[Slamfire]

Detonation is usually associated with reduced loads of slow burning powders. P.O Ackley has a section in his reloading handbooks. I recall people were using reduced loads of surplus 4831 and blowing their actions.

I believe in the possibility of detonation and have read about computer models that show the pressure influences of burning particles ahead of the pressure wave.

Whether anyone believes it is not my concern, I don't want to be eliminated from the gene pool before my time, but for those with a death wish, have at it. I believe that what you want is a smooth pressure curve not an erratic pressure curve, as interactions between pressure waves are not predictable.

I also believe that pressure curves are not all the same. Varmint shooters have told me of how clean burning Blue Dot and how little heat they are getting in their 223's. The only way they are getting clean burning is with high pressures and high temperatures.