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I had some ammo keyhole like that once upon a time. I hadn't been loading rifle ammo long. I was using 50-grain Ballistic Tips and was shooting a max charge of H335, per the manual. The load was okay but I wanted to try some W748, and was looking at the data for that powder in the very same...

I'm shooting 225-grain Accubonds, and Re15 is THE powder for the Whelen, IMO---at least with the 225s and 250s. I'm getting almost 2700 fps and could get more if I wanted to push it, but the truth is it wouldn't matter in the practical sense and you really don't get that much increase in...

A direct answer for you, Lee. Smokeless powders, grain per grain, all contain about the same amount of energy. The energy is released by rapid conversion of the powder to a gaseous state. The amount of powder in the case will determine the amount of gas that will be generated and the burn...

+1 Don't sweat it as long as you've got enough bullet shank in the neck and the round fits your magazine and feeds. Your rifle may have a slightly different chamber than mine, but I doubt you'll be able to get very close to the lands at all with either bullet. What powder do you intend to use?

Walnut definitely cleans more aggressively than corncob. I do use corncob too, though because it polishes so much better than walnut. Nice purty brass is good for an extra four or five fps, I've been told. ;) I've obtained some pretty respectable accuracy loading 5.5 grains of TB under a...