Article in latest Am Rifleman on loading the 38-55 referrs to XMP5744. Never heard of it. Can anyone help me out?

It's an Accurate Arms powder that is supposed to be position-insensitive, so it is used to reproduce blackpowder-level loads in capacious cases like the .45-70.

It also happens to have a burning rate close to that of the slower handgun powders, so it has uses in the same places you'd employ, say, 2400, 4227, etc.

Check out the www.accuratepowder.com web site.

Thanx, BigIron, you were right on. A pretty decent site also.

When I had my .45-70 Sharps it was THE powder for accurate smokeless loads too. No fooling around with wads, filler, etc. Just drop it in a case and shoot. Can be hard to find though, at least here in MT anyway.
FN

Glenn: This is indeed good stuff. I use it in .38-55, .45-70 and .577 Snider, and plan to use in in .5477-450 as well. I also used it when I had a Ruger Tropical in .416 Rigby. With 52 grains in Norma brass under the RCBS gas-checked .416 bullet, it gave just under 2,000 fps, mild recoil and accuracy of just over an inch at 100 yards. Great powder! I believe Accurate gets it from Czechoslovakia.

glenn,

You might want to try the enclosed link. I made several comments on XMP-5744 along with other people. It might get you started as to the properties of 5744...Good-luck...BCB

http://talk.shooters.com/room_18/5509.cfm?DisplayPageOrder=PageDown