What powder is on your wish list?
- Thread starter postal painmaker
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Well, the wish list sure ran the gamut, from Bullseye, arguably the fastest powder used by hand loaders, to MRP, one of the very slowest burning powders used. Slower than modern H4831.
Not much powder at the Lumby gun show yesterday, but an unopened can, nice, clean looking with no visible rust around, sat on a table for $25, still there near the end of the day.
Handloaders just don't seem to be aware of the old Norma grades of powder. When I was working up loads for the 7-08 I discovered that IMR 4064, a really great, middle of the road powder, could be interchanged with Norma 203. And not only in the 7-08, but in any caliber I tried it in, the same amount of 4064 as N203, would give velocity to within the advertised accuracy range of either a shooting Chrony or a Magnetospeed chronograph.
Then, looking through an old Norma loading chart I discovered N203 and IMR 4064, in the same chart, listed at .oo1% difference in quantity, for the same velocity! In other words, they are the same, fire away. So, N203 can be listed along with IMR4064, as one of the great, middle spped powders for the rifle handloader.
And still the unopened can of N203 sat at the gun show. No, I didn't buy it, because I have more N203 than my family or I, will ever use.
Not much powder at the Lumby gun show yesterday, but an unopened can, nice, clean looking with no visible rust around, sat on a table for $25, still there near the end of the day.
Handloaders just don't seem to be aware of the old Norma grades of powder. When I was working up loads for the 7-08 I discovered that IMR 4064, a really great, middle of the road powder, could be interchanged with Norma 203. And not only in the 7-08, but in any caliber I tried it in, the same amount of 4064 as N203, would give velocity to within the advertised accuracy range of either a shooting Chrony or a Magnetospeed chronograph.
Then, looking through an old Norma loading chart I discovered N203 and IMR 4064, in the same chart, listed at .oo1% difference in quantity, for the same velocity! In other words, they are the same, fire away. So, N203 can be listed along with IMR4064, as one of the great, middle spped powders for the rifle handloader.
And still the unopened can of N203 sat at the gun show. No, I didn't buy it, because I have more N203 than my family or I, will ever use.
