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<blockquote data-quote="Fiftydriver" data-source="post: 1626167" data-attributes="member: 10"><p>I use RL26 a lot in my 338 Allen Xpress when chambered in repeating rifles and loaded with heavy long bullets that are needed to be seated deeper to fit into magazine boxes. It works very well. May be just about perfect for the 181 in the 300 Allen Xpress but think it would be a BIT fast with the heavy 30 cals but would still work well. </p><p></p><p>When I say it may be a bit fast or a bit slow, I am NOT saying it would not produce excellent results. What I am referring to is the load density. My goal with my wildcats and any other round I develop loads for is to find a powder that will produce the best combination of pressure, load density, accuracy and consistency.</p><p></p><p>Optimum in my opinion is a powder that will max out in pressure at 100% load density and as such will result in a 98-99% load density with top pressure working loads. I prefer to NOT use compressed powder charges for a variety of reasons. Not that a mildly compressed powder charge is a bad thing or will cause any real issues but I just prefer not to. The main reason for this is in the past I have pulled loads apart that had been loaded for some time with compressed loads and when the bullet was pulled I found that the powder charge had become a solid column of powder and to get out a small screw driver to break the powder loose so I could remove it from the case.</p><p></p><p>I found this happen with ball and stick powders. As such in my wildcats which have relatively large diameter powder columns and relatively sharp shoulder angles, these loads that had set for some time(6 months plus), when fired resulted in higher chamber pressures, with stick powders sometimes MUCH higher chamber pressures and it did not really matter what powders were used.</p><p></p><p>So, because of that experience and testing I decided no more compressed loads for my wildcats to solve this issue. To test this I loaded up some 99% and some slightly compressed load density loads and let them sit for a year. Used Retumbo and US869 to test.</p><p></p><p>After a year, loads with compressed loads, solid column of powder. Loads with 99% load density flowed out of the case effortlessly......</p><p></p><p>Sorry, got a bit off track here. Anyway, RL26 would likely work great with the 181 and I would not think you would need to deal with compressed loads.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Fiftydriver, post: 1626167, member: 10"] I use RL26 a lot in my 338 Allen Xpress when chambered in repeating rifles and loaded with heavy long bullets that are needed to be seated deeper to fit into magazine boxes. It works very well. May be just about perfect for the 181 in the 300 Allen Xpress but think it would be a BIT fast with the heavy 30 cals but would still work well. When I say it may be a bit fast or a bit slow, I am NOT saying it would not produce excellent results. What I am referring to is the load density. My goal with my wildcats and any other round I develop loads for is to find a powder that will produce the best combination of pressure, load density, accuracy and consistency. Optimum in my opinion is a powder that will max out in pressure at 100% load density and as such will result in a 98-99% load density with top pressure working loads. I prefer to NOT use compressed powder charges for a variety of reasons. Not that a mildly compressed powder charge is a bad thing or will cause any real issues but I just prefer not to. The main reason for this is in the past I have pulled loads apart that had been loaded for some time with compressed loads and when the bullet was pulled I found that the powder charge had become a solid column of powder and to get out a small screw driver to break the powder loose so I could remove it from the case. I found this happen with ball and stick powders. As such in my wildcats which have relatively large diameter powder columns and relatively sharp shoulder angles, these loads that had set for some time(6 months plus), when fired resulted in higher chamber pressures, with stick powders sometimes MUCH higher chamber pressures and it did not really matter what powders were used. So, because of that experience and testing I decided no more compressed loads for my wildcats to solve this issue. To test this I loaded up some 99% and some slightly compressed load density loads and let them sit for a year. Used Retumbo and US869 to test. After a year, loads with compressed loads, solid column of powder. Loads with 99% load density flowed out of the case effortlessly...... Sorry, got a bit off track here. Anyway, RL26 would likely work great with the 181 and I would not think you would need to deal with compressed loads. [/QUOTE]
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