Elric
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Disclaimer: I am not a interior ballistics engineer, nor do I play one on the internet! No idea on the pressure from the charge weight mentioned below. Don't use it. Follow Hodgdon's reloads from http://www.hodgdonreloading.com/data/pistol Don't run with scissors.
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About 10 gr on the nose. PITA with the kinetic hammer pulling the rounds down, but it works. Not reloading tonight, but I understand the vernier on the 5-10 without a question.
I guess this answers any questions on TB being "spikey" in a 41 Rem Mag (at least in a straight-wall case). So far, there has been no grenades going off, but a gross overcharge wastes the spendy Trail Boss, plus it reaches a point where more TB doesn't really do you much.
Hornady shows 6.5gr as the high side of a 215gr bullet and TB, with a velocity of @910fps out of a pistol with a 10" tube (TC or revolver???). Yet 10grs under the same bullet only gets you 1100fps out of a 16" tube. One moral of the story, TB does what it does and it appears to take a lot more to increase @ 150fps with a closed breach and twice the barrel length.
Another morel of the story (fried in butter!) is don't start using a totally unfamiliar powder for deer season in two days. Ball and stick powders, plus flake, I have used before. BLC-2 (6mm Rem, yeah!), 4320, 4064, 4227, etc... Unique, Red Dot, SR4759... Never Trail Boss.
Lastly, if it don't look raa-h-h-t, take the time to crack the code. Check weights are a no foolin' reality check.
Disclaimer: I am not a interior ballistics engineer, nor do I play one on the internet! No idea on the pressure from the charge weight mentioned below. Don't use it. Follow Hodgdon's reloads from http://www.hodgdonreloading.com/data/pistol Don't run with scissors.
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About 10 gr on the nose. PITA with the kinetic hammer pulling the rounds down, but it works. Not reloading tonight, but I understand the vernier on the 5-10 without a question.
I guess this answers any questions on TB being "spikey" in a 41 Rem Mag (at least in a straight-wall case). So far, there has been no grenades going off, but a gross overcharge wastes the spendy Trail Boss, plus it reaches a point where more TB doesn't really do you much.
Hornady shows 6.5gr as the high side of a 215gr bullet and TB, with a velocity of @910fps out of a pistol with a 10" tube (TC or revolver???). Yet 10grs under the same bullet only gets you 1100fps out of a 16" tube. One moral of the story, TB does what it does and it appears to take a lot more to increase @ 150fps with a closed breach and twice the barrel length.
Another morel of the story (fried in butter!) is don't start using a totally unfamiliar powder for deer season in two days. Ball and stick powders, plus flake, I have used before. BLC-2 (6mm Rem, yeah!), 4320, 4064, 4227, etc... Unique, Red Dot, SR4759... Never Trail Boss.
Lastly, if it don't look raa-h-h-t, take the time to crack the code. Check weights are a no foolin' reality check.
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