Has anyone found a use for these powders in target handgun loads? In the past 700x and Red Dot among others have proved useful in center fire handgun loads.
Hogdon Perfect Pattern & High Gun
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If you have a chrono & knowledge of what the data tells you, you can make just about any powder work in handgun loads. I have used RD for decades. I shoot a lot of WST with great results, little to no data. Find the powders burn rate to compare with a powder you can find data for. Start low & work up shooting over the chrono. You can then graph the vel vs charge weight & compare with known powder data to get safe results.
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Coming across this late. High Gun is relabeled Tightgroup. It is a really good shotgun powder but almost no one was using it for that so that's why Hodgen Powder CO relabeled it. Perfect Pattern is a completely new powder.
Both are cheaper compared to other powders too, at least when you buy kegs.
* Edited because I got the powder names backwards. High Gun is Tightgroup.
Both are cheaper compared to other powders too, at least when you buy kegs.
* Edited because I got the powder names backwards. High Gun is Tightgroup.
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I know it says maybe to not revive this thread but it has the perfect question I’m asking. Anyone ever go further into this? Specifically Perfect Pattern? Shotgun loader here looking to see if it has any .45 ACP potential.
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Again, every shotgun powder has been or will be used for pistol loads. You just need a chrono & understanding of vel relationship to pressures & a burn rate chart. Not saying it is simple but certainly can be done.
I have used WST, Ramshot Comp, Reddot, bluedot, greendot, Clays, all fast shotgun powders totally suitable for many pistol applications, even without data.
There are books of data for Bullseye. It can be used as your baseline for working up faster powders. Same for unique, books of data that can be used to extrapolate data with an new powder in that burn range.
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Haven't tried Perfect Pattern & High Gun. But if I were I don't think I'd have much of a problem using it in 9mm.
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I have lots of powders so don't see the point spending $40 a # to try something new. Yet if it fell into my hands cheap, i would make it work.
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Kind of where I'm at. I have a couple 5# jugs of powder for pistol. But if I had to work with an unknown powder I'd start with 9mm, a burn chart and my chrono to get me where I need to be.
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