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monkeyboy:
Brian, Instead of the dacron you might want to try floral foam. I've been using it for years on top of a reduced charge in my 38-55.Wallyworld , Michaels, or Hobbylobby carries it.Easy to cut a slab off and thumb it into a charged case,when crushed it turns into a powder so no worries with ringing a chamber. FWIW --Mike.

bkoenig:
I thought about floral foam in my 38-55.  I bought some Dacron to try out in the 7.62 Russian so I figured I'll try a little in the lever gun also.  It does seem like that might be a little too solid for a bottleneck cartridge, though. 

I loaded up some .303 British tonight, 12 grains Unique each, 10 with filler and 10 without.  Also stuck some Dacron in the 38-55.  I'm trying to decide if I'm ambitious enough to also load some for the Finn yet tonight.  If the weather isn't excessively windy I'm going to try and make it to the range this weekend and try it all out.

unfy:
Floral foam sounds intriguing.  It seems denser though... wonder if it'll have gunk/plastic fouling problems ?

Does floral foam compress just a lil and then expand ? If so, it might be interesting to see a funnel device with some round cutouts about 1/4 or 1/2 inch thick  that lets you push it through the neck, hopefully expanding past the shoulder, and then a dowel / cleaning rod to seat it against the powder.

bkoenig:
I think floral foam just crumbles, rather than compressing & expanding.

I went to the range Saturday and took my 38-55, 7.62x54R, and .303 Brit.  I got better accuracy with all three using a 1 grain Dacron filler over the powder.  It was pretty windy so I wasn't able to do a really good test, but it definitely shot better than without. 

What's interesting is my results with the .303.  I loaded up 20 rounds with 12 grains of Unique, 10 with filler and 10 without.  The load with filler shot much more accurately - the group was probably 4 times smaller.  Without the filler it was literally all over the paper.  The strange thing is that the standard deviation for the load without filler was excellent - something like 7.5.  The load with filler was twice that, but it still was way more accurate.  That goes to show that (1) standard deviation doesn't necessarily equal accuracy, and (2) reloading is as much an art as it is a science.

unfy:

--- Quote from: bkoenig on April 07, 2013, 07:20:07 PM ---reloading is as much an art as it is a science.
--- End quote ---

I've always thought of it more as an art, personally heh.

Concerning dracon - awesome.  I'll have to look into it.

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