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longrangedog1000yd wrote:OK ive been reading load reports on here for the bigger part of the afternoon and i am more confused than ever, i've never seen a cartridge with this many quarks except for 10mm which i got my 180gr load after a several hundred rounds of aggravating inconsistency with different bullets and sizing and crimps, and with different powders, i now use one bullet and one loading set up for it,i carry this load for hog backup,or whatever else needs needs stopped where it is , as of now im going with the 225 ftx and lill gun for a deer load as per hoots advice, i have had good results with lill gun in a freedom arms 454.going to try the 240 xtp mag for hogs should hold together a little better, would lill gun be the powder for this too? on another note with this hot drought the hogs are easy to find just find some water and they will come! just hard to set there when its 100 with 90% humidity.
pitted bore wrote:longrangedog1000yd-
I can no longer find it linked from the forum, but the long-running calguns 450B thread had a lot of information about the difficulties of modifying 284 brass for use in the 450B.
A couple of off-topic footnotes to Hoot's post:
1) When I've tried to use bullets below 200 grains, Lil'Gun has not been the optimal powder. (The bullets are not optimal either, but it gives geezers something to do in their spare time).
2) The IMR4227 and H4227 story has much internet lore associated with it. An interpretation that seems to fit the available evidence is this: IMR 4227 was made in Canada for at least a couple of decades. H4227 has always been made in Australia. When the Australian manufacturer developed the "Extreme" technology, it was applied to H4227 and Hodgdon listed it as one of their Extreme powders. With the exception of the response to temperature, the two powders did not differ significantly in performance. Reported differences between the two were not greater than lot-to-lot variation within either.
When Hodgdon acquired IMR, because the two powders were so similar, they decided to discontinue one of the two. They chose to stop selling H4227, perhaps for marketing reasons. However, they also decided to put the Australian powder into the IMR containers, and to discontinue the manufacture of 4227 in Canada. As the decision slowly worked its way through the supply chain, one could purchase H4227 and IMR 4227 made in Australia, and IMR 4227 made in Canada. My bottle of IMR4227 purchased on 3 Aug 2010 is marked "Made in Canada". The powder granules are black, rather than the greenish color associated with Extreme powders
My understanding is that when everything shakes down, all available IMR 4227 will be made in Australia and will be an Extreme powder, although perhaps not marketed as such.
--Bob
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