Pete D.
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Just a note......no, powders are not the same. Some are denser than others.
We are often told to measure BP by volume only.....Bunk. Nothing bad will happen if, before using a volume measure, you take a moment and weigh the charge.
One of the reasons that Swiss has a reputation for being "hotter" than other powders is that it is denser.....there is more of it in that volume measure than there would be if the measure was used for a "fluffy" powder like KIK.
One Sherman Bell, in a series entitled "Finding Out for Myself" (in the Double Gun Journal) did work with a variety of BP brands. Swiss, at least in the lots that he was using, was ten percent heavier than Goex for the same volume.
I do not know if that differential is always the case but it is worth considering.
Pete
and no, these two powders do not perform the same. You may have been thinking about Old Eynsford instead of Schuetzen. In Richard's test, Graf's powder gave an average velocity of 672 FPS, whereas the Swiss produced an average of about 920 FPS. The Swiss powder also burned cleaner
Just a note......no, powders are not the same. Some are denser than others.
We are often told to measure BP by volume only.....Bunk. Nothing bad will happen if, before using a volume measure, you take a moment and weigh the charge.
One of the reasons that Swiss has a reputation for being "hotter" than other powders is that it is denser.....there is more of it in that volume measure than there would be if the measure was used for a "fluffy" powder like KIK.
One Sherman Bell, in a series entitled "Finding Out for Myself" (in the Double Gun Journal) did work with a variety of BP brands. Swiss, at least in the lots that he was using, was ten percent heavier than Goex for the same volume.
I do not know if that differential is always the case but it is worth considering.
Pete