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You might read through this thread. It has most of the story of the original 3 lots of surplus powder that was marketed by TCCI. Since then there have been several attempts to recreate lightening in a bottle. So far I like IMR8208 which is manufactured for Hodgdon by the French owned Australian Defe...

I tried 27gr of LT-32 behind coated 40 gr Ballistic Tip and it blew the primer and destroyed the case. I had to pound out the case with a steel rod. The velocity was 4111 which tells you it was an overload. Part of the primer ended up inside the bolt and interfered with the firing pin so I was done ...

I was very pleased with my rifles groups with the Forster "Bump" bushing die. I also suggest that you seat with the Wilson arbor seater. I also have a Wilson size die but the Forster bump die is more accurate in my chamber. My disappointment with the Wilson seater may be because of the sho...

I have loaded for two .204 Rugers. I tried H335 (worst accuracy and standard deviation I tried), Varget, IMR 3031, Reloader 15, VV N-530, VV N-540, benchmark and IMR 8208 all with Fed 205M primers and 39 gr Sierra bullets in Nosler brass for 3 years now. This year I have tried LT-32 and CFE 223. Whe...