Schultze and E.C. were both bulk smokeless powders and should be given in drams. One conversion table I have from an old UMC catalog shows 47 grains of Schultze being between 3 1/4 and 3 1/2 drams. The 37 grains of E.C. would be quite light, between 2 1/2 and 2 3/4 drams, but well before this gun was made in 1928, E.C. became New E.C. Improved, a product of Hercules Powder Company. Such "specified loads" were on the way out by the time this Purdey was made, with most North American trap loads becoming "dram equiv." with DuPont M.X. or Hercules Red Dot.
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