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Offline B. Miville

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.40 S&W Carbine powder suggestions.
« on: September 19, 2008, 03:13:57 PM »
Picked up some 180gr Hornady HAP bullets to try in a Ruger PC4 carbine.  Dug out the Hornady manual to pick through powders and now I am a bit overwhelmed.  I'll be honest, I have pretty much only ever used Winchester 231 for my pistol rounds, but no 231 recipie is listed, and besides I think it is time I expand my powder experience a bit  ;D.  So I am looking here and have a few powders that look promising and should be easy to get locally.  Anyone have any comments on HS-6 or Power Pistol?  Why these two?  Well, according to the manual a person can achieve 1000 fps (actually I do realize it will be more out of a carbine as the loads in the manual were run through a pistol....but I digress) without going to a max load. 

Any comments?

Brian