No more quotes or add ons. The thread is too complicated.
However I went back up, a way up and re-read what you said about your 41 BH. My mistake. I read it as .009" endshake, but now I see it was really .009 B/C gap. A big difference in meaning for sure.
Winchester 231 IS the same stuff as HP-38. It is a flattened greyish black sometimes flake looking powder. A ball powder that has been flattened.
I'll tell you what. You take a pic of you HP-38 and post it. I'll take a pic of my 231 and post it, and we'll compare.
Or not what ever you want.
I got a copy of Phillip B. Sharps Complete Book on Handloading too. Good reading and some really good loads.
I know that Hodgdon bought out IMR powders and has recently been given total marketing control of Winchesters powders, but to my knowledge the haven't bought out Alliant. At least if they did they did it in secret.
OK, I couldn't resist just one more quote.My all-time longest range shot with a handgun was in 1990 (back when I could still see) when I dropped a deer with my OM .41 Blackhawk at 158 paces, which closely works to about the same in yards. I didn't have to hold over for elevation very far, either!
Back when I could see ............. you too huh.
Well, back when I could see I would sit out in the AZ desert and put round after round of .45 Colt into a rock probably no bigger than a small garbage can lid at somewhere around 300 yards. My load was NOT light weight high velocity bullets. I never did believe in them, but 9.0grs Unique under a 268gr Keith SWC I cast myself. Yes it had/has a rainbow trajectory, and a lot of hold over, but if Keith could do it, well, I can try real hard.
Them were the days. Oh how I'd trade both my S&Ws for a time machine.
Joe
Oh, I'm going to go take a digital image of my 231. Using my Canon D60 my brother gave me for Christmas a couple years ago. I'd rather use film, but have you seen how much them robbers are getting to develope and print film now?
