by crbutler on Sun May 03, 2020 8:38 pm
I have and have used some 4227. I really didn't care much for it, except in very rare applications- mostly cast bullet bottleneck cased rifle rounds. I originally got it for some old magnum 10 ga loading.
First off, unless you weigh each charge individually, it will be very erratic. Its a very long stick powder. Forget about using it through a pistol powder measure.
I haven't used it in a number of years, but that one 10 ga load was really nice- actually that was more my Dad's load than mine- as duck hunting with lead shot ended after my first two years of hunting (and back then 13-14 year olds didn't shoot 10 bore...). I still use it for crows and varmints.
Secondly, I never did get quite the velocities it claimed, and got much better results with the VihtaVouri powders... but I also note that was only using their 2nd edition or earlier load data- they lawyered up and the max loads have gone down quite a bit- I had one .357 mag load that with their max loading using N110 I could get 1600 FPS with a 158 grain bullet... 8" Python. I wasn't very nice to that gun- that was in my days of questing after velocity first and foremost. But, it couldn't have been that bad, as its still one of the most accurate .357's I have.
Win 296 and H110 are the same powder. Those are what I use the most of in .44 Mag, .41 Mag, .50 AE and .454 Casull.
2400 is a good powder, just burns a bit more dirty in my experience.
Oldman, I've got a contender as well- what barrels do you want to get rid of?