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Title: Winchester 748 ball powder? Post by butlersrangers on Nov 7th, 2012 at 10:37pm
Has anyone come up with successful .30-40 (jacketed or cast) loads using W-748 ball powder? I have an 8 pound canister of this propellant. It seems very useful in .223, .30-30, .308, .30-06, and .303 British (cast bullet) loads. But, I do not run across data using this powder in .30-40.
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Title: Re: Winchester 748 ball powder? Post by madsenshooter on Nov 9th, 2012 at 1:03am
You'd be safe reducing the .303 British start loads a tad and working up. The 30/40 and .303 are very close in capacity. Although there's no 748 data in this compilation, there is data for BLC-2, which burns at about the same rate. Start low, work up. (You need to Login
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