Alliant's "Promo" powder. Pistols?

[peacemaker45]

HAs anyone ever used alliant's "promo," powder? I think that it's supposed to be a low cost powder for high volume shotgunners. Has anyone ever used it for pistol loads? Any data floating around for it?

~~~Mat

 

[1911user]

It loads with red dot data by weight (not volume).

http://www.brianenos.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=48757

 

[sargenv]

I've used it for a couple of loads, currently 3.7 gr of Promo in a 40 S&W case, 200 Gr Truncated cone Bear creek Moly coated bullet, and seated to 1.180". I haven't really done anymore testing with it but may come up with a Minor 40 load utilizing 140 gr RN's sometime soon.

It is supposed to use the same weight data as Red Dot as someone else stated and it is a bit cheaper.

 

[1911user]

The reason the weight part is worth stressing is so a newbie loader with a Lee auto-disk powder measure doesn't just look at the Lee chart and pick a disk for promo powder based on red dot powder data. Boom! instant overcharge because promo is more dense than red dot. Some new loaders don't buy a powder scale; stupid, but it happens.

The saving grace for them is that promo only comes in 8 pound kegs so they are unlikely to use it for pistol loading.