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General >> Ammunition, reloading, shooting, etc >> Safe to shoot with modern ammo? http://www.kragcollectorsassociation.org/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1484610680 Message started by sds1861 on Jan 16^th, 2017 at 11:51pm

Title: Re: Safe to shoot with modern ammo?
Post by KWK on Aug 17^th, 2017 at 7:08pm

I long thought the 40000 psi given by SAAMI was too hot, but reading old Army Ordnance reports from the 1890s says they were loading to over 40000 at times. Still, I prefer to load lower. Modern powders will match the original performance at under 34000.