July 23, 2009, 08:53 AM | #1 |
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Lake City 5.56 Powder
Does anyone know what powder lake city uses for their military spec 5.56 NATO rounds specificaly the M855 62gr. green tip bullet?
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July 23, 2009, 10:05 AM | #2 |
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Most likely H335 or IMR4895.
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July 23, 2009, 07:14 PM | #3 |
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Olin WC844. Loads to Hodgdon H335 data.
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July 23, 2009, 08:04 PM | #4 |
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Olin is long out of the powder business. St Marks took it over.
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July 23, 2009, 08:39 PM | #5 |
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It is a cannister OEM powder not available to the public with a flash supressant in it.
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July 23, 2009, 09:01 PM | #7 |
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I'm an OEM manufacturer. I use commercial powders not available to the general public. Olin doesn't make powder anymore. Olin sold the powder manufacturing facility to St Marks Powder Company who now runs the old factory that used to be Olin. Olin WC844 isn't made anymore, at least by that name.
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July 23, 2009, 09:07 PM | #8 |
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It's been a number of years since Olin sold the powder business.
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Right. It USED to be WC844. My understanding is that it's still pretty much the same powder and still matches H335 for load data.
And still not available to the public. There sure isn't going to be any 5.56 pulldown any time soon! |
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I'm sure it is a puzzle.
I believe that St. Marks and Hodgdon are the only 2 left that actually make powder in the States. |
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July 23, 2009, 10:07 PM | #13 |
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St Marks and Alliant make powder domestically. Hodgdon makes the BP substitute but they actually subcontract a local company to do it according to the Hodgdon guy I spoke with. Hodgdon mostly markets SMP and ADI powders. Ramshot handles SMP and Accurate brand. Most powder is made by SMP, ADI, and other countries like Sweden, Finland, Belgium.
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My references say WC846 or IMR 8208M.
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WC846 is what's used in the 7.62mm M80 cartridge.
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