New Hornady manual

I picked one up a couple weeks ago from P&D.

Not really a lot of difference from the old one. It's now a single volume edition, no useless second book with ballistics tables and stuff. It's got a few new loads and a few new cartridges, but not really enough to justify buying it if you already have #6.

They simply group the interbond loads with other loads for bullets of the same weight, it doen't look like any loads were re-developed specifically for the IB's.
 
IMR=Hodgdon. Same company, but the powders do have slightly different burn rates. I'd expect IMR 4227, 4198, 4895, 44350 and 4831 to go extinct sometime soon, and 3031, 4064, 4320 and 7828 to get rolled into the Hodgdon 'extreme' line.

An 'extreme' 4320 would be of great interest to me, as it would fit the gap between Varget and 4350 in the burn rate chart, be temperature stable and yet still produce the lowest flame temperature of the entire lineup for long barrel life (unlike 4350 which is a notorious barrel burner)
 
prosper said:
IMR=Hodgdon. Same company, but the powders do have slightly different burn rates. I'd expect IMR 4227, 4198, 4895, 44350 and 4831 to go extinct sometime soon, and 3031, 4064, 4320 and 7828 to get rolled into the Hodgdon 'extreme' line.

An 'extreme' 4320 would be of great interest to me, as it would fit the gap between Varget and 4350 in the burn rate chart, be temperature stable and yet still produce the lowest flame temperature of the entire lineup for long barrel life (unlike 4350 which is a notorious barrel burner)
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Aside from it being quite dirty I have grown fond of the spherical powder the Big H is putting out 335, 414...... I might try the H380 soon. THey just meter so nice sompared to the IMR.
My Hornady manual is a bit over ten years old now so I was going to upgrade but if the info hasn't changed then I will continue onmy way.

And besides, they won't have the 9.3 bullets listed which is what I'd need most anyway, maybe the next manual......

Noel
 
Thanks Prosper, I may get the new Nosler manual, but only if it has the 9,3 Accubond in it which was only just released in the last little while.

My Speer #12(?) has some info for the 9,3x62 and the 270gr. Actually that is where I first saw the cartridge and knew I'd have to get one some day.
It only took about 12 years....

Noel
 
Again, Nosler doesn't differentiate between bullets of the same weight. So a 270 grain Accubond will list the same load data as any other 9.3 270 grain nosler.
 
The Accubond Nosler just came out with is a 250gr not the 270gr.
Correct me if I'm wrong but their only other weight was a 286gr Partition. My Nosler manual has no 9,3 data at all, I don't recall which volume it is. I have heard they just dropped the 250gr Ballistic tip, perhaps this is the one you are thinking of?

It doesn't matter all that much anyway, I generally just do a pile of cross referencing on the conservative side and work up from there. It has worked well so far. Plus the fact that you guy's are so helpful here I have it made!

Noel
 
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