You can choose up to 2. You can change your vote at any time. The poll will run forever. Powder cost should not be considered an issue. No other cartridge should be taken into consideration toward your choice(s).
Blue Dot has been my do all powder since the late 70's for many pistol & some reduced rifle cartridges and shot shell gauges.
Cartridges I load for...10mm, 40S&W, 357Sig, 9x25Dillon, 38spl, 357mag, 44spl, 44mag, 9mm, 45ACP, 30-30, 308, 30'06, 12ga and 410ga...Blue Dot has driven all of these for accuracy and performance using jacketed and cast bullets with or with out gas checks. Using Blue Dot in 2 3/4" 12 ga driving 1 1/4oz loads was hard to beat for magnum duck hunting loads before they eliminated lead shot!
While I still load many rounds using Blue Dot to include the 10mm, I am using IMR 800X & LongShot for some of the top performance loadings. I think 800x has a slight edge with the heavier bullet weights vs. pressure in 10mm.
If I could only have one powder it would be Blue Dot.......... ;D
Blue Dot for sure, but AA9 and AA7 are a close tie for second place. Power Pistol is a decent 4th place choice, although it sounds like Longshot would be in the mix there somewhere, when I get around to trying it.
I've been using Blue Dot and like it so far but I've been reloading for a few months.
I use more blue dot than anything else in 10mm. But for max performance, AA#9 (WC820 - old pull down) is my go to powder. Looking at ordering 48 lbs of it in fact.
My "other" is Silhouette.
Hey Steve4102,
I hadn't thought of Silhouette.
Which bullet weights do you like it for? Everything?
Anyway, I added it to the list so you can change your vote if you like, and just in case others would choose it too.
Yeah everything, but I haven't loaded anything above 180gr yet. Works great for low-mid level lead target loads too.
Cool. Thanks.
Been using Blue Dot
Quote from: Bro KV on November 14 2012 01:29:04 AM MST
Been using H335, Blue Dot and Varget
335 and Varget in the 10MM ?
223? Get you a 224 Boz!! 10mm is the ultimate parent cartridge!!
Why no Titegroup?
Quote from: gmtmaster on November 15 2012 08:42:24 PM MST
Why no Titegroup?
Because it's not really about plinking powders. It's about powders capable of producing relatively top velocity in 10mm Auto.
If I were to include plinking powders I probably would have had to add over 20 more powders to the list of choices. But again, that isn't any part of the basis for this poll.
Otherwise, in general, there is certainly nothing wrong with Titegroup. It is what it is and does what it does.
Dude, that's on my want list. Along with a progressive press, M1A, Benelli, gut my garage. I need to get back to work.
Quote from: Bro KV on November 15 2012 09:21:05 PM MST
Dude, that's on my want list. Along with a progressive press, M1A, Benelli, gut my garage. I need to get back to work.
The 224 Boz is on your want list?
Regarding the Benelli, good choice. As long as I see a need for a shotgun I don't see getting rid of my Benelli! Period. Nor is there ANY other shotgun I would prefer to replace it with.
The Boz is as cool idea, but from what I read it destroys guns. Breech face specifically. The test guns the original wildcatters used had replaceable breech faces and supposedly they had to swap them out every 100 rounds or so.
I hadn't heard about the breech face issues? They did make efforts to lighten the slide weights by skeletonized machining. More of a timing issue of the recoil system.
The light and fast bullets actually did less velocity than the 9x25Dillon. However the bullet type, size & profile made them achieve the goal of penetrating soft armor...
I've had great results with Longshot and Bluedot. I only load heavier bullets. 800x is next on my list...
The poll has reached a pretty decent sample size now at the point of 34 voters voting a total of 61 times.
So far the biggest surprise to me is less interest in 800-X than I would have guessed. At the same time I suppose it shouldn't be much of a surprise being that it's the most difficult powder of the bunch to weigh accurately without weighing by hand, no doubt something a fair number of folks simply wouldn't be interested in messing with.
Other than that I see a large swing in personal choice overall, which I think is good toward all of us learning from each other, along with having different interests on an individual basis toward how we choose to tailor 10mm loads to our individual likings.
Quote from: REDLINE on November 24 2012 12:55:50 PM MST
The poll has reached a pretty decent sample size now at the point of 34 voters voting a total of 61 times.
So far the biggest surprise to me is less interest in 800-X than I would have guessed. At the same time I suppose it shouldn't be much of a surprise being that it's the most difficult powder of the bunch to weigh accurately without weighing by hand, no doubt something a fair number of folks simply wouldn't be interested in messing with.
Other than that I see a large swing in personal choice overall, which I think is good toward all of us learning from each other, along with having different interests on an individual basis toward how we choose to tailor 10mm loads to our individual likings.
That's why I shied away from it in the beginning, but my curiosity is still eating at me... So time to compare soon!
Yeah...On a single stage press, I spend too much time reloading already by the time I hand weigh every 10th round. Not interested in weighing each and every one. Especially since I can get velocities that are just fine from Blue Dot, Power Pistol, Longshot or AA#9.
I did not vote but.
I have been using w231. 6.1gr gets a 180 gr lead cast going 1100 fps. I do want to try x800 and long shot though.
blue dot for the bulk practice loads loaded with plated bullets.
Longshot for the warmer 180 xtp's. metes well.
800X for the real good stuff. Hand weigh every charge under a 200 Gr XTP, for a true 10mm load.
Increasingly I am a big fan of Longshot. Good velocities, not position or temperature sensitive. Less finicky than Blue Dot about lower pressure. Clean. Meters well.
I still have about 3 lbs of Blue Dot to burn, but unless I stumble into some Vietnam era WC820 for a deal, my next big buy will probably be Longshot.