W296/ H110 reloading data disparities

[buck460XVR]

^^^Yep, Same here, especially without posting the mandatory disclaimer.....CAUTION: The following post includes loading data beyond currently published maximums for this cartridge. USE AT YOUR OWN RISK. Neither the writer, The High Road, nor the staff of THR assume any liability for any damage or injury resulting from use of this information.

"'cause we all know, odds are, someone out there is going to take full case capacity(or even compressed) as a good place to start".

No they do not exceed anything.

The load I posted is directly from Hodgdon.(they used a XTP bullet)

My response was to the quote "I wasn't going to say it because I don't want to give people the impression they don't need to be careful, but yeah I doubt there is a combination of components of H110 in a 357 mag that could get to dangerous pressures., and not about your load. It also refers to that compressed load as "a good place to start', which most of us know is not true.

 

[Alaskan Ironworker]

Hodgdonreloading website shows identical data for both h110 and w296 on all magnum handgun loads ive viewed. Check it out. Ive used a couple loads in the .454. I created loads identical in every way only swapping between these two powders and the results were near identical on the chronograph. Small rifle primers for .454 or magnum primers for .357, and always a heavy lee factory crimp. As Always, play it safe and work up your loads and be careful please!

 

[ray15]

Hodgdonreloading website shows identical data for both h110 and w296 on all magnum handgun loads ive viewed. Check it out. Ive used a couple loads in the .454. I created loads identical in every way only swapping between these two powders and the results were near identical on the chronograph. Small rifle primers for .454 or magnum primers for .357, and always a heavy lee factory crimp. As Always, play it safe and work up your loads and be careful please!

The right to market powders under the Winchester name was purchased by Hodgdon. It has been known for some time that W296 and H110 are in fact exactly the same product with a different label. The same is true of W231 and HP38. The load data is identical for all applications, as they are the same powders. At one point differing load data was published when Winchester published their own data, but it appears that even then the products were the same.

 

[CraigC]

Yep, the two are identical and same for 231 and HP38.

Doesn't HS6 have a Winchester counterpart?

 

[ray15]

I believe that was the discontinued HS7/W571.

 

[CraigC]

I found it, HS6 is the same as W540.