Powder score of the year!

[waco]

My brother and I decided to go across town and look at a Bi Mart store to see what they had in stock. Kind of a tucked away store a lot of people forget about. For one, I’ve never seen eight pound jugs at any Bi Mart. We walk in and see two eight pounders on the shelf of W296. Apparently someone special ordered them then never picked them up. I have no idea how long they have been sitting there or who decided to mark the price down but we happily paid the asking price of $119.99 per jug.

 

[fiver]

well.
now if you got the balls you got a bunch of 308 powder....
yep,, try 19grs.

 

[waco]

296 in the .308? Really?….

 

[Ian]

Yep.

 

[fiver]

0-6 too.... [and i got a little bit of data for the 30-30]
AA-1680 shot better,, mostly cause i think it had a bit more case fill. [22grs]

i truly think a flooofifier would have settled the 110 down even more... but i kind of moved on and never got back to it.

 

[CZ93X62]

Time to invest deeply in jacketed magnum revolver bullets........or M1 Carbines & j-words.

 

[Jeff H]

That would have been a steal ten years ago!

 

[Petrol & Powder]

Those are 4 pound containers (look at the photo, lower right corner of the label) but that's still $30/pound. Not too bad.

 

[Ben]

Yes, 4 pounds :

 

[Missionary]

Even at $25 per # that is not all that bad if ya need some.

 

[waco]

lol! I never even noticed! Still a pretty good deal.

 

[dale2242]

Time to invest deeply in jacketed magnum revolver bullets........or M1 Carbines & j-words.

I shoot 296 in 357 and 44 Mag with plain base bullets.
I have for years.
No Issues.
I have used it in the M1 carbine with gas checked bullets.

 

[JonB]

Those are 4 pound containers (look at the photo, lower right corner of the label) but that's still $30/pound. Not too bad.

you guys all raining on his parade.
you could have at least let Waco enjoy it for a few days, LOL.

 

[JonB]

I have a bunch of GC'd 158gr bullets all lined up for loading 357mag, I have 3 vintage 1lb steel cans of W296 to use, from a recent gunshow deal. IIRC, 16gr was the charge?

 

[Petrol & Powder]

 

[fiver]

16 seems up there to me, but i've never used 110/96 in the 357.
or the 44, or 45 colt, or 30 carbine, or the 410,,,, the-ell? why do i even have the stuff??

 

[Creeker]

16 maybe. I used 15 with the 170 Keith.

 

[dale2242]

15 grains of 296/H110 have always been my go-to load in the 357 with 158Gr GC or plain based bullets.
I use magnum primers.

 

[Rick]

Switching from standard to magnum primers in the 357 with H-110 will cut your 200 meter groups in half.

 

[Matt_G]

Switching from standard to magnum primers in the 357 with H-110 will cut your 200 meter groups in half.

What bullet and how many grains of 110/296 are you talking about Rick?
I'm curious...