Re: muzzleloader powder charge

"Josh Grant" <jg1972@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Ok your gun is rated to 120 grains of black powder or equivalent, is that
> by
> weight or volume? 150 grain equivalent of 777 pellets weights 90 grains.
> 150 grain equivalent of Pyrodex weights 120 grains actual. My older
> Knight
> rifle is rated to 120 grains. I called Knight and asked if it was ok to
> shoot max load of any of the black powder substitutes and they said it was
> fine. I then reiterated 777 measured by volume. They said it would be
> fine.
> So by my reasoning it would be fine to shoot Three 50 grain pellets of
> either Pyrodex or 777 because they are less than 120 grains by weight. I
> also know that 120 grains of 777 by volume will result in approx 2050 fgp
> with a 250 grain sabot. where as a "150 grain pellet load" will only
> produce
> approx 1950 fps. Dose this make sense to anyone else? Am I making a safe
> deduction. I really want to stick with pellets but also want to achieve
> max
> velocity.
>
> Josh

Black Powder and its substitutes are measured by volume, not by weight.
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