Owing to a shortage of BP here at the moment I have been forced to try smokeless just to be able to continue shooting.
A friend suggested a load of AR2207 which I happened to have on hand. The load I used was 24gr then a paper wad over the powder and the case filled up to within 1/4" of the rim with semolina followed by a LDPE wad and then the bullet ( 400 gr money bullet ) The load was compressed about 3/16" and the case mouth given a slight taper crimp to keep everything together.
This load seemed to produce quite a bit of recoil in my 40-65 and no accuracy at all.
Q  What should I change.
Also what is the advantage of semolina as opposed to cream of wheat for instance ( and where does one get cream of wheat anyway )
Any help would be appreciated.
Mike.

In Australia? I shoot my 40-65 with smokeless and no over powder wads and no fillers.

rgchristensen wrote on Dec 13^th, 2021 at 11:25pm:


I don't use wads or fillers but many in the CBA did many years ago with no problems that I remember.Mainly dacron wads IIRC.
I did use super grex(shot buffer) over medium loads in a 30-30 bench gun many years ago.it worked but wasn't worth the extra effort.

I'm sorry for my ignorance but I used the semolina to support the bullet while I applied the  taper crimp. I thought the idea of something over the powder was to keep it near the primer and also to stop powder from spilling into the action.
Seems like i'm on a steep learning curve at present.
I think I already mentioned it but I would prefer to shoot fixed ammo and not have to breech seat.
Mike.

A warning; if you resize be aware some dies squeeze more than others and can resize the bullet when seated in a too tight neck. Ideally a couple thousandths squeeze is good and if tighter a neck expander set to the bullet’s diameter or a thousandth smaller will put things in good order and no crimping is required or should be used.

Also I will affirm the previous posts and say stay away from wads and fillers of any sort. Smokeless is a completely different animal than black and all thoughts black should be removed from the thought process when dealing with smokeless. Good luck in your venture.