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Reloading
Anyone know where 8208 powder is?
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<blockquote data-quote="Doom2" data-source="post: 2834536" data-attributes="member: 108323"><p>A little bit on temperature stability and reloading. Many people, myself included learned the heard way about temperature effects on smokeless powder. I have pretty much stayed away from ball/spherical powders since then and use extruded powders that tend to have less sensitively. </p><p></p><p>There is no reason that accurate safe loads can't be developed with the less temperature stable powders once it is recognized as such. What it often requires is the development of seasonal loads, especially if pushing for maximum velocity/pressure. Ball/spherical powders benefit from being easily loaded accurately from volumetric powder dispenser while the extruded powders are more difficult.</p><p></p><p>As for temp stable, the Hodgdon Extreme powders are marketed as temperature stable, as are the Enduron IMR powders and Winchester StaBall powders. IMR 4064 seems to be fairly stable and GD has indicated that is was reformulated. 8208XBR is also marked as a temp stable powder and is from the Extreme powder supplier Thales/ADI. Vithavouri also claims to be more temperature stable.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Doom2, post: 2834536, member: 108323"] A little bit on temperature stability and reloading. Many people, myself included learned the heard way about temperature effects on smokeless powder. I have pretty much stayed away from ball/spherical powders since then and use extruded powders that tend to have less sensitively. There is no reason that accurate safe loads can't be developed with the less temperature stable powders once it is recognized as such. What it often requires is the development of seasonal loads, especially if pushing for maximum velocity/pressure. Ball/spherical powders benefit from being easily loaded accurately from volumetric powder dispenser while the extruded powders are more difficult. As for temp stable, the Hodgdon Extreme powders are marketed as temperature stable, as are the Enduron IMR powders and Winchester StaBall powders. IMR 4064 seems to be fairly stable and GD has indicated that is was reformulated. 8208XBR is also marked as a temp stable powder and is from the Extreme powder supplier Thales/ADI. Vithavouri also claims to be more temperature stable. [/QUOTE]
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