WW630 - Got Some!

[Ramguy]

A friend passed away and I bought a lot of his reloading stuff. Ended up with a BIG tote of various powders, some new unopened, some partial cans. one large can (8 pounder) was WW630. I found some load data on it in my Speer book. It showed several loadings with this powder in 9mm with different weights. I settled on a loading for the 125 gr. I tried some "light" loads at 8gr and it was still over 1000fps. I loaded some warmer at 10.5 and avg 1298 from my 6" bbl'ed Glock. I am shooting my own PC'ed boolits and am absolutely thrilled with the results. I am guessing I have loaded up 3-4 pounds so far. Anyone else have any experience with WW630?

[GONRA]

GONRA sez WW630 is a great ball powder!
(Large powder BALLS - not flattened!)

.25 ACP 3.0 grains 630P fills case. HARD powder balls SUPPORT
the 50 grain cast lead boolit! No crimping issues!
Shoots great in a Baby Browning and Walther Model 9.

For a fun load in .44 AUTOMAG - try TWO 119 grain .431 cast (Lee 429-RB) lead balls
16.0 grains 630 P, CCI #350 magnum primers.
Everybody (stuffy Range Officers, etc.) thinks yer trusty Automag doubled!

For 7.62x25mm Tokarev Pistol caliber, shot in CZ52 pistol,
can use 10 - 11 grains 630 P, 86 grain Midway jacketed bullets, RWS #4521 Berdan primers
in decent Berdan primed range pickup brass.

etc. etc. etc. Think I still have 5-6 cans 630P left... (somewhere).
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[dale2242]

You are shooting lead balls out of an Auto Mag?
I thought the consensus was not to use lead in an Auto Mag.
I assume you are not having issues.

[Rick R]

In olde tymes (mid 80’s?) I used W630 in my .357 Magnum loads under a Sierra 140gr jhc bullet. Great accuracy, good velocity, very LOUD.

I gave a box to a co-worker who carried a 6” Python on duty.
He called me up a year or so later laughing. Seems that over the weekend he had gone shooting with some buddies at a farm. They had just tacked a target to a tree and started shooting. After a bit he noticed that the tree was beginning to lean and he loaded six of the W630 rounds.
“BOOM! BOOM!” Tree topples over.
He said the guys he was shooting with just stood there looking at him eyes wide. He opens the cylinder, nonchalantly dumps the contents in his hand and says “Rick R’s handloads. They’re a touch warm”.

Sorry it had to come from an estate, but nice find on the powder.

[GONRA]

dale2242 - just a wild ass guess - GONRA's pretty sure you mixed up the SHORT RECOIL AUTOMAG
(lead bullets Just Fine) with the GAS OPERATED Desert Eagle (NOOOOOO lead bullets!)

(Bet Magnum Research Repair Dept. gets Desert Eagles in for "leaded up gas cylinder"
every once in a while. Wonder how they "get the lead out"? Anybody no?)