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Like my former mentor told me, dip the case in the powder and squash a bullet in it!
Like my former mentor told me, dip the case in the powder and squash a bullet in it!
Actually, I would consider inside a 10 inch circle at 100 yards pretty poor accuracy especially if done with a scoped handgun.
And the latter seems to be too resilient to die from their mistakes many times and they breed prolifically. I guess when sense and intelligence are missing...well you have to compensate somewhere. Get tough or die and put a lot of offspring out there in the hopes that some will survive their own stupidity.There's a sucker born every minute, an idiot every second.
second: Enfield .303, powder from 20mm rounds mixed with Bullseye and ground in flour mill to fine dust, unweighed, compressed loads.
second: Enfield .303, powder from 20mm rounds mixed with Bullseye and ground in flour mill to fine dust, unweighed, compressed loads.
third: 20 gauge, powder from 3 .45acp rounds added to factory loading, section of copper rod weighing 3 ounces as a slug.
The Bullseye was superfluous. When you grind slow, coarse cannon powder into dust, you're greatly increasing the surface area of the powder and removing any chemical coating that controls burn rate. This probably turned it into a faster powder than Bullseye, anyhow. It's the size of the granules that makes the difference in burn rates of different grades of black powder propellants. In the old days, they just graded it by using different sized sieves. Today's propellants come in all kinds of shapes and sizes to control burn rate.I thought this guy would be ok until i read the mixed with bullseye (booster charge? and flour for the fireball effect. )
Additional details: he ground up the two powders together in the mill, poured the finely ground powder into the case, tamped it down, added more, then seated the bullet. at the range , he fired two rounds, then remarked to his buddy, who was observing him, "This rifle's kicking pretty hard, I'll reduce my load the next time I reload." then he pressed the trigger, and the rifle blew up.I thought this guy would be ok until i read the mixed with bullseye (booster charge? and flour for the fireball effect. )
Ain't that the truth. I would not be within 50 feet of that guy when he shoots!Yep, that's about what I would expect to happen.
Do yourself a favor and don't EVER shoot any of that guy's handloads. Your guns will thank you. Also your hands and face.
Jim Watson said:Duplex loads with a LITTLE smokeless UNDER a black powder charge is a reasonable proposition when done with care. It worked for Harry Pope.
I have a book describing duplex loading of two grades of smokeless in a varmint rifle in the 1950s.
Elmer Keith and his friends called flash tube ignition "duplex" and stratified powder charges "double duplex."
Early Casul gun buster testing was with duplex or even triplex loads; all made obsolete by H110 powder.
No, you don't mix powders, you layer them.
But maybe YOU shouldn't. I know I don't.
Why someone would want to blend powders is beyond me.