Good call, and the rest of us were remiss not to have mentioned it.Originally Posted by Jamie
Good call, and the rest of us were remiss not to have mentioned it.
Unless your standards are as low as mine, I'd start with a pound of powder. Otherwise you're married to it for thousands of rounds. That said, I've found that just about any powder will produce acceptable velocity/accuracy for me. I'm using CSB-1 now, but my source for it no longer has any, so I'll switch to something else when it runs out.
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I started loading in 2014. I have to order powder online as there is no where close that sells supplies. My initial order included Tightgroup and Bullseye. I ordered TG for 9mm and BE for 38. I have never tried anything else. I wonder if I am missing out on something.
What do you load for? You may not be missing out on anything at all. For example, if I was just loading 38special, I could be content with nothing but Bullseye for the rest of my life.
Chris
I only load 9mm and 38.
I'm not certain if anyone one brought this up yet but since I see folks recommending multiple powders a word of caution. Always know with absolute certainty what powder you are loading with! Do not ever mistakenly use the wrong powder, very bad things happen.
A good friend of mine was at my club shooting. A buddy of his arrived and had with him a new 45/70 rifle. My friend commented on the rifle and his friend asked him if he wanted to try it. He did. The rifle blew up like a grenade and partially de-gloved the shooters support hand, sent shrapnel into his neck, face and upper arm. A number of years later his hand has some scarring but it about 90% recovered.
What happened. The owner of the 45/70, a reloader mistakenly used a pistol powder which had a burn rate WAY TOO FAST for a rifle. Attention to detail is a Must!
Side note: The incident made the local news. Reported as, "man shot at local range."
Last edited by JohnO; 09-12-2019 at 09:15 AM.
That's right. You said that in your post.
In that case, I'd stick with what you have. I doubt you'll gain much by changing powders unless you're trying to do something unusual for the cartridge.
Chris
My system for this is to leave the power container next to the hopper, even if empty. All powders not being used are stored on shelves.
Sorta around sometimes for some of your shitty mod needs.
And in some cases I have been marking them.
This is the 20g press, and it is just going to do one thing with one powder. The 12g press next to it uses Clays instead of International, not that that could be conducive to a screw up, though in that case it would not likely cause a catastrophic problem.
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