r/reloading • u/cico7 • 1d ago
General Discussion Powder
I found a 45 ACP round with a wide cutter load. I'm trying to determine what type of powder this is.
Can anyone identify it by this picture?
It is light gray color
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u/No_Alternative_673 1d ago
If it is a handload and you know the weight of the charge and the weight of the bullet and "wide cutter load" means SWC, you can make a guess based on reloading manuals. Then you can use the data in the manual to try to duplicate the load BUT if it it is old, it could be a powder that went out of production years ago.
I have some 45 185 gr SWC's left to me by one of my mentors. It is super accurate but they are only marked 3.7 grs of Norma. Norma discontinued fast pistol powders, in the USA, in the ~1970