Mystery Powder
- Thread starter Frozen Snake
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With this subject, as with most things in life, just use common sense. Treating it as the fastest of pistol powders and loading it accordingly, would, in my opinion, present no danger to anything. If it happened to be rifle powder, it would likely stick the bullet in the barrel and have half burned powder. So, now you go to the rifle and put in a light load, treating it as a very fast rifle powder for the first load.
I don't reload, but as a newb if I was faced with such a challenge, I'd go for the minimum charge of the fastest powder you can find data for, over a chrony, and work from there according to the results .... Oh, and check the brass after every round .... Or I'd make one hellovabig firecracker with it, bring it to the local sand pit, and have fun trying to blow my eardrums out .... But that's just me ....
I would assume it was 700X and go from there. I would do the load work up in a strong pistol, like a 357, just in case.
By the way, when I was doing some work at the IMR labs once, I asked the cehif R & D guy about disposition the lawn. He said it takes powder about 20 years to break down. Talk about slow release fertalizer!!
By the way, when I was doing some work at the IMR labs once, I asked the cehif R & D guy about disposition the lawn. He said it takes powder about 20 years to break down. Talk about slow release fertalizer!!
