Having just retired for the second or third time, I am getting some time to spend at the loading bench. My Marlin 1894 in 25/20 and my Jap Winchester 1873 Competition are reminders of how much fun it can be to just spend a day shooting dirt clods and clay pigeon chunks at the range. I have 5# of lil’gun and while it seems that it would be tailor made for both of these little calibers, I can’t find any load data from Hogdon’s site or any of my loading manuals. Am I missing something, like this powder is dangerous in rear locking lever guns or the EPA has found lethal amounts of cyanide in the formula….???
Anybody out there using it?
Look on the Hodgdon site under .357 Pistol, not rifle data. Don’t know why they don’t publish that, nor why they still use a 10” barrel for the pistol data either.
LilGun in the .357 has pressures much lower than others like 2400 and H110, with 158s anyway. If I had that Winchester, (and I wish I did!) LilGun would be my choice for full-power loads precisely because of the lower pressure. I do shoot it in my Henry SS.
Brian Pearce, who writes for Wolfe as the replacement for Ken Waters, is a big LilGun proponent. He goes over the 18.0 limit and gets close to 2000fps in some guns. I tried that, but stick with 18.0. Now that I have a new Garmin bullet clock, I’ll test the hotter loads again to see if there’s a benefit.
Can’t help with .25/20, but I kinda wish I had one of those too!