Originally Posted by 2525
Originally Posted by Ken Howell
always use ninety to a hundred percent of a case-filling charge of your optimum powder


How is "optimum" defined in this sense? Is this basically saying use any powder which lets you fill the case without raising pressures higher than acceptable? Does this work for even big black powder cases, which must keep pressures down in the 20's?


I would have to say that filling "big black powder cases" with black powder would be a safe bet.

This has been a CRAZY year for all sortsa' off the wall "B.P. Substitute / Equivalent load data.

Great thread, all,....really enjoyed this read.

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