Dark VS lite loads

[SgtDog0311]

I started out shooting distant dingers several years ago with Smokeless and I'm glad I did. Lots of fun but more importantly it lead me to Black Powder and BPCR.

I'm read everything I could on powders the older my guns got and they got older quick as most all moderns were sold for vintage guns. I especially relied on Sherman Bell in coming to prefer a very narrow range of powders that produce a pressure curve less dramatic than Black in the chamber and all the way down the bore. He used strain gauges at both the chamber and at spacing down the bore. I don't deviate when I do shoot smokeless but have to say that Black Powder consumes nearly all my time anymore.

No one can argue there is not increased risk with double charges so all I say to anyone dabbling is "do your research, rely on evidence and not what someone posts, and practice triple-checks when loading reduced loads".