Reduced pistol loads.

[amc577]

Quite worrying.....wonder if the guy is an NSRA member..most fast pistol and shotgun powders can be safely downloaded with cast lead.....slow powders, particularly ball powders should be avoided. Everyone who uses reduced loads should read the "Lever action performance study website". The guys on that website spent ten years studying the various types of powders and loads for reduced loads in cowboy action shooting. The technicalities of combustion with various powders, are explained in detail. Many shooting clubs offer reloading courses and perhaps they should be compulsory.

amc577

[pbranthwaite]

Sounds about right with the company you keep what are walking away from BTW?

[Kernel Gadaffi]

I've been to have words with "the reloader", and gently coerced him into the correct way of carrying out reloading and obtaining data for the calibres he reloads, it turns out that an "expert" at his shooting club had been giving him advice, (opposite to what I'd told him), I've shown him the reloading data on the side of his powder tubs and on the websites of said powder manufacturers and I think I've managed to put him on the straight and narrow.

If anyone hears a bang, it might mean I've failed!

[dodgyrog]

I've been to have words with "the reloader", and gently coerced him into the correct way of carrying out reloading and obtaining data for the calibres he reloads, it turns out that an "expert" at his shooting club had been giving him advice, (opposite to what I'd told him), I've shown him the reloading data on the side of his powder tubs and on the websites of said powder manufacturers and I think I've managed to put him on the straight and narrow.

If anyone hears a bang, it might mean I've failed!

I guess someone needs to have a word in the ear of the 'expert'!
Does your club have any procedures regarding the use of reloaded ammunition - if it doesn't the club insurance might well be invalidated!

[Livefast123]

I'm surprised he had made it so far without a KB, H110 is not the most forgiving powder in the world when loaded with too much space in non magnum rounds.

All I use for target pistol loads is Hodgdon Titegroup, economical and accurate.

[Elwellaxe]

He should carry a Gov't health warning.
Elwellaxe.

[Kernel Gadaffi]

I'm not a member of the club, so cannot comment of who the "expert" is, I've been talking to a mate with 40+ years of reloading, he's a member of the club and knows the "expert" and will be having words with him, he's loaded several rifle and pistol calibres over the years and only uses Herco or Unique for his pistol cals, he double and triple checks his load data before every reloading session, places the data card in front of him and puts the unrequired cards back in the box, that way only the data for the calibre he's loading at the moment is the one he looks at.
Safety is paramount.