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I'm hoping to figure out what is going on here, and I've exhausted my other google research.
I've been loading for a compensated G34, and taking slow motion video in my chase for the perfect flat shooting Open Gun. That said, I've tested a lot of loads from barely functioning with an 11lb recoil all the way up to OEM recoil and nearly ripping my hand off.
I have seen the results of unburnt powder before in various different powders. Never have I seen anything like this. I absolutely know this is coming out of the gun. I can see it floating down slowly from the ejection port in my slow motion video.
It has the texture of say a Cobweb, or Cotton Candy. This is an unusually larger piece, and most of them were much smaller, and very much resembled a dandelion seed once it's floating in the air.
Data:
VV N350 - this I suspect is the root cause, but I don't know why other than it just does this when it's unburnt.
124 FMJ
1.14 OAL
Primer = Sellier & Bellot
Now, I am pointing all fingers to N350. The primers, brass, and my OAL are common to my other tested loads and this never happened with other powders to include 800X, N320, and 3N38.
I'm just sharing at this point if anyone else has seen this with N350, and I intend to go back and test N350 with a shortened OAL, but this was happening across the board from charge weights from 4.8gn all the way up to 7.0gn. So I don't think it's a matter of simply running a hotter load.
I also am thinking of taking a small amount of N350 and just lighting it on fire to see what happens.
Final disclosure:
I bought this bottle from a fellow CGer from the market place. We did a Face to Face hand off, and the bottle is the current version branding (it can't be very old), and I was the one that broke the seal on the bottle.
So if it's a function of bad powder it's more than likely a manufacturing problem.
Performance wise, my various loads functioned in the expected manner from light charges to heavy charges. There wasn't random strange results from a light load shooting heavy in my hand or a heavy load shooting soft in my hand.
I'm hoping to figure out what is going on here, and I've exhausted my other google research.
I've been loading for a compensated G34, and taking slow motion video in my chase for the perfect flat shooting Open Gun. That said, I've tested a lot of loads from barely functioning with an 11lb recoil all the way up to OEM recoil and nearly ripping my hand off.
I have seen the results of unburnt powder before in various different powders. Never have I seen anything like this. I absolutely know this is coming out of the gun. I can see it floating down slowly from the ejection port in my slow motion video.
It has the texture of say a Cobweb, or Cotton Candy. This is an unusually larger piece, and most of them were much smaller, and very much resembled a dandelion seed once it's floating in the air.
Data:
VV N350 - this I suspect is the root cause, but I don't know why other than it just does this when it's unburnt.
124 FMJ
1.14 OAL
Primer = Sellier & Bellot
Now, I am pointing all fingers to N350. The primers, brass, and my OAL are common to my other tested loads and this never happened with other powders to include 800X, N320, and 3N38.
I'm just sharing at this point if anyone else has seen this with N350, and I intend to go back and test N350 with a shortened OAL, but this was happening across the board from charge weights from 4.8gn all the way up to 7.0gn. So I don't think it's a matter of simply running a hotter load.
I also am thinking of taking a small amount of N350 and just lighting it on fire to see what happens.
Final disclosure:
I bought this bottle from a fellow CGer from the market place. We did a Face to Face hand off, and the bottle is the current version branding (it can't be very old), and I was the one that broke the seal on the bottle.
So if it's a function of bad powder it's more than likely a manufacturing problem.
Performance wise, my various loads functioned in the expected manner from light charges to heavy charges. There wasn't random strange results from a light load shooting heavy in my hand or a heavy load shooting soft in my hand.
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