#97426 - 12/08/11 06:04 PM
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BBwheelgunner
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Just Curious,
Are most of the loads available (factory and hand-loads) under what the 454 Casull is safely capable of as far as pressure?
I hear and see people say that it is a 60,000 CUP cartridge, yet on the Hodgdon website the highest pressure load I see is around 53,000 CUP.
Just for fun I am curious what you guys/ gals think
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#97429 - 12/08/11 06:38 PM
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oh yeah, the ruger, FA, and the bfr will all handle loads far in excess of what the factory loads produce and i believe all the current factory loads are under 60k cup. they've toned them down quite a bit. corbon and hornady in particular are down a bit from what they were 15 years ago or so.
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#97433 - 12/08/11 06:58 PM
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Grizzly loads their Casull offerings to about 59,000 psi and I believe Buffalo Bore loads in that range as well, except for the 360 grain load (BB) that is loaded to less pressure in order to prevent the possibility of crimp pull. The SAAMI spec is 65,000 psi.
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#97441 - 12/08/11 07:43 PM
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Ok that's what I was thinking. huh...
If the SAAMI specs are at 65,000 CUP then I wonder, why is most of the load data available then also loaded only to 53ish? a good 10,000 ish increase seems a pretty good size cushion.
Is the underlying issue case capacity?
Thanks for the replies guys. This is all interesting to me. I guess that's what qualifies us as "gun-nuts" lol
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#97442 - 12/08/11 07:44 PM
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That's psi, not CUP -- be careful not to mix them!
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#97446 - 12/08/11 08:11 PM
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Thanks Whitworth,
I was unclear on the difference.
Just found a good article on the two
http://www.shootingtimes.com/2011/01/04/ammunition_st_cuppsireloaddata_200905/
So the load data is still short then correct?
Edited by BBwheelgunner (12/08/11 08:12 PM)
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#97568 - 12/10/11 10:47 AM
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yeah, most recent load data is lower pressure for top loads than the older data. i've got old load data from the early 90's and it's much hotter than the new. not sure why, i've never heard of any probs with the old hornady or FA load data, or the old hogdon data but if ya look at speer or sierra it's always been lower. personally i think this is b/c you can load a FA 454 to be essentially the equal of a 460 in the smith platform and never hurt the gun. i know corbon's 454 loads went down in velocity as they added the 460 to the catalog. that said, ya really don't need the top highest pressures at all imho.
look what lynn thompson did to that buff with standard hornady ammo.
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#97584 - 12/10/11 01:25 PM
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tradmark,
that's very true.
I was curious and googled this same topic and found some interesting things. My gosh they loaded it hot back in the 80's. there is a reference in this link to an 80's article by John Taffin on some 340 gr. SSK bullet loads doing like 1800fps out of a 10" FA! that's crazy fast!
http://forums.handloads.com/archive/forum_posts.asp?TID=10149
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#97613 - 12/10/11 08:31 PM
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if you want to see something really funny pick up the Lyman book on pistols and revolvers, they are extremely light. I'm running 7 grains of H110 more than the max they list for the 454 but almost all their data is like that. The book has some interesting stuff in it but the data for the most part is weak.
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#97618 - 12/10/11 09:03 PM
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I have to agree on this one... Their 270 Win data is 300 fps slower than Hornadys and my chrony...
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