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JayCee, your picture of the blown barrel, I don't reload black powder but the difference between the two powders is probably 3-1, so he used approximately 100 grains of smokeless, talk about excess, he's lucky.
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David

David;
As I recall this occurance the owner of the Remington dbl mistakenly used smokeless IMR PB powder & loaded by black powder volume. I do not now recall the exact load intended, but let's assume 3 drams. In black powder this would weigh 82 grains. Most smokeless shotgun powders weigh considerably less for an equal volume of black & while I have not actually performed a check weighing, just using figures from a Lee Dipper chart PB would have a wt of about 57% that of black. For a BP 3 dram volume it should thus have weighed about 47 grains. I don't have an IMR loadbook in front of me but this was likely approaching a double charge. Double charging with smokeless powders is not such a good idea. It is imperative to keep ones B's & P's in the right order.

Last edited by 2-piper; 09/14/08 01:29 AM.
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