It seems that this should be an ideal powder for max level loads, especially with the heavier bullets. 2400 is a good powder, but a bit too fast burning for heavy bullets, and H110/W296 seem to be just a tad too slow.

I'm planning to use it with 160, 180 and 200 gr bullets in a 357 blackhawk. Curious if others have tried this combo, and what the results are.

Should be perfect, Paul. LilGun will be very close to many lots of WC820, and if you have the latter, I would not get the LilGun unless for grins. ... felix

Felix,

Unfortunately the haz-mat shipping charges to Alaska on the mil-surp powders are very high, unless one buys at least 12 if not 16 kegs of powder. That is simply too much powder for me to purchase at one time, and I could never find enough folks with cash in hand to put together a communal order.

Paul H,

I have some 180 grn hard cast bullets (Laser Cast True Shot) that are plain based and tried them with LilGun, H110, AA#9, W296, VN110, #2400 etc. I used regular primers with the LG and #9 but mag with the other two. Out of my 6" GP100 the LilGun had the second highest velocity, after #9, and by far the best accuracy at 50yds.

I'm casting the Ly. 245 Keith bullet for my Marlin 44mag which is plain based also. LilGun (23.5-24.5grns-reg primer)is far and away the most accurate powder for that bullet, or any other I've tried, at 100yds. I still like my H110 with the 240grn cast but the LilGun has impressed me. BM

Bill

I've used 14.9 grains of Lil' Gun under a 180 grain cast TCBB (Magma mould). It runs 1,137 fps average out of my 4 inch 686. Accuracy was good and it had much less flash and bang than H110 loads. I'm a Lil' Gun fan.

Colt Police Positive 38 Special 4" barrel reamed out to 357 mag with .380" straight fluted reamer. Chrono results are with jacketed bullets, but recoil is similar with 158 gr LSWC. Double compression was used to get 23.5 gr to fit, I have got 26 gr to fit on occasion:

1) 18 gr. LIL'GUN 158 gr. XTP 1.59", WSPM, 1173 fps

2) 23.5 gr. LIL'GUN 158 gr. XTP 1.59", WSPM, 1155 fps



This seems strange to me, more powder and no more velocity, but noise and recoil certainly increase.



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I wrote Hodgdon and asked why they only used and 18 gr of LIL'GUN and why the did not use 158 gr LSWC bullets like me.



They wrote back:





1) we run out of case capacity and cannot get more powder into the case.



2) large charges of LIL Gun tend to melt the base of plain base lead

bullets.



Mike Daly

Director of Customer Service