DuPont 5 1/2 powder
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DuPont 5 1/2 powder
Was DuPont 5 1/2 smokeless ? I’ve been googling and haven’t found a definitive answer !
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Re: DuPont 5 1/2 powder
Or might that mean 5 1/2 drams ?
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Re: DuPont 5 1/2 powder
Can't help ya , I've never heard of a
5¹/² powder so I'd venture to guess it's 5¹/² drams. Is that a 10 or your 8 bore?
5¹/² powder so I'd venture to guess it's 5¹/² drams. Is that a 10 or your 8 bore?
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Not 10
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I bet you are the only guy hunting deer with a 'not 10 '
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Re: DuPont 5 1/2 powder
Yep, the 5 & 1/2 dram makes sense now...
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You’d think that but it isn’t the case ! I’ve loaded some buckshot loads for three friends .
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A gentleman on the Parker/Fox/Smith/Remington web sites is kind of a historian with many many catalogs etc downloaded on his PC . If I’m not mistaken he had all this stuff on micro film before PC’s became the norm. Anyway he says these are late 8 gauge shells post 1931 and that particular shell is loaded with 5 1/2 drams of bulk smokeless powders .
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There ya go, there is always someone who knows the answers.
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Re: DuPont 5 1/2 powder
Probably Dupont Smokeless shotgun powder?
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https://www.loc.gov/item/2006676699/
https://digital.hagley.org/dpads_1803_00001