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I have used The Load in .308 Win using 110gr Carbine bullets. It works.

Thank you for the help, Rocket.

Well, now, this has me wondering about reduced loads for my .308 Win using 110gr .30 Carbine bullets. I haven't found any Trail Boss for sale, nor Red Dot for "The Load". I do have the above mentioned Titegroup, as well as Longshot. Hodgdon shows max loads of 10.5 gr Longshot or 8.0 gr...

The 45ACP was designed in response to the Thompson-Lagarde study.

Great thread, but it leaves me wondering which of these electronic scales are good for trickling.

Could you enlighten me as to the undesirable consequence?

I find that a plastic Gatorade powder canister is perfect for storing a Lee turret with dies.

Fair enough. I haven't tried it, and brought it up just on a lark. (But it seems that someone has taken it seriously enough to market the adapters.)

Ballistics By The Inch tested four loads in .32ACP. The Cor-Bon 60gr. JHP reached supersonic speeds, but the other three stayed firmly subsonic out to an 18" barrel, at which point the speeds were dropping with increasing barrel length. http://ballisticsbytheinch.com/32auto.html

Well, now, that prompts a question. I ran out of H4895, and haven't seen it available for almost a year. But I did get a pound of A2520. Can that be used for reduced loads to the tune of 60% of max the way H4895 can, or does the resemblance just not go that far?

Western Powders' burn rate chart at www.accuratepowder.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/burn_rates.pdf places PP 2000-MR at the same rate as H380.

You could try a chamber adapter to shoot .32ACP through it.

Update - resolution Hodgdon's reloading website shows the recommended load of IMR4320 as 44.1 to 49.0 grains, with Winchester brass. I brought home 9 pieces of Winchester range pickup to compare with my PPU brass, by weighing how much A2520 fine-grained ball powder would fill them to the neck...

After studying the cases, I have decided that MtnCreek is right, these are ejector marks. Their appearance changes with lighting and aperture (camera > eye), and I formed my impression while at the range, seeing trapezoidal shine marks rather than circular. (The extractor is trapezoidal.)...

COAL to hit the rifling = 2.860". COAL I'm using = 2.820". Would it lower pressure to shorten to 2.800"?

photo of the extractor shines Here is a photo of the shines. Top left is the fired factory load, not reloaded. Top center: 46.9 gr. IMR4320 Top right: 47.1 gr., shine on the W, extending to just short of the 8. Bottom left: 47.4 gr., a bit of a shine on the N, and into the gap away from...

1. I don't know how soft PPU brass is compared to the others. It's conceivable that they are using soft, considering how light the recoil is for their factory load. But I haven't seen any such sign using PPU brass in the other 2 rifles with the other chamberings. 2. There is no mark from the...

I've started reloading for my X-Bolt in .308 Winchester. I'm puzzled at seeing some shine on the case head from the extractor at charges that I had figured were comfortably below max. I bought Prvi Partizan 168 gr "match" ammo, which I shot, neck-sized, and reloaded. The spent factory...

I have used the Hornady 140gr Monoflex, seen at http://www.hornady.com/store/30-Cal-.308-140-gr-monoflex/. Like the bullet referenced by rcmodel, it has a short ogive and a short plastic tip. Just for grins, I tried loading a 150gr plastic-tipped blem from Midway, that wasn't .30-30 specific...

JJ- is the user to whom KansasSasquatch was replying, and PV is Powder Valley, http://www.powdervalleyinc.com/ .