Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!spool.mu.edu!sdd.hp.com!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ncar!midway!mimsy!mvutd.att.com From: webdw@mvutd.att.com (Bruce D Woods) Newsgroups: rec.guns Subject: Re: Downloaded Centerfire Rounds Message-ID: <35822@mimsy.umd.edu> Date: 19 Jun 91 22:54:22 GMT Sender: magnum@mimsy.umd.edu Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 14 Approved: gun-control@cs.umd.edu In article <35757@mimsy.umd.edu> keith@clodII.ColumbiaSC.NCR.COM (Keith Boyd) writes: #Hello, # Thanks to all who responded to my questions by post and email #about downloading .270 rounds. The general consensus was that it #*should* be safe if one were to use a slow to medium burn rate #powder and cast bullets which work well at the lower velocities. NO!!!! Use faster powder recipe if you want to download. A recent warning I read for .44 mag. loads was to not download using slow powders like H-110 & WW296 below 90% of the standard loading. BDW