30-06 M2 AP reloads

[n2omike]

Thanks guys, I'll have to study them more closely. Looks like I have fewer AP than I thought I did. lol
Was toying with the idea of pulling some of the projectiles and loading them into 300 Win Mag... Thinking those would be some super penetrators.

 

[Jim Watson]

Is Pyro DG and 4895 the same thing?

No.

 

[Jeremy2171]

No.

Correct so 4895 can't be originally known as... pyro DG

 

[Jim Watson]

Phil Sharpe gives a step by step description of the manufacture of IMR 4895 during the War, if you can round up his 'Complete Guide to Handloading.'

Was toying with the idea of pulling some of the projectiles and loading them into 300 Win Mag... Thinking those would be some super penetrators.

Featured in an episode of original Hawaii 5-0, with typical anti-gun Hollywood actor and producer Jack Lord. Crooks were depicted loading .300 Magnum with AP bullets to shoot up an armored car. Maybe it was "product placement" for RCBS, clearly their press and other equipment.

 

[n2omike]

Thanks guys, I'll have to study them more closely. Looks like I have fewer AP than I thought I did. lol
Was toying with the idea of pulling some of the projectiles and loading them into 300 Win Mag... Thinking those would be some super penetrators.

I have a tiny Rare Earth magnet around 1/16" or so square, and tested the bullets with it.
I have 29 rounds in two original AP boxes. One white, one with stripes. With all of those, when the magnet is placed on the tip, it does NOT stick, but slides down the bullet and sticks part way down where the steel core is.

The rest of the magnetic ammo is in Garand clips. Once clip is black tipped, but the paint goes down further than the other black tips. The magnet sticks to the tip of it... as well as all the other ammo on clips, which is bare with no black tips. Sticks right to the tips of the bullets. Thinking the black painted tips that are magnetic may have been dipped by someone and just made to LOOK like AP? Either that, or steel jacketed AND steel core?

Moral of the story... If you truly want to know of your ammo is AP, see if a magnet sticks to the tip. If it does, it's probably just steel jacketed.
If the magnet just sticks 1/4" down the bullet, it's steel core... and with 30-06, likely AP.