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Re: question about 40-50 SS brass
Reply #30 - Today at 10:50am
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I used 19.0 grs. of 4198 with an RCBS CSA 300 mold.
  

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Re: question about 40-50 SS brass
Reply #31 - Today at 2:41pm
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marlinguy wrote Today at 10:50am:
I used 19.0 grs. of 4198 with an RCBS CSA 300 mold.


This is on a black powder rolling block ?  I have that mold.  How deep are you seating them ?

  
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Re: question about 40-50 SS brass
Reply #32 - Today at 4:13pm
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I think I might try loading smokeless in this rifle.  I am trying to get a handle on the original black powder ballistics were for the cartridge.  This time Wiki is no help. Doing a little searching and I found one reference to an original factory load using a 265 grain bullet at 1400 fps.
   The vintage Winchester mold I have with its handle stamped 40-82 produces just that very bullet a 265gn fn-pb.
   The only comparable cartridge I can think of for load data is the 401 WSL at 1.5" case length. The 401 works at a way higher pressure than I would ever want to put through a BP roller so no real help there.  No doubt I will figure something out but I would like to be sure that 1400 fps with a 265gn bullet what I should be looking to duplicate with a smokeless load.  Was that the original BP velocity and bullet weight ?
  
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