TYPES OF POWDER AND CARATERISTICS

[williamlayton]

For handguns in this discussion.
What types of powder, ball, flake, ect do you boys prefer.
Does the type of powder dictate the burning speed?
Which types measure more accurately or easier?
Blessings

[Lloyd Smale]

hard to narrow this one down i probably use 20 different powders for different bullet weights in different calibers. But if i had to pick a few ithat i use the most of it would be redot unique hs6 4227 wc820 and 110

[John Traveler]

William layton,

The type of powder used is dictated by the type of load (light target, mid-range, plinking, heavy magnum or hunting, defense, etc).

Generally, the target load requirements are met by fast burning flake powders such as WW231, Bullseye, the mid-range by Unique and WW231, and the magnum by WW296, H227, 2400, and H110.

As a rule, spherical ball powders (WW296, H110, etc) measure much more uniformly than flake, extruded, or flattened ball powders (Hercules, Red Dot, Green Dot, H227, 2400, WW231, etc).

HTH
John

[Catfish]

I`ve tried about everything over the years, but now I use Win.-296 for hot loads and Bulleyes for lite loads regardless of cal. These 2 give me the best loads in about all guns and I load for several.