Back in the drought I bought some 700X powder just to have. I have recently set up my xl650 to run a massive amount of .40s&w for my wife's goofy HP carbine that's eating me out of house and home.
I saw load data for this on Hodgdon's website. 4.2-- 4.7 grains under a 180gr berb fp. I'm sitting at 4.5gr with a light crimp. The dies are setup exactly how I run this weight bullet with other powders. Only thing different is this powder. I have ran plenty of 40sw with this same bullet with other powders for my handguns and her carbine . Never any issues.
I've only ran 100 of these but they definitely sound different from one to another. Like light load then heavy load..
For this run I matched headstamps and weighed the charge on every 5th one. I won't match headstamps when I get going on them.
The left over rounds we didn't shoot are Dang near the same weight from completed cartridge to cartridge.
Not enough crimp? Garbage powder? The crimp diameter is within just a few thou of a factory round if you would like to know that?
What say you?
I saw load data for this on Hodgdon's website. 4.2-- 4.7 grains under a 180gr berb fp. I'm sitting at 4.5gr with a light crimp. The dies are setup exactly how I run this weight bullet with other powders. Only thing different is this powder. I have ran plenty of 40sw with this same bullet with other powders for my handguns and her carbine . Never any issues.
I've only ran 100 of these but they definitely sound different from one to another. Like light load then heavy load..
For this run I matched headstamps and weighed the charge on every 5th one. I won't match headstamps when I get going on them.
The left over rounds we didn't shoot are Dang near the same weight from completed cartridge to cartridge.
Not enough crimp? Garbage powder? The crimp diameter is within just a few thou of a factory round if you would like to know that?
What say you?
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