I'm making what amounts to a clean break from shooting. Sold most of my guns and reloading gear and haven't pulled a trigger in over a year. As a result, I don't expect to be posting again, but I'm...
Type: Posts; User: Rocky Raab
I'm making what amounts to a clean break from shooting. Sold most of my guns and reloading gear and haven't pulled a trigger in over a year. As a result, I don't expect to be posting again, but I'm...
If you weren't aware of it, I retired from gun writing a while back. Done. Fini. Kaput.
As a result, I'm going to allow my webpage ---> removed due to virus after expired <--- to expire when my...
Forum: Factory & Surplus Powder
Powders can change a bit over time, especially semi-irrelevant things like color. But I assure you that the W296 of a given time was exactly the same as that time's H110.
Before they merged, it's...
Forum: Factory & Surplus Powder
We're Air Force, Mallard. We rise above it all...
Forum: Factory & Surplus Powder
Okay folks, for the 947th time (seems like, anyway)...
H110 and W296 are the exact same powder. Period. Always have been, no matter what some folks believe. Any difference was (and is) due to lot...
As I've written several times, THE load for .44 Special with any bullet (swaged, cast, plated or jacketed) from 180 to 240 grains is 6.0 American Select.
They are making it round the clock, as fast as they can. Shipping it while it's still warm. The problem isn't making it or shipping it. The problem is that greedy knothead ahead of you who says "I...
Forum: Factory & Surplus Powder
I can absolutely confirm that W540 IS Hs-6. Lots of data for either one.
And 452 was indeed a 12-ga trap load powder similar to RedDot or 700X. You can use RedDot/700X data for less-than-maximum...
Forum: Cast Boolits
Banish any worry from your mind. Consider that any velocity you might lose is more than offset by the fact that your range to target will be about ten feet. It's a completely moot issue.
I have...
Forum: Factory & Surplus Powder
Thanks, OSO. I really ought to stop trusting my aging memory so implicitly. I was in fact thinking of AL-7 when I typed that. I have corrected the post, but will reiterate here:
AL-5 is a bit...
Forum: Factory & Surplus Powder
As you can tell from Frank's post, Alcan-5 is significantly slower than Unique. I also have and use Alcan powders, and used Herco data as my "rule of thumb" for AL-5. You could be a tad be more...
Forum: Cast Boolits
As I've reported before, when I tested 12 powders and six bullets in two .44 Special guns, I found ONE load that worked extremely well with ALL bullets: 6.0 AmSel. That's with swaged, cast, plated,...
Forum: Single Shot Guns
If you (or any of you) get that itch again, allow me to make a one-time special good deal. Or two. Now that I'm retired from writing, I'm downsizing the gun safe. Some of the things that are going...
Forum: Cast Boolits
To address the original question: In general, you'd concentrate on single-base powders with little or no ignition suppressant. The complication is that a slow burn rate is often a slow ignition rate,...
Forum: Cast Boolits
My apologies, newtire and others. My website was designed with a Microsoft program - so naturally, the Microsoft browser screws it up. Most people have no trouble viewing it with Firefox or Chrome. ...
Forum: Cast Boolits
Did. I'm retired, including as a writer.
Forum: Cast Boolits
Just happened to notice that I had 1,999 posts on this website.
So, here's the 2000th.
Okay, not a major bucket list item, but what the heck, huh?
Forum: Cast Boolits
I am amazed, astounded and deeply impressed that at least one guy "gets it" about the realities of magazine writing. Kudos to Bent Ramrod.
I wrote about what interested me, to answer a question...
Forum: Cast Boolits
She probably said, "They're so cute." Because "there so cute" is nonsensical.
Have you ever heard the term "typo?"
Chit happens - even in reloading manuals. That's why we never depend on just one.
Forum: Factory & Surplus Powder
Several reasons. Virtually all clay target shooters buy in bulk and have good supplies on hand. Second, there hasn't been a huge number of people suddenly deciding to take up trap or skeet shooting....
Forum: Factory & Surplus Powder
I sold a lot of my surplus powders at a gun show a few months ago - before the Great Price Explosion. I weighed the powder in each partial can and sold it at a dollar an ounce. Surprisingly, only a...
Forum: Factory & Surplus Powder
W680 was (and still is) the factory powder for the .22 Hornet.
Forum: Factory & Surplus Powder
Well, I was able to duplicate the .22 Magnum, .22 WRF, .22 LR and even the .22 Short. With either the RCBS 55 GC or the Lyman 225646 55 GC and TiteGroup powder, the charges and velocities were:
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Forum: Factory & Surplus Powder
Just to be pedantically complete, be sure to use START-level loads at each step. And, to be absolutely sure about the delivered velocity, it's best to have chronographed the same loads with Bullseye,...
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 |