This is why I picked up 45 pounds of IMR7383 for $5 a pound. Must be good for something.i learned years back, get any powder you can if it's a good price.
there's always something you can do with it if you shoot both cast and jacketed.
As a sidenote, another reason for bringing the chrono was to let my budd shoot his CPA 44-1/2 in 25-20SS over it. He breech seat (with the breech seater I made for him). He shoots a 118 grain spitzer nose PB cast bullet over 8.3gr of 2400. For 10 shots is ES was 24fps and SD was 7fps. Avg velocity was 1536fps. That's impressive. And the accuracy at 400 yds bore it out.
Just go to the CPA site, Brett. Paul has pics of his guns. Probably a quick Google search will bring up a bunch of pics as well. They all look the same. Only the hole in the barrel is different. There are several at Wilton. One guy has several barrels and shoots it in different events, including .22 matches. This one belongs to a late member here, Sendaro. John passed a few years ago at 72. He had a nice small collection including some original 44-1/2 Stevens. He was a serious benchrest shooter and wrote the history of Pinetree Gun Club where benchrest was born. I have a signed copy of his book. I still miss the guy badly. He had a great sense of humor and his absence on the firing line is still felt.
Mr. Ross, the goal is for ME to have fun, not entertain all you shut-ins who spend the day watching the View, reading posts here about Brett getting his foot caught in another frozen cowpie while braiding the tails of his goats or watching a video from CW on how to butter popcorn in a tumbler.
All seriousness aside, I am learning in the process and that is always a good thing. At some point today I plan to get into the Gordon's Reloading Tool software and see if I can not work up a few loads on my own. The home screen for GRT looks very much like the screen Ian posted for QL. Should be interesting and hopefully fun. I know that the hard part will be the teething period as I figure out how things are done. The manual is pretty good. But I find I tend to learn more by simply doing. Then I can confirm my process by going back to the manual. I suspect using it is somewhat intuitive for a shooter with some experience in reloading. They have two version/home screens. A simple version and an expert version. I'm starting out with the simple version. From what I can see, it is just a screen with less info portrayed. Might be fewer inputs sections as well. I'll worry about the Expert version when and if the time comes.
I have to make chili for the club match on Sunday so plan on making it today. Chili is always better if it has sat for a few days. Temps are dropping like the Dow so front porch is cold storage now and great place to put the chili to sit until Sunday. I also have to go to the local library and mooch some book binding supplies to fix the binding on Charlie's copy of Winchester Single Shots that I'm reading. The quality of the binding is questionable, and somebody broke the binding on the title page. Need to fix it before the book starts to fall apart. Then there is the repair of the tank on my '39 Indian Four that I have to do and not destroy the paint. Been practicing with test coupons with the fancy solder and expensive flux I got for the job. Just might go back to my buddy George with all the ingredients.
Cannot understand how I had time to work before I retired.