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    Boolit Master semtav's Avatar
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    Powder options

    Need to go out of town a while and wont be where I can pick up powders at my convenience so I was trying to take a few that would be good candidates.
    I'm shooting a Siamese 8X52 Mauser with the KAR 8mm mould.

    So far I have in Ball powders Winchester 748 and H1000. Any other recommended powders?
    I prefer to have full case loads.

    25 gr of 4895 was working well with the grease groove bullets at slower velocities, but Im looking to up the speed quite a bit with the paper patched loads.

    thanks
    Brian

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    I like W748 and W760 in my PPCB loads.

    Best regards,

    CJR

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    Thanks CJR
    I just grabbed a bunch of slower powders to try to.

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    I can get W780. I've only tried it in my test tube but it it did burn at quite low load densities (about 60%). I'm guessing it's the next step slower than W760. I was thinking it might produce usable velocity at low pressure and a near full case.

    I wonder how that H1000 would work for you? Just don't go jumping in the deep end with it - I have no experience with it.
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