Powder differences

kdj Jul 15 2004, 09:58 AM I'm a little naive in this space since I *don't* experiment more than I absolutely have to with a load - and would probably buy factory ammo if someone would just make a perfect load for my gun in their factory I've reloaded a fair bit of ammo but have used very few variables and I realize that I don't know what exactly makes powders feel different. The one empericial measure I do pay attention to is burn rate but that doesn't seem to be the whole story. I guess powder density is another obvious metric but other than getting more in a case, and I suppose

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