I bought some B West Imports extruded powder about 17 Years ago. Its been sealed and inside ever since. I used 4 lbs of it when I bought it. Now I still have 4 lbs but I lost the data for it. I used it for my 22-250 and had real good results. Now its time to load again and with the price of powder, I'd like to use it. Did anybody else ever use the powder? Would you share your data with me? Thanks in advance. Marc Brittain

I used 8# of it and it seemed to have a burning rate a smidge slower than 3031. Start with minimum suggested loads of the 3031 and work up. You might be looking at something close to 4895 BUT NO GARUANTEES. It's been a while. roger

Carwashman. I bought 16 lbs of it. It came in 2 lbs paper containers. It was made in China. I have used it with excellent result in 223.cal Rem. 22.5 gr.with a Sierra 1410 (52gr. hollow-point)bullet.I paid $ 5.00 for 2 lbs container. I am here in Las Vegas until Sat. I have the loading data at home. I`ll get in touch with you then. Marlin

interesting cached link also B-West was closed by the ATF.

bw36

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BW36 Surplus Powder Data

Guys thanks for all the excellent help.

Marlin, if you don't mind, shoot me an email when you get home with the data. Again, I appreciate all the help. Marc

Carwashman Finally found the Reloding Data on BW 36 powder. If you give me an email address, I will copy the page and send it.By the way, if it is of interrest.There was another company called Thunderbird Cartridge Corp. that did not have enough storage facility so they stored their surpus powder with BW.Regards Marlin

This may or may not help you any,but might give you a bit of an idea as to what it works like...

My local freinds and I bought about 64 pounds of it 13 or 14 years ago. It was packaged for a Tucson AZ importer by TCCI in Phoenix, AZ. That arrangement fell apart and a lawsuit reportedly ensued.

We used it for cast bullet benchrest shooting from 4 different versions of the .30-BR, with 196 to 215 grain GC bullets. We all ended up using about 29-29.5 grains, ahead of either WSR or F-205M primers. It shot very well, but no better than IMR or H 4895, and was dirtier burning than both.

It WAS very inexpensive, though, so was a good, useful tool at the time.

Marlin: mkbrittain@yahoo.com
Thanks a Bunch!

Alberta Canuck: Very interesting, Thanks!

I just re-read Roger's post comparing BW-36 to IMR 3031.

Roger is certainly correct, in that when sold BW-36 was also called "3031 Data Powder". If I recall correctly, the powder suppliers even said to use 3031 data either somewhere on one of the 2 lb. or the 8 lb. packages, or with the data sheet that was provided by TCCI.

Pretty much everyone I know of personally who used it found it a bit slower burning than 3031, but that is no surprise. H-4831, when first sold, was advertised as "4350 data powder".....meaning that if you used 4350 data you were in no danger of getting an overload, regardless of cartridge.

Same is true with BW-36. If you use good, tested, commercially cannistered 3031 data, you are in no danger of hurting yourself with the BW-36, regardeless which cartridge you use it in....most of the time. (There are exceptions to EVERY rule.)