soft Point "Core Lokt" | C.O.L. | Cartridge Overall Length |
PSP | Pointed Soft Point | Spz | Spitzer Point | SBT | Spitzer Boat Tail |
LRN | Lead Round Nose | LWC | Lead Wad Cutter | LSWC | Lead Semi Wad Cutter |
GC | Gas Check |