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It’s not a good idea to reduce a charge by 70%.Some powders will detonate at a greatly reduced load, especially slow burning magnum pistol powders.
. . . including two 50rd box's of the seller's .45acp reloads.
1) Please list the slow magnum powders to be found in .45ACP.
2) Despite years of reading on the topic, including Hodgdon's statement Re:H110, I have yet to see a single case of the dreaded detonation that wasn't more easily explained as a double charge. I have experimented with slow powders at reduced to very reduced charges, and my results match Hodgdon's (shocker). . . all I ever got was very incomplete combustion.

I call Nellie (the Loch Ness monster)! Everyone talks about it, but no one seems to have seen one.
 
A question as I'm not a pistol person. If you, say pull the bullet on a 45acp and the powder weighed 4-5 grains and you have a 230 grain bullet. Now what powder would be too hot at that load to be dangerous?
The answer is entirely dependent on powder, which you can't determine visually with sufficient certainly. That's why you test. . .
 
1) Please list the slow magnum powders to be found in .45ACP.
2) Despite years of reading on the topic, including Hodgdon's statement Re:H110, I have yet to see a single case of the dreaded detonation that wasn't more easily explained as a double charge. I have experimented with slow powders at reduced to very reduced charges, and my results match Hodgdon's (shocker). . . all I ever got was very incomplete combustion.

I call Nellie (the Loch Ness monster)! Everyone talks about it, but no one seems to have seen one.
Perhaps detonation was the wrong word. I should have said pressure spike. If you are interested you can Google "pressure spikes using reduced powder loads".
 
Perhaps detonation was the wrong word. I should have said pressure spike. If you are interested you can Google "pressure spikes using reduced powder loads".
We're both telling about the same thing, and I've read the available material, including many individual accounts on various forums.

I conclude, in agreement with all of the powder manufacturers who's statements I can find, that it's not so.
 
Ok i had a chance to pull one of the SWC's. It's 4.5grs of small flake powder and 200gr bullets. They actually look pretty good but i haven't used SWC's since the mid sixty's and can't put a name on what the powder might be, any ideas?
 
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