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Old September 11, 2002, 04:51 PM   #5
Peter M. Eick
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Having read his article and then spent some time on the range today chrono-ing a bunch of loads. I had time to think about it. I was shooting 45acp and 38 special. Pressure rings were running about 3/4's of what the factory loads do and extraction was very easy out of the Python. Velocities were running in the 800 to 830 fps for the 45 and right at 800 for the 38 specials. In this particular case, given the two sets of data, I would venture to say that these are resonable to mild loads. It is just interesting to see how a bit of information (the new article) gives me pause to re-think, re-evaluate and then continue testing.

By the way, I was using 5.5 grns aa2imp, 230 berry fmj, starline brass and 1.272 col for the 45's and the average sd out of the Baer was only 7 fps. Nice powder for 45's. The python was a bit "wilder" with sd of 11 fps with 4.3 grns of 231 on a 158 lead swc, cci500 primers, starline brass 1.462 col.
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