After a few years of fooling around with 100s of reloads, I can't help but wonder if it makes any difference at all what gun powder one uses. It seems to me that the bullet is reacting to a value of pressure that is being applied to it from the gases of burning powder: let's say 50,000 lbs./in. worth. What difference does it make to the bullet what is producing the 50,000 lbs./in.? Any given powder for a certain caliber that can provide that amount of pressure should drive the bullet at the same speed to the same point of impact. Right? I mean, if you could come up with 50,000 lbs./in. from a CO2 canister, wouldn't it do the same thing?
I use my .223s as an example. It seems as I look back over my filed targets, that a given bullet (say a 52-gr. Match HPBT) shoots about the same size groups with several different powders, as long as each load is producing about the same pressure.
How crazy am I?
I use my .223s as an example. It seems as I look back over my filed targets, that a given bullet (say a 52-gr. Match HPBT) shoots about the same size groups with several different powders, as long as each load is producing about the same pressure.
How crazy am I?