Out of curiosity, does anyone recognize this powder?
The story is.... a bunch of years ago, someone gave me a couple of boxes of reloads.... they said they had bought them in "a gun shop" as commercial reloads.
I kept them, and recently looked at the box of .357's.... they were the worst looking loads I'd ever seen.... bullet seating depths all over the place, some crimped in front of the front band, some crimped short of the crimp groove, etc....
I decided to pull the bullets and salvage the primed cases.
I weighed each charge out of the inertia puller, and found ranges of 4.6 gr up to 5.9 gr.... most were 5.2 to 5.7 gr.
I don't recognize the powder... it's a light gray, finely grained ball powder.... this is a curiosity thing, nothing else. I'm going to dispose of the powder and reload the primed cases.
It looks like the "loader" sized the cases, but didn't flare the case mouths, as all the bullets I pulled mic'd at .356 to .3565... this is a 150 gr cast swc, so I'm sure it didn't start out life that diameter. I imagine he just jammed the bullets in the cases and squashed them down in there, shaving off lead and "resizing" them with the cases.
Three of the cases had a little wrinkle just below the base of the bullet, as if they were bulged during the seating/swaging process.
I compared it to the Bullseye that I have, and it is not the same powder. The charges in my Lyman book would indicate a 5.5 gr charge would be mid-range for a 150 gr bullet...
Like I said, just curiosity... I also included a pic of a few of the loads.... scary stuff....
The story is.... a bunch of years ago, someone gave me a couple of boxes of reloads.... they said they had bought them in "a gun shop" as commercial reloads.
I kept them, and recently looked at the box of .357's.... they were the worst looking loads I'd ever seen.... bullet seating depths all over the place, some crimped in front of the front band, some crimped short of the crimp groove, etc....
I decided to pull the bullets and salvage the primed cases.
I weighed each charge out of the inertia puller, and found ranges of 4.6 gr up to 5.9 gr.... most were 5.2 to 5.7 gr.
I don't recognize the powder... it's a light gray, finely grained ball powder.... this is a curiosity thing, nothing else. I'm going to dispose of the powder and reload the primed cases.
It looks like the "loader" sized the cases, but didn't flare the case mouths, as all the bullets I pulled mic'd at .356 to .3565... this is a 150 gr cast swc, so I'm sure it didn't start out life that diameter. I imagine he just jammed the bullets in the cases and squashed them down in there, shaving off lead and "resizing" them with the cases.
Three of the cases had a little wrinkle just below the base of the bullet, as if they were bulged during the seating/swaging process.
I compared it to the Bullseye that I have, and it is not the same powder. The charges in my Lyman book would indicate a 5.5 gr charge would be mid-range for a 150 gr bullet...
Like I said, just curiosity... I also included a pic of a few of the loads.... scary stuff....