Found a deal

[Hairtrigger]

THis week I have been to several gunshops to witness the madness of the AR grabbers and hi-cap gobblers.
No 223 or 7.62 ammo to be found! Glad I reload all of the ammo I shoot.
In a rural gunshop I found a #12 keg of 800-X for $10 a pound and got it out of the shop before they changed their mind.
Any one here use 800-x for 10mm?

[sqlbullet]

Lots of data here for 800X in 10mm.  Several of the boutique commercial loaders like Underwood use 800X as well.  If you look through the various dissection threads you will see what they are loading.

That is a great deal.  Congrats!

[stillrunning142]

Have used 800x in 135 grain nosler and 200 grain xtp with exceptional performance.
All loads where hand measured due to inconsistent flow through my lee powder dump and large flake powder.Another brand powder measure may work fine but would definitely CHECK a few loads if not weighing by hand. I use 800 x for self defense and hunting loads and bullets are screaming.Excellent powder. Good luck.

[REDLINE]

In a rural gunshop I found a #12 keg of 800-X for $10 a pound and got it out of the shop before they changed their mind.

That's an awesome buy!  Like sqlbullet mentioned, check out the two disection threads in the Factory 10mm Ammo subforum disection threads of Underwood Ammo.  Underwood only uses 800-X for all their 10mm loads.

[arttyszka]

And if you do find a way to meter it consistently, I'd love to know how.  Dillon's set up doesn't yield repeatable enough results for me.  I have almost 5# of 800X sitting in my reloading cabinet collecting dust because I don't care to hand weigh more than a few rounds.

[Hairtrigger]

And if you do find a way to meter it consistently, I'd love to know how.  Dillon's set up doesn't yield repeatable enough results for me.  I have almost 5# of 800X sitting in my reloading cabinet collecting dust because I don't care to hand weigh more than a few rounds.

One of the reasons I sold my dillon reloaders and bought Hornady.  I did get the mod and put a Hornady powder measure on my 550 but I wanted auto indexing also.

[arttyszka]

I haven't read anywhere that a Hornaday powder measure meters 800x any better than the others.  The best I've gotten with my Dillon is +\- .6 gr which is way too much variation for me, especially when loading hot.  The first time I tried, having heard some of the difficulties, I weighed the first 5 rounds and all were within .2 gr, which I deemed acceptable, but I started weighing several more later and found the wide variations.  I love my Dillon otherwise and would buy another.  AA #7 and #9 meter awesome, I've never seen more than .1 gr variations.  I use VV N340 when loading .40 and it too meters very well.

Let me know what you find with the Hornaday.  Thanks

[sqlbullet]

As far as I know it meters terrible in everything.  Underwood meters it though, and you see corresponding variations in the pull-downs.

It would be a hand measure powder if I were loading it.