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Old October 2, 2011, 06:03 PM   #2
mkl
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Join Date: April 25, 2008
Location: DFW area, Texas
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You've got the books. Read them twice.

Invest in a good balance beam scale. Exact powder charge is important, and a scale you cannot trust is a serious safety risk!

No single powder will give optimum performance in all the cartridges you mention. If you want to start out with only one which will give good performance in all of them, I'd suggest Hercules Unique. You can't get maximum velocity out of your high pressure cartridges (.357 & .44 Mag), but it will work well for everything you have at at moderate pressures and velocities.

I'm sure others will mention newer powders and I cannot comment on them. Personally, I've never found a reason to move away from Unique since it does everything I want for my moderate handgun loads. Possible exception is that I now use Winchester Super Field (WSF) for my 45 ACP loads.
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