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When you say that you are compressing the powder .520" below the case mouth, are you filling the case to the top with the new Eynsford?  if not, how much are you actually compressing your load?
I'm curious to see how that new powder responds as I talked to a friend at Lodi that's shooting it now and he said velocities are quite good but it had a different smell than our usual black.  Thanks.  Bob

I measured compression depth from the case mouth to the top of the wad.  This was done to achieve the seating depth needed to assure a drop-in fit in my rifle and have the case mouth against a driving band rather than hanging over a grease groove.  Actual compression from the top of the powder varied some.  I trickled the powder through a 24" drop tube and observed inconsistent settling so there was 1/16 - 3/32 between the powder and the case mouth.  So, actual compression was about 0.426 - 0.458.  There are a lot of fines in the powder, so I rolled the bottle for several minutes before putting the powder into the measure and weighed each throw.  Over the course of about 40 throws to set the measure and fill 20 cases I saw occasional heavy throws with a tendency near the lower third of the reservoir for heavier throws.  It appears that Goex sweetened the run with fines to adjust the burn rate.  That may impact loading strategies if the fines tend to settle into layers.  I am hoping that doesn't get to be too big a problem because I laid in enough to shoot for a good while on data developed for this lot number.

Based on POI of this Eynsford 2F load compared to my usual load of Goex 3F and my previous load of Goex 2F, I'd say the OE 2F is giving me somewhat higher muzzle velocity than 3F and quite a bit higher velocity than the 2F.  Have to catch another calm day to confirm this but I think I will reduce my 200 m setting about 2-3 moa from the 3F setting.

The OE appears to burn cleaner than the old red can Goex by a considerable margin.  Wiping patches that were coming out caked with fouling came out black but not caked, all the fouling was in the cloth.  A second wet patch was light gray streaks and the third wet patch was white.  The smell is different too, more like charcoal ash much less sulphur than red can Goex.

Thanks for the report on Old Eyns.  Keep us posted as you progress with this powder.  It will be interesting to see if you have vertical problems when you shoot it at longer distances.  Generally, a lot of fines in the powder are not a good thing but this may be different.  You mentioned that you thought the weight changed as it went through the reservoir.  I wonder what the sd's are with this powder?