Looking for some recipes for some older powders.

[B. Dudley]

Thanks mike, but I would not be looking to do anything for 16 or 10.

It looks like this AL7 may be going down the road at the next shoot.

[6pt-Sika]

Originally Posted by Mike Koneski

Brian, the loads I have are for 16 and 10g and unique powder. If you want them I’ll email them to you.

I’d be intrested to know your 10 gauge load . I have loads for 12-28 using Unique but not for the 10 .

[J.B. Books]

I stand corrected Brian. It was AL-8 that was for 12ga magnum loadings. I think I confused it with HS-7. Each of these cans are about 1/3 full. I have had them since the mid 70's. I believe recipes that came with the old Lee Loader called for them and that is what I started reloading with way back in time as teenager. $2.64 for a half pound of powder, imagine that.

[William Davis]

Unique one of my favorite powders for 20 G 3/4 oz in roomy hulls like Gun Clubs. Jug of Unique you can load almost anything shotgun rifle pistol. Not optimal for all but still useful cartridges.

William

[Carl G. Bachhuber]

Al-7 was a fairly slow burning powder used for 1-1/4 oz and up loads in the 12 and 7/8 and 1 oz in the 20. If you can find an old Lyman 'First Complete Edition' hand book you will find quite a few loads for the old Alcan powders. I am still working on a large can of Al-5 that I picked up at a garage sale a while back. Hs-6 and Unique are still common so there should be lots of data out there for them. Most of the data I have for these seem to run higher pressures, though. I still have some old Alcan Flite-Max wads in the basement.
C.G.B.

[J.B. Books]

Now I know why I had the partial cans of AL-5 and AL-7 from my youth, and why I thought AL-7 was a 12ga magnum powder. Here is the charge table from my vintage Lee Loader.