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So just ran some numbers. 680 gr. Bullet, 1.01 bc, traveling at 3150 @ 5000 ft elevation would have over 5000 ft pounds of energy at 3000 yards. Wow!!!!
YEP!!!
So just ran some numbers. 680 gr. Bullet, 1.01 bc, traveling at 3150 @ 5000 ft elevation would have over 5000 ft pounds of energy at 3000 yards. Wow!!!!
The lots I have tested of both show that RL50 is noticeably faster burning then VV20N29. VV20N29 is a very large kernel size, much larger then RL50 so it will displace much more volume for a given powder charge. RL50 is actually a pretty dense for volume stick powder.
Comparing RL50 to H50BMG, some lots seem identical, some slightly faster or slower, just depends on the lots of each being compared, similar though in both burn rate and density. I would say RL50 is slightly more dense then H50BMG.
That makes complete sense. I will have to give RL50 a try since H-50 is no longer imported.
Its a good powder, can not say its AS stable as H50BMG over wide temp changes but its pretty good in the testing I have done.
I used H50BMG A LOT in my 338 Allen Magnum over the past decade plus and I can tell you in that cartridge, even H50BMG will have some pressure variations with temp changes and RL50 does not seem any better or worse.
In the big bores like the 50 BMG and my big wildcats on that case, H50BMG showed much less velocity variation then in the lower expansion ratio wildcats like the 338 Allen Magnum. Its always amazing how different expansion ratio cartridges can dramatically change the burn characteristics of a given powder.
Sounds good. The gun it will be going in will only be shot over maybe tops a 50f degree swing. And it might not even be that. Just snagged the last 2 pounds of 50BMG from a local store today.
In your test have yo also noticed the bigger the cartridge the less variance from one grain of powder to the next is? I fell the bigger cartridges are more stable just from teh shear volume of powder in them. Take my 06 vs my .300 BSM. one gets 65 grains of RL26 and the next gets 120 grains of 50BMG powder. The big one seems to just get a stable load more easy.
Got you. I single feed and am very picky about how a loaded round is handled. Sounds like a bullet that should be slick!There is not much baring surface contact in the neck. This they are easy to knock out of concentricity.