I just gotta wonder about all the angst and drama over the selection of temperature sensitive powders. Sure, if you know you are going to be hunting in Sonora on the 4th of July, you may want to step your charge weight down, if you know you are going to draw a wildebeeste tag in Cut Bank Montana in January you can stoke 'er up pretty good...but good grief, has it occurred to anyone that we have loaded the '06 and 7.62 with funky old blc-2 and H380 for eons? Korea and eastern Europe to Africa and SE Asia.... c'mon guys, you are going to extremes (pun is the lowest form of humor).
Oh my. Going to an extreme? I think not. I may not hunt in Sonora and I do most of my reload experiments right here in the Sonora Desert but hunt in New Mexico when temps can be as low as 4 above zero (been the and done that)so yes, working with powders that that may give problems due to temperature extremes is something I look closely at. I'll be doing some load testing tomorrow and it's forecast to be around 100 so I'll be working in the upper 80s to lower 90s during the time I'm there. FWIW, it was 4 above zero in the late afternoon when I shot my elk last year. The late Elmer Keith once said, "I believe every man should scratch his own fleas in whatever manner he chooses." I think the same should work when deciding on powders for handloads.
Paul B.
