29 December 2004, 07:11
vapodogmore pressure data
FWIW the latest Alliant powder data publication with reloading data for their fine series of RL powders shows the pressure they experienced with the loads posted. It's a free publication at almost all gun shops.
Some data is represented in CUP and others is in PSI but all data is stated at a particular pressure.
As a general guide one might think of 60,000 PSI as equivalent to 51,000 CUP.
Further most (but not all) data for cartridges based on the .308 Win and .30-06 Spg are loaded to 60,000 PSI in this manual and most (but not all) belted magnums are loaded to a trifle more than that.
For those of us that think loading manuals are conservative we now can have a guide as to just how conservative it might be. Maybe that data has always been there and I didn't notice.....
29 December 2004, 08:50
BFaucettAlliant's load data is also available online at:
http://recipes.alliantpowder.com/And as a downloadable PDF file:
http://www.alliantpowder.com/guide/reloader.pdfHome page:
http://www.alliantpowder.com/