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Quote from: 57K on March 19, 2014, 06:48:44 PMI know some guys at XD Talk that have been working with e3 for a while and getting pretty impressive results. in 9mm it appears to burn slower than its burn rate would indicate and one experienced handloader has loaded 124 gr. cast bullets to 1200 FPS without any signs of excessive pressure. Be careful though. The larger physical grain size with the lower bulk density typical of flake powders, chargeweight consistency should be closely managed.Xd forum was where I found most of the data I used to determine my starting point. I also found useful info on Brian Enos forum and the firing line, as well as others. Sent from my SCH-I605 using Tapatalk
I know some guys at XD Talk that have been working with e3 for a while and getting pretty impressive results. in 9mm it appears to burn slower than its burn rate would indicate and one experienced handloader has loaded 124 gr. cast bullets to 1200 FPS without any signs of excessive pressure. Be careful though. The larger physical grain size with the lower bulk density typical of flake powders, chargeweight consistency should be closely managed.
A QUICK WARNING:For any inexperienced/new reloaders looking at this thread, there is NO published data for this powder with pistol rounds. It's a match-grade shotgun powder. Alliant has expressed their intention to publish pistol data for it in the future, but there's no guarantee that when they do publish data for it that the data will include 9mm. In the meantime, they have suggested Red Dot data minus 10% is a safe place to start.Remember that if you choose to load with e3, you are in uncharted territory. If you don't have a chrono, don't even think about it.
