singleshotbuff
04-04-2006, 11:24 PM
Gentlemen,
As I have posted before (at least I think I have), I have been using pull down powder from some 50s manufactured Yugo 8X57mm ammo in reduced loads using the same bullets. I just reduce the powder charge 15% and load it with the pulled bullets in commercial cases to avoid corrosive cleaning chores. Shoots good too, decent velocity spreads (40 fps extreme spread & 14.3 standard deviation).
I was just wondering how I would determine (WAG??) the approximate burning rate of this particular lot of powder? How do the surplus powder resellers do it? Any ideas?
Thanks
SSB
As I have posted before (at least I think I have), I have been using pull down powder from some 50s manufactured Yugo 8X57mm ammo in reduced loads using the same bullets. I just reduce the powder charge 15% and load it with the pulled bullets in commercial cases to avoid corrosive cleaning chores. Shoots good too, decent velocity spreads (40 fps extreme spread & 14.3 standard deviation).
I was just wondering how I would determine (WAG??) the approximate burning rate of this particular lot of powder? How do the surplus powder resellers do it? Any ideas?
Thanks
SSB