rmtaylor, What safteysheriff suggests is actually quite common practice in the world of cast bullet shooting. If you go to IMR powders or to Accurate Arms either one, you will find loads listed that are using powders normally considered far to slow for the case. Both show reduced velocity loads using compressed charges of slow powders. Speer #13 shows reduced velocity loads using this same approach for cartridges like 30-06. It is actually a very common practice. Most people remain unaware of the use of these powders in these applications because the mainstream of reloading is aimed at geting the most of a rifle, not less.
I quite often burn 22 grains of R-7 in my 44 mag pushing a 200 grain bullet to about 1200 fps. The load is quite accurate. I also entered a 44 load in the postal match using WC 846, a powder of about the same burning rate as BL-C2.
Folks get upset with SS for bringing up this load, not because it is unsafe, but because it DOES NOT REDUCE THE FELT RECOIL. If he would stop reading, get a 45-70 and try what he suggests, he would find that his idea leaks like a sieve. That he continues to post this nonsense does not raise his standing amoung the truely informed (those who have been there and done it) but rather serves to leave him looking foolish. Apparently he must like the look as he has been posting this nonsense for over a year.
There are only three ways to reduce recoil: reduce velocity, reduce bullet weight or add weight to the gun. All else does not reduce recoil, but changes the perception of the recoil impulse. (this is what SS says this load does), note that he dug it out of some NRA literature, this is nothing he has done himself, and once again, if he would just go and shoot this load, he would find it does nothing to reduce recoil or change the impression of it.
Sorry to hijack your thread guys.
