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RE: Which powder brand - Kurt - 09-07-2018
Mike that load has worked very good in my chamber design in the .45-90 with that load. It kept me in the top 15 at the 16 Q even with a miss on the Buff I shot with the 600 yard setting
It's a bad habit I have not listening to Carol It's a little starved for a normal .2.4 load but from what I been seeing 83 or 84 grains of OE or Swiss seems to be a good number even in a .45-70.
RE: Which powder brand - W7JRR - 09-08-2018
Well for the time being it will just be in 44-40, but plan to add either a 45-110 or 50-90 within the year. The first rifle I built for myself was a 74 in 45-110, and when I had it in the shop a guy came in and offered me too much for it. I figured I could always build another, and that one would cover the parts for 4 more rifles while I was getting the shop up and running. That was in 2002, and I still haven't replaced it. I'll probably just start running OE, and when I get a chance at some Swiss I'll grab a pound or 2 just to give it a try. I was reading something a while back that swiss was denser that OE, but I didn't get the specifics on what exactly he was measuring.
RE: Which powder brand - Don McDowell - 09-08-2018
If you were using cartridge it will be any easy transition to OE 1/12
Some lots of Swiss will be denser than OE meaning that a given volume will weigh more than the same colonel of the same size powder othe lots not so much
RE: Which powder brand - Lumpy Grits - 09-08-2018
Been very pleased with Old 'E' 2F, in both Shilohs in .45-70 & .45-90 with GG bullets.
Also works very well in my .44 loads for SASS competition.
Gary
RE: Which powder brand - Kurt - 09-08-2018
I talked to the Hodgen rep at the Quigley one year when I picked up a case of OE powder I ordered from Craig about the Olde Eynsford powder and the Lady asked how I was getting along with it. I told her that I was disappointed that they discounted the Express powder that worked so well for me but I said that it did not take long to go through testing all the OE granulations with the mixed case I got form powder inc and I found that the 2F was good to go for me.
She said our lab spent a lot of time developing this blend to duplicate the Swiss in performance. I also told her when I first shot it that the smell was different then the GOEX exp and assured me that it was not a sub and it's 100% the real thing.
To me for the way it shoots it's like throwing two hands of dust in the air to see what the wind is doing I see both hands full of dust drift the same.