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Weighing Powder - How precise is good enough?
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<blockquote data-quote="Mikecr" data-source="post: 533618" data-attributes="member: 1521"><p>It is also a matter of the load itself. </p><p>When loaded to extreme pressures, powders burn faster, the pressure peak narrows, and barrel timing becomes more or less constant, with only little things like air density(that piston of air in the bore) to screw with it..</p><p>A 6PPC loaded wide-***-open easily burns all of it's powder in a 21" barrel, and there ain't a lot you can do about it(including screw it up). It's charges are not typically weighed, because they don't have to be, given it's sliver of application..</p><p></p><p>But a 6PPC is not a long range HUNTING cartridge, and hunting cartridges cannot be run at 6PPC extremes -ever. Well, until a better barrel steal is invented..</p><p></p><p>I agree that powder weight tolerances needed for hunting cartridges is tied to capacity. This can be seen using QuickLoad, and QuickTarget.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mikecr, post: 533618, member: 1521"] It is also a matter of the load itself. When loaded to extreme pressures, powders burn faster, the pressure peak narrows, and barrel timing becomes more or less constant, with only little things like air density(that piston of air in the bore) to screw with it.. A 6PPC loaded wide-***-open easily burns all of it's powder in a 21" barrel, and there ain't a lot you can do about it(including screw it up). It's charges are not typically weighed, because they don't have to be, given it's sliver of application.. But a 6PPC is not a long range HUNTING cartridge, and hunting cartridges cannot be run at 6PPC extremes -ever. Well, until a better barrel steal is invented.. I agree that powder weight tolerances needed for hunting cartridges is tied to capacity. This can be seen using QuickLoad, and QuickTarget. [/QUOTE]
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