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<blockquote data-quote="BallisticsGuy" data-source="post: 2324289" data-attributes="member: 96226"><p>Heavy for caliber bullets need slower powders lest bad things happen. That said, within the slower burning powder options there is usually some window of very slightly faster vs. very slightly slower and that's religious stuff right there. </p><p></p><p>I know people that will go toward the faster side for more consistent burn at the cost of a higher peak pressure and others that go for the slowest end for a longer burn with less peak pressure and higher average pressure. Since not one of those people actually has any pressure testing equipment at their disposal and QuickLoad is helpful but not authoritative and easy to make mistakes with anyway, their stated preferences are by definition entirely speculative and thence can be discarded as apocrypha at best. I like to stay with the slowest options that still deliver the velocities I'm looking for partly because I bias toward extremely long barrels. If my barrels were on the short side then I'd probably slide my powder selection toward the very slightly faster side of the appropriate powders.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BallisticsGuy, post: 2324289, member: 96226"] Heavy for caliber bullets need slower powders lest bad things happen. That said, within the slower burning powder options there is usually some window of very slightly faster vs. very slightly slower and that's religious stuff right there. I know people that will go toward the faster side for more consistent burn at the cost of a higher peak pressure and others that go for the slowest end for a longer burn with less peak pressure and higher average pressure. Since not one of those people actually has any pressure testing equipment at their disposal and QuickLoad is helpful but not authoritative and easy to make mistakes with anyway, their stated preferences are by definition entirely speculative and thence can be discarded as apocrypha at best. I like to stay with the slowest options that still deliver the velocities I'm looking for partly because I bias toward extremely long barrels. If my barrels were on the short side then I'd probably slide my powder selection toward the very slightly faster side of the appropriate powders. [/QUOTE]
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