My good friend and fellow Leverguns.Com board member, w30wcf, graciously turned me on to about 700 grains of #80 powder. Most likely, it is from the 1920's or 1930's at the latest. Elmer liked 12 grains in his 44 Special handguns so I just had to see what it did.
I loaded 12 rounds of 44 Spl with 12 grains of this powder behind a 245 gr. Keith bullet, sized .431. Instead of shooting them in the below pictured Triplelock, I chose a S&W mod. 29 with a 10 and 5/8ths in. barrel. (Did not know what would happen
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Anyway, 6 rounds chronographed between 951 and 1031 fps with an average of 988. Its about equal to 8-8.5 of Unique, a potent load in his time, but a joke today. The powder had a funny smell when going off, something I have never smelled before. Don't know if it was the make-up or the age. Now that I know its safe, I'm gonna load the rest up and blast some steel.--------Sixgun
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