Cil C-300
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A 10lb jug sold for $20 when CIL went off the market I just finished off my last off it. it loads just like 700x works fine in handgun loads and 12gauge trap loads. make sure your powder is ok that stuff is just about as old as me.
I used up a keg of CIL C-300 back in the late 70s/early 80s. I was also told it was equivalent to 700-X. I used it in 12 gauge target loads, not sure if I ever used any in pistol cartridges.
Wow! C-300. There's a blast from my past. No pun intended. Story for ya... If you're in a hurry you may just want to skip the rest.
As a budding 12 year old reloader in the NWT in the early '70's I score a cheap keg of C300. Not sure how much it held but it was slightly smaller then a 5 gallon pail.
I was about to reload 20 ga., and the guy I buy it from says I need 14.4 grains. But I have no scale, and there are no other reloaders in my small town who have one. Hhmm... A popular pain killer at the time (Anacin? Excedrin?) used to advertise in their TV commercial that each pill held 7 gr. of pain reliever. Eureka! Two pills must therefore weigh 14gr., right? So I buy a bottle (I'm 12 years old!) and take 2 pills and some C300 to my school, where I use the science class beam balance scale to measure out what should be 14gr. Close enough. I make a powder scoop from an empty rifle brass and proceed over the next 5 or 6 years to use up the keg. Thousands of rounds, all through my trusty Savage 24 22/20ga. It was nothing to fire a few hundred rounds per day. It breaks at last once an is repaired. When I leave the north I sell the gun, but it is WELL used. You could shake it and it would rattle, literally.
Years later, just for giggles, I weigh two of the pills. Nineteen grains. What the commercial failed to mention was that while there may be 7 grains of pain killer per pill, there's also a few grains of binder, to hold it together. God does indeed look after stupid people, and Savage did indeed make tough guns.
As a budding 12 year old reloader in the NWT in the early '70's I score a cheap keg of C300. Not sure how much it held but it was slightly smaller then a 5 gallon pail.
I was about to reload 20 ga., and the guy I buy it from says I need 14.4 grains. But I have no scale, and there are no other reloaders in my small town who have one. Hhmm... A popular pain killer at the time (Anacin? Excedrin?) used to advertise in their TV commercial that each pill held 7 gr. of pain reliever. Eureka! Two pills must therefore weigh 14gr., right? So I buy a bottle (I'm 12 years old!) and take 2 pills and some C300 to my school, where I use the science class beam balance scale to measure out what should be 14gr. Close enough. I make a powder scoop from an empty rifle brass and proceed over the next 5 or 6 years to use up the keg. Thousands of rounds, all through my trusty Savage 24 22/20ga. It was nothing to fire a few hundred rounds per day. It breaks at last once an is repaired. When I leave the north I sell the gun, but it is WELL used. You could shake it and it would rattle, literally.
Years later, just for giggles, I weigh two of the pills. Nineteen grains. What the commercial failed to mention was that while there may be 7 grains of pain killer per pill, there's also a few grains of binder, to hold it together. God does indeed look after stupid people, and Savage did indeed make tough guns.
I had a 25 pound keg of that many moons ago and used 700x loading instructions in both shotgun and pistol loads. I got mine from Vaughn Wells who worked for CIL at one time. He told me it was 700X and had been salvaged from a bunch of artillery cases. I missed it when it was all used up.
I happen to find a10lb keg of c 300. Been working on it for two years. Works well in 9m/m,38 s&w,38spl 44 mag and 45 colt. 700x data does work. Always used low loads. Over 20000 loads in a keg. Big old baby blue keg.
